when a family member had strokes.
Here are a handful of examples. I didn't have time to post them until now because I was at work.
50 billion cells are replaced in your body everyday. 500K die every second and are replaced. 50-100k brain cells die each day and get replaced. If memory is in the brain cells and they die what happens to memory? That is the question that brain scientists are stymied about.
I can tell you with stroke members of my family that losing large parts of their brain did not affect their memories. So where are memories stored if not in the brain which dies and is remade constantly, up to sixteen times in your life?
Steven Patt (Institute of Patyholody at Frederich Scghiller University in Germany): “Nevertheless all these experiments and descriptions of brain activation processes do not explain how neural activity is the cause for consciousness. Likewise, all attempts which have been undertaken to specify the neurological, information processing and even social theories of consciousness have failed to prove this causal relationship.”
Stanislav Grof, MD PHD psychoanalyst, asst. prof of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins U School of Med. And chief of Psychiatric Research at Maryland Psychiatric Research Center: “My first idea was that consciousness has to be hard wired in the brain. I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how something like that is possible. Today, I came to the conclusion that it is not coming from the brain. In that sense, it supports what Aldous Huxley believed after he had some powerful psychedelic experiences and was trying to link them to the brain. He came to the conclusion that maybe the brain acts as a kind of reducing valve that actually protects us from too much cosmic input... I don't think you can locate the source of consciousness. I am quite sure it is not in the brain-not inside the skull... it actually, according to my experience would lie beyond time and space, so it is not localizable, You atually come to the source of consciousness when you dissolve any categories that imply separation, individuality, time, space and so on. You just experience it as a presence.
Sir John Eccles, Internationally recognized brain researcher concluded that “the mind is a separate entity from the brain, and that mental processes cannot be reduced to neurochemical brain processes, but on the contrary direct them. And... a mind may conceivably exist without a brain.”
Sir Cyril Burt, Educational psychologist, 'The Gifted Child': :”The brain is not an organ that generates consciousness, but rather an instrument evolved to transmit and limit the processes of consciousness and of conscious attention so as to restrict them to those aspects of the material environment which at any moment are crucial for the terrestrial success of the individual.”
Consider this: average neuron consists of 80 percent water and about 100k molecules. Brain has 10 billion cells and about 10 to the fifteenth molecules. Each nerve cell in the brain receives an average of 10k conections from other brain cells and the molecules in each cell is renewed about 10k times in a lifetime. We lose about 50000 to 100000 brain cells a day so the total brain cell population is decimated by about 10million cells losing 100 billion cross linkages.
In spite of losing the 'place the brain stores shit' (my sentiments) we still have our memories even really really old ones.
Paul AQ Weiss, Vienna's Institute of Experimental Biology and pioneer in biological research concerning memories remain in spite of cellular and molecular turnover: “And yet, despite that ceaseless change of detail in that vast population of elements, our basic pattern of behavior, our memories, our sense of integral existance as an individual have retained their unitary continuity of pattern.”
I have known people with hydrocephalic brains which condemned them to having incredibly minimal brain mass but they were able to live normal lives, work and have families and remember. How is that possible to the degree that it has been shown to be if the brain is the repository of memory?
A few places to go and see shit:
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it is two part and is part of a BBC documentary on human consciousness. Part 2 is on the list, I think the second one.
I personally had a near death experience having died in front of my sister. I had an experience with my mother and then I came back. My sister slapped the crap out of me to make it happen. I have asked every nurse and doctor I have ever met do you have dreams when you are unconscious? To the last one, I was told no. My pupils were fixed, my skin color was gray and I was dead, dead, dead. The room changed color to black and white and then a pop sounded in my ears. I was in a beautiful place with my mother and then it happened in reverse.
I don't give a fuck who doesn't believe me. I don't care. I know what I experienced and it shows me a lot about life that I would never have known before. I am not afraid to die now because its so damned easy I could almost embrace it.
There are two groups in the world. Those who have these things happen and those who haven't. I believe that the consciousness exists beyond the body or I would not have been able to remember this experience. I was dead. But I remember what happened.
Please notice that I didn't see a light or whatever. I was just there. It was GLORIOUS.
As for the snotty shit that greeted my remarks, what tiny beings you are. Since when is 'science' a simple emphatic no? How sad, sad, sad. But I don't care. The brain is a conduit to our consciousness which is too big for a body that can fail. Otherwise my father wouldn't have had his memories after catastrophic strokes but he did. He was my hero. He remembered everything. So have at it, geniuses. You are on ignore.
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