Let's talk about what happens to your brain when you conjure the concept of apple. What is going on? What's happening *in general* when you conjure any concept? Can you give an explanation in theoretical terms? This is the question.

The question is as old as the hills and has bedevilled philosophy for millennia. It hinges on our perception of *activity* and whether the *activity* exists, or what exists is that which is active, i. e., the acting entity.

It matters not whether we are addressing the moving levers and sprockets that make up the mechanism of a clock, the electronic workings of a calculator, a computer or the human brain - we are faced with the eternal question: *Does activity exist?* We can go further and say: As *change* is just another name for activity - *Does change exist?* There are some who insist that there is an active ghost in the machinery, or the transistors, or the neuronal networks. I say *NO!* and I passionately believe that it is a ridiculous concept, for like everything else that some people ask one to believe exists, such as *God* or the *soul* or *spirits*, etc., conveniently for them, they never produce these fictions for us to examine and decide for ourselves. We are always urged to: *Take my word for it* or relax and have *faith.*. If I asked such a believer to show me *activity* he would show me an active entity.

The fact that *change* and *action,* [and all correlatives such as *motion, events, propagation, mathematics, sets and all the other convenient fictions] don't exist, doesn't mean that the entity involved is incapable itself of existing in active or changing states and modalities. In fact if it WASN'T capable of such existential change and activity - it wouldn't exist in the first place. I include ostensibly *inert* entities too, for rocks and metals and grains of salt consist of active forcefields and active, moving particles just like any other entity in the cosmos.

So now to the human brain. When I use the word *I* - I refer to the human holism that is me - the one that you identify as *Jud.*] When I think of the word *dog* the meaty-bits that we identify as nerve-cells [neurones] change the way they exist, but the *change* does not exist, nor is it *separate* nor is it separable from the changed human tissue which underwent the changing process. You notice that I have introduced the word *process,* and the reason for this is, that due to thousands of years of continual misinformation, which goes right back to man's primitive beliefs in *spirits* and *souls* and *energy* or *dynamic* [the force of action and movement and change, which they believed was governed by Mars, God of War.] we NEED such words for me to communicate and describe the changing entity. Otherwise you might not grasp what I am attempting to describe.

Notice the grammatical difference between the present continuous conjugation of *changing,* and the abstract noun [verbal noun] *Change.* here we can see that the
*process of changing* has been reified [reify=considering an abstract concept to be real] into a real thing. The irony of the situation is that in order to draw your attention to this fact I have to reify the word *processing* into the verbal noun *process* in order to make my point in an articulate menner. We can see now that *thought* does not exist and that only the thinking thinker can be found in the world.

Thank you for being so patient up to this point - now to go back to your original question: *What is going on? What's happening *in general* when you conjure any concept?

Firstly we can ask, *what is it that initiates the *activity* that generates the need for the changing brain to change in such a manner that it thinks of some concept? At base, at absolute ground zero it is a survival mechanism. Those earlier human individuals who did not respond to internal or external stimuli were wiped out, and never had the chance to pass on their genes. So if we are exposed to the world and our fellow human beings and the interplay that goes on between them with are own brain as the interface, we have a natural proclivity to respond to the stimuli to which we are exposed by conceptualising about it in an effort to understand with it and deal with it. This response is as natural as a spider feeling the movements of the web and making its way to the appropriate position in order to secure its prey. Conceptualising is an automatic response by humans, even to conceptualise that it is not worth conceptualising is a form of conceptualising, and those humans who do not conceptualise [Terri Schiavo] at all do not last long, and can only do so with the assistance of other human assistants.

What goes on when we think? You already KNOW what goes on when we think. Your brain is the hub of your holistic nervous system. It is made up of 100 million million nerve cells - about the same as the number of trees in the Amazon rainforest. Each cell is connected to around 10,000 others. So the total number of connections in your brain is the same as the number of leaves in the rainforest - about 1000 trillion. Stimulated by electro/chemical activity the entitic configuration changes - it exists [is present in the form of a brain] differently from nanosecond to nanosecond.

Old fashioned traditionalist attitudes [still very much alive and kicking in society] insist that we have *minds* that enable us to learn from our experiences, plan ahead, solve problems and make decisions. They are terribly and dramatically wrong: What we have are BRAINS that enable us to learn from our experiences, plan ahead, solve problems and make decisions. There is no *activity* existing in the brain, nor, psyche, mind, spirit, soul, energy, dynamic nor any other spirituous fictional product of our imaginations.

What there IS - is an active, changing, energetic, dynamic bundle of human energised flesh and chemicals called a *brain,* and it changes the way it exists from moment to moment.

To paraphrase Henry Ford - * Psychology is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only psychology that is worth a tinker's damn is the new discoveries and realisations about the dynamic brain we make today.