Thread: COOL SHADES - brain

A mind is a terrible thing to waste...



YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING BETWEEN YOUR EARS

Maybe you think your skull holds a sack of smart soup, enabling you to figure out that conclusion. Or maybe you believe your body is a vessel containing your spirit until you die, at which point it returns to the spirit world.

Not true.



The mind is created by a biological supercomputer, consisting of hundreds of miniaturized powerful specialized computers, connected economically: like a multi-fiber/coloured ball of wool.



Need some fiber? Hundreds of networks are connected by a 100 billion neurons and support cells, transferring information to every part of your brain. Image by Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo.


In life your spirit is your mind. Having a mind is an experience produced by the brain, a biological supercomputer as complex as the known universe. This supercomputer in turn consists of hundreds of miniaturized networks, powerful specialized computers in themselves that create the mind in innumerable fragments. These networks are not as localized as neat brainmaps suggest, above all else they are connected to other networks in an economical fashion: like a multy-fiber/coloured ball of wool.

Here's the quote to beat: Dan Quail's "A mind is terrible thing to waste", if you forget everything you read in this topic, this you must remember.

The most popular description, from Evolutionary Psychology, for these networks is MODULES, and the theory concerned is called Modular Theory. I'm going to name them modules from now on.



BE YOURSELF

I'm me and you are you, and in modern European(ized) countries we are brought up with the ideal of showing the self in an open and honest way. You've got to be for real. Spontaneity, charisma and charm reassure us we get to know the real person presenting himself to our eyes and ears.

Sorry. The experience of 'being me' is produced by a module consisting of a handful socalled black boxes, each creating bits and pieces of individuality. 'Me' is an illusion created by the normal and healthy brain, that is painfully exposed when people suffer braindamage in traffic accidents and the like. It is possible to lose a part of yourself this way, never to regain your old sense of self.

Another module creates masks. In pre-history it didn't pay to show the real you. When confronted with a large family of hungry cannibals, survival depended on the theater of puffing yourself up, as big and bad and unafraid, contemplating eating them!! Born to bluff, that is us. Babies are born with the ability to exaggerate milk needs, and a smily visage to inhibit adult violent urges: Don't kill me or gobble me up, love me because I'm lovable. (I realize modern parents don't eat their children). During our whole life, healthy human brains manufacture lots of masks, automatically adapting our behavior to as many new, and possibly threatening, situations as we are confronted with. And underneath all of those masks, there is no real me. Just masking machinery.

Here's the bombshell: 'being yourself' is one more mask. A very sophisticated one.



"Mind what you have learned. Save you it can..." Yoda, Master Yedi Knight.


NON-PATHOLOGICAL LIARS

Humans are born with modules for lies, deception and self-deception. Call these one combination module if you like. As complex social animals we just need a few little lies a day. To avoid the wrath of our parents, for small misdeeds. To impress our friends and schoolmates. And to win dates, boy/girlfriends, sex.

Enter deception. It's the complexity of social life that does it. Intelligently combine a couple of untruths to influence life's outcomes. Projecting a cool/popular image is deception. Charming or manipulating others to get your way is too. By the time you know how to sweet-talk your way into a good university or well-paid job you are on your way to mastery.

Self-deception is (literally) the most tricky part. As moral beings it is unbearable to think of ourselves as overly deceitful. Our brains solve this by the following sequence: You lie. You know you just lied. Lie-awareness is deleted, and a justification is fabricated. You remember it as truth.



Jimmy Swaggart, firy preacher with zero tolerance of sin, is caught having a tryst with a prostitute. His public and emotional repentance on 21 Februari 1988, Baton Rouge: "...I have sinned against You, my Lord..."


For the sake of our emotional comfort/peace of mind a substantial segment of our deceptions is deleted this way.


MODULAR MAN



Seeing through. Your mind is here: At far left inside Saturns' rings, backlit by the sun, a tiny white dot is seen: Earth. (Photo Cassini)


It takes a large visual module to create the experience of vision. About ten percent of vision consists of sensory information from your eyes. The rest is a game-world generated by this brain module.

Normal hearing is created by at least three modules. One to detect and understand spoken language. One that helps you to enjoy music. Another that interprets natural background noise (like the stealthy footsteps of an approaching predator). A healthy brain switches between these modules as situations demand. All three take in sound-info from the ears.

There are major modules that enable you to use language, feel pain, disgust and fear. And to function as a psychological being: reading and recognizing faces/body-language, imagining other persons, to use rational thought, to feel moral limitations (remorse), to express anger as appropiate (in degrees). To control your body. To be awake. To sleep and to dream. ETC. ETC.


ALIENS AT THE SWITCHES



Greys wear black eyecovers (speculatively) similar to the interactive flight helmets used by our fighter pilots, basically a miniaturized computer, connected to the computers flying the aircraft (=disk in this case). Accessible are interactive heads-up flight controls, even a view into the human body, comparable to the 3-D magnetic resonance imaging hospitals use.


What I've read a million times in abduction reports is the frightening experience of being switched off, sometimes described as alien telepathic control. What is turned off here? A part of consciousness, of wakefulness, causing a dreamlike feeling. Executive control of one's body, though sometimes moving/walking under alien direction occurs. Alien directed sexual activity (orgasm, intercourse) is also reported.

There's a problem with the term telepathic control. It is a vague, mysterious description of almost supernatural alien powers. It mystifies rather than explains.

Ever wondered why many alien races, especially the large-skulled socalled Greys, wear those Arnie Schwartzinator wrap-around sunglasses? Perhaps they hide behind them. Certainly they travel deep space, making them creatures of eternal night, unadapted to bright daylight.

But the true function of this impressive eyegear is practical. These goggles are the original 'Eagle Eyes', not darkening but adaptively enhancing vision under all light conditions.

They are similar to the interactive flight helmets used by our fighter pilots, basically a miniaturized computer, connected to the computers flying the aircraft (=disk in this case). Accessible are heads-up flight controls, to pilot their craft, inside our universe or beyond. The interactive heads-up display in these goggles includes a view into the human body, comparable to the 3-D magnetic resonance imaging hospitals use. Most importantly, all important modules of our brain and body are visually represented, and can be directly manipulated by alien visitors. I suspect they divert a tiny amount of energy from their anti-gravity drive, to zap human modules generating our consciousness and control over our musculature. No mystery here. Just a very practical way to control abductees.




The possibly alien original of Eagle Eyes sunglasses doesn't darken, but adaptively enhances vision under all light conditions.



dani



For you: questions about alien abductions. Are they real? Are you angry it happens? I love to hear your insights/opinions.


LINKS & SOURCES:


The Day After Roswell, by Philip J. Corso, Col. US Army, Head of Foreign Technology (Ret.), POCKET BOOKS 1997.


How The Mind Works, by Steven Pinker, Pinguin 1998.


Steven Pinker on Mind Modules and Computation:
http://www.science-spirit.org/articl...article_id=207


Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA contribution to sunglass technologies:
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2006/ch_6.html


Rupert Sheldrake's Telepathy research:
http://www.ru.org/consciousness/the-...f-animals.html



Backlit Saturn rings, detail. Find Earth approximately at the center of pic, it's a dot...