Monday, November 24, 2014

Birth of consciousness in new born child

When the child is born, the brain contains memory of body operations like breathing, opening and closing of mouth, movement of arms and use of senses. Moreover there  may be large portion of inherited memory from parents which provides some specific characteristics embedded in the chromosomes which determine patterns for memory interpretation and compiling. 

When the child is exposed to outside environment, it starts receiving memory inputs from various senses. The crying of baby is only response to the sudden shock of exposure to environment. We can assume that the experience is zero and consciousness is at minimal level. This event can be termed as birth of consciousness.

As the memory from sensory inputs goes on accumulating, the child learns to respond to the external stimuli.

Initially the consciousness might be containing only emotions exhibiting basic animal memory like hunger and  fear necessary for survival, but soon learns to use accumulated memory for modifying response.

Consciousness grows rapidly and child understands that its response is affecting  behavior of people nearby. Child observes and recognizes the people  through sound and slowly learns to get response by seeing to  eyes of other person.

Consciousness builds self esteem and the child exhibits selfish motive. Intelligence is born when child learns  to change behavior for favorable response from nearby people. Successful behaviors are stored for repetition and child starts choosing and managing the behaviors for getting what it wants and we conclude that child has become intelligent. 

We give name to child and repeat it every time we talk to stress importance of name on its mind. By talking to  child we help it to nurture good responses and slowly child learns to exhibit its own identity.

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