great correction kharron, couldnt have said it better myself, you sure got your principles right, iam a neuroscientist and one of the first things my
professors taught me in college is that we know much less than we think we do ......in terms of brain activation, most people see fmri's and other
tests monitoring activity and only see some parts light up so they assume others are not active, thats the problem with science, experts deal with it,
but eventually everyone comes across it, because thats what science is for, but its difficult to generalize and sum up things when someone hasnt spent
a few years studying the subject as you have, there are so many intricacies, things are always simple at first and seem definite, but the more i
studied the more i realized there are complexities that arise and things are not as simple as they seem.
and kharron the interesting thing to me is that these connections are not pre programmed in the brain, when you say if that part is not used, well its
the environment and the incoming data that determines what connects where, at the earliest stages of life, when our brains first start taking in data,
its an all out battle for neurotrophic growth factor and survival, whoever doesnt eat gets phased out to put it in simple terms.....and the brain
area's that we are so sure serve a certain defined function, such as vision and the occipital love, theres research now that shows that if we rewire
the eyes to a different part of the brain, auditory for example, we wont hear with our eyes, but that brain area will adapt to have
vision.........this is why i believe the brain is this godlike machine that we all share in common, and the mind/soul whatever makes us feel like us,
is what we acquire through experiencing a unique set of incoming data based on the space you inhabit on earth and the time that you inhabit
it.......think of a 3dimensional map and data streaming at all angles, even a genetic copy could only stand right next to you, not in the exact spot,
therefore you will each have a unique consciousness
i believe everyone has the same brain and as our world increases its interconnectedness, our consciousness follows, the people who are alive now have
wider awareness and in effect consciousness because we literally know more, we receive more information from all parts of the world than we did
before, before people were often limited to their town, or city......its hard to feel unified, but now our minds are moving towards unification, maybe
not in the literal sense, but as everyones consciousness expands based on whats on earth, people are taking in the same data, because we are all on
earth, therefore we can easily mimic each others states, we feel a unification, because we are ballooning up and absorbing the same
air......
edit on 21-8-2011 by subjectivelife because: added