What if...

... what we know as the Universe is actually just the inside of a brain?

Boom, baby.

How does consciousness caused/created/a product of/rise from neural and brain processes? How is that even possi--


Single-Neuron Theory of consciousness:
A contrasting model is outlined in the present paper that places the mind/brain interface not at the whole brain level but at the level of the single neuron.� Specifically, the model proposes that a single brain at any given moment harbors many separate conscious minds, each one assumed to be associated with the activity of a different individual neuron.� The model proposes, that is, that what is usually regarded as a person�s single conscious experience correlates not with an integrated neuronal network, but individually with single neurons that separately and redundantly encode the entire conscious content.� Consequently, at any given time, a multitude of conscious beings are assumed to be associated with a single person�s brain, all having identical or at least similar experiences.� Axonal outputs from multiple such neurons are then conjectured to summate, providing amplification of the message being emitted by any one of them.� The overall scheme is one in which conscious behavior, while appearing to be the product of a single macroscopic mind, is actually the result of the superposed output of a chorus of minds, each associated with a different individual neuron.

Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness: The electromagnetic energy generated by the brain *is* the conscious experience.

TBE, still, mayun.
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robottheory/single-neuron_theory_of_consciousness.html

Mr. No-Name

This is absolutely not my weekly blog post, and it is definitely not number seven or something similar! It just looks, feels, smells, tastes, sounds, and sweats like it.
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Mr. Myers discussed sexual orientation in the chapter on motivation. He said some interesting things and made me cringe at some others. One of the cringe-worthy things that he seemed to be assuming or implying is that "gay"/"lesbian" == "homosexual", which is simultaneously absolutely not true and a huuuuuge pet peeve of mine. Anywhat, that's beside the point.
He discussed how homosexuality may be caused or influenced by prenatal, in-utero activity. In a way that is neither a "choice" nor necessarily due to genes(kind of defeating both arguments, hmm?). I think it was pretty much the mother's body inhibiting the development of typical male brain-patters, I do believe, which happens more the more often the mother spurts out male babies. It sort of gave reason to the really weird "if you have older brothers you're more likely to be homosexual" thing, too - why would that have a genetic influence and/or why would a male with older brothers be more likely to "choose" to be homosexual? And, for the other wheel, it creates a predisposition that draws more lines for the coloring book that nurture fills in. Maybe.
Maybe is a baby until you throw in a T-Shit a T-shirt and sunglasses and call it a fact.
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P.S. From Freudian perspective, is asexuality due to a fixation in the latency phase of psychosexual development?

Mine Eyes art Morphing

How the crap did Barb's eyesight change with her personality!?
Eyes don't change shape like that... it must be in her mind, huh?

Your Mind is in My Fist - Bipolar, Part III.

You're late! Naughty.
Man, a person randomly falling through the rabbit hole and ending up on this blog might think I'm obsessed with bipolar, or something. Well, I'm not... I swear...

Something I've not really commented upon yet is how bipolar seems to be disgustingly overdiagnosed - people who have any kind of mood swings automatically assume (or are incorrectly diagnosed as being) bipolar, and this is simply a terrible, terrible thing. It's almost as if misdiagnosis or mis-assumption is becoming a fad - a baffling amount of people attribute their fickleness or mood variations to bipolar. A vast majority of these people need to get taken out back and shot with a moose, I say! The fad it's becoming is doing two things: One, it's maybe making it more common and less stigmatic; Two, it's giving people the wrong treatment, ideas, and excuses; Three, it proves that not every "mental health professional" or "mental health quiz" know what they're talking about.

I have proof (in some form) for the third point: It lies here. I'll finish my rambling later.
You've got a very important date!

SUDDENLY-!!

*crash*
Excuse me, I was exploring the moon, and rabid dinosaurs (velociraptors, specifically) chased me off. I free-fell for about three days. I'm as bald as a baby, now. Great.

Anyway. Why am I posting when I already posted this week's blog!? BECAUSE I'M A DEVIANT, THAT'S WHY. Also, I'm feeling froggy at the mo'... OR SHOULD I SAY "BLOGGY"!? Yes. I'm feelin' bloggy at the moment.

For what, though.. I couldn't tell you. I'll edit this later. It'll morph to become this week's zoid.

If I were a hooker, I'd burgle my narcoleptic client.

Nikitha probably beat me to it, but I wonder what it'd be like to have narcolepsy and to TRY to have sex. I mean, you'd get excited and suddenly it's like "DAMMIT I PASSED RIGHT OUT". I think it would be terrifying to be a hooker in that case - I mean, your client just sort of falls asleep! - but it might be a convenient to rob them, then. If I were a hooker in this case and my client just happened to be a rich narcoleptic, I'd totally burgle the CRAP out of them (That is, I'd burgle their stuff, not th-- nevermind...). Is that bad to admi-- Yes. Yes, it absolutely is terrible. That's why I'm not a hooker.
Just kidding. No, no! I'm not a hooker! I mean I wouldn't burgle a client if I was. I don't think I would, anyway - I mean, I can't say I would or wouldn't, since I've never been in the situation. Alright. DONE WITH THAT, kthxbai.
Anyway. I have a connection with sleeping disorders and all that jazz. My dad doesn't get the best sleep, and I sometimes wonder if he's some sort of insomniac. He'll fall asleep for an hour, wake up, be totally alert, drift off again, all while in the living room Lay-Z-Boy (insert Flavor Flav picture here). Then he'll go lay on his bed for an hour, get up, do something else, and end up back in the living room. This is probably somewhat due to the schedule he had to run when he was still a truck driver, but it's weird. And kind of scary. Sometimes he seems visibly tired. I wonder how his brainwaves are, then? I mean, does he ever really get time to enter REM sleep?
Also, I think he had a night terror once. I was doing homework and I he started freaking out (while he was asleep). I tried to wake him up and he told me someone died and he was really upset. Fearful. It was terrifying. I couldn't get him to actually wake up.