STUDY - Technical - New Dacian's Medicine
How
it Works... Our "Body" (20).
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I have finally reached the most interesting part, from my point of view, of this part of "general notions", the one about matter and thought...
Of all the phenomena that exist in the Universe, the strangest, the hardest to understand, still today, remains the ability of matter to think for itself. It remains hard to say how a seemingly fragmented world is integrated as a continuous world, how particles in constant motion and change generate thoughts, feelings, memories, the impression of a static world.
In the act of thought we gather only ideas and feelings, without sensing atoms, biochemical reactions, electrical impulses applied in their genesis. It is not known where and how the integration of bioelectric and biochemical phenomena into psychic processes takes place. The hypothesis has been made for our brains to generate a mental field. As a continuous phenomenon, the mental field of may provide the same character of continuity and discontinuous processes in the brain, in other words, could determine the unity of consciousness. As we see, in the knowledge of thought we are still in the field of hypotheses, and what we know represents only phenomena.. The essence still eludes us...
And so the brain seems to continue to remain "the greatest defiance of biology and science." We might wonder, like Schrodinger, if it wasn't possible for thought not to occur in the evolution of matter.
No doubt the thinking did not arise just to not remain the "show of the world without spectators", only to be able to see ourselves in a mirror. If only man is assigned the capacity to think, it is understood that the world could have existed without us, as it did before us. It would have existed anyway, with or without us, but we could say that man animated the Universe (at least, ours) through his thinking, sending questions to the astral distances, unsatisfied with his cosmic singularity. "By himself every man is a question asked of the world," Jung tells us.
To understand some less explored sides of thought, we will make a brief presentation of its physiological elements.
We have a series of scientific data today on the biochemical substrate of thought. Memory, feelings, ideas, desires, in a word all psychic activity, also has a biochemical substrate. A multitude of substances (peptides consisting of amino acid chains, synthesized in neurons according to mental activity, but also "availability") are currently known to play a role in the transmission of nerve impulses, substances considered to be "supports of thought".
Through them are executed all commands left from the brain. Our ideas obtain, according to these data, a molecular support, anticipated by Huxley by the hypothesis of "ideogenmolecule molecules". But we also don't know how they are ordered and turned into keys specific to the ideas learned, imposed by culture, etc. Each new information obtains its own biochemical expression, so that it is removed if necessary from the "cartotheca" of the brain.
An idea that gets into the field of attention is first electrically encoded and, if it captures our interest, is stored in memory. The reverse path will lead us again to the idea, observing the mutual relationship of what it gives birth to: idea-brain-idea. According to current theories, we can say that an idea issued or worn by a source is perceived and preserved by the brain only by "sculpting" it in a concrete material form, thinking being nothing but a conversion of these expressions concreted into ideas.
So, first, we're going to have to address the neurophysiological bases of consciousness. There can be no doubt today that the reflection of the world through the phenomenon of consciousness is mediated by the brain. What appears to us now relatively, simple to understand, has not always been so, in other eras other organs being considered to hold the noble function of thinking. But in the "opposition", the disputes over the brain formations involved in the act of consciousness have not yet been completely extinguished. Against interpretations that considered that the weather of consciousness is a function of recent philogenetic acquisition must be dependent only on the formations relatively recently occurring in the evolution of the brain, advocates numerous observations obtained during neurosurgical interventions.
The first formation on which the researchers turned their attention was represented by the reticulated formation (present in the brain stem and extending to the upper part to the diencephalus - thalamus, hypothalamus and cortex - and in the lower to the spinal cord). These studies have opened a new path to understanding the phenomenon of consciousness. The brain perceives the events of the outer and inner worlds on a given background, called the tone of vigilance. The maintenance of this tone is carried out by the reticulated formation which, as the name designates it, consists of a network of nerve fibers infiltrated among the brain structures from the thalamus and the hypothalamus to the bulb, and by fibers sent further, to the spinal cord.
The command and management center of our function, the brain, must always receive information about events that occur inside and outside the body. On their way to the brain, information borrows a specific and non-specific path. Made up of long-fibre neurons and, as a result, few in number, the specific pathway sends information from all sense organs to the cerebral cortex. The non-specific path separates from the specific one and sends, through numerous short-fibre neurons, the same information at the level of the reticulated formation. Two compartments of the reticulated formation are distinguished anatomically and functionally, one that exerts an activating action on the cortex, and another with defacilitation or inhibition action on muscle tone.
Nonspecific pathways bring sensory-sensory impulses into the reticulated formation through which it will maintain the tone of vigility of the brain crust necessary for perception, a condition called consciousness. It is maintained in a permanent two-way relationship, from the reticulated formation to the cortex and vice versa. is, if we will, the noise on which we decode the specific information from our sense organs. The state of our consciousness is therefore dependent on the tone of the reticulated formation, which is maintained in turn by stimuli coming from the external and internal world.
Sleep is in this sense nothing but a disference of the stimulus cortex. That's why we need peace of mind and close our eyes when we sleep, hearing and sight being the main channels for the brain to gather information. Through the numerous sensory, sensory and vegetative properties of the reticulated formation, it can be said that, "nothing that takes contact with the body remains alien to it". these neurophysiology data have particular implications for the phenomena to be discussed further.
The interference between the stimuli coming from the outside and from the inside of the body to the integration and decision zones of the central nervous system and between the stimuli from these areas gives the reticulated formation a role of selecting grid, filter, for the information we take consciousnote, he being the one who decides which stimuli are "of importance". Our ability to perceive the world around us is dependent not only on the threshold of perception of our sense organs, but also on the selectivity of the filter exerted by the reticulated formation. In other words, we perceive as much as our own filter allows.
It is the reticulated formation that "shares the news" into "interesting" and "uninteresting", deciding what we should and should not "know". Any disturbance at this level will result in an alteration of consciousness. Various chemicals such as psychotropics, a series of sufferings on the reticulated formation can lead to a wide range of changes in consciousness, from transient hallucinations to hypersomnia, coma, absences and epileptic equivalences, psychosis, etc. The role played by the reticulated formation in maintaining the vigil tone led many neurosurgeons to regard it as "the highest level of integration of consciousness".
The area where the upper integration of consciousness would be would be the upper region of the reticulated formation, referred to by Penfield as "centrencephaly". In this respect there is still no unanimous point of view but certainly the essential role of the reticulated formation in determining the level of consciousness remains.
A proof of the influence that external stimuli have in maintaining normal state of consciousness were obtained through experiments of stimuli deprivation or sensory decommissioning. Maintaining a subject in full immersion for 6-10 hours revealed the appearance of hallucinations, physiological and personality disorders. Experiments on volunteers kept in soundproofing rooms ("silence rooms") for several days had the same effect. Due to the lack of external stimuli in the conditions of cosmic flight, cosmonauts were trained on the ground in this kind of chambers (similar to voluntary or forced isolations, shipwrecks, wanderings, etc.).
It is curious that these observations, with a neurophysiological foundation, were used in the so-called "brainwashing" action. Isolation of the individual from any external influence leads to the loss over time of the reference programs formed by education and culture. Isolated, frightened, with a threatened personal security, he suddenly finds himself with a hollowed-out, impoverished, disoriented consciousness, ready to accept from now on other benchmarks, other ideas, other rules of conduct, foreign to everything he had had neversaid before. We may also be alert, hallucinatory experiences, in individuals who are not mentally ill, but live in isolation, for example in remote huts of populated settlements, in forests, etc.
To explain the "sensitivity" to plants, researchers "talk" about "primary perception" that would be present in all living cells. Other authors went even further by attributing to living cells a consciousness or psychosis. Specifically, the question has been asked whether psychic life, consciousness is not the sum of consciousness of all our body cells. We have already discussed that a living cell reproduces in the small functions of a multicellular organism, being capable of communication, information processing, memorization and learning. By living by perceiving the internal and external environment and reacting appropriately, the cell can be attributed a kind of "micropsychism".
All cells of a tissue compete to perform the same functions, so one can talk about a functional integrality of the organ, system and, finally, the body through successive levels of integration. The existence of an "organ psychosis" can be accepted, which controls the cells in its structure for a "coordinated and coherent" functioning. Above is the "system psychosis" with the same role and, finally, that of the brain, the human psyche, the integrator of the body's unity. Death destroys the bonds between these levels, starting disintegration and each cell will die out on its own. So we could explain their different lifespan after the body's death in its entirety.
Other researchers interpret the body's intolerance towards foreign tissues as an incompatibility at the level of cellular psychosis. We are of course on a field of more metaphorical interpretations and in this sense it can be said that every cell rejoices and suffers with our being. A pain negatively influences all our cells, as a positive experience "exalts our whole being". Based on the real and not just symbolic ability of all cells in the body to "understand", the yogis used techniques that allowed them to subject them to voluntary control in order to harmonize their functionality. They even classified them by degrees of "nobleness."
Depending on their "rank" they will address themselves differently in the dialogue they have with them, just as they would address people. It is, of course, ridiculous, according to our biological conceptions, to "converse" with the liver when it gets sick, encouraging it to get better. It has been seen, however, that sometimes the organs also "listen" to them, which we learn about through clinical and laboratory examinations. Moreover, since the 70s since the current of the new medicine has grown, regardless of its "branch" (NMG, alpha therapy, tethahealing, etc.) these indisputable evidence exceeds the number of millions...
We might consider hypothetically that every living cell in the body has adequate reaction possibilities for memorization and learning, i.e. what we would call latent "micropsychism", but the only cells capable of giving it a conscious expression would be only nerve cells in the brain. It could also be reasoned that since consciousness is dependent on the sensors on the periphery and each cell has the ability to inform itself directly, the cells appear involved in the phenomenon, the brain being left with the task of integrating and decoding information. Going along the lines of these hypothetical considerations, it can be said that consciousness also occurs with the first living cell. It would be a latent basal consciousness, closed in itself, evolution finding through the human brain the possibility of making the leap to its opening, to awareness. To think of himself thus becomes the greatest miracle there can be.
That's enough for today... Holidays of Flowers with good, spore and only the good ones... And, happy birthday to all those with flower names!
I have finally reached the most interesting part, from my point of view, of this part of "general notions", the one about matter and thought...
Of all the phenomena that exist in the Universe, the strangest, the hardest to understand, still today, remains the ability of matter to think for itself. It remains hard to say how a seemingly fragmented world is integrated as a continuous world, how particles in constant motion and change generate thoughts, feelings, memories, the impression of a static world.
In the act of thought we gather only ideas and feelings, without sensing atoms, biochemical reactions, electrical impulses applied in their genesis. It is not known where and how the integration of bioelectric and biochemical phenomena into psychic processes takes place. The hypothesis has been made for our brains to generate a mental field. As a continuous phenomenon, the mental field of may provide the same character of continuity and discontinuous processes in the brain, in other words, could determine the unity of consciousness. As we see, in the knowledge of thought we are still in the field of hypotheses, and what we know represents only phenomena.. The essence still eludes us...
And so the brain seems to continue to remain "the greatest defiance of biology and science." We might wonder, like Schrodinger, if it wasn't possible for thought not to occur in the evolution of matter.
No doubt the thinking did not arise just to not remain the "show of the world without spectators", only to be able to see ourselves in a mirror. If only man is assigned the capacity to think, it is understood that the world could have existed without us, as it did before us. It would have existed anyway, with or without us, but we could say that man animated the Universe (at least, ours) through his thinking, sending questions to the astral distances, unsatisfied with his cosmic singularity. "By himself every man is a question asked of the world," Jung tells us.
To understand some less explored sides of thought, we will make a brief presentation of its physiological elements.
We have a series of scientific data today on the biochemical substrate of thought. Memory, feelings, ideas, desires, in a word all psychic activity, also has a biochemical substrate. A multitude of substances (peptides consisting of amino acid chains, synthesized in neurons according to mental activity, but also "availability") are currently known to play a role in the transmission of nerve impulses, substances considered to be "supports of thought".
Through them are executed all commands left from the brain. Our ideas obtain, according to these data, a molecular support, anticipated by Huxley by the hypothesis of "ideogenmolecule molecules". But we also don't know how they are ordered and turned into keys specific to the ideas learned, imposed by culture, etc. Each new information obtains its own biochemical expression, so that it is removed if necessary from the "cartotheca" of the brain.
An idea that gets into the field of attention is first electrically encoded and, if it captures our interest, is stored in memory. The reverse path will lead us again to the idea, observing the mutual relationship of what it gives birth to: idea-brain-idea. According to current theories, we can say that an idea issued or worn by a source is perceived and preserved by the brain only by "sculpting" it in a concrete material form, thinking being nothing but a conversion of these expressions concreted into ideas.
So, first, we're going to have to address the neurophysiological bases of consciousness. There can be no doubt today that the reflection of the world through the phenomenon of consciousness is mediated by the brain. What appears to us now relatively, simple to understand, has not always been so, in other eras other organs being considered to hold the noble function of thinking. But in the "opposition", the disputes over the brain formations involved in the act of consciousness have not yet been completely extinguished. Against interpretations that considered that the weather of consciousness is a function of recent philogenetic acquisition must be dependent only on the formations relatively recently occurring in the evolution of the brain, advocates numerous observations obtained during neurosurgical interventions.
The first formation on which the researchers turned their attention was represented by the reticulated formation (present in the brain stem and extending to the upper part to the diencephalus - thalamus, hypothalamus and cortex - and in the lower to the spinal cord). These studies have opened a new path to understanding the phenomenon of consciousness. The brain perceives the events of the outer and inner worlds on a given background, called the tone of vigilance. The maintenance of this tone is carried out by the reticulated formation which, as the name designates it, consists of a network of nerve fibers infiltrated among the brain structures from the thalamus and the hypothalamus to the bulb, and by fibers sent further, to the spinal cord.
The command and management center of our function, the brain, must always receive information about events that occur inside and outside the body. On their way to the brain, information borrows a specific and non-specific path. Made up of long-fibre neurons and, as a result, few in number, the specific pathway sends information from all sense organs to the cerebral cortex. The non-specific path separates from the specific one and sends, through numerous short-fibre neurons, the same information at the level of the reticulated formation. Two compartments of the reticulated formation are distinguished anatomically and functionally, one that exerts an activating action on the cortex, and another with defacilitation or inhibition action on muscle tone.
Nonspecific pathways bring sensory-sensory impulses into the reticulated formation through which it will maintain the tone of vigility of the brain crust necessary for perception, a condition called consciousness. It is maintained in a permanent two-way relationship, from the reticulated formation to the cortex and vice versa. is, if we will, the noise on which we decode the specific information from our sense organs. The state of our consciousness is therefore dependent on the tone of the reticulated formation, which is maintained in turn by stimuli coming from the external and internal world.
Sleep is in this sense nothing but a disference of the stimulus cortex. That's why we need peace of mind and close our eyes when we sleep, hearing and sight being the main channels for the brain to gather information. Through the numerous sensory, sensory and vegetative properties of the reticulated formation, it can be said that, "nothing that takes contact with the body remains alien to it". these neurophysiology data have particular implications for the phenomena to be discussed further.
The interference between the stimuli coming from the outside and from the inside of the body to the integration and decision zones of the central nervous system and between the stimuli from these areas gives the reticulated formation a role of selecting grid, filter, for the information we take consciousnote, he being the one who decides which stimuli are "of importance". Our ability to perceive the world around us is dependent not only on the threshold of perception of our sense organs, but also on the selectivity of the filter exerted by the reticulated formation. In other words, we perceive as much as our own filter allows.
It is the reticulated formation that "shares the news" into "interesting" and "uninteresting", deciding what we should and should not "know". Any disturbance at this level will result in an alteration of consciousness. Various chemicals such as psychotropics, a series of sufferings on the reticulated formation can lead to a wide range of changes in consciousness, from transient hallucinations to hypersomnia, coma, absences and epileptic equivalences, psychosis, etc. The role played by the reticulated formation in maintaining the vigil tone led many neurosurgeons to regard it as "the highest level of integration of consciousness".
The area where the upper integration of consciousness would be would be the upper region of the reticulated formation, referred to by Penfield as "centrencephaly". In this respect there is still no unanimous point of view but certainly the essential role of the reticulated formation in determining the level of consciousness remains.
A proof of the influence that external stimuli have in maintaining normal state of consciousness were obtained through experiments of stimuli deprivation or sensory decommissioning. Maintaining a subject in full immersion for 6-10 hours revealed the appearance of hallucinations, physiological and personality disorders. Experiments on volunteers kept in soundproofing rooms ("silence rooms") for several days had the same effect. Due to the lack of external stimuli in the conditions of cosmic flight, cosmonauts were trained on the ground in this kind of chambers (similar to voluntary or forced isolations, shipwrecks, wanderings, etc.).
It is curious that these observations, with a neurophysiological foundation, were used in the so-called "brainwashing" action. Isolation of the individual from any external influence leads to the loss over time of the reference programs formed by education and culture. Isolated, frightened, with a threatened personal security, he suddenly finds himself with a hollowed-out, impoverished, disoriented consciousness, ready to accept from now on other benchmarks, other ideas, other rules of conduct, foreign to everything he had had neversaid before. We may also be alert, hallucinatory experiences, in individuals who are not mentally ill, but live in isolation, for example in remote huts of populated settlements, in forests, etc.
To explain the "sensitivity" to plants, researchers "talk" about "primary perception" that would be present in all living cells. Other authors went even further by attributing to living cells a consciousness or psychosis. Specifically, the question has been asked whether psychic life, consciousness is not the sum of consciousness of all our body cells. We have already discussed that a living cell reproduces in the small functions of a multicellular organism, being capable of communication, information processing, memorization and learning. By living by perceiving the internal and external environment and reacting appropriately, the cell can be attributed a kind of "micropsychism".
All cells of a tissue compete to perform the same functions, so one can talk about a functional integrality of the organ, system and, finally, the body through successive levels of integration. The existence of an "organ psychosis" can be accepted, which controls the cells in its structure for a "coordinated and coherent" functioning. Above is the "system psychosis" with the same role and, finally, that of the brain, the human psyche, the integrator of the body's unity. Death destroys the bonds between these levels, starting disintegration and each cell will die out on its own. So we could explain their different lifespan after the body's death in its entirety.
Other researchers interpret the body's intolerance towards foreign tissues as an incompatibility at the level of cellular psychosis. We are of course on a field of more metaphorical interpretations and in this sense it can be said that every cell rejoices and suffers with our being. A pain negatively influences all our cells, as a positive experience "exalts our whole being". Based on the real and not just symbolic ability of all cells in the body to "understand", the yogis used techniques that allowed them to subject them to voluntary control in order to harmonize their functionality. They even classified them by degrees of "nobleness."
Depending on their "rank" they will address themselves differently in the dialogue they have with them, just as they would address people. It is, of course, ridiculous, according to our biological conceptions, to "converse" with the liver when it gets sick, encouraging it to get better. It has been seen, however, that sometimes the organs also "listen" to them, which we learn about through clinical and laboratory examinations. Moreover, since the 70s since the current of the new medicine has grown, regardless of its "branch" (NMG, alpha therapy, tethahealing, etc.) these indisputable evidence exceeds the number of millions...
We might consider hypothetically that every living cell in the body has adequate reaction possibilities for memorization and learning, i.e. what we would call latent "micropsychism", but the only cells capable of giving it a conscious expression would be only nerve cells in the brain. It could also be reasoned that since consciousness is dependent on the sensors on the periphery and each cell has the ability to inform itself directly, the cells appear involved in the phenomenon, the brain being left with the task of integrating and decoding information. Going along the lines of these hypothetical considerations, it can be said that consciousness also occurs with the first living cell. It would be a latent basal consciousness, closed in itself, evolution finding through the human brain the possibility of making the leap to its opening, to awareness. To think of himself thus becomes the greatest miracle there can be.
That's enough for today... Holidays of Flowers with good, spore and only the good ones... And, happy birthday to all those with flower names!
Love
Gratitude and Understanding!!!
Dorin, Merticaru