Agreed. We always try to explain the phenomena around us in terms we already grasp.

So for a long time, natural forces were regarded as gods who were like super-people, or perhaps beings with combinations of animal and human traits. That was what we inew, and it worked well for awhile. Then came the industrial revolution. The corresponding view of the universe became that the cosmos was a big machine, like a huge clockwork. The clock, of course, is the quintessential industrial revolution-era mechanical achievement.

The latest is the electronic/computer metaphor. Most of our advances in the 20th century had to do with electronics and computers, so then the metaphor was that our brains are like supercomputers.

Most probably our brains aren't like any of those things. Those metaphors say more about our level understanding than they do about our brain.

All those metaphors are useful, and have helped humanity. And once we saw (largely through advances in electronics) that nerves had stringy endings like wires that connected to other nerve endings, the temptation to compare them to a telecom system was just too obvious to miss. Telecom systems were what we knew that connected electrical impulses with stringy ends.

The brain-as supercomputer analogy is even more useful, and Honda and Sony are creating robots that actually can model some human behaviors.

But while these metaphors are not wrong, they are awfully incomplete.

I hope our society has the sense to keep pushing forward with the sciences and not squash them due to Dark Age superstitious fear.

Here's an interview with a different Dr. Paul. This doctor can help us rebalance our national priorities. His brain is a port to a world of ideas so sorely lacking in the United States since September 11th:

http://tinyurl.com/3agwjd

The brain is more than or not just what it appears to be. For sure it is capable of sophisticated greater than super computer class unconscious processing.

I suspect that what we see when looking at the physical brain what we are seeing is simply a physical symbolic representation of what it really is. In fact we aren’t seeing a brain, we are receiving data that represents the brain and our consciousness forms or the data becomes a picture of gray material with convolutions.

I have often fancied it to be a remote control interface for a token playing piece that moves around the board or playing field.

In fact it appears that Methylation serves as an organic flash memory device and process.

Flash memory in the world of silicon is a type of memory that is generally unchanging and persistent without any energy required to maintain it’s state, but can be updated re-written through a special process and the application of energy. DNA may be thought of as the kernel code allowing the development of additional modules.

In fact I suspect that it may be capable of producing any form of life that could be imagined with a little electrical current and intelligence.

From a scientific perspective one might ask “what is the brain’s intangible sub-atomic counterpart that gives rise to it ? ”

From a scientific perspective one might ask “what is the DNA helix's intangible sub-atomic counterpart that gives rise to it ? ”

Another clue is that you can't look at your own brain. You can look at others, see a reflection or video of your brain, but you cannot look directly at your own brain.

It is also not sensitive to pain I wonder why that is? Perhaps a clue?

This goes back to my theory about pain. Since I can't fathom how we can feel chemical reactions, what we call pain is actually unwanted or an undesired information state. Our response to pain is an attempt to alter the information state through the application of cause and effect logic.

Cause and effect actually being a logic processing construct based on math.

Cause being the input, and effect being the output after the calculations are done.

Of course all as with all calculations we have the data and an OPERATOR that adds subtracts multiplies or divides.

The operand applied and the data chosen for it to operate upon requires a dynamic intelligence. So here we have consciousness doing the math and executing the instructions or submitting them to be processed.

I wonder if at the subatomic level we would take the distance between us and our destination and multiply by zero we would find ourselves there. Of course if it’s all math there really is no here or there just the math for it.

I don’t really know what I am talking about, so I think I will stop now.

So consciousness is the operand that modifies the data.

Maybe the brain is just an abacas.

Which leads to the next question, who is sliding the beads?

If brain is wired, it has to be soft wired. All
the electrochemical wires in the brain cannot lose connections if they are hard wired. Moreover since brain is made of mostly water, I guess 95 percent, water imbalance in the body must have effect on the workings of brain and it must show seasonal effects, like in droughts and rainy seasons for the mind and body to be in harmony to show natural rhythms of nature.

I guess you will be covering cell microtubules and quantum effects as you continue, Deepak. I'm eager to hear the latest on that.

Yet this “spooky action within”, aye perhaps being the ‘dualistically’ (which is truthfully the illusion of selfness) self-same eternal “essence” which imperceptibly resonates throughout the cosmos comprising 95% of the unlocated energy of reality, can only be discovered once humankind discovers how to collectively utilize more than 5% of our intellect.

Individual sparks can be blindingly dazzling, but for everybody to focus we all need adequate light.

But as “labor” is divided so too shall ever our language and lives be . . .

Marx.

There is a key to unlocking this cosmic coincidence; yet are we going to need a celestial harbinger of divine retributive import or likewise abysmal catastrophe of hellish comport to usher in this paradigm-shift shattering age of humanity’s moral enlightenment? Peaceful worldwide consensus’ is always the preferred method of progression, I have just not yet seen such a demonstration of extended community – ready though – :).

Peace

Richard, sometimes your posts twist my mind to such extent that i wake up.

The mechanics of physiology in its varied forms, be it the plasticity of the brain, the limitless potential of stem cells or the mystery of epigenetics are all part of the building blocks of the mystique of life, not the reason for it. Likewise the attempt to find the "scientific" reasons for what the human brain is capable of or what miraculous cures the body can self-design are based on the western outlook towards empiricism and observational science, one that can be measured and verified. Finding the physiological mechanistics behind an effect doesn't explain the effect, only how it was actualized. Finding the higher essence behind its causation (among other things) is linked with finding the higher essence in life, in general. Living that higher essence with everyday awareness gives one access to the understanding of these medical and other mysteries. To try and scientifically (as we know it today) dissect everything is a noble goal albeit a somewhat simplistic and misguided one. However it does in today's world provide credibility to phenomenon that may otherwise be discarded as incredulous.

These examples of healing from different angles (tongue for example) reminds me that our bodies are holographic. That each part contains the whole. That each part is filled with information and inspiration. That each part is alive with electro-super-charge. Hopefully holographic medicine will stay on our radar.

Thanks for this enlightening information!

Trish~~

Merry Christmas, Deepak ~
May you enjoy the time of season of
cold air,
warm gloves,
hot chocolate,
snowy boots,
being outdoors
and snowflakes
on your eye
lashes!

Love,
~ Kate