How your brain works

[stefaan]

Jill Taylor, neuroscientist, had a stroke. She explains how this experience gave here a perspective on how brains work, "from the inside".
She explains it very clearly, not without humor, but also very sinceraly, passionate. Her emotions at the end of the video show she has a simple but strong spiritual message she wants to spread.

http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html?v=/ted/movies/JILLTAYLOR-2008&cid=/ted/movies (20min)

[flippednormal]

That was very interesting. thanks for the link.
The part where she talks about experiencing the silence from all the chatter in her head sounds allot like what people who mediate experience.

[Destiny]

Hmmm

Nice Link.

I wonder what would happen when the right brain shuts off.

Combine those two and then we'll get the complete picture, I guess.

[stefaan]

Materialists claim the ego is nothing more than the product of a working brain. Dualists believe there is a soul which is able to live without a brain, lives on when you die, etc.

Neurologist Lionel Feuillet had some patients with tiny brains, even one with almost no braintissue at al. They all functioned well. One example:

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn12301/dn12301-1_250.jpg
The large black space shows the fluid that replaced much of the patient’s brain (left). For comparison, the images (right) show a typical brain without any abnormalities (Images: Feuillet et al./The Lancet)

If you ask me, this is nearly convincing proof the dualist vision is right.


Read the whole article in New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html)

[Phtha]

Materialists claim the ego is nothing more than the product of a working brain. Dualists believe there is a soul which is able to live without a brain, lives on when you die, etc.


There is a relatively new book written by a certain doctor , I can't recall the name of the book at the moment, that is all about recorded experiences proving that the brain does not need to be active in order for us to think.

It references many cases of various patients in hospitals who have essentially died for 30 minutes or so, had absolutely no brain activity as their brains were being measured, and yet upon being revived were able to tell the doctors and nurses words that were spoken between themselves while the patient was "lifeless". Many patients mentioned floating above their body and were also able to describe what the doctors were doing.

[stefaan]

Near death experiences are indeed on the edge of real proof for dualism. But if you know sceptics a little, you know they always have their answer ready, maybe even before you've had the chance to ask your question.
In this case...
"absolutely no brain activity as their brains were being measured"
They say: maybe the signals were so weak, the measurement instruments of these days are not ready yet to measure such weak signals.
Also a very weak argument, for sure.

[Uwe]

a very interesting movie,thank you!
I wish more and more people would realize that they have the
choice to choose between a robot like life or a connected
conciousness.:welcomeani:

[lock'N'load]

Materialists claim the ego is nothing more than the product of a working brain. Dualists believe there is a soul which is able to live without a brain, lives on when you die, etc.

Neurologist Lionel Feuillet had some patients with tiny brains, even one with almost no braintissue at al. They all functioned well. One example:

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn12301/dn12301-1_250.jpg
The large black space shows the fluid that replaced much of the patient’s brain (left). For comparison, the images (right) show a typical brain without any abnormalities (Images: Feuillet et al./The Lancet)

If you ask me, this is nearly convincing proof the dualist vision is right.


Read the whole article in New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html)

wow.. that is incredible stuff!

Im going to look into this a bit more.

[Carol]

Indeed, scientific studies have proven that the mind is non-local and exists outside of the brain.