IES Management College And Research Centre

Part one: 1. Understanding the system --
2. The simple basis of complexity --
3. Levels of organization --
4. Transformations, notations and models --
5. Memory traces and memory surfaces --
6. Special universes --
7. A self-organizing memory surface: the polyethylene and pins model --
8. Threshold effects: the thousand bulb model --
9. Circular system effects --
10. Limited attention span --
11. Passive choice and selection --
12. The past organized the present: the jelly model --
13. Change and flow on the memory surface --
14. Self --
15. Communication by preset patterns --
16. Short term and long term memory --
17. The emergence of patterns --
18. Emotion, need and the internal patterns --
19. The peculiar universe of the memory surface --
20. D-lines: a notation of convenience --
Part two: 21. Characteristic behavior of the system --
22. The mechanics of thinking --
23. The insight phenomenon --
24. Errors, defects and limitations --
25. The myth effect --
26. The dividing and polarizing effect --
27. The continuity effect --
28. The distorting effect of internal patterns --
29. Overcoming the limitations --
30. Natural thinking --
31. Logical thinking --
32. Mathematical thinking --
33. Lateral thinking --
34. The new functional word --
35. Physiology --
36. General summary.

Presents the author's original theories on how the brain functions, processes information and organises it. This book explains why the brain, the 'mechanism', can only work in certain ways and introduces the four basic types of thinking, namely 'natural thinking', 'logical thinking', 'mathematical thinking' and 'lateral thinking'.