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.

Take a close look:

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.

My point is that we should implement such knowledge to improve the quality of our daily lives by harnessing the Power of Mental Force and thereby rewiring our brains for the better through our minds to get over our daily problems which is essentially the whole definition of Neurplasticity in short. We achieve that by a very simple Four Step method that is outlined in three seperate books by Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. You could search his name on Amazon or on Barnes and purchase the books if you want the whole cake and the bakery to go with it.

It's not called endorphins, it's called adrenaline and nor-adrenaline. This forum sucks. I am leaving. Good bye guys.

Sorry, no more of that God crap for me. My mistake. Please forgive. It was all meant to be about energy. That is all that everything is made up of. Including matter, and maybe even space and time. So no God, just energy please. CMBR and all of that proven stuff. Please go to the topic entitled "The Matter of Mind" where I have brought this all up.

I am not threatening you, I am telling you to kick me up MY ass, not yours. Those nukes were virtual, not real. It was an imaginary threat, certainly not a real one. We don't seem to be speaking the same language, so let's just break the friendship. I too have better things to do, as I am sure you certainly do too. That leaves me with that question I asked you, that how does the Brain generate or create the Mind, which you have not yet acknowledged. Answer that or I will leave from here. Final Warning. Game Over.

Are you warning me or are you warning them?

To the mainstream materialist way of thinking, only the physical is real. Anything nonphysical is at best an artifact, at worst an illusion. In this school of philosophy, at least among those who dont dismiss the reality of mind entirely, the mind is the software running on the brains hardware. Just as, if you got right down to the level of logic gates and speeding electrons, you could trace out how a computer told to calculate 7 x 7 can spit out 49, so you could, in principle 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: (commercial link removed by moderator) “principle, determine in advance the physical, neural correlates in the brain of any action the mind will ever carry out. In the process, every nuance of every mental event would be explained, with not even the smallest subtlety left as a possibly spontaneous (from the Latin sponte, meaning “of one’s free will, voluntarily”) occurrence.” 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: (commercial link removed by moderator) page 78 of 1277. long way to go for people reading this, I believe.

Now I am starting to have some real fun for the first time ever in my life. Coming across people (leaving out name calling for sake of respect) who don't even know the elementary difference between Metaphysics and Quantum Physics. You want proof of a soul, Mr Disbeliever? Come here and I'll show you. I'll keep the ambulance ready for you in case you Syncope. What is cherry picking? What atrocities am I leaving out? You can stab me or slap me if you want. I will simply respond with non violence. “How? Through the mental act of focusing attention, mental effort becomes directed mental force. “[T]he effort to attend,” James believed, may well be a true and genuine “original force.” Modern neuroscience is now demonstrating what James suspected more than a century ago: that attention is a mental state (with physically describable brain state correlates) that allows us, moment by moment, to “choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, [to] choose who we will be the next moment in a very real sense…. Those choices are left embossed in physical form on our material selves.” If James was speaking metaphorically, he was also speaking with almost eerie prescience. For it is now clear that the attentional state of” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=360640459 “the brain produces physical change in its structure and future functioning. The seemingly simple act of “paying attention” produces real and powerful physical changes in the brain. In fact, Stapp’s work suggests that there is no fully defined brain state until attention is focused. That physical activity within the brain follows the focus of attention offers the clearest explanation to date of how my hypothesized mental force can alter brain activity. The choice made by a patient—or, indeed, anyone—causes one physical brain state to be activated rather than another. A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, it may at last be time to take seriously its most unsettling idea: that the observer and the way he directs his attention are intrinsic and unavoidable parts of reality. Finally, in the Epilogue, we attempt to come to terms with why any of this matters. One important answer is that the materialist-determinist model of the brain has profound implications for notions like moral responsibility and personal freedom. The interpretation of mind that dominates neuroscience is inimical to both. For if we truly believe, when the day is done, that our mind and all that term entails—the choices[…]” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=360640459 “subjective sense of freedom is a “user illusion.” Our sense that we are free to make moral decisions is a cruel joke, and society’s insistence that individuals (with exceptions for the very young and the mentally ill) be held responsible for their actions is no more firmly rooted in reason than a sand castle is rooted in the beach. In stark contrast to the current paradigm, however, the emerging research on neuroplasticity, attention, and the causal efficacy of will supports the opposite view—one that demands the recognition of moral responsibility. And it does something more. The implications of directed neuroplasticity combined with quantum physics cast new light on the question of humankind’s place, and role, in nature. At its core, the new physics combined with the emerging neuroscience suggests that the natural world evolves through an interplay between two causal processes. The first includes the physical processes we are all familiar with—electricity streaming, gravity pulling. The second includes the contents of our consciousness, including volition. The importance of this second process cannot be overstated, for it allows human thoughts to make a difference in the evolution of physical events. Because the question of mind—its existence and[…]” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=360640459 “or shyness, or happiness, or impulsivity—or any of the dozens of human behavioral traits that are now being correlated with the chemical messages encoded on our twisting strands of DNA. Let us turn to the duality of mind and brain.” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-mind-and-the-brain/id360640459?mt=11 Good enough? Want more? “It was some 2,500 years ago that Alcmaeon of Croton, an associate of the Pythagorean school of philosophy who is regarded as the founder of empirical psychology, proposed that conscious experience originates in the stuff of the brain. A renowned medical and physiological researcher (he practiced systematic dissection), Alcmaeon further theorized that all sensory awareness is coordinated by the brain. Fifty years later, Hippocrates adopted this notion of the brain as the seat of sensation, writing in his treatise on seizures: “I consider that the brain has the most power for man…. The eyes and ears and tongue and hands and feet do whatsoever the brain determines…it is the brain that is the messenger to the understanding [and] the brain that interprets the understanding.” Although Aristotle and the Stoics rejected this finding (seating thought in the heart instead), today scientists know, as much as they know anything, that all of mental life springs from neuronal processes in the brain. This belief has dominated studies of mind-brain relations since the early nineteenth century, when phrenologists attempted to correlate the various knobs and bumps on the skull with one or another facet of personality or mental ability. Today, of[…]” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=360640459 “surface of the skull, do their mapping with brain imaging technologies such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which pinpoint which brain neighborhoods are active during any given mental activity. This has been one of the greatest triumphs of modern neuroscience, this mapping of whole worlds of conscious experience—from recognizing faces to feeling joy, from fingering a violin string to smelling a flower—onto a particular cluster of neurons in the brain. It began in the 1950s, when Wilder Penfield, a pioneer in the neurosurgery of epilepsy, electrically stimulated tiny spots on the surface of patients’ brains (a painless procedure, since neurons have no feeling). The patients were flooded with long-forgotten memories of their grandmother or heard a tune so vividly that they asked the good doctor why a phonograph was playing in the operating theater. But it is not merely the precision of the mental maps that has increased with the introduction of electrodes—and later noninvasive brain imaging—to replace the skull-bump cartography beloved of phrenologists. So has neuroscientists’ certainty that tracing different mental abilities to specific regions in the brain—verbal working memory to a spot beneath the[…]” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=360640459 “left temple, just beside the region that encodes the unpleasantness of pain and just behind the spot that performs exact mathematical calculations—is a worthy end in itself. So powerful and” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=360640459 “enduring has been Alcmaeon’s hypothesis about the seat of mental life, and his intellectual descendants’ equating of brain and mind, that most neuroscientists today take for granted that once you have correlated activity in a cluster of neurons with a cognitive or emotional function—or, more generally, with any mental state—you have solved the problem of the origin of mental events. When you trace depression to activity in a circuit involving the frontal cortex and amygdala, you have—on the whole—explained it. When you link the formation of memories to electrochemical activities in the hippocampus, you have learned everything worth knowing about it. True, there are still plenty of details to work out. But the most deeply puzzling question—whether that vast panoply of phenomena encompassed by the word mind can actually arise from nothing but the brain—is not, in the view of most researchers, a legitimate subject for scientific inquiry. Call it the triumph of materialism.” 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: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-mind-and-the-brain/id360640459?mt=11

There is, what is now universally called, a Higher Power, if you are hopefully aware of that widely used term. It is not I, who is confused, it is you, indeed, because, I assume that, you don't know the elementary difference, between Religion and Spirituality. God, Allah, Christ, Buddha - they all speak and write, a "common language" in Religion. Spirituality, simply integrates everything, into one universal, spoken and written language. One of the defining areas of Metaphysics is the proven existence of the soul (akin to a God). And there are two other defining areas. You sound exactly like that guy in a very popular Hindi film called "oh my god". Pray, tell me, why do seven billion idiots, on this planet Earth, go to temples, churches, mandirs, and gurudwaras. Because, if there is indeed no God, then you have just proved to me, that there are seven billion idiots, living on this planet Earth, believing in a God, whom you have called imaginary. I called off the nukes, because I didn't want, some Goverment official, reading this, and the next thing, that I know, is that I am sitting in a jail. Why has the Moderater not deleted my sentence on nukes yet? Because, if he doesn't hurry up, I could be arrested, for writing material like that. CALLING MODERATOR - please delete the following line immediately: I am just short of dropping a 100,000 kiloton nuclear bomb, and that two on American soil, via my own virtual Stealth Bomber. And it's not Quantum Physcs it's Quantum Physics. Please correct that too.

No, I am a Hindu. My family is the oldest known one in our country. My late great great grand father was born in 1800 and unfortunately he died in 1900. William James was also born in 1850. And Max Planck invented Quantum Phsics in 1900. The timings seem to be too serendipitious. Btw, the name of my late great great grand father is Sir Shriram. You called gods assholes? Then you must be the biggest one yourself, because he brought Humanity, and the Universe you live in, into existence. Why don't you create you own Universe, and shift out into it? Do you think you can do that? What a shame this all this is turning out to be. What a public disgrace to humanity and to mankind. That this guy here, thinks that gods don't exist, and if they probably do, then they are most welcome, to join this public forum, that they must know, how to use the Computer and the Internet. Of course, I am taking offense here. As I bloody well believe, I have the right to. Because, you are hitting way below the belt. Now, please forget about the nuclear attack. (Note to the Moderater: Could you please remove the nuclear text from my earlier post) That'll just kill us all, and be the end of everything. Now, let's up the ante here. I don't care where you live. I don't care where I live either. Just, answer one very elementary question for me. How does the Brain, which is made up of tangible matter, create a Mind, which is made up of intangible energy? You have been warned. Prepare for defeat, or surrender now.

Mr Moderater, I am being DEAD serious, with you personally now. This has become a f*****g international and virtual third world war, wherein mr pwagen has resorted to calling people complete a******s. If you do not expel him, from this public forum right now, for doing this, I will be left with no choice, but to counter attack, by directly threatening you, of all beloved people, to leave this bleeding public forum, right now. Let the people have their say on this. Bring it up as a MAJOR issue. I am just short of dropping a 100,000 kiloton nuclear bomb, and that two on American soil, via my own virtual Stealth Bomber. Btw, as a passing note, it would probably be better, that you expel me, from this public forum, and remove all of my posts, if you want to right now, for poking too many holes, in too many people's heads.