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January 9, 2009 at 06:32:10
Promoted to Headline (H2) on 1/9/09: by Rand Clifford Page 1 of 4 page(s) |
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Rand Clifford
Heaven, and hell, they both shimmer in the neural universe behind our eyes—in the electrochemical flower we inherited in three parts. High in the blossom sparkles transcendence of miseries humans inflict upon the entire biosphere; down in the stem lurk thorns of greater misery.
Evolution of reptiles into mammals and then humans has given us three unique brain systems: the reptile brain; the mammalian brain; the human brain. Perhaps no story better illuminates the spectrum of potential in our triune brain than that of “The man who lit the world”...history’s premier visionary engineer, Nikola Tesla.
But first, a basic introduction to the brains:
Reptile Brain
The most primitive of our brains, also called the brainstem. The reptile brain is the fundamental core of our nervous system. Forming the upper part of the spinal cord, it’s something we have in common with all other reptiles. The reptile brain is our action, or power brain, center of the will to power. While survival is its main focus, also generated here are aggression, the drive to establish and defend territory, fight-or-flight, deception...as well as basic life support functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and digestion. Visceral stimulus-response is brainstem language.
Mammalian Brain
Also called the limbic system because it resembles canine hind limbs sprawled crookedly over the reptilian structures, the mammalian brain links our reptile brain with the more advanced structures. We share the limbic system with all other mammals. Opening a new horizon of humane conscious behavior, it gives us the power of feeling, as opposed to simply reacting. Complex care of young, and other behaviors not so purely instinctual flow from the limbic system; so do primal urges and powerful emotions that ensure self-preservation, such as terror, rage, sexual desire, hunger...and even more complex emotions such as love, compassion, empathy, envy, indignation and hope.
Human Brain
The neocortex. The thinking brain, seat of perception, center of the “soul”. Voluntary movement begins here, and integration of all sensory inputs. We share the neocortex only with higher apes, ours being more advanced. By far the largest brain, completely encompassing the limbic system, the neocortex is our path to words and symbols, logic and time, abstract thought...and magic such as Tesla’s....
Tesla’s story is a powerful example of the human and mammalian brains versus the reptile brain—of advanced intelligence and common good versus private accumulation, aggression and the will to power.
Astrophysicist Adam Trombly said in July 1988, at the International Tesla Symposium in Colorado Springs: (If society had followed up on the inventions Nikola Tesla envisioned at the turn of the century) “...we wouldn’t have a fossil-fuel economy today. And J. P. Morgan, Rockefeller and a number of others wouldn’t have amassed extraordinary fortunes on the basis of the fossil-fuel economy.”
Regarding what Tesla said of energy from the vacuum of space, specifically: “Electric power is everywhere, present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas or any other fuels”, Trombly noted further that if Tesla’s vision had prevailed, we would be dipping into clean and abundant energy, like taking water from the well of space.
Tesla wrote: “Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity....”
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The "Triune Brain" Theory
Editor's note: Interesting article Rand, and I totally agree with your conclusion that it is not power that corrupts, but rather that the corrupt seek power. by John R Moffett (89 articles, 18 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 697 comments [14 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:36:20 AM
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Reply: Does Anybody Like " Evolution" Anymore?
I have read that everything in the universe is a hologram of the universe. The whole is written in every part. Left-brain verbal labeling has the unfortunate characteristic of labeling and thus causing separation and to an extent accidentally giving the impression that all that hologrammatic stuff is somehow less important. In reality it is immensely more important. That said left brain labeling is still OK. As long as you can realize its limitations you are not going to go too far off. Just so science is now seeing past the limitations of the triune brain labeling idea to a slightly more inclusive view. Science is realizing that all life is immensely related to all other life and nothing can be totally stuffed into any category. Fine. That does not make the triune brain theory rubbish, I do not feel. All verbal labels are rubbish if carried too far. Furthermore when we evolve past a certain stage we take it with us. As Carl Sagan said in his book Dragons of Eden, Nature never reinvents anything. Nature only builds on what she has already done in the past. We all have a Terranasaurus Rex in us ready to gobble up the other guy. But we do do it with a bit more intelligence as we evolve. Why else evolve???? The last thing I ever thought I would hear is the argument that higher life forms are just as animal as lower live forms...period. I think the correct way to think of it is that higher life forms are just as animal as lower life forms and they are more. We do not become less animal, we become animal and much more than animal. It is bad enough listening to a backwoodsy person get miffed by the idea of evolution, and the steps of evolution. Now I have heard it from a brainy scientific type. What next??? If humans are to evolve now, and God knows we need to do that now to save this planet, we need to look back and see and label where it is we have been. We have evolved a good way and when we see that, and the continuum we are on, we can guess that there is a next step. True we do have to have faith and jump off of a cliff to some extent because a lower life form can not sense deeply a higher one, and we are not yet aware of where we are going. But at least we can see beneath us where we have been and have enough guts to try for more. We have evolved up an evolutionary tree of reptile mammal primate and human and we desperately need to take the next step now, wherever that leads us. Evolution and the cosmos do not stand still. If we stand still now we go extinct. And getting lost in nit picky verbal labeling is not that helpful. by Theresa Paulfranz (23 articles, 1 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 326 comments [35 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:22:00 PM
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It is a shame of our society...
that Nicola Tesla is not recognized on an equal footing with Albert Einstein as one of the two most brilliant men of the Twentieth Century. by John Sanchez Jr. (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 1791 comments [148 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:01:40 PM
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Thanks for the Tesla article
I would like to say thanks for the article and its description of Tesla. He was truly a fascinating person. I believe that Tesla also talked about the idea that one day we will use mind-over-matter far more than we can today. And this mind-over-matter stuff could harness power. And when we can do this we will not be as exploitable as we are now. But even now if more of us were wise and brave the mischief in human society that we are witnessing today would be impossible. It would be impossible even without mind-over-matter capabilities that we do not now possess. I happen to like the idea of a triune brain. I also feel that most humans listen far too much to their reptilian basic desire to survive over their mammalian capability for emotional caring. I think a good many of us act quite reptilian a good part of the time. To an extent that is good for we all have basic survival issues. But when we focus on them too much we can stifle the inner mammal and not even get around to feeling the inner primate and inner human. I can just imagine many religious people getting all bent out of shape with this kind of talk. I can not write a letter to the editor in the newspaper of the backwoods area where I live without getting some people in a huff about creation vs. evolution. I can not say that we humans now need to "evolve". Heaven forbid. So it tickles me to see humans as described as on a continuum with all other life on this planet. by Theresa Paulfranz (23 articles, 1 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 326 comments [35 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:47:59 PM
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Can we do something now to help others like Tesla?
Rand, I enjoyed very much this article as well as the previous one "Alas, Babble On". I intend to read your other articles as soon as I have the time. You and Steve Windisch (jibbguy) are very talented writers and I (and many other, I'm sure) thank you for your courage to take on controversial subjects such as the exotic energy (FE) research. I wish I would have your talent or your help in my struggle to promote what I believe is the best remaining to be tested idea on what we all can/should do to break the gridlock in the breakthrough energy research (and not only). I will reproduce below my last post on my site (ZPEneregy.com) regarding the Xtreme Science Foundation project (XSF) in the hope that you and others may pick up on it and realize how important such an organization is in our times, and how ingenious its functioning mechanism is to guarantee its success once more people learn about it and join forces to promote the concept. Hope to hear from you soon.... Vlad ---- Xtreme Science Foundation (XSF) - an Institution whose time has come Here we are at the beginning of 2009, year that will certainly prove very challenging for all of us, wherever we are. Such a global economic crisis doesn't only hurt people where it seems to matter the most - their pockets - but it also provides some time for reflection, and creates an opportunity to re-examine the adequacy of many fundamental principles our society has been guided by in its chosen developmental model. by vlad aspel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:31:56 PM
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