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Wise people are those who learn from facts around them that have stood the test of time. Understanding some simple facts about iceburgs can make a serious difference in your life.

Have you ever been taught that when we see a typical iceberg, and remark on how HUGE it is we are truly seeing, "just the tip of the iceberg?"   It is entirely true. Up to ninety percent of an iceberg is actually below the water.

It's the same with the human brain. Roughly 10% of our thought-processing occurs within the conscious part of our mind. We call this conscious part "The Judge." The other 90% or so of our thoughts and decisions take place in our subconscious mind - 'below the water,' so to speak. We call this subconscious are " The Robot." And what a robot it is!!    It permanently records absolutely every sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch that we experience -- every single one -- from birth... to death. Beyond contention, it is the most sophisticated computer we shall ever see; at least in our lifetimes, and possibly ever. More than one hundred million separate neurons functioning up to a million times every quarter of a second.     Whew! You really ARE special.

With each of life's experiences, a mental tape is created. These tapes are similar to tape cassettes, and videocassettes.Whenever we talk about, write about, or even just think about, a sight, smell, taste, touch, sound, or experience that we've encountered, a new and duplicative tape is recorded within the robot. This is what enables us to visualize things that are not actually in front of us.
 
Take every computer on the planet, up to and including the gargantuan Cray or IBM Supercomputers: all of their computing and memory capacity, COMBINED... represents less memory and computing space... than that of a single human mind!!

And here's another thought for us to consider: Although neuroscientists tell us that there are 100 billion or so computing cells within our human minds, I recently learned that the actual atoms that comprise this computing and memory ability are calculated in the area of 100 trillion trillion.     That's: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 !!!!