(D.1) Those actions prompted by a change
in the environment without consciousness of
the change in the environment we shall call induced action.
(D.2) The melting of solid ice into liquid water and the production of
gaseous steam by heating liquid water is an example of induced action.
In this case the induced action occurs in the absence of brain
and mind or consciousness and the
induced actions are controlled entirely by the laws of
nature. Those actions so induced we shall call inanimate
induced actions with neither a living biological entity nor mind playing
a role in them.
(D.3) Unconscious movement of the hand away from a hot
stove surface is also an induced action. This we shall call biologically
induced action. In this case a living biological
entity plays an active role in the actions.
(D.4) The Venus fly trap plant also produces biologically
induced action by closing its leaves around an insect crawling on
them. However, it does not do so instantaneously in time present but
only after experiencing a pair stimuli over a time interval as
it develops an awareness which it subsequently uses to
result in a biologically induced action. But does the
ability to distinguish between a single stimulus of, say, a falling twig
striking it which does not cause the leaf trap to close and a pair of stimuli
required to close the trap mean that the Venus fly trap have a physical brain,
a mind and perhaps even the sensation of
consciousness? Were it a human we would say it did. And, in fact,
it does have a botanical sensory system which plays a role in inducing the
action by the biological entity. This is comparable
to the stomach brain in humans which produces awareness in
the gastrointestinal tract but no consciousness in the cerebral
brain in our head. No, the Venus fly trap results in a biologically
induced action just as the human gastrointestinal does when
stimulated to swallow the food in your, push it thought the stomach and
intestines, and finally excrete it as waste out the back end. You have no conscious control
over any of that until you learn to consciously control the
biologically induced action of your anal
sphincter muscle over the neural sensory network
connecting muscle and cerebral brain in your head. So it is
that children eventually become "potty trained" through experience
and learning. Thereafter, the stomach brain biologically
induces the actions of intestinal pressure which result in sensory
data being sent from the sphincter to
the cerebral brain which produce the sensation of
"urge" which in turn sends sensory data being sent back
to the sphincter for the biologically induced action of
relaxing the sphincter. But the cerebral sensory
data does not always rule over the stomach sensory data. Indeed,
when you suffer from diarrhea stomach sensory
data sometimes rules over cerebral sensory
data. It is a battle of opposing sensory data, one resulting
in a consciousness sensation and one not.
Similarly, leaves on trees experience biologically
induced action by turning into the sunlight and limbs on tress
growing into spatial areas affording them the most available light even thought
no physical part of the plant can be identified as a brain
In the animal kingdom of living things, the
amoeba first identifies food in its environment through chemoreceptors on its
cell membrane and then uses its peudopods to move toward the food in an biologically
induced action even thought no physical part of the single cell
amoeba can be identified as a brain.
The examples of both the Venus fly trap and the amoeba suggest
that biologically induced action of a living thing
is closely linked to the chemistry of the living thing as
a result of physical contact with the outside world.
(D) All actions of living things are biologically induced as the result of sensory information obtained either directly from the outside world or obtained indirectly by way of a neural system. The actions of the living entities are prompted either directly with sensory information from the outside world or indirectly from sensory information from the outside world that has been processed by the brain and broadcast as sensory information to prompt specific actions by the material body. All the actions and sensory information prompting them are chemical processes adhering to the laws of nature and over which over which both brain and mind has no control.