The Brain As Quantum Device
"And the fourth dimensional will baffle a man with a "Newtonian brain," for his visual world is three-dimensional, and his brain waves are three-dimensional, and his imagination is three-dimensional. But a man with an "Einsteinian brain" has a four-dimensional imagination and can picture a four-dimensional space."
From the Book of Special Relativity
of The Bible According to Einstein
The next few posts will be about three observational modalities Quantum Gnosticism employs to render a portrait of how we as cortex enabled animals operate within a electromagnetic universe. Let's start with the brain and nervous system, what is its purpose in an electromagnetic universe, if we exist in a quantum context, what is the brain's bit? In a Newtonian context, our nervous systems enable us to create maps of, to navigate through, and position ourselves within this universe, but what about non-locality and the concepts of space in the electromagnetic realm?
Perhaps the brain is doing exactly that, mapping out probabilities and adjusting our relative position within that context, this happening on a level that is out of reach by the human mind--on a quantum level wherein we are part of a vast sea mingling with all things connected to the universe, where subjective and objective have little meaning. What is the correlation between the brain and quantum reality? It may have to do with the fact that the brain emits its own electromagnetic frequency between 10 HZ and 100 HZ, so-called brain waves. Did nature provide humanity with a method of awareness and control in a Newtonian world as well as in a Quantum Universe?
Qabalists know this level of being/existence asAtziluth the realm of first causes. We exist as multi-modal creatures functioning on several levels at the same time, one level only dimly aware of the next, much like the subjects of Plato's "Cave". The Qabalists maintain that this Universe is a nested hierarchy of being, starting and emanating from that most abstract of causes. Did they perceive this existence through speculation before we could monitor it in the lab?
The emergent mindis quite the conundrum; it is non-reducible, meaning one cannot understand it comprehensively through its parts. The human brain never sleeps even though the conscious mind does. As long as the human is alive the brain is processing vast amounts of data, data that in one burst would choke all the super computers--nay, all the computers in all the world--this to process one moment of consciousness of a self-aware being!! [The preceding is best read in the voice of Dr. Orpheus from the Venture Bros.]
The brain is mainly composed of two cells neurons and glial cells, with the majority being neurons. The bulk of the material in the brain is the same cell crammed together so many times that eventually the tails, or axons, form the white matter of the brain, the grey matter being mostly those cell bodies and dendrites. Think of each neuron as being an on off switch with a neutral or "maybe" position. Now all these fibers are crammed together, touching, creating thousands of connections with each fiber. With that perspective in mind, there are more neural connections in the brain than stars in the sky and sand on all the beaches of this world. What kind of data are we actually processing for the Universe; what equations take that much horsepower to compute? After all, most mechanical functions the brain processes for the body probably could be worked by today's computers, so why all the extra power in a Universe that intrinsically preserves its energy, conserving it in unexpected ways?
The mind emerges from the human nervous system as a quality being generated; it is thought that this is accomplished through synergy of the nervous process as a whole. Apparently, the mind seems to model causal actions and reactions and then recognizes patterns in the relationship between the two; this process is called spatialization . This is an over-arching schema that seems to be replicated on many levels for many purposes--after all, patterns are to be found everywhere and are at the center of our survival.
The mind is, of course, important to Quantum Gnosticism but not at its center; the point here being that our Newtonian actions and concepts of freewill cease to have great significance in this most abstract level of existence. Being conscious is the stuff that makes it all happen and just being and doing it well is what we are all about, to explore and understand more, constantly building models of causal relationships to add to the database of human experience.
From the Book of Special Relativity
of The Bible According to Einstein
The next few posts will be about three observational modalities Quantum Gnosticism employs to render a portrait of how we as cortex enabled animals operate within a electromagnetic universe. Let's start with the brain and nervous system, what is its purpose in an electromagnetic universe, if we exist in a quantum context, what is the brain's bit? In a Newtonian context, our nervous systems enable us to create maps of, to navigate through, and position ourselves within this universe, but what about non-locality and the concepts of space in the electromagnetic realm?
Perhaps the brain is doing exactly that, mapping out probabilities and adjusting our relative position within that context, this happening on a level that is out of reach by the human mind--on a quantum level wherein we are part of a vast sea mingling with all things connected to the universe, where subjective and objective have little meaning. What is the correlation between the brain and quantum reality? It may have to do with the fact that the brain emits its own electromagnetic frequency between 10 HZ and 100 HZ, so-called brain waves. Did nature provide humanity with a method of awareness and control in a Newtonian world as well as in a Quantum Universe?
Qabalists know this level of being/existence asAtziluth the realm of first causes. We exist as multi-modal creatures functioning on several levels at the same time, one level only dimly aware of the next, much like the subjects of Plato's "Cave". The Qabalists maintain that this Universe is a nested hierarchy of being, starting and emanating from that most abstract of causes. Did they perceive this existence through speculation before we could monitor it in the lab?
The emergent mindis quite the conundrum; it is non-reducible, meaning one cannot understand it comprehensively through its parts. The human brain never sleeps even though the conscious mind does. As long as the human is alive the brain is processing vast amounts of data, data that in one burst would choke all the super computers--nay, all the computers in all the world--this to process one moment of consciousness of a self-aware being!! [The preceding is best read in the voice of Dr. Orpheus from the Venture Bros.]
The brain is mainly composed of two cells neurons and glial cells, with the majority being neurons. The bulk of the material in the brain is the same cell crammed together so many times that eventually the tails, or axons, form the white matter of the brain, the grey matter being mostly those cell bodies and dendrites. Think of each neuron as being an on off switch with a neutral or "maybe" position. Now all these fibers are crammed together, touching, creating thousands of connections with each fiber. With that perspective in mind, there are more neural connections in the brain than stars in the sky and sand on all the beaches of this world. What kind of data are we actually processing for the Universe; what equations take that much horsepower to compute? After all, most mechanical functions the brain processes for the body probably could be worked by today's computers, so why all the extra power in a Universe that intrinsically preserves its energy, conserving it in unexpected ways?
The mind emerges from the human nervous system as a quality being generated; it is thought that this is accomplished through synergy of the nervous process as a whole. Apparently, the mind seems to model causal actions and reactions and then recognizes patterns in the relationship between the two; this process is called spatialization . This is an over-arching schema that seems to be replicated on many levels for many purposes--after all, patterns are to be found everywhere and are at the center of our survival.
The mind is, of course, important to Quantum Gnosticism but not at its center; the point here being that our Newtonian actions and concepts of freewill cease to have great significance in this most abstract level of existence. Being conscious is the stuff that makes it all happen and just being and doing it well is what we are all about, to explore and understand more, constantly building models of causal relationships to add to the database of human experience.