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	John Eccles on mind and brain
		The brain is regarded as a supercomplex computer in which material processes in the cerebral cortex somehow generate thoughts and feelings.
		If the mind is the brain, this would mean either that one part of the brain activates another part, which then activates another part, etc., or that a particular region of the brain is activated spontaneously, without any cause, and it is hard to see how either alternative would provide a basis for free will.
		How the Self Controls Its Brain, Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/eccles.htm (2631 words)

	Science News: Sizing Up the Brain
		But this research shows that one area of the brain controls much of our sense of self, and damage to that area can dramatically change who we are," said Bruce L. Miller, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, who presented his findings at the American Academy of Neurology's 53rd Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
		Using MRI and single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) imaging, they compared the brains of patients who had shown a change in their "self" (defined as changes in their political, social or religious values or style of dress) with those who had not.
		Changes in self were strongly associated with severe abnormalities in the brain's right frontal lobe.
	www.accessexcellence.org /WN/SU/brainiac.html (952 words)

	Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		So although pain may not be identical to some one (first-order physical property like) firing C-fibers, it's at least identical to some (higher-order) functional state F. Generally, functional states are specified in terms of Turing machines states, which are completely describable by Turing machine tables.
		From the perspective of the naïve or direct realist it is simply the processes that occur in the brain between stimulus and response.
		The issue is, however, far more complex than this, for instance in imagining, lucid dreaming and dreaming the subject seems to be perceiving brain activity and modern fMRI studies show that similar areas of brain are used for perception, imagination and dreaming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophy_of_mind (1472 words)

	Meditation Alters Structure of the Brain
		The term refers to the brain's recently discovered ability to change its structure and function, in particular by expanding or strengthening circuits that are used and by shrinking or weakening those that are rarely engaged.
		In pianists who play many arpeggios, for instance, brain regions that control the index finger and middle finger become fused, apparently because when one finger hits a key in one of these fast-tempo movements, the other does so almost simultaneously, fooling the brain into thinking the two fingers are one.
		Using the brain scan called functional magnetic resonance imaging, the scientists pinpointed regions that were active during compassion meditation.
	www.urbandharma.org /udharma8/monksmed.html (1145 words)

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	Researchers Develop Neural Prosthesis Allowing A Monkey To Feed Self Using Only Its Brain
		Brain Controls Robot Arm In Monkey, University Of Pittsburgh Researcher Reports At AAAS (February 27, 2005) -- Reaching for something you want seems a simple enough task, but not for someone with a prosthetic arm, in whom the brain has no control over such fluid, purposeful movements.
		The arm is wired into the monkey's brain and intercepts signals through electrodes attached to tiny probes that tap into neuronal pathways in the motor cortex, a region of the brain responsible for voluntary movement.
		The direction to which a neuron fires fastest is called its "preferred direction." Many motor cortical cells change their firing rate for each movement, and this activity from the many neurons is routed through the spinal cord to different muscle groups to generate movement.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/10/041027143313.htm (928 words)

	Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice -- Lutz et al. 101 (46): 16369 ...
		Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, and Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705; and
		SD for two controls and all of the practitioners.
		oscillations for the long-term practitioners versus the controls
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/101/46/16369 (4037 words)

	Rutgers Writing Program - 100 - Gradatorium - This is a B
		They treat the self as a persistent entity that lasts a lifetime, is separate from the brain and from the world around, has memories, and beliefs, initiates actions, experiences the world, and makes decisions” (Blackmore 228).
		The self controls the human brain and it is the reason why we do the things we do.
		The question of control, after all, lies at the heart of the interactive revolution, since making something interactive entails a shift in control, from the technology-or the puppeteers behind the technology-to the user.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~wp/courses/100/gradatorium/this_is_b.html (1689 words)

	A Review of some Mind/Brain Books
		Simply put, Marr explained how, via the use of a cell with a centre which is excited by light and a surround that is inhibited by light, any system can detect edges of light and dark.
		Ultimately, Eccles is making a virtue of the poor understanding of how our experienced self relates to our brain and is using this as a vehicle to 'reinstate the spiritual self as the controller of the brain' (px).
		Edelman may be right 'that before language evolved, the brain already had the necessary bases for meanings in its capacities to produce and act on concepts' (p126).
	www.geocities.com /ResearchTriangle/System/8870/books/marxist.html (2590 words)

	Left Brain, Right Brain, Whole Brain?
		More importantly it is the number of connections which distinguish the way a brain function to the typical functioning a computer today, the ratio of connections to processing unit is much larger in the brain than in a computer.
		The results we see in the human brain could be a simple consequence of this specialization with the variations in functions tending to happen in the side most suitable for it.
		Its better to talk of general trends, indeed results from Herrmann seem to indicate that most people have more than one dominant mode.
	www.singsurf.org /brain/rightbrain.html (5516 words)

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		will be the (inter)relations between the functions of the brain and nerves and the different states of consciousness, the deciphering of the brain’s code, the possibilities of exercising external chemical and physical influence, as well as the issue of a control performed by immeasurable influences taking place on the level of quanta, or sub-quanta.
		The low frequencies (with perhaps higher amplitudes) seem to correspond to a better synchronization of the brain’s activity, and to favour altered states of consciousness, which may be correlated with paranormological effects in the surroundings, and which facilitate contacts with the transareas.
		Consequent on recent discoveries, it has in fact to be assumed that the dynamic of the mental states, which to us appear to be singular, is conditioned by a precise synchronization, acting in the msec range, of myriads of distributed nerve cells on all processing levels, or of the netted sub-systems.
	www.worlditc.org /c_07_senki_c_15.htm (5184 words)

	Links on Consciousness
		How the Brain Works Introducing the idea that human mentation can be understood in terms of the fundamental operations of a small number of brain regions.
		Various issues of Artificial Intelligence and its computational metaphors are also of more specialised relevance for information scientists due to their bases in such things as: languages and vocabularies; categorization and classification; and the logic of information acquisition, storage and retrieval.
		Insights into how these seemingly disparate functions may be integrated have emerged from studies that have demonstrated that the mammalian striatum is composed of two compartments arranged as a mosaic, the patches and the matrix, which differ in their neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /parchive/2001/S2001-Mar-16/www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/links.htm (3079 words)

	3Brain - concept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The human brain is actually three brains, like a bubble within a bubble within a bubble (Dr Paul MacLean, The Triune Brain in Evolution, 1990).
		Within these three brains, we have seven subdivisions: two in the neocortex (the famous "left and right brains"), three in the paleomammalian brain (the emotional center), and two more in the reptilian brain (the most ancient).
		The Self resides not within the neural network of our bodies, but emanates and interacts out of the quantum thresholds found in the brain (Sir John Eccles, How the SELF Controls its BRAIN, 1994 - and the scientists in the Quantum Mind group out of the University of Arizona, USA).
	www.thing.de /3Brain/skipinfowin.html (375 words)

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		Even if there is the possibility of an immaterial self existence somewhere out of space and time, the assumption of its existence will always be explanatory superfluous once we have accepted a second kind of causality.
		Since there is no strict determination in the brain rules of grammar and epistemic evaluation have to be consulted with respect to some perceptual input.
		Immaterial substances need not be simple, and if they have parts or properties by which they interact with the brain, there is no reason why it is not possible that these immaterial substances are subject to destruction through dissolution of their parts.
	www.filosoficas.unam.mx /~sorites/Issue_09/item7.htm (1146 words)

	How the Self Controls Its Brain
		The psychon/dendron relationship leads to consciousness and the psychon/psychon relationship is responsible for self- consciousness.
		Among his reasons for so stating is that each self is unique and that such uniqueness cannot be accounted for via biology or other natural means.
		How the Self Controls its Brain by Sir John C. Eccles.
	www.banned-books.com /truth-seeker/1995archive/122_1/ts221n.html (590 words)

	21st-A Comprehensive Theory of Consciousness: A Theory of Enformed Systems
		When a brain state as a whole changes with sensing the environment, the SELF changes as a whole—not element by element.
		Because SELFs are sustained by enformy, this organizing principle is fundamental to, and absolutely necessary for, morphogenesis.
		Eccles, J. How the Self Controls its Brain.
	www.vxm.com /2.CompTheory.html (1086 words)

	Amazon.com: How the Self Controls Its Brain: Books: John C. Eccles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After the book he wrote with Karl Popper (The brain and its mind) sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize in the 60's, wrote this one, described by him as "the book he had been trying to write during his entire life".
		This book is about the search of way to allow the mind to control the brain, and so allowing the very reality of the free will.
		This book is a must for everyone interested in the relationship between mind and brain, and is the perfect gun, in the battle against a materialistic reductionism of the mind, for those who still believe in the free will and the real existence of the soul.
	www.amazon.com /How-Self-Controls-Its-Brain/dp/3540562907 (952 words)

	Quantum brain theory: splitting classical-physical reality..from the inside-out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brain research is the great frontier of science in the twenty-first century, and is easily as important as nuclear physics was in the early twentieth century.
		Self consciousness creates the illusion of time passing slowly (as opposed to quickly when having fun), but there is a price we pay for this illusion of "having time", of protecting ourselves from the uncertainty of death.
		The brain is plastic and forever capable of changing its own wiring; we may think of this activity of the mind re-programming the brain as mysticism.
	www.heaven-words.com /5.htm (14825 words)

	Mystic18.com - Be a Better Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		That is how powerful the knowledge is and this is how important it is. There must be a natural 'cosmic selection process' in effect.
		It's strange how so many people would never believe the possibility that their mind can affect the material world around them.
		You really can't see the "thought-waves" with your physical eyes; it's invisible to your sight just like radio waves, infared waves, television waves, x-ray, etc. Because thought-waves cannot be seen, it is difficult for people to accept these mind power concepts into their reality.
	www.mystic18.com /msp.html (2608 words)

	Article-Evolution of the Brain- Creation of the Self
		Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human beings possessed of reflective consciousness.
		He conjectures that the beginning of human language came with Homo habilis and its greatly enlarged brain, while the mystery of self-consciousness is related to the newly developing neocortical areas of the brain.
		Brain evolution is a complex weave of species similarities and differences, bound by diverse rules or principles.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_evolution_of_the_bra-0415032245.htm (677 words)

	Reneman L, Endert E, de Bruin K, Lavalaye J, Feenstra MG, de Wolff F, Booij J (2002). The acute and chronic effects of ...
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		An investigator blind to subjects' drug use histories performed ROI analysis, with the cerebellum used as a reference due to its presumed lack of 5HT2A receptors.
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		His earlier book on the evolution of the brain ends with a dualistic explanation of its function that is anti-evolutionary in its implications.
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		Kauffman is a leading proponent of the hypothesis of self organization, which argues that the structure of our universe not only allows complexity, life, and intelligence to evolve, but virtually forces them to do so along a path well set.
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	Epilepsy Fdn.-Chat Event Transcript: Mood Disorders in Children with Epilepsy
		We just talked about depression and mood disorders, and how to separate those from just a normal stage but what you are describing could be a sign of other problems as well.
		The Neuropsychologist did say that his seizures originate in the part of the brain that controls self-calming, and he does seem to be doing better now that he is on meds that work.
		He is then shown how to identify and change negative distorted thoughts about himself, his experiences, and his future.
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	"John Eccles on Mind and Brain" by David Pratt
		the brain, this would mean either that one part of the brain activates an other part, which then activates another part, etc., or that a particular region of the brain is activated spontaneously, without any cause, and it is hard to see how either alternative would provide a basis for free will.
		However, Eccles denies that the mind is a type of nonphysical substance (as it is in Cartesian dualism), and says that it merely belongs to a different world.
		According to the first law of thermodynamics, the total energy of a closed system (i.e., one which does not exchange matter or energy with its environment) remains constant.
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