thought Id write a post leaning in a more neuroscience direction to follow up my spiritual post the other day - I am a whole-brain man ... :) we are not troubled by things, but rather, by the opinions we have of things - Epictetus Because our brain has no direct contact with the outside world, it only knows what is fed to it from the senses. We receive a constant stream of information, from both the external world around us, as well as from our inner world of neurobiochemical processes, feelings and memories. We live in what Dennet describes as, the threshold of pandemonium; the meeting point where genetics, epigenetic potentials, socio-affective conditioning, personal history, memories, culture, media, philosophies, memes and discourses come together in distinctive and unique Now, which is situated in the context of a life so far lived and an anticipated future ... On receiving all this in less than a flash of an instant, our brains then participate in an activity which one might describe as; the making of meaning This is a subjective action, and we each have a unique niche-perspective of life. One hundred people can see a fringe play and, when interviewed later about what they say, each person can have a differing view. All language systems are polysemous; neural networks are layered and, neurons that wire together, fire together (habits). Affects are intrajected and introjected through right-brain communication and the meanings we attribute to language, via the combination of genetics, epigenetic potentials, socio-affective conditioning, personal history, memories, culture, media, philosophies, memes and discourses and comprehension of what is occurring in our subjective here and now experience, with reference to our anticipated future ... It is so easy to misread the present and send oneself off on the wrong foot. Life is a journey of smiling roads and frowning roads, which all lead to the great door home. One may define wisdom as having developed the art of discerning which roads are smiling roads, which are frowning roads and then having the courage and common sense to to take pathways which make your heart smile. A wonderful poet, Rabindranath Tagore, wrote a book called Stray Birds it features a line that I find very helpful to remember: We read the world wrong, and say that it deceives us I love this slim and yet deep book so much that I wrote a song in dedication and incorporated Tagores beautiful words for the verses this is the link to the song - the lyrics are shown on the page davidrowan.bandcamp/track/stray-birds love this song :D Dave x
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:20:50 +0000
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