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 'God is in The Neurons' makes important correlations about mirror neurons, neuroplasticity, memory, social dynamics, evolution, altruism and identity.

 

Notes:
  • human brain, one hundred billion neurons (100,000,000)
  • neuroplasticity
  • any talent or skill via training
  • Part 1: Social Neuroscience
  • neurotransmitter: norepinephrine – triggers defensive mindset
  • limbic system
  • politics of fear
  • appreciation -> dopamie neurotransmission -> empowerment, self-esteem
  • self-esteem, self-belief -> neurotransmitter: serotonin
  • dopamine and serotonin
  • Part 2: Mirror Neurons & Consciousness
  • normative social influence – basic human need to “fit in”
  • Our moral and ethical compass is almost entirely forged by our environments.
  • empathetic mirror neurons – connect us to other people, allowing us to feel what others feel; allows self-reflection
  • We are in a constant duality between how we see ourselves and how others see us.
  • When we are self-aware, we can alter misplaced emotions because we contorl the thoughts that cause them.
  • Self-observing activates the self-regulating neo-cortical regions of our brain, giving us incredible control over our feelings.
  • rationality and emotional resilience strengthening
  • random reactions and lack of self-awareness causes frustration
  • backward rationalization
  • paralell distributed system
  • “There is no specific center of consciousness, the appearance of a unity is, in fact, each of those separate circuits being enabled and being expressed at one particular moment in time. [ - Joseph E. LeDoux]
  • direct modifications to brain: hemisphere separation, effects on perception
  • Part 3: God Is In The Neurons
  • voltage, ions, electrical signals, waveforms
  • brainwaves: alpha, theta and gamma – task groups
  • Optimal information transfer when neural activity is synchronized.
  • Cognitize dissonance is the frustration caused by simultaneously holding two contradictory ideas.
  • Will is merely the drive to reduce dissonance between each of our active neural circuits.
  • Nature tries to ‘resonate’ with its environment and has evolved to become self-aware. (Sentience)

  • Part 4: I am Athene: “The mirror neuron does not know the difference between it and others”
  • left hemisphere – coherent belief system, continuity
  • right hemisphere – counter-balancing with constant challenge to status quo, attempts revisions of world view
  • The convergence of neural interaction expresses itself as consciousness.
  • At every moment, we are, in fact, a different image.
  • When we use our mirror neurons to look at ourselves we may construct the idea of identity.
  • We are equally the result of cerebral hemispheres interacting electrochemically, as we are of the senses connecting our neurons to other neurons in our environment.
  • Nothing is external.

I love this.

  • Over time, the neocortical regions evolved to permit the modulation of primitive instincts and the overriding of hedonistic impulses for the benefit of the group.
  • Our selfish genes have come to promote reciprocal social behaviors in superorganismal structures, effectively discarding the notion of ‘survival of the fittest’.

This is ridiculous; ‘survival of the fittest’ still applies but now applies (as it always should have) to superpositions of all organisms and superorganismal structure.

  • selfish tendencies
  • flawed paradigm of identity
  • What we are: a momentary expression of an ever-changing unity with no center.
  • The psychological consequences of this as an objective belief system allow self-awareness without attachment to the imagined self, causing dramatic increases in mental clarity, social conscience, and what’s often described as ‘being in the moment’.
  • narrative, diachronic view on life, to establish moral values
  • alternative: more accurate, ethical and meaningful paradigm
  • traditional tendencies: towards dysfunctional processes, compulsive labeling, imposed expectations
  • practical labeling is acceptable
  • By psychologically labeling the self as internal and the environment as external, we contstrain our own neurochemical processes and experience a deluded disconnection.
  • growth, happiness, fulfillment, not being labeled
  • acceptance, without judgement, acknowledgement, accept rationally verified belief systems
  • Stimulating this type of neural activity and interaction alleviates the need for distraction or entertainment and creates cycles of constructive behavior in our environment.
  • obesity, smoking, emotions, ideas, electrical signals of neurons, synchronization
  • We are a global network of neurochemical reactions. And the self-amplifying cycle of acceptance and acknowledgment, sustained by the daily choices in our interactions, is the chain-reaction that will ultimately define our collective ability to overcome imagined differences…
  • Epilogue
  • quantum mechanics, reality, probabilities instead of certainties, anything is possible, pattern recognition, bias, clarity, reasonability
  • By observing this process, we expand our awareness and enhance our free will.
  • With openness and skepticism, the key principles of the scientific method, we don’t need decades of trial and error to sort out which of our convictions may be improbable. The question is not whether our beliefs are right or wrong, but whether or not being emotionally attached to them is more or less likely going to benefit us. There is no such thing as a free choice while being emotionally attached to a believe system. The moment we are self-aware enough to realize this, we can truly work together to figure out the real odds of what will benefit us the most.

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yea now were getting somewhere

 

We are a global network of neurochemical reactions. And the self-amplifying cycle of acceptance and acknowledgment, sustained by the daily choices in our interactions, is the chain-reaction that will ultimately define our collective ability to overcome imagined differences

 

neuron related to a neutron? and a nutrino? this is the mirror reflecting back

Your Brain is NOT a Computer!!!

http://www.viewzone.com/plasticbrain22.html

 

Mark Miller, a doctoral student at Brandeis University, stained thin slices of a mouses brain to show how neurons are connected to one another [above left]. The image shows three neuron cells (two yellow and one red) and their connections. The synapses are too small to be visible. The image on the right was developed by a group of astrophysicists, using a supercomputer, to simulate the origins and evolution of the universe. The bright clusters are full of galaxies, surrounded by thousands of stars, more galaxies and dark matter.

These similar phenomena are examples of fractal networks, where information and energy are distributed through a distinct pattern, interconnected on a microcosmic and macrocosmic scale. And the similarities are even more significant.

As we shall see, astrophysicists are just now moving away from the gravitational model in favor of theories that consider electric fields and plasma as the new paradigm (the so-called "electric universe") to explain the evolution and maintenance of our universe. Neuroscientists are also beginning to experience their own paradigm shifts from "brain switches" to electric field theories!

But wait... there's more!

While the immensely complex synapse was still causing slack jaws, neuroscientists uncovered strong evidence that neurons also communicate with each other through weak electric fields. The study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, by Dr Costas Anastassiou (Caltech), explains how every time an electrical impulse races down the branch of a neuron, a tiny electric field surrounds that cell. This phenomenon was expected, since any conductor carrying an electrical current generates a field. But until now, the significance of this neuron field was thought to be negligible. The focus in neurology has always been on the end of the neuron -- the synapse -- where the mechanistic "switch" model explained neural communication so well.

"I think this is a very exciting new discovery. We knew that weak electric fields can impact brain activity, but what no one had really tested before was whether electric fields produced by the brain itself can influence its own activity." --Ole Paulsen, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge

The Caltech study showed that when just a few neurons were generating electrical fields, the effects were hardly noticeable. But when a group of neurons fire together, their collective fields were very significant, functioning to coordinate, accelerate and potentiate the neural activity.

"We observed that fields as weak as one millivolt per millimetre robustly alter the firing of individual neurons, and increase the so-called 'spike-field coherence' -- the synchronicity with which neurons fire with relationship to the field.

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