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I’ve always thought that if humans really do represent the microcosm, then neurons have dancing interactions that form logical patterns. Like holograms I guess, the patterns are everywhere, even just inside one human’s body, and they evolve at different rates, connecting beings or objects in different places at different times as we record, define, and feel what we experience.
Most neuroscientists, western anyway, are materialists in that the mind arises from matter, a brain-is-mind concept, which to me, really doesn’t get at consciousness completely. Plato and his love for the more abstract must be somehow tangled up in the math. This is actually discussed much better in an email debate I found between Stuart Hameroff and Sam Harris on The Daily Dish :
Plato had suggested an abstract world of pure truth, form, aesthetic and ethical values. Beginning with mathematical laws, [Roger] Penrose placed Plato’s world in patterns of Planck scale geometry. So the fundamental Planck scale may encode the cosmic blueprint … Platonic information embedded (perhaps evolving) since the Big Bang (Big Wow?) in nonlocal patterns in quantum logic repeating at varying scales…like a hologram throughout the universe. Call it quantum logic of the universe (QLU).
- Stuart Hameroff
I hope this is simply supporting aesthetics because explanations like this could support therapies in integrative medicine.
Then I remembered this Swedish radiologist by the name of Bjorn Nordenstrom (Chairman or former Chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee) who wrote a book on his theory of Biologically Closed Electrical Circuits, an idea he developed through his experimental treatment to eliminate lung cancer tumors. His theory has a prerequisite that “energy is the origin of our physical world” (another idea resembling quantum physics), and his tumor treatment using electrodes seems very similar to acupuncture taken to an electrical level. Guess who he’s doing research with now? Chinese scientists in Beijing. I think the actual techniques that Nordenstrom uses vary a little per individual, which sort of implies that our tissues have different “electrical preferences.”
This makes me think that physiologically, one person’s pain (or orgasm) is different from another’s, even though there’s a general commonality to it because we have these similar genetic processes that ironically make us different because of hormones. The individual variation lies in what tissues or parts of the body are most affected (because we’re all on this hormonal spectrum), and then the change in that tissue affects the whole system, which manifests in all the different disorders we see. Right now, modern medicine just assumes that it’s the same in everyone, but our different experiences and places on the hormonal spectrum actually alter our tissues differently from conception. For example, depression in one person might be a basis or moderator of a chronic pain disorder while depression in another person might be a basis or moderator of diabetes.
These processes have everything to do with language, culture, and personal histories just as much as genetics since our perceptions and experiences change our physiology.
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