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Re: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

2009-10-18T09:43:00.000-07:00

The New York Times article entitled "The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate" discusses a theory put forward by scientists at CERN to explain why the Large Hadron Collider seems to be jinxed. Perhaps the sub atomic particle known as the Higgs Boson is so abhorrent to nature that the universe is conspiring to prevent its creation. Below I have set forth my theory as to why a universe destroying particle might appear to be impossible to make.The multiverse theory proposes that, at every juncture in time where a decision is made, reality branches out into parallel universes in which each of the various possibilities are played out. We find ourselves in the one which is the result of the influence of our choice or chance, hence ( the illusion of ) free will.

If it is possible to create a particle which will destroy the universe, it makes sense to me that the process of destruction will not be like a regular explosion which expands outward through time and space, as this would be acting within the confines of the universe as we know it, and would merely be the destruction of structures within the universe, not of the space/time continuum itself.

I think such a cosmic collapse would, by necessity, implode backward through time causing the universe to cease to exist from the beginning. This would eliminate that particular multiverse back to the moment of it's inevitable destruction, leaving only multiverses in which events had conspired to prevent the creation of the doomsday particle.

The resultant perception would be that every attempt to initiate the particle would be foiled by some random event. I suppose that the harder they try to create the particle the more absurd and unlikely will be the set-backs. Or perhaps as each set-back is overcome then each subsequent attempt to start up the Collider will cause the project (and our universe) to be "set back" to the next most likely preventative event, in reverse chronological order, all the way back eventually to the untimely death of Higgs himself.

My hope is that research on the LHC will reveal the end of time, in the sense of a theoretical proof of the nonexistence of time. Or perhaps the non-uni-directionality of time.

Subsequent technological applications of the science in quantum computing will bring us, not time travel, but at least trans-temporal communication and computation. That will be enough to make everything we know meaningless; a Kurtzweilian (or Kurt Vonnegutian) singularity.

So now (armed with the above Higgs Boson Fate theory) if it the temporal singularity doesn't happen I can explain that it did occur in another parallel universe which we are prevented from experiencing; not by an overly patronizing intelligent designer who manipulates our fate by choosing which of the multiverses we can inhabit, but by a self regulating property of reality itself. ;o)

Happy Fathers' Day! Up with Dads and Down with the Patriarchy!

2009-06-21T09:42:00.000-07:00

It's time for Fathers of conscience to rise up against the Patriarchy. Stand by your wives and children, and oppose The Man.

Down with the Deadbeats: from the Abrahamic Uber-Dads in Tehran who hide behind their beards and their riot squads, and the lacy palace Eunuchs of Rome who dictate how we may love, to the Born Again pyramid schemers who are trying to sell us back our Souls.

Why is the Ur-Father so quick to lay his Son upon the Alter of Sacrifice?

Patriarchy breeds weak men who rule from fear. Afraid to look into the eyes of a Woman or a Gay person for dread of what might be reflected there. Afraid that he will die and his children will live. Afraid his life is based on a Lie, that Love is gone and there is no hope of Joy. Afraid of what his Father will do to him when He gets Home.

Dads, any authority you have is loaned to you by your partners and children, not handed down to you from above. Don't abuse it. Happy Fathers' Day to all and a special group hug for all the Children of Abraham.

Theism vs (A)theism and Gnosticism vs (A)gnosticism (and/or Brahma vs. (A)braham)

2009-05-10T15:36:00.000-07:00

I think Robert Anton Wilson who first said I am, in general, agnostic; but as pertains to "God" I am decidedly atheist. anyway, I heard it first from Xen Dada Axis (hive).

One can be a Gnostic and Atheist, or Agnostic and a Theist, or a Gnostic and a Theist. Or not.

Abraham was the last, I would tend towards the first, but of course have doubts (see below).

In the shuffle gets lost the meaning of gnosticism.

What does it mean to know?

Think I have faith in knowing, but I don't put too much credence in believing.

Hacking God : In the end most inventions are not used for their intended purpose.

2009-05-10T14:41:00.000-07:00

Stuart Kauffman: Reinventing the Sacred

Unfortunately he is a bit dry, but he could be our Ralph Nader in the battle against Reductionism.

Unlike Dawkins, who often comes off pretty fundamentalist in his own way, Kauffman is truly radical, in that his brand of atheism has a place for awe and respect for the cosmic. As a result, thoughtful theist holdouts won't have to go cold turkey when they realize that God (like everything else) is a metaphor. And we of a scientific bent can uncloset our pagan urges and guiltlessly follow magic as well as logic.

Our reverence of The Sacred need not be thrown out with the holy bath water if it is recognized as a mental tool that can be hacked.

The Big Job

2009-05-05T18:43:00.000-07:00

from http://whyifeelcrazy.com:

the best job is a dangerous mission
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

“So we can’t find peace, we can’t 'win', it’s not going to be all right. But that doesn’t have to rob us of purpose; in fact it’s the opposite, it implies a great purpose:

…what each of us must do is cleave to what we find most beautiful in the human heritage - and pass it on. So that one day, one day when this endarkenment exhausts itself, those precious things we’ve passed on will still be alive, and it will be possible for the people of that day to make use of them to construct a life that is a life - the life of freedom, variety, consensual organization, and light and dark, in their proper proportions (whatever they may be).

…that to pass on these precious fragments is our mission, a dangerous mission - that if you were going to volunteer for crucial, hazardous work, work of great importance and risk, this might be the job you drew.

And it isn’t a bad job at all. Actually, it’s the best job.”

[Stolen and brazenly updated: From: WHOLE EARTH REVIEW Winter 1989, page 44 (which is no longer being published) THE AGE OF ENDARKENMENT BY MICHAEL VENTURA]

I concur!! It's the only job!

One of the things that attracts me to chaos theory is that it is the only explanation of the universe that allows for free will.

In a purely deterministic universe our agency is an illusion, since we are merely the products of molecular interactions.

In a purely random universe our actions can not be reliably linked to their consequences.

Only in an unfolding universe, where each moment is created through an iteration of the last, can human agency be accounted for.

So the next phase of reality will be determined by those fragments of the past which we choose to reiterate.

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2009-04-21T20:09:00.000-07:00

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The Terrible Simplifiers

2009-02-15T08:04:00.000-08:00

"The lack of a correspondence between abstraction and reality is all the more significant, since the real world is profoundly complex and contingent and an abstraction is inevitably simple. The terrible simplifiers who love abstractions cannot stand conditions and conventions muddling their perfect, clear theory. If life does not fit the theory, then it is life that has gone awry and must be made to fit. The terrible simplifiers are always perfectly willing, then, to embrace ideological crusades, violence and upheaval to better realise their 'principles'...."
from Eunomia

The promise of violence always follows in the wake of the terrible simplifiers, but the violence to the soul actually occurs at the outset, and sets the stage for the physical violence or coercion. The physical violence is a consequence of the re-barbarization that goes hand in hand with the simplification which sanctions the violence by encouraging man to be less than he is.
from One Cosmos

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

2008-11-18T13:00:00.000-08:00

by Richard Brautigan

I'd like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

Reprinted in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine
Disaster, copyright 1968 by Richard Brautigan.
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fractal drama

2008-11-04T05:35:00.000-08:00

Andrew Johnston's cogent analysis of American TV Drama uses the series Mad Men as an example of a new trend in the long form drama.

His thoughts, influenced by Michael Chabon’s collection of critical essays on genre fiction, Maps and Legends and Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, come from his observations of the such classics as Dallas, The X Files and The Sopranos.

He describes the influence of the short story on the form of the episodic drama and the evolution and eventual synthesis of "mythology" and "arc" episodes into a kind of "fractal drama" which displays some structural self-similarity at different scales (individual episode, season, full story arc).

From the House Next Door
"... Weiner has seen fit to fully embrace Chase’s vision and offer a sort of fractal drama--one that contains conventional continuity, to be sure, but also one where the narrative model is layered rather than strictly linear, and in which it takes quite awhile (unlike with B5 or The X-Files, which wore their complexity as a badge of pride) to realize that the whole is more than the sum of its parts."

Emily Zants points out other fractal properties of post-modern narrative structures in her book Chaos Theory, Complexity, Cinema, and the Evolution of the French Novel (Studies in French Literature)

as above, so below

2008-09-06T18:35:00.000-07:00

from http://mypsiche.blogspot.com/2008/08/personalization-archmeds-healing.html

I believe that behind or within -- or really, "composing", mass, there is 'vibrating energy' as the physicists say. But I believe that composing that vibrating energy, is what you might call 'consciousness'. I normally avoid that word--it's far too fuzzy for my liking--but it's all I can use to describe this concept. To me, every mote of energy is a collection of consciousness. The more energy that is combined, the more 'awareness' begins to build, like a side-effect or property of the quantity increase. At a certain level it becomes a 'sense of identity' and then of 'individual' identity. At a next level it becomes capable of dualism, and then when yet more complex, of deception.

Awareness as it intensifies in density or intensity, reaches critical mass that shifts from 'aware' to 'self-aware' and eventually to fully 'autonomous'. But everything in our existence is composed of the same thing: motes of consciousness that combine to make up minute particles of energy that combine to make up minute particles of mass that combine to make up minute 'pieces' of our reality that combine to make up the fabric of our experience.

To be uncertain is uncomfortable; To be certain is ridiculous

2008-09-01T10:46:00.000-07:00

What is scientific reductionism and why is it ridiculous. Let's ask an expert. James Schombert is the Director of the General Science program at U of Oregon. In his excellent essay on the Philosophy of Science he points out that the:

main purpose of science is to trace, within the chaos and flux of phenomena, a consistent structure with order and meaning. This is called the philosophy of rationalism, rational as in conforming with reason. And the purpose of scientific understanding is to coordinate our experiences and bring them into a logical system... Why? Primarily, the control of the unpredictable driven by the fear of the unknown.

Reductionism and determinism deny the possibility of free will and human agency and this negates rationalism and science itself.

Reductionism:

Reductionism is the belief that any complex set of phenomena can be defined or explained in terms of a relatively few simple or primitive ones.

For example, atomism is a form of reductionism in that it holds that everything in the Universe can be broken down into a few simple entities (elementary particles) and laws and interactions among them. Modern chemistry reduces chemical properties to ninety or so basic elements (kinds of atoms) and their rules of combination.

To a reductionist, once a set of equations or mathematical relations has been found to describe a system, then the behavior of the system is considered to be explained.

Reductionism is very similar to, and has its roots from, Occam's Razor, which states that between competing ideas, the simplest theory that fits the facts of a problem is the one that should be selected.

Reductionism was widely accepted due to its power in prediction and formulation. It is, at least, a good approximation of the macroscopic world (although it is completely wrong for the microscope world, see quantum physics).

Too much success is a dangerous thing since the reductionist philosophy led to a wider paradigm, the methodology of scientism, the view that everything can and should be reduced to the properties of matter (materialism) such that emotion, aesthetics and religious experience can be reduced to biological instinct, chemical imbalances in the brain, etc. The 20th century reaction against reductionism is relativism. Modern science is somewhere in between.

Determinism:

Closely associated with reductionism is determinism, the philosophy that everything has a cause, and that a particular cause leads to a unique effect. Another way of stating this is that for everything that happens there are conditions such that, given them, nothing else could happen.

Implicit to determinism is the fact that every event happens of necessity. It has to happen; the Universe has no choice.

Determinism also implies that everything is predictable given enough information. Since Newtonian or classical physics is rigidly determinist, both in the predictions of its equations and its foundations, then there is no room for chance, surprise and creativity. Everything is as it has to be, which gave rise to the concept of a clockwork Universe.

Chaos in the Bible.

2008-09-01T07:46:00.000-07:00

I love the Bible! What a testament to Chaos!

In the history of our culture there is probably no other piece of literature that has been reworked by so many committees of duplicitous connivers and translated and re-translated by so many generations of scribes, each with his own cultural baggage and political agenda.

The Book is the product of a very reiterative process and what we get in the end is the result of accretion and deletion, acts both deliberate and unintentional, the secret insertion of subtexts, the adoption of local myth, cultural appropriation, acts motivated by politics, ignorance, faith or higher knowledge, perpetrated by the power hungry as well as the altruistic.

Just look at the multitude of variations of faith in the Children of Abraham, each one is the only true way and no two are alike. Multiply this by the factor that many of these people say one thing, believe another and act without regard to either.

This is because there are various, sometimes contradictory meanings, coded into the text at different scales, using self reference, foreshadowing, double entendre, symbolism, and even Kabbalistic and numerological ciphers.

The Bible is a mythical map for an ever changing cultural terrain. Maybe the lesson to be learned from studying the Bible is that many forms of Order can be derived from Chaos, but these forms are projected by the observer based on there position in space and time.

Can Science Be Wrong?

2008-08-30T09:20:00.000-07:00

And does it matter? I say, with all due respect it can and it does.

Scientific inquiry is to technology as spiritual inquiry is to religion. The former should be encouraged in all individuals as part of personal evolution, where as the latter are practical social applications of these admirable pursuits that usually become tools for manipulating the masses.

From a cybernetics point of view science becomes dangerous when it becomes too reductionist or orthodox. In principle all scientific theories should eventually become extinct as the whole of knowledge advances.

Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions describes the social dynamics of the culture of science as it deals with the inevitable succession of paradigm shifts that is the evolution of human knowledge.

Citing the Copernican revolution and the scientific advances of the Enlightenment he illustrates how, when the ruling paradigm is confronted with persistent anomalies, scientists from the fringes propose new theories, and how the forces of "normal" science defend the old paradigm until a fully formed and more robust mindset is developed out side the orthodox system.

As with religion's inquisitions and crusades, we've seen the dangers of scientific theories being used to justify political ends, for example the extreme Darwinism of Nazi Germany.

When science is used to justify the ends of capitalism it also tends toward reductionism at the expense of the masses, since capitalism is by its nature focused on one end: Profit.

Allopathy (Western Medicine) has often found itself at odds with its fundamentally altruistic Hippocratic roots. From bloodletting to electroshock therapy to mass vaccinations, the desire to pump up profits and human ego have resulted in the needless deaths and suffering of millions.

Vaccination programs are a perfect example of a dangerous mix of the utilitarian paradigm being applied to human beings. The very term "herd immunity" should be a hint that this kind of medicine is not about individual well being.

There is plenty of evidence to indicate vaccinations are causing a variety of epidemics in our society from autism to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

The history of the medical establishment’s battle with the epidemic of AIDS is an excellent case study of the scientific establishment facing a persistent crisis to its paradigm. Since its discovery, many opposing theories about the origins and epidemiology of this syndrome have been proposed. Scientific careers have been made and lost over the successes of these theories.

Occasionally, the medical community has faced challenges and criticism from inside and outside the field and we will see how they, individually and collectively, they have reacted to it. We will see that, as Kuhn predicted, even when confronted with questions that challenge their most fundamental tenets, the proponents of “normal science” will close ranks and defend their own. This is a demonstration of the depth of their commitment to the paradigm that provides not only theories, tools and methodologies, but also social status and norms of behaviour.

There is some evidence that this creates a sense of entitlement that comes with an undercurrent of racism, sexism and homophobia. It is arguable that there have been times in the history of this epidemic where these prejudices have clouded the scientific objectivity, perhaps to the detriment of many.

For a full paper on the subject go to AIDS, HIV and Reductionism in the Allopathic Paradigm.

Random Manifesto #2

2008-08-27T13:08:00.000-07:00

Part of a series of randomly computer generated manifestos applying the cut-up method to some of my favorite quotes:

Linear determinist models can no longer serve to explain the behavior of the physical world, biology or intelligent systems. "For any formal theory in which basic arithmetical facts are provable, either the theory is inconsistent or it is possible to construct an arithmetical statement which is true but not provable or refutable in the theory."

It is out of the uncertainty of emergent systems that the possibilities for creativity and human agency arise.

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The Evolution of Jesus

2008-08-24T10:06:00.000-07:00

I like to attribute my cynicism to an early childhood servitude to the Church and the subsequent betrayal, which left me with instinctual guilt and self doubt. These are useful tools for a skeptic, but just as having the proverbial hammer makes every problem look like a nail, so too doubt is better for building walls than windows.

I am working on writing up my ideas about chaos theory as applied to religion and, while it was easy for me to point out the role of uncertainty and the danger of faith in science, it pains me to put into words what seems antithetical to religion: that there is no absolute truth to be had.

I may be a bit more sensitive to the feelings of the faithful than your average atheist, but I would still never recommend that anyone should actually adhere to someone else's religion. Make one up for yourself maybe, and never take it too seriously, but don't ever buy one of those off the shelf models. Here's why:

One of the aesthetics suggested by chaos theory is the property of fractals to display self similarity at different scales, as demonstrated by zooming in on the mini-Mandelbrots in the Mandelbrot set.

Another is their fractional dimensionality. Unlike euclidean geometrical shapes fractals have borders of infinite complexity which interpenetrate their surroundings.

Applied to nature, these concepts are much more useful than linear measures for understanding phenomenon like clouds and turbulence. It is easy for casual observer to see the similarity of clouds or ripples of different sizes, or at various distances and magnifications. As well, anyone can see the lack of real borders between the clouds and the air, or between a whirlpool and the water.

If we look at human existence in this way, we will see that humans (and other living things) are also like this. Since we shed all our cellular material over a seven year period and new material is absorbed from our surroundings through the convoluted interfaces of our skin, lungs and digestive systems; we are more like a vortex moving through a medium than we are like a solid object. We dissipate through time; chances are you are occupying an entirely different physical body than the one you originally used to log onto the Internet that very first time, all those years ago, yet somehow there is a continuity of consciousness even though you think and feel different.

As such, we are similar to and yet different from each other, from our former "selves" and from our ancestors and evolutionary predecessors. The physical borders between our "selves" and the environment are indistinct, permeable and variable.

I have digressed, but my point is that I would like to apply these ways of looking at things to the subject of religion. The clip below demonstrates the property of self similarity in religion. We can see that figures such as Jesus and Moses are not unique occurrences in time but reiterations of a historical formula. And so truth in religion can not be absolute, but will tend to recur, self-similarly (like a self-fulfilling prophesy), in myths, social and family structures, and personal development - right down to WWJD (what would Jesus do) today.

I highly recommend you watch the whole movie. Zeitgeist is available in 13 parts on YouTube. I definitely want to write more about it here, as the producers present some thought provoking ideas about the social structures used to control the masses and promote the New World Order.

Emergent Behavior in Art

2008-08-01T13:46:00.000-07:00

David Rokeby is an artist who produces emergent dynamic meta-art in the true spirit of the new cyber-aesthetic.

His works always interact with their environments producing - receiving - interpreting and outputting imagery. Producing visuals that even he cannot predict. He nurtures his works to maturity like living things rather than creating them like objects. They demonstrate Emergent Behavior.

Emergent Artist

2008-07-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

Blu's unique combination of graffiti and animation depicts a parallel dimension that intersects our own, a space/time full of dissipative beings, like ourselves, whose bodies inter-penetrate the environment and co-evolve with their consciousnesses.

Muto is a 7.5 minute epic journey of personal transformation and human interaction spanning two continents.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

Blu's web site http://www.blublu.org/

Down with Reductionism

2008-07-24T18:47:00.000-07:00

Reductionism is a threat to the evolution of consciousness.

Reductionists can accept only one explanation for reality and they attempt to dominate all realms of discourse, from religion to science.

At its worst this manifests in various forms of fundamentalism (Capitalist, Evangelical, Wahhabi, Darwinist... whatever). Some of these guys will kill you if you disagree with them.

It is not religion, science or politics that is the problem, it is the blind clinging to a single ideology. This is the reductionist rather than the holistic view. This is how a Christian like Hitler or an atheist like Stalin can both send millions to their deaths.

People who want to retain the freedom to use their own brains need to stand up against fundamentalism and reductionism wherever they encounter it.

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Science doesn't kill people, Absolute Certainty kills people.

2008-07-23T19:35:00.000-07:00

No seriously: Herein lie the perils of Dogma.

This is a very sincere call for sanity and open mindedness for those who seek grand unifying paradigms.

It is a response to the assertion that "Science leads to killing people" by Holocaust surviver Jacob Bronowski, formulated in 1973 . This video is a clip from his famous documentary series: The Ascent of Man, episode 11 - Knowledge or Certainty.

Its not a humorous video, but it will help you to get Richard Dawkins' "Oliver Cromwell's Bowels" joke (see Dawkins explains that the universe is queer).

Pretty heavy, huh. But you have to wonder about the doublethink of that pacifist bomb maker, Szilard (his name even has a bit of JK Rowling "Death Eater" feel to it).

Maybe science's "if it can be done it should be done" approach is not to blame. But then perhaps it's worth pointing out that, even for scientists, the lure of knowledge=power can make good people justify bad decisions.

Talk about messing with the Dark Side!

From JurijD's commentary at http://youtube.com/watch?v=hAg0anPwWbM

Bronowski talks about his friend Leo Szilard, his views on science, ethics and the human condition.

A little background on Leo Szilard: He was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb. As a survivor of a devastated Hungary after World War I, and having witnessed the subsequent terror of the Reds and the Whites, Szilárd developed an enduring passion for the preservation of human life and freedom, especially freedom to communicate ideas.

He hoped that the U.S. government, which prior to World War II had staunchly opposed the bombing of civilians, would not use nuclear weapons because of their potential for use against civilian populations. Szilárd hoped that the mere threat of such weapons would force Germany and/or Japan to surrender. He drafted the Szilárd petition advocating demonstration of the atomic bomb. However with the European war concluded and the U.S. taking heavy casualties in the Pacific, the new U.S. President Harry Truman sided with advisors and chose to use atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki over the protestations of Szilárd and other scientists.

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Pat Condell is Absolutely Certain about Uncertainty

2008-07-23T17:13:00.000-07:00

Pat's particular beef is religion, but I think his ideas about absolute certainty can also be applied to the blind adherence to any dogma; whether its politics, science, economics, or iApple iProducts.

These are tools for consensual paradigm building (for controlling large groups of people), but they become obsolete over time and shouldn't be pulled out on every occasion (eg. iPod for a hammer, mythology for international relations). Their relevance varies over time and space.

Your mind and its ideas should be treated like hardware and software. They should upgraded regularly or, if you are a real geek like Pat, totally hacked.

Bush and Bin Laden are on the same page.

2008-07-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

They are in the same Book at least.

Have you ever noticed that Bush and Bin Laden share more beliefs with each other than they do with any normal, thinking human being?

The dysfunctional Father God, the linear view of history with a predestined end date, the need to deny this life for some future reward. For them these are not metaphors, but facts.

Trying to explain the world today using these medieval theologies is like trying to use a map of Texas to get around in Iraq.

An enlightened person is one who recognizes that thoughts are just a map and are not to be confused with the terrain.

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Dawkins explains that the universe is queer.

2008-07-21T17:52:00.000-07:00

The universe is queerer than we can suppose.

Dawkins explains why it's natural to imagine there is a God. He also justifies in scientific terms Aleister Crowley's assertion that "Nothing is True and Everything is Permitted".

The very creation of reality is an act of the mind. That explains the intelligent designer, its You Mr. Believer.

right/left brain holistic vision

2008-07-21T16:39:00.000-07:00

This video is great evidence of how one person was able to transform her own brain. The video above doesn't seem to play, click this link to view it: Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight. What she describes is much like a shamanic journey or a near death experience, but from the point of view of a neuroscientist.