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The world we live in
13 - Brainjuice theory
Let’s go back to the beginning. The human brain is only one small part of the creation. We don’t see any part of the creation dominating the rest of the universe. Each mountain, each flower, each atom plays a role, but none of them pretends to dominate the world. Water dominates agriculture but does not dominate the universe. Our brain will be able to understand part of the universe, but our part will be limited.
We have in common with the animals a need to eat and a need to sleep. During the day, we absorb energy from our food. We use our sense organs to be conscious of our environment. It is a time when the body prevails.
At night our soul leaves our body like we leave the car in the garage and the driver walks away. The soul prevails. It is free from the limitations of the body. This is how we discover the notions of good and bad.
Let’s assume that an animal is caught in the barbed wires of a fence along the road. Most people decide to keep driving. After a while somebody stops his car and decides to help. The animal is freed from the wires and runs back to the forest. What could have motivated this driver? It could be that helping an animal was promoting life on Earth. Helping life in general was helping his own life.
The notion of good and bad does not come suddenly. It is an evolution rather than a revelation. We use the bad to reveal the good. Even the most beautiful flower needs manure. Nature is using the bad to serve the good.
Even the most beautiful flower needs manure.
The Brainjuice theory
This is not a domain where we can experiment and get measurements. We are in the situation of a detective collecting clues.
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Our body is made of a detour in the cycle atoms moving between trees, oceans, animals and plants. We don’t know how the traffic is regulated. This is way above our head. We are in Nature and Nature is in us.
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There is an important discrepancy between the body and the brain of human beings. We get a good opinion of our intellectual faculties when we compare them with animals. Our brain looks rather primitive when we compare it with our sophisticated body.
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We have many different states of consciousness. They are independent from one another, and we jump from one to the next without transition.
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During the day, we are overwhelmed by the information received from our sense organs. They are like the sun preventing us from seeing the stars. Science is telling us that our sense organs are limited. Our eyes can only see what is between red and violet. We cannot see the infra-red and the ultra-violets. For 300 000 years we assumed that the universe was limited to what we could see around us and in the sky. We let the limits of our sense organs to become the limits of our thinking. We keep turning around our material world, like a tiger turning in its cage. Plato was right. We need to find a way out of our cave.
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Sleeping is a time when we are not limited by your sense organs. It could be the most important part of our stay on Earth.
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Astronomers decided that, during the day, we are only conscious of 5% of our reality. This is the only way they can explain the trajectory of distant stars. What a disappointment! For 300 000 years we focused on 5% of reality and ignored the dark matter and the dark energy. We are spending our life moving from one state of consciousness to another and are not investigating the connection between them! This is not something to be proud of.
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Our brain represents 2% of our weight but uses 20% of our energy. That would make anybody suspicious. During the day, our brain uses only a fraction of our 86 billion neurons. Moreover, at night, the brain keeps working. What could we be thinking about at night? It is a time when we could assemble in the brain the energy collected from our food and make better use of our neurons. The soul has eight hours to process what happened the day before. The purpose of our life could be to use our body as a tool to help the evolution of our soul while we are asleep.
Could the same idea apply to animals? That seems to be outside the scope of the human brain.
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Homo sapiens could be sleeping geniuses. Their limit is what can be implemented in a human body. Nature has already given us some idea of what can possibly be implemented in our body. We call them ‘geniuses’.
Let’s be open minded. Some people are born with exceptional abilities in mathematics or chemistry, painting, music, memory and many others. Most of them are born that way but some acquired their gift after being hit on the head. The choc made them conscious of new domains. The message was: “Wake up! There is a way out of your cave. You have built your computers in your image, with too many walls. Your limitations are in your brain itself. All you need may be a password.”
Our grandchildren may find a way to replace years of university with an injection of passwords.
We have reached a point in our development where we can develop new levels of consciousness. We can become willing participants in our own evolution. This is not a task for separate individuals. We need to live in society. Our computers are made of millions of ideas from millions of separate individuals. Life in society allowed human brains to merge and produce computers. What went up to society came back down to the individuals and improved their lives. The society needs individuals and the individuals need the society.
We could even go one step further. If the slime molds can merge their bodies, the Homo sapiens should be able to merge their brains. When watching the sunset of the ocean, we see millions of little sparks. We could be those individual sparks reflecting the light of the same sun.
If the slime molds can merge their bodies,
the Homo sapiens should be able to merge their brains.
