A sperm makes its way among millions of others like it. He competes with all his strength to be the winner, and he succeeds. It reaches and fertilizes the only ovule. Each one carries a summary of his father’s life up to that moment. Then, incredibly, they are mixed together to make up our instruction book. Do we inherit what our parents learned? It is an interesting question, there is no consensus yet.

    This instruction book is where it tells how to face the new and unknown world. Nobody teaches us to cry when we are uncomfortable or hungry. No one teaches us to breathe, or to move our hands, or to suck on mom’s tit. That already comes with us. It is not known for sure, if in addition to physical characteristics, knowledge and memories are also transferred through heredity. The so-called Weismann Barrier refers that hereditary information only travels from the genes to the cells of the organism. Not the other way around. In other words, our neuronal configuration, formed by the cells of the nervous system, should not be expressed in genes. Therefore, it would not be passed on to our children.

    However, some experiments such as those of James V. McConnell showed that memory could be transferred from one worm to another by feeding one another’s porridge. According to him, the memory of the reaction to electrical discharges in some was transmitted to others through RNA molecules. The scientific community discredited his experiments at the time. But recently, in 2018, the scientist David Glanzmann of the University of California in Los Angeles conducted experiments with sea slugs (Aplysia californica, an animal widely used in the study of long-term memory) and found that using RNA injections he could transfer memories from one to another. Also in 2019, scientists from Tel Aviv (Israel) also showed through experiments with RNA from worms that information was transferred from an organism to its offspring, debunking one of the most widespread dogmas in biology about inheritance.

    Some cultures believe in reincarnation and find the cause in previous lives of the behaviors that we sometimes inherit. Others attribute it to the evolutionary process and cultural growth itself. The fact is that school education procedures are increasingly earlier and more advanced. Children are getting smarter. As if they brought, much more information incorporated at birth. Much like modern computers or mobile phones. As we have progressed, each new device brings many more programs and applications included.

    It would make a lot of sense if we were part of a divine design originated by superior intelligence. Each child would come with the combined information of its parents. Then, through development, they must add their own knowledge or adaptation to the environment, with all the challenges that the environment proposes. Later, that child must transfer all the information back to its new children. Ensuring that the species is consolidated and survives using all the accumulated knowledge of their ancestors. This looks like a good design and should work. Apparently it has worked so far. For something, as a species, we dominate the world.

So, our brain already comes with an initial programming, long before we open our eyes. This way we guarantee to have some answer before any situation. This would be our instincts.

– Survive. First and above all. Our strongest instinct. The big boss.
– Feed ourselves, grow and learn from the environment to adapt. It has a great impact on childhood and adolescence.
– Develop and procreate. Give improved children with the information we learned combined with what we already incorporated. Stage of adulthood.
– Cooperate with our children to help them understand and experience their programming. In turn, give confirmation and settlement of our legacy. Old age stage.
– Die to make way for new generations.

    But is it also instinctive to die? Unfortunately, it seems so. No one teaches us how, but since we are born it is already codified that we will die. It is an extra reason to dedicate effort to self-knowledge and give the best of ourselves. In this way, we can contribute to the improvement and survival of our species. The other processes can also raise doubts whether they are instinctive. However, we can observe in many animals how mothers and fathers protect their children to the point of being willing to die for them. That does not seem to be learned, it must be incorporated.

    Then, when it comes to understanding human behavior, why we act as we do and when it comes to decoding our habits to control and improve our thoughts. It is important to keep in mind these powerful forces that are at work behind every reaction. They act automatically without time to think or analyze, instinctively, guaranteeing speed to guarantee the most relevant. Survive.

     The mechanism used by the body for this to manifest is emotions. Fear, sadness, joy, anger, disgust, peace, are the way we get feedback from the environment. They are the physical reactions through which we find out how to deal with what is happening. These emotions are experienced as a result of facing some situation. The body responds according to the mental programming it has. When you are very young, you respond with what you bring genetically inherited. As you grow, that learning is modified according to your experiences. Each personal experience, how does the brain decide if it is important to save it for your children or not? According to the intensity of the emotion, the force with which that experience is lived. The higher the intensity, the greater the probability that this will be firmly engraved. And vice versa, what does not cause any emotional reaction in us is easily forgotten.

     Many of our thoughts come from instinctive responses. Based on the programming that we bring, inherited from the very culture where we are born and the genes of our parents. Others develop in early stages of our childhood and adolescence. When our brain acts like a sponge trying to accommodate the world of new things to which we are exposed. Others are recorded after an emotionally charged event at some point in our lives. In any variant, reviewing our past, our parents and our culture, we will almost always have a good indicator of the origin of many of our dominant thoughts. Those dominant thoughts that end up in our habits, and that are ultimately responsible for our success.

Precisely, our BRAINCHEF philosophy is nourished by these bases. We analyze our past to understand the causes. We correct our emotions and thoughts in response to different stimuli. And in this way we try to accommodate our way of thinking to achieve our goals.