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The Mismatch

On average, it takes about 1/10th of a second from receiving the sensory signals to triggering a neural pattern.  That is happening about 10 times a second.  Each signal is a burst of electrical-chemical and each signal is new!  In other words, after a neural pattern is triggered, the system is reset back to zero.  There is no accumulation.  We are looking at something entirely different from what we saw just moments ago!

The evolutionary purpose for our neural speed is the flexibility to change our focus at a moment of danger and this will greatly improve our rate of survival.  Also, this speed at 1/10th of a second gives us the ability to notice and to track fast moving objects and animals.  We collect information so much faster than the speed of most dangerous situations and animals!

Our emotional and physical body’s reactions are vastly slower.  Almost a second!  Every time we get a new neural pattern, it stimulates an emotional response.  Eventually, there is an accumulation which becomes our memories.

If our emotional reaction was set to equal the speed of our neural network, then there would be no accumulation.  We would always reset our emotional reaction back to zero.  

For example, this is the process: the first time you see something, your emotional reaction is, “That’s nice.  That’s lovely”.  Within 1/10th of a second, another neural pattern and now we have added, “That is very lovely.  Quite beautiful!”  Then comes along another neural pattern and our emotional reaction is now, “That is so beautiful, it would be lovely to have.”  Then comes another neural pattern and now our reaction becomes, “It is so beautiful, I desperately want it now!  I am going to take it”. This emotional reaction becomes a long-lasting memory to the neural pattern!  Our emotional reaction keeps building till a maximum level of intensity is obtained!

 All this from the mismatching of the two processes.  If our emotional reaction is 1/10th of a second, then we would always reset our emotional reaction back to zero, the original setting, and the highest level we would have is, “That’s nice.  That’s lovely”.  No emotional desires and wants.  Our memories would be on this level, “That’s nice” and not on the “It is so beautiful, I desperately want it now!  I’m going to take it!”

This is our biological process and our birth into sin!

The resetting of our emotional reaction to zero, to match our neural network, is enlightenment!  This is spiritual growth and development!  Of course, our “reality” of our perception  is physical and  is the same process as our biological emotional reactions.  At 1/10th of a second, we have a different sensation than from the accumulating effect  after many neural network patterns, say 10 of them, that this chair is solid, hard, and can hold my weight!  At 1/10th of a second, we would be having a different perception!

When we reset our physical body’s reactions to the neural network speed, we will have a completely different and more truer view on reality!  

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Expanding One's Brain

Expanding one's brain does not come about from acquiring knowledge. Acquiring knowledge only connects more neurons with other neurons: creating more patterns of thoughts and ideas.  These new pathways are only connecting to already existing patterns.  It is more like filling in the blanks.

Expanding the brain is creating jumps and gaps within the brain.  One of the best approach is through imagination and paradoxes.  These are meant not to "find" nor "come up" with an answer nor solution but to widen the jumps between already existing patterns of thoughts. 

Here's an example:

At the very beginning of the universe, we assume,

1. There was "nothing".

2. No reference points.

If there is a God at the beginning of the universe, then God must be inside the "nothing" as God can not be outside the universe as there are no reference points.

If God is inside the "nothing", then God is not aware of itself which limits God's powers.

If there is a God at the beginning of the universe and if God was outside the "nothing" at the beginning of the universe and "nothing" has no reference points, then God was and is still not detectable.

If there is a God but God came after the "nothing" that by the existence of God coming into being, then "nothing" ceased to be nothing as it now has a reference point.

If there is a God at the beginning of the universe and is inside the "nothing" and once the "nothing" had a reference point, then God ceased to exist and became this "something" with reference points.

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Dead Man Talking

When I grasped that I am already dead, actually dead, then many concepts fell into place.  I am a dead man talking, walking, breathing, bleeding, reading, thinking, and reproducing.

A good example is throwing a ball against a wall.  Depending on the ingoing angle, the ball will bounce against the wall and come out at a certain outgoing angle.  This is simple physics.  The wall (which is dead) does not "know" what it is doing even though the wall may be able to "sense" the force of the ball and the amount of time the ball has made contact with the wall.  In real terms, the wall does not need to "know" nor to "sense" for the ball to bounce against the wall and to come out at a certain angle.

My brain functions under the same principle.  The brain (which is dead) does not need to "know" what it is doing, just as the wall does not need to "know" what it is doing.  Inputs come into the brain from many sensory organs (outside the body and as well inside the body) and these inputs become chemical-electrical impulses (bursts of packets and not a continuous flow like a river, but separated and distinct packets of impulses) that excites a wide range of neurons (which are also dead).  The brain, just like the wall, can have some reactionary movements to its physical components: a displacement, a vibration.  On the wall, using a contact microphone, I can pick up the ball's force of impact by the vibration on the wall.  The brain, for example, can have the glial cells (which surrounds each neuron) vibrating and similar to the behavior of electrons producing electricity, fire back the total movement of all the sensory inputs (of course there are time delays and synchronization of inputs).

Where does this firing-back goes to inside the brain? First of all, this is an automatic reaction to all the inputs.  The physical brain (which is dead) does not need to "know" what it is doing and at this point it does not even have the capability to know as thought patterns are dead, just as words are dead to the word next to it on a computer screen or piece of paper.

The firing-back can go to the part of the brain that receives sounds as this is the location where the input from the outside sounds are.  I sense the difference from thoughts I hear from "inside" my brain to those thoughts (words) I hear coming from outside my body.

Chemical reactions (which are dead),  are emotions and are released, due to previous experiences or from the body's own defense mechanism (ie. place my hand on a hot stove).  These chemical reactions signal to the brain the direction of this firing-back and the focus of my other inputs.

This explains the success of any drug rehabilitation program.  The addict must get away from all his/her habits.  That is the reason that Viet Nam war veterans had almost a 90% heroin rehabilitation success rate as they were taken out of their environment.  The pattern changed.

This also explains that if one can not change the environment, one can as well, change the brain's internal habit from satisfying oneself to now be caring for others: compassion.  This too breaks that cycle of habits of the chemical reactions directing the firing-back into strongly wired habitual patterns.

In essence, I am a dead man breathing! 

In my next entry, I shall focus on the brain's chain of thoughts as supposedly having one thought linked to another thought gives me the impression that I am alive and not dead and my (dead) brain has one central authority (that is called, "me") over all my body parts and functions.