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Dec.24.2012 Neural Bridges I read today in Scientific American (Jan 2013 issue) about the work of Kacy Cullen and Douglas Smith (with University of Pennsylvania): this brilliant duo has been working on devising a neural adapter for jacking into human peripheral nervous system (PNS) as an interface for next-generation...	Dec.02.2012 A Neural Namaste in Nearly Real Time 1:27am. Baby has been crying so I am awake. Downstairs I sit down to read. I see a stink bug on the floor. Correction: I see a fellow neural colony inside a stink bug body-form. (I am relating to it: the neurons inside this insect are same as mine, just fewer, it’s a neural namaste moment). I...
Nov.16.2012 From Humankind to Neurokind to Kindness Adi Da wrote in “Not-Two is Peace”: “Humankind is functioning on the principle of ego – or separate identity and separative activity. Separateness and separateness – or ego-”I” – is the idea of “difference.” That idea inevitably manifests as the process of “objectification,” control, and...	Nov.15.2012 Pixels of Consciousness The NT perspective is that neuron is a species and each of us is a neural colony of the larger Neural Tribe (NT) that inhabits a variety of body-forms. This perspective implies a question: is any given neuron conscious? My own take on this is - yes. The sum total of your consciousness is the...
Nov.04.2012 Brain Isn't an Organ But an Organization We tend to think of a brain as an organ, as something solid, monolithic, continuous. But it's not. A brain is not an organ but an organization of stand-alone neurons, a centralization of neurons. In my previous post, Neural Tribe Doctrine, I remind the reader of the so-called...	Oct.25.2012 Neural Diaspora Diaspora is a dispersal, scattering, migration of people away from their ancestral roots, away from their origins. In modern use, we tend to equate the word “diaspora” with the notion of an ethnic, immigrant community. For example, a such-and-such diaspora in such-and-such place (say, an...
Oct.22.2012 Neural Tribe (Introduction of the Meme) Introduction of the NT Meme A human - or any animal, for that matter - is a multicellular colossus that consists of various cellular types. One way of looking at our nervous systems is that they are not really systems but colonies of stand-alone neuron (all neurons - as close as they are to each...	Aug.24.2012 Brain-to-Brain Interface In 1963, a Spanish-born neuroscientist, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, stopped a charging bull with a remote control. Delgado - a kind of neuro-torero - implanted a radio-controlled electrode inside the bull's brain (in the caudate nucleus area) and, in so doing, set a historical...