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ОглавлениеChapter 4: Our brain – a holographic data carrier?
Until recently, we had no possibility of exploring our brain in more detail, or even watching it think. Embedded in our skull, it could basically only be taken out of a dead body, viewed, cut and measured. The areas in which thinking takes place remained hidden and were largely interpreted intuitively or drawn from conclusions from injuries or operations. A huge network of nerve cells works in our brains. From the time we are born, the newly formed brain cells multiply at breakneck speed. An estimated 250,000 neurons are formed per minute and at six months there are already 100 billion, almost as many as in an adult human. However, it is not the number of neurons that is decisive for thinking, but the ability to network them. According to the current state of knowledge, a neuron can form around 100,000–200,000 fibers and connect them to other neurons. Accordingly, after only two years of life it has established around one quadrillion connections. From today's perspective, at least 90 billion nerve cells must constantly communicate with one another or form a network in order to be able to ensure sensible action, feeling and thinking. The brain grows and is networked with itself from the moment we are born and develops into a unique and incredibly complex structure for each person. It is now known that the basic structures of this control centre are inherited. Of course, this immediately raises the question of who wrote such a complex blueprint and whether it can actually be explained using Darwinism. We are initially only talking about our brain and not about other organs, for example the heart, which, according to the current state of science, also communicates with our thinking apparatus via fields. The interaction of all organs, muscles and cells of a holistic organism must function properly from the moment of birth. To this day, most scientists agree that the brain works like a storage medium, like a computer hard drive. It records information with our sensory organs, links them, stores and filters them and makes them available again when necessary. The American Ned Herrmann (1922–1999) developed a brain model that divides the different thinking styles of a person into four quadrants, as you can see in the following picture. For this he developed an analysis tool, the HBDI, which is known in the German-speaking world as the Herrmann Dominance Instrument. Validation studies on HBDI carried out by various institutes confirmed this model. Herrmann's contributions to brain research earned him, in addition to worldwide recognition, an honorary doctorate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1995.
Illustration 9: Our Is
But even though he discovered the four main directions of thinking styles, which include analytical, organizational, emotional and visionary thinking, he could only detect some kind of activity in the brain, but no activity in the form of storing or calling up information.
There are currently many astonishing insights into thought and memory processes. Using the latest technologies, researchers are now able to »map« our brains or create »maps« of our thinking apparatus, with which one can determine where and in which regions activities take place. With an average volume of 1.3–1.5 l, our brain is extremely efficient and, due to the large number of nerve cells connected in parallel, also surprisingly fast. About 200–300 million nerve tracts connect the analytical left with the creative right hemisphere of the brain via the so-called »bar« like an expressway. This corpus callosum is unique to humans and some mammals. Songbirds, marsupials, and reptiles do not have such a bar. This communication link between the two hemispheres allows us to understand human language properly and is of enormous importance for the healthy mental and physical development of a child. The cerebral cortex is called the neocortex and, according to the interpretations of many scientists today, is our knowledge database that makes us human. All areas in the central brain region are also called the »limbic system« or »reptilian brain«. It is responsible for our behavior and our feelings. The latest findings show that our thinking apparatus is not an organ that stands still. It is not static, but constantly active and constantly changing. Its approximately 100 billion brain cells network again and again. Compared to humans, a rat that is already considered relatively intelligent has around 200 million nerve cells. With every thought, every action, whether in reality or in the mere imagination, while dreaming, reading or watching TV: new connections are constantly emerging and those that are no longer used are dismantled. There is constant re-networking and restructuring. Everything lives and is constantly reorganizing. A single cell is already able to carry out around 100,000 actions per second. Have you ever tried to look back as far as possible to your childhood? How far does your memory go? As far as we know today, a toddler's range of memories is still very limited. At the age of six months it takes about 24 hours, for a nine month old child it is four weeks. At the age of four the communication between the two halves of the brain finally works so well that the first logical and analytical thinking occurs. This is also the reason why we can only consciously remember back to an age of around three to four years. In contrast, it looks completely different when we are in so-called expanded states of consciousness. For example, regressions in hypnosis can release many additional memories that are closed to normal day-to-day consciousness or that seemed long forgotten. Some people even remember perceptions, emotions and feelings that they had as embryos in their mother's womb. Which stored information do we access here? Is this an indication that feelings and emotions are stored in fields or in the subtle body that already surrounds the embryo when the brain is not yet sufficiently developed to take on this task? Regressions often release an abundance of emotions that have already been perceived by the embryo in the womb, for example an argument between the parents or beautiful music.
»What happens after birth, has less grave effects than what happens before.«
(Arthur Janov)
The Californian doctor Rene Van de Carr is considered a pioneer in prenatal stimulation. In one of his studies he found out that a fetus in the 9th month can adapt its breathing rhythm to Beethoven's 5th Symphony if the mother plays it for him regularly. Another study by the University of Valencia found that children who listened to music for around 70 hours a week in the womb later became more gifted with speech and developed better fine motor skills.
Illustration 10: Our human brain – the only data carrier?
If we compare our brains with today's computer technology, we learn to be amazed. With only 15-20 watts of power, it manages approx. 1013 analogue arithmetic operations per second and thus corresponds more to a supercomputer that can easily compete with our most modern computers. The Intel computer Terascale with its 80 processors also only needs approx. 85 watts for an output of 1012 arithmetic operations per second and the IBM computer BlueGen / L is even faster and more precise than the brain with 1014 floating point operations, but it consumes it instead of 20 watts an impressive 1.4 megawatts of power. The race of the fastest supercomputers goes on. The latest computer for artificial intelligence is called Summit and currently has an unbeatable 200 petaflops. If every person on our planet were to perform an arithmetic operation every day and every second for a whole year, the Summit would do this in the blink of an eye. In our day and age, there is a real competition of speeds and records, which shows us the performance of computers in relation to our brain. Researchers have been trying to simulate the brain with a computer for several years. This could decisively revolutionize the use of robots. A quadrillion arithmetic operations per second are currently feasible with our computers. The largest computers in the world can do this with very much power consumption. Since computing power has continuously doubled every 16-18 months over the past few decades, it can be expected that a computer the size of a laptop will be able to fully simulate the brain based on its computing power by 2050. Our brain is currently around 100,000 times faster than an average PC, but what will change when there will soon be computers faster than our brain, when we will no longer be able to distinguish whether a question was answered by a person or a computer? Of course, the appropriate software will also be required for this. In 19 EU member states, 500 researchers are already working on the »Human Brain Project« in order to come closer to this goal. Artificial intelligence is a magic word, but adaptive computer systems are no longer a dream of the future, but are already in operation worldwide. New concepts for ever faster and better computers are already planned and under construction. The computer and software giant IBM already has prepared its first patents for quantum computers and the first commercially operated quantum computer is on the internet. With this new technology, all performance records will be broken in the future. Complex problems can then be solved many times faster than with previous technologies. This represents a quantum leap in the history of computer systems, both in terms of Computing power as well as with regard to the addressability of data.
The 17-Qubit3-Quantum computer IBM Q is the basis for the first commercial computers of that kind and can be used for testing via so-called cloud services. Like electricity, computing power is drawn from the socket without the need to have your own computer. With SaaS (Software as a Service) you only pay for what is actually used. In a few years, a PC with the power of a brain will fit in a briefcase, and a complete brain can be simulated on a laptop. In addition, today's applications are becoming increasingly intelligent and capable of learning. The new cognitive software is programmed in such a way that it no longer just searches databases for content, but can learn and interpret language itself. On helplines, support or order hotlines, you will be communicating with computers more and more often without noticing it, as their language and communication possibilities correspond to the human ones. Determined, fast and always friendly, they lead us to solve our problem in any desired language. Surgeons can get technical support from super-intelligent technologies around the world for difficult operations or, on request, receive the best solution to a problem in seconds. Voice computers will translate simultaneously and it is possible that no one «will need to learn a foreign language any more, since everything can be automatically translated and reproduced with a button in the ear or in the form of »technical telepathy« directly in our brain. Possibly we humans all speak the same language on the level of telepathy anyway and only our cultures, peoples and regions force our minds to speak one of the approx. 6,500 languages that are currently on our planet. However, anyone who speaks to other people or beings in the out-of-body state will find that communication is possible without a language barrier. There is a universal language that a future technical device may be able to read directly from the scalp or the subtle body. The future has already begun, but the brain is still unbeatable. Man himself is able to produce extremely astonishing memory skills. An example of this is the documentation »Expedition into the Brain« with the mental trainer Rüdiger Gamm. Mathematics was more of a problem subject for Rüdiger Gamm at school, but at the age of around 20 he discovered his true passion for arithmetic after buying a math book. Gamm has the ability to adapt calculation algorithms to new problems. At least that's how Elen Snyder, Australian brain researcher and director of the »Centre of Mind« in Australia describes it. I would like to use an example to show you which tasks he can solve in a very short time, of course without any aids and exclusively with his memory.
Do you know how much 6733 is? Rüdiger Gamm knows the answer in approx. 7 seconds:
1 decillion, 821 nonillion, 664 nonillion, 894 octillion, 730 octillion, 78 seventh billion, 753 septillion, 748 sextillion, 347 sextillion, 739 quintillion, 907 quintillion, 973 quadrillion, 449 quadrillion, 122 trillion, 612 trillion, 443 636 trillion, 46 billion, 968,910,787
In addition, he is able to calculate the number pi with an accuracy of 5,000 digits. He can do this with powers of 50 of all two-digit numbers and eight-digit trigonometric functions. It is a world record that his brain achieves in conjunction with his subconscious computing programs. However, there is also evidence that our brain is not just a kind of holographic computer or memory, but can also communicate with information fields outside of our body. It would then be more like a biological antenna. Dr. Ruppert Sheldrake was one of the first to scientifically research these topics and thus swim against the scientific mainstream. One result of his research shows that the mind is able to work beyond the body and to interact with fields. Further evidence of this are people who have lost parts of their brains due to illness, accidents or surgery. For example, half of the brain was removed from nine-year-old Jody Miller. Until the age of three, Jody had developed completely normally. When she was three years old, the desperate parents took the child to the doctor because of constant epileptic seizures. After some examinations, she discovered Rasmussen's syndrome, which triggers a slow decomposition process in the brain. Medication did not help either and the child's life was on a knife's edge.
The only way out was to completely remove the diseased right hemisphere. According to child neurologist Dr. Ben Carson, who performed the operation, it is possible to remove an entire half of the human brain without affecting the normal functioning of the brain. The other half of the brain is able to compensate for this loss and rebuild the structure so that the missing parts are replaced. This phenomenon of constant optimization and adaptation of synapses, nerve cells or even entire brain areas to ongoing processes is called »neuroplasticity« in medicine. This generic term also includes the famous placebo effect.
After the procedure, Jody was able to leave the hospital after just ten days and is now even playing and laughing with other children again.
In later chapters of this book we will also deal with so-called »savants« with similar abilities as Rüdiger Gamm, but who are often unable to lead an independent life. Savants can do things that they have never learned, or have learned in a very short time, and use their talents mostly intuitively. But where do these skills come from if they didn't have to be trained by the brain? Is it information from outside? Could it be that we misjudge our brain in terms of its performance and in what and how it works? Is it not just a storage medium that records everything in our lifetimes? Wouldn't it be a waste if God gave us a life but let all of our experiences and knowledge crumble to dust with our physical death?
Most of the researchers agree that information and energy are indestructible and only need to be transformed and processed. But that would also mean that our thinking apparatus is more than just a repository for information. We could see it as a kind of antenna that receives information and also gives it off again, acting as a sender and receiver at the same time, so to speak. This is of course a daring thesis, but more and more researchers are advocating it. We are also talking about an interworld that influences us as much as we influence it, because we are one with it. It is described in more detail in the chapter »Our world - a training camp for our souls«. This is where human consciousness comes into play. Our brain could use it to exchange information with fields outside of the body and interact with the environment, not only with other brains in the form of telepathy, but also when it comes to leaving our physical body when it dies.
But now back to the question: Is the brain also an antenna for consciousness or information receiver and transmitter for our mind? The majority of researchers around the world would answer this question as follows: Our brain is an organ that records everything exactly like a computer's hard drive or a memory chip. Our levels of consciousness also include our selves. But the fact is that this has not been proven anywhere. All of these are just assumptions, the evidence of which is still pending. It is also conceivable that the brain, in addition to sorting, filtering, caching and evaluating information, is used by our mind more like a network of streets. The mind could thus interact with the brain and thus with our body via the neurons and their connections. We will approach this subject in the following chapters to find out what evidence there is for this theory. Of course, there will always be sceptics who categorically reject such considerations and do not even bother with appropriate arguments, whether right or wrong. However, when we open our eyes and look at our world and the people in it who experience the extraordinary, we are almost inevitably led to a new way of thinking.
» The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.«
(Alexander von Humboldt)
If we investigate the question of whether a consciousness also exists outside of our body, we have to include phenomena such as near-death experiences, clairvoyance, telepathy, terminal mental clarity, remote viewing and channeling in our considerations. Such abilities are difficult to classify in the materialistic worldview, but they are demonstrably present. There is also the transpersonal entanglement, which says that the experience of one person anywhere in this world can also be perceived by another person. This effect has even been proven in animals. If rats in Australia learn to walk through a maze to get food over a period of time, the rats on the other side of the earth can too in no time. One speaks of jointly used information fields. One of the first advocates of the field of consciousness theory was William James (1842–1910), the founder of American psychology. He had made an analogy that consciousness exists everywhere. Let's imagine out-of-body awareness as light and our brain as a prism. Just as the light is divided into its primary colours within the prism, the brain also picks up the consciousness like an antenna, fans, sorts and filters it, and passes it on to all levels of consciousness (subconscious, day consciousness, superconsciousness) with our mind for processing. Since consciousness (in this case the light) completely surrounds us and includes all people at the same time, everyone could participate in this comprehensive information field and still act individually. If the prism is scratched or the brain ages, the light is no longer properly scattered and the ability to think is restricted. The alertness and clarity of a person's ego are therefore dependent on the function of their brain or prism. If the prism is destroyed or our body dies, the light / consciousness outside the body / prism remains. It retains its full functionality and the light will be further divided into its primary colours with each new prism or brain. It is not tied to the material world and moves outside as well as inside our body.
Even the Church revealed the knowledge on this subject to their believers. In the general audience of October 29, 1998, Pope John Paul II made the following statement:
»One should not believethat life after death only begins with the end-time resurrection.It is preceded by that special state in which every human being is from the moment of physical death. It is a transitional phase in which the dissolution of the body is opposed to the survival and persistence of a spiritual element endowed with consciousness and will, so that the 'I' of the person continues to exist even if the body is missing.«
Illustration 11: Postage stamp of Pope John Paul II
There is therefore a deep knowledge of the Church that has been kept hidden for centuries and is now allowed to move into the light of knowledge for the faithful.
This is also clear in the book »Memories of Heaven,» in which Wayne W. Dyer and Dee Games use the words of her mother Tanya Dannock Nicholls to recount the short story of little Emily:
»When my daughter Emily was around 3 years old (she is now 22) I reprimanded her about something. Then she replied, “I'm not my brain!” She has exactly hit the mark.«
Emily had revealed intuitive knowledge. Consciousness and mind are not limited to the brain and its functions. The networking of neurons in the brain represents a kind of wiring and connection for a thinking mind and consciousness, which can also be located outside of our body. This is shown by near-death experiences of people all over the world. There are still many unanswered questions about how it works exactly. For example, little research has been done into where light is generated in the brain. Our pictorial ideas and dreams appear just as bright to us as in normal life. But there is no light in the brain, it is wrapped in the top of the skull and is completely in darkness. Who switches the light on and off or how can information create the state of light and dark in order to show us brightly lit dream images? Who is behind this information that tells us the most incredible stories in 3-D quality at night? We can assume that our consciousness does not need a functioning brain to be aware of itself as a self with mind and will. Rather, it functions as an interface between the immaterial and the material world in order to be able to experience oneself in this world.
3 A Qubit ist he smallest unit of quantum information.
