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Conventional
wisdom in neurobiology holds that the brain is
nothing more than an extraordinarily complex
biocomputer, whose neurons fire for the sole purpose
of transmitting discrete bits of visual, auditory,
sensory, and miscellaneous cognitive data to
networks of other neurons for further computational
analysis.
In maintaining
such a restrictive view, science fails to account
for our own subjective experience of this curiously
colorful and melodious world that appears to
surround us and of the “I” that perceives it—the two
most conspicuous characteristics of sensorium
consciousness.
Psyche’s
Palace: How the Brain Generates the Light of the
Soul proposes a new and radically
commonsense theory that acknowledges the brain as
the organ of presentation. The principal occupation
of the brain is to create this brilliant sound and
light show, which is projected directly upon the
convoluted surfaces of the cerebral cortex.
Consciousness emerges from within the colorful and
vibrant, fine-grained quantum field produced by the
patterned firings of intricate configurations of
presentation neurons.
The whimsy of
Nature has thrown a twist into our evolutionary
story—a twist of 180°, to be precise—enough to
obscure a host of clear and direct topological
correlations between the broadly spherical cortical
surface of the brain and the presentational sphere
of reality. The visual world manifests as a
brightly colored half sphere spread out in front of
our eyes, yet the inwardly curving primary visual
cortex “screen” is located in the occipital lobe, at
the very back of the brain. Similarly, the left and
right hemispheres of the brain control the opposite
halves of the body and illuminate the opposite
halves of the sensorium sphere. Unbeknown to her,
Psyche rides the brain backward!
A filigree of
sparkling pixels suspended in the crystal-clear
fluid of the cerebral cortex forms the live and
luminous theater in which the external world is
continuously re-created. For everything you see and
hear and feel and think and dream must be sculpted
directly from the bioluminescence of vast,
oscillating networks of neurons. The brain is
simply the material substrate that holds the
exuberance in place.
What if it actually is true—what the wise have
always said—that YOU ARE the pure Light of
consciousness that shines within? |
