Brain Science: How Does the Mind Vote? Post-Election Mental Health

As the world becomes incomprehensible to many, with outcomes in varying directions for several major events, there is only one place to look for key answers, the human mind.

How do external events result in effects in the human mind? How do these effects lead to decisions? Why are the actions of some people different from others, in the ways they perceive as strange? Why do some belong to one group in the past and move elsewhere later? What are the common factors of the mind that puts a person in one group at one point? What may become of the world as minds diverge?

What is the human mind? Or, where in the brain are the decisions for life taken and experiences based? How does the human mind work when a person decides to take an action? What makes people–in decisions–different from parents and other loved ones, even with their genetic proximity?

The human mind is theorized to be the collection of all the electrical and chemical signals with their interactions and features, in sets, in clusters of neurons across the central and peripheral nervous system.

Simply, the human mind is the totality of electrical and chemical signals, with their interactions and features. The human mind is not genes, since for example, the content of language is not the genes but of the mind, though genes pave the way to have language. The human mind is also not neurons since neurons are cells, with no provision to change because they are representing one function differently from another.

Conceptually, in sets, electrical signals have to strike at chemical signals. This means that electrical signals are the relaying while chemical signals are stationed, so to speak. Chemical signals hold configurations or the formations for functions in sets. This means that whatever a function is or might be, chemical signals assemble in a particular format to define that function. This means that a smell is a chemical configuration, just like a sight, a touch and so forth. Any memory is a chemical configuration, just like any feeling, or emotion. The chemical configuration is not readily available, but has to be accessed when struck by electrical signals. This means that electrical signals relaying often arrive with some configuration, to deliver, while they strike at chemical signals, to access what is there. This interaction determines the possibility for every function across all sets of signals in the central and peripheral nervous system, conceptually.

Interactions between electrical and chemical signals in a set, are often determined by the features that measure the extent to which they can interact. This means that chemical signals have their own features in sets, as well as electrical signals, in sets. The features ensure that it is possible to have differences in one interaction from the next. There are a number of features, like prioritization and pre-prioritization. There is intensity of strikes of electrical signals, splits, and sequences of travel which could be old or new. There is the principal spot, for which domination for a set holds, there are also thin set and thick sets, as well as arrays.

These features and others are often responsible for the extent to which interactions flow. Some are induced or inhibited by the last interaction while some are often constant or shifting.

The first feature of the human mind that an election campaign seeks is prioritization. This means the set of signals with the most volume of chemical signals in an instance. The campaigns, the issues, the policies and so forth are often directed at prioritization on the human mind. This means that there is often an effort of the campaigns to keep certain issues prioritized on the mind, since prioritization often determine distributions or relays.

There is also intensity. This means that the intensity for which electrical signals strike at chemical signals, in sets. Prioritization is not often enough, but intensity, since the intensity of strike may determine the reach of prioritized volume and the distributions that follow. Often the candidates that can strike intensity on the mind, to prioritization usually keep greater attention, which may then increase the chances that they become the choice.

There is also sequences. Usually, electrical signals relay in old and new sequences determined, mostly by the point of take off from the set of chemical signals. Old sequences apply to procedures and patterns, while new sequences apply to exploration, adventure, novelty and so forth. While old sequences are useful to quickly understand that things are out of order, they may also be responsible for cliché, boredom and so on. New sequences are sometimes aided by intensity. If it is possible to use new sequences in elections, even for an old situation or topic, it may determine decision-making towards the vote.

There is also the thick set, collecting what is common between thin sets. There is, for example, a thick set for door, which has all that is between all doors, but a particular thin set may have what is unique about a door, so in processing what a door is, there is relay between the thin set and several parts of the thick set.

Election candidates often seek to drive relays of problematic issues to thick sets that may indicate what to fear or avoid. It is this thick sets that can then be used to assess the opposition.

These and others including splits, arrays and so forth often determine choices in elections.

While people would try to use obvious reasons to judge why a candidate won or lost, the key is to look at the features of mind that may have determined one’s choice or those of others.

It is also important to prepare the mind for the many aspects of unknowns and decisions that may unfold in the coming years. One of the first issue is to ensure that the features of mind are used to understand the states of mind, so that rather than getting consumed by what is external, it is possible to go on, without allowing the mind to fall flat with experiences that are hurtful. Some of the important features of mind, post election, will be prioritization, space of constant diameter–for intent, volume variation for self, and the principal spot as well.

There is a recent feature in NYTimes, Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse, stating that, ‘As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.’

There is a recent story on San Francisco Chronicle, Despite struggles elsewhere, Alameda County to launch its own mental health court, stating that, “A year after San Francisco and a few other counties launched a court process to nudge people with severe mental illness into treatment, the rest of California is following suit — and hoping for better results. For officials in Alameda County, who are grappling with the same vexing street conditions that became political flash points in San Francisco, the stakes are high. Their version of Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act court will roll out Dec. 2, hitting the deadline for counties statewide to establish such programs, unless they applied for a one-year extension. The idea is ambitious: Keep these vulnerable populations from suffering on public sidewalks, or cycling in and out of jails and emergency rooms and provide them housing, services and health care and get them to live independently.”