PROJECT C

Thinking Process – conceptualising beyond the ordinary

2006-10-12T19:00:00.000+08:00

I was having lunch with one of the Art School professors, Dr. Ortiz, when he told me about his dilemma with his students. Dr. Ortiz was shocked with the significant amount of students that were unable to complete his final assignment. When I asked him why, he said that the common excuse from every student was “I can’t think, I don’t feel inspired”.

How can someone not think? Is it a matter of discipline? Laziness? Is there truth in the “I don’t feel inspired” excuse? Inspiration comes from everywhere and anywhere. Our environment is filled with inspiration! But maybe the despair in the current world has blanketed inspiration.
This led to my research on lateral thinking. The use of lateral thinking consists in the awareness of the patterning nature of mind. One must know how to appreciate the difference between the rules of vertical thinking and the rules of lateral thinking, the application of special settings or techniques. What if someone can’t appreciate the difference? Is there a stimulant that can inspire a person to think beyond convention?

My finding of a common symbol in the Pyramids of Giza, The Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal and Acropolis revealed something unique. It was a symbol that came in the form of the alphabet ©. When looked at from a certain angle, this alphabet stimulated neurons in the brain to automatically think in a lateral manner.

The purpose of © is to stimulate a person’s creative thinking process. The mind is not good at restructuring ideas to bring them up to date and allow full use of available information. Traditional thinking habits are very effective at developing ideas but human beings find it hard to restructure them. The symbol © stimulates neurons to introduce the discontinuity that is necessary for restructuring ideas. This in turn provokes new alternatives in the mind.

The © is a neutral symbol and is not associated with any dogma, belief or even acceptance of a theory. If you don’t know of its use, you will ignore it…

Test on Ocular Dominance - sending the inspiration stimulus directly to the right brain from the left eye

2006-05-12T23:00:00.000+08:00

Ocular dominance, sometimes called eye dominance or Eyedness, is the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the brain. It is somewhat analogous to the laterality of right or left-handedness, however, the side of the dominant eye is where the inspiration stimulus normally gets attracted.

Approximately two-thirds of the population is right-eye dominant; however, neither eye is dominant in a small portion of the population. Dominance does appear to change depending upon direction of gaze due to image size changes on the retinas. When the symbol © is drawn in a special way, looking at it from a certain direction causes the right brain to activate receptors (neurons) to produce an irrational and unconscious burst of creativity…

Discovering the origins of the inspiration

2006-03-17T02:00:00.000+08:00

From my research, I discovered that the inspiration stimulus is always accompanied by a mysterious “horseshoe” impression that signals an irrational and unconscious burst of creativity. The © is actually a remarkable ancient symbol that denotes, in its basic sense, an initiative for a concept; i.e., an idea, object, quality, quantity, etc. In more psychological and philosophical terms, all concepts are symbolic in nature, and initiatives for these ideas are subtly hidden between the ocular senses.

The nature of the symbol © and the process of symbolisation are deeply rooted in the human nervous system. The relationship of that system to consciousness, thought and subjectivity is not understood, although there are some theories from before with vague and inconclusive explanations. From the most general perspective, the symbol © is a communication mean, it appears graphical, and usually in as pseudo-spark for the human brain. It ignites the mind with complex and abstract theories and discoveries when one is exposed to it. Fundamental discoveries inspired by the symbol © are languages, the arts, mathematics and even cognitive sciences.

But the symbol doesn’t only react to humans. This became evident when I tested the symbol © on lab mice. Placing 5 mice in a self made maze leaving them to find their own escape route, and only one had the ability to find its way out after being exposed to the © symbol, I found even stronger proof of this inspiration stimulus. I then went on to test this theory on human beings…

How symbols have influenced our lives

2006-03-13T02:00:00.000+08:00

Human beings' ability to manipulate symbols allows them to explore the relationships between ideas, things, concepts, and qualities - far beyond the explorations of which any other species on earth is capable. The discipline of semiotics studies symbols and symbol systems in general; semantics is specifically concerned with the main meaning of words or other linguistic units.

Literary works are often admired for their artful use of symbolism, i.e. the use of words, phrases and situations to evoke ideas and feelings beyond their plain interpretations; these uses are the subject of literary semiotics. Religious and metaphysical writings are also known for their use of esoteric symbolism. Alchemical writings made extensive use of symbols for spiritual and chemical processes (which they also saw as symbols of each other). The interpretation of dreams as symbols of one's experiences is a main feature of Freudian psychoanalysis and Jungian analytical psychology…

Neuroscience Study

2006-03-01T18:01:00.000+08:00

Due to revolutions in molecular biology, neural networks and computational neuroscience, it has become possible to understand, in exquisite detail, the complex processes occurring inside a single neuron and in a network that eventually produces the intellectual behaviour, cognition and physiological responses.

I use tools from molecular biology and genetics to understand how neurons are born and die, and how genetic changes affect biological functions. The morphology, molecular identity and physiological characteristics of neurons and how they relate to different types of behaviour are also of considerable interest. The ways in which neurons and their connections are modified by experience are addressed at the physiological and cognitive levels.

The visual input from one eye (ocular dominance) processes lateral thinking signals in neurons to produce physiological functions that differ from the norm. It produces a hefty amount of signals that helps restructure ideas…