Arjun Deepak Shriram

Well, then, I am, leaving finally, because, I am, getting nowhere, and, I believe, that, I am, definitely, on the totally wrong web site. I am actually seeming to be wasting my precious time right out right here right now. Before I leave, I feel so sad for all the people out there who cannot see from the Darkness into the Light, into The Path Of Illumination. Good Journeys. Arjun Shriram. 3, May, 2013, AD. 4:41 PM.

I can see very clearly now for the first time ever in my life that people who are uneducated enough cannot even scratch the surface of what I am tring to discuss. They are lashing back at me because I am poking too many holes in their very tiny tea cups. I believe you that you may be falsely thinking that I am trying to prosecute the masses. Pardon me but I would have to beg the dear Lord if I was doing exactly just that. He just send me an email saying that I am on the correct path (LOL). Evading and avoiding topics of discussion is a pure and total act of cowardness. So stand up and fight for your rights now because I am being very directly assertive here as I feel I have the right to be. Do you know the difference between assertion and agression and submission and passive aggression? If you don't then you should learn the art and the science of what is called "Assertive Communication".

“According to the Buddha’s timeless law of Dependent Origination, it is because of volition that consciousness keeps arising throughout endless world cycles. And it is certainly true that in Buddhist philosophy one’s choice is not determined by anything in the physical, material world. Volition is, instead, determined by such ineffable qualia as the state of one’s mind and the quality of one’s attention: wise or unwise, mindful or unmindful. So in both quantum physics and Buddhist philosophy, volition plays a special, unique role” Excerpt From: Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Sharon Begley. “The Mind and the Brain.” HarperCollins, 2002. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Check out this book on the iBookstore: url deleted by mod

That is called "cortical remapping" and "network remodeling". The case which you speak of is exactly the very same and exactly the very same type that is written down in that favorite book of mine by that favorite author of mine. Several people who had entire halves of their brain removed (hemispherectomy) and now leading completely normal lives. Gifted artists, gifted musicians, etc. Look up someone called V. S. Ramachandran and you will understand better what both you and he are talking about. Thank you very much for accepting the reality of it all. I hereby admire and congratulate you for being the first person on this public forum who is speaking in the same language as me.

You are absolutely one hundred percent right. But please also tell me how people are being cured of major strokes and seizures throughout the world without using any medications at all and if a person has had a major stroke or a person has had a major seizure then pray tell me that how is he or she expected to "do stuff" when he or she is completely paralyzed? If anything at all, strongly, I am on exactly the other end of the deterministic spectrum you are talking about. I am a Very Hard core believer in non-materialistic reductionism which the author of the aforementioned book also is. The whole essence of the whole book of the aforementioned author is the strongest case ever that I have yet to see anyone coming even remotely close to in proving the existence of volition, causal efficacy, the existence of free will, focus, attention, intention, etc. It would be better if someone could easily and simply just search for the author and his book and purchase it and read it instead of trying to proselytisatize me. And before anyone does that I would like to clarify for the record that i AM absolutely and totally pointing in the direction of a particular book and a particular author. You don't have to believe the author. You don't have to believe the book. Just try facing the facts for once. Just try beleving in something new for once. And if you can get past that point then I am already totally and completely convinced and satisfied that all of my very hard work on this public forum had finally paid off at long last. I have NO desire to SEDUCE or CONVERT anyone at all to any belief or to any doctrine. It is the absolute and fundamental right of every individual to build his own sand castle and on his own private beach and then watch and then listen to it float away from the land into the water just because he "didn't know better." “What disturbed me was the idea that free will died with Freud—or even earlier, with the materialism of the triumphant scientific revolution. Freud elevated unconscious processes to the throne of the mind, imbuing them with the power to guide our every thought and deed, and to a significant extent writing free will out of the picture. Decades later, neuroscience has linked genetic mechanisms to neuronal circuits coursing with a multiplicity of neurotransmitters to argue that the brain is a machine whose behavior is predestined, or at least determined, in such a way as seemingly to leave no room for the will. It is not merely that the will is not free, in the modern scientific view; not merely that it is constrained, a captive of material forces. It is, more radically, that the will, a manifestation of mind, does not even exist, because a mind independent of brain does not exist” Excerpt From: Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Sharon Begley. “The Mind and the Brain.” HarperCollins, 2002. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Check out this book on the iBookstore: url deleted by mod

This is one of the best posts I am coming across at long last now from a guy who seems to be a real genius. I am not trying to flatter him but I am merely admiring the "qualiia" (Latin or Greek for quantity) the level of of his knowledege. The famous cliche that the brain is the most complex organ in the universe still appears to hold true for many people. The brain has around one trillion neuronal connections which continuously keep rewiring themselves as they receive new information. It continues throughour life to form new neuronal or neural networks and trillions of more connections as the mind passes on the information being received through the five senses coming into it from the outside into the inside. As mental force is continuosly appllied the brain continues to become sculpted over time. That is essentially the whole definition of Neuroplasticity. The implications are so profound that there are very widely proven ways in which we can alter our own brain chemistry and thereby change our lives for the better simply through the rigorous and continuous application of the act of what is called directed mental effort and force. The end result is what is termed Neuroplasticity. "The answers are important but the questions we ask say say a lot about who we are." That the findings of science are firmly grounded in empiricism is very clear. But the "questions" that we scientists ask of nature are for all means and purpose and intents beyond an end. "If there were a limit to human understanding then our thoughts might just not be able to understand beyond a certain definable idea and our group of ideas, the human brain has not shown that it can be appeased by the available information." Imagine the Universe as a ballon having a finite boundary. Now imagine the Space outside it which extends into Infinity. Because logically speaking it would HAVE to be infinite or again we are back to square one. Logically speaking how can anything finite have a finite boundary. If the balloon (the Universe) goes through another big bang then again we are producing an infinite number of more balloons. That is exactly what the widely known concept of Multiverse or Multiverses or Multiple Universes or maybe even Infinite Universes is all about. More people (with your being the notable exception) don't take these concepts seriously enough because it is merely outside the scope of their limited imaginations. Not everyone is educated or intelligent enough but if he or she prefers to evade or avoid such concepts then he or she is what I would like to call a "coward".

If psychiatric or psychological authority holds no solid foundation for you then you really must be a real genius yourself and I am so glad to have met you people only because I was the foolish one who was trying to explain and to discuss what power the mind holds for mankind. If this is not a relevant topic for discussion in a public forum on General Philosophy then perhaps I should be well advised as to which other public forum I should switch to. We are discussing human nature right here. If that is not appropriate then I believe that this particular forum should be locked. Before I prepare to really leave this forum and this site once and for all then perhaps I am going to do exactly that. You were absolutely right and I should be moving to Facebook or Twitter tonight itself. I hereby request the moderater to kindly lock all the forums that I have started because I am leaving now at long last. I have seen far too many uneducated people not only in real life but in the virtual world as well who are unable to understand me. Yet exactly as Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz had problems with his peers when he brought up new ideas they were almost always rejected initially but luckily for him he got it going real well later and is now the proud author of a book which Science magazine has said on the back cover that "This author and this book explore some of the hardest questions in mankind". I have not read it all but I now strongly believe that many but not all people in the real world or in the virtual world cannot understand his or my language. Call it the Death of Epistemology. I hereby request the moderater once again to kindly lock all the forums that I have started because I am finally leaving now at long last.

Which guy? The Hunan or the Human? In addition to our individual papers for the JCS issue, Stapp and I wrote an “appendix” that appeared between them. It became our strongest argument yet of the power of quantum physics to support the causal efficacy of mental force: “The basic principles of physics, as they are now understood, are not the deterministic laws of classical physics,” we wrote. The basic physical laws are, rather, those of quantum physics, which allow mental effort to “keep in focus a stream of consciousness that would otherwise become quickly defocused as a consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and keep it focused in a way that tends to actualize potentialities that are in accord with consciously selected ends.

Too much knowledge: The Hunan Brain can store 2.5 petabytes of data. Too much knowledge is 2.5 petabytes of data that the Human Brain is capable of storing.

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I also make a lot of the number 2. Because 2 x 4 = 8. I was born on 08/08/1969. And the number 8 is made up of 2 circles. Which are the 2 Universes as described by Wikipedia.

Is OP the Original Post or the Original Poster?

I am not discussing Physics, I am discussing Quantum Physics.

And in my view the direction should remain focused on the subject matter at hand that has been copied and pasted simply for the benefit of anyone who wishes to read it. If no one wishes to read it then I believe that this thread should be locked as well.

I am definitely NOT trying to: 1. To induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith. 2. To induce someone to join one's own political party or to espouse one's doctrine. I am merely stating the facts as they really are known to me from the perspective of a complete layman. But even that author of that book admits that that can be an extremely difficult task to work on elaborating a new concept of reality. He was quoting Wolfgang Pauli of Max Planck fame. If you have not heard his name then please search for it. And he is certainly not a God and even he does not have all the answers which he himself admits to. No human being (who is inherently flawed and perfect) can ever come close to painting the whole picture. And that is why scientists and philosophers continue to do their R&D. I believe that there can never be an end to everything or anything.