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Discoveries
Today, we are talking about the metaphysics of neuroplasticity. There are some observations that science makes, and some assumptions based on those observations. Any time you draw a conclusion you are more or less venturing into metaphysics. The general idea regarding the brain, and its potential for change, is that you have paths or circuits in…
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Neuron Activity
Neural messages are linear, though often massively parallel, and we process our neural activity in more or less a linear manner. But just as strangely, they cannot find a memory centre in the brain, just small centres that complicate sensory processes and seem to derange self regulation. They also cannot identify a seat of consciousness,…
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The Brain Weighs
The default mode network is the persistent element of your consciousness, your baseline persona. It contains all the information that we relate to preferences as well as feeling states. It prefers what allows its functional rhythm to continue undisturbed, again like a heart beat. The heart will even down regulate functions that disturb it too…
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Neocortex is Deluded
Now things get complicated. In the representational regions of the brain, sort of a hood right over core structures of the brain, your higher brain functions are able to interfere with your default mode network though they are not able to represent their signals and information as reality in the way the default mode network…
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Realign the Neocortex
Our conscious mind gets stuck in computational loops, and keeps handing this information back to our default mode network as if it were an actual evaluation of what it was told. The default mode network gets confused and frightened if it ignores the so called product of experience. It can’t ignore the layer of context…
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Weird and Crazy
I’m pleased I kept my chest trouble under control during class. Your chest trouble? In my efforts to integrate the function of my hippocampus with my more conscious brain, I accidentally cross wired my attentional control with my autonomic rhythms. So when I concentrate, my bodies natural rhythms go into overdrive and it feels like…