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| If the boundaries of the
self shift with those of the mind out from skull to body, or even from body to
world, as the self-follows-mind view implies, then accepting embodied or
extended cognition will have interesting implications concerning autonomy,
sociality, personal identity, and responsibility. |
Humans are
"infovores."
We crave info like drugs, junk food, and cash.
The human eye fixates three
times a second, drawn to
novelty.
Without
new information to
assimilate, humans experience
boredom.
Endogenous opioid
peptide
neurotransmitters
are being activated.
The
effect of these endogenous opioids is pleasurable.
The same neural
receptors are involved
in the high from
opiate drugs, such as Heroin™,
OxyContin® or
opium.
In the
past opioids were believed
to exist primarily in the
spinal cord and lower brain centers as
they reduce the sensation of
pain.
Opioid receptors
have been discovered in a region of the
cerebral cortex, outer
brain layer largely responsible for perception, cognition and
emotion.
In areas
initially receiving visual or auditory information,
opioids are sparse.
In "association areas," where
sensory information triggers
memory and taps into
previous stored knowledge, there is
a high density of opioid
receptors.
So the more a new piece of
information tickles the part
of the brain that interprets
the situation or conversation,
the bigger the opioid
hit.
Staring
at a blank wall will produce few mental associations.
Gazing at something that leads to
a novel interpretation spurs higher levels of associative activity in
opioid-dense areas.
We are thrilled when
new insights tap into
what we have previously learned.
Once we learn
this truth we seek ways to feed our endogenous opioid desires.
The first time we experience a
new perspective - a scene, a
movie, a
literary passage,
a new experience -
there's a high level of
activity in which a few neurons are strongly activated by connections to
memories and knowledge.
When we "return to reality,"
connections to memories and
knowledge have now been made, the
strongly activated neurons produce
less opioids reducing overall activity and pleasure now that we have
absorbed the information.
This agrees with the theory of the
Hedonistic Thermostat
and what any introspective
person already knows - old
information and repeated
experiences do not give us that endogenous opioid hit that we
so desire.
It explains
the altered
realities of heavy opium users Thomas De Quincey,
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, William
Blair, HP Lovecraft,
Edgar Alan Poe,
...
"If we do not focus our attention on
something, we will not remember it." - Torkel Klingberg
As foundational
cultural knowledge along with shared concepts of reality recede into the past
increasing contact with contradictory beliefs occurs.
Individuals that
can process and present detailed factual information in an unbiased holistic
manner are critical to a proper understanding of events.
Knowledge guides are
needed to thread the
labyrinth of
too much data.
To gain attention
public-affairs content must make sense of the
flood of information that inundates us all but
first must grab our
attention.
Attention can be thought of as a combination of three
cognitive networks - observation, orientation, and execution:
Observation requires a state
of wakefulness necessary to attend to info flow.
Orientation is the process by which we respond
to stimuli.
Execution involves the conscious control of sensory
stimulation to direct and maintain focus -
not allowing the
conscious thought stream to be distracted.
Web pages specifically exploit our biological
orienting responses.
A culturally induced form
of attention-deficit disorder with competing inputs prevent us from
assimilating information.
Public affairs content must get
"eyeballs to stick" to "deliver the message."
"The human brain develops
largely after we are born.
The brain of a human infant is so
feeble that human babies are helpless.
Human infants cannot walk,
visual perception is rudimentary, cognitive abilities and
the ability to communicate by speech
does not develop fully until the completion of adolescence.
Our brains
are the product of the environment in which we are nurtured through the first
two decades of life.
Our experience during childhood and adolescence
determines the wiring of our brain so powerfully that even
processing of sensory information is
determined by our childhood environment.
Whether we can hear eight
notes in a musical scale or 12, or whether we find symmetry in art beautiful or
boring, or whether we can hear the difference in sound of the English letter
"R" vs. "L", depends entirely upon whether our brains wired up during childhood
in Western culture or
Asian culture.
The
neural circuitry underlying
those sensory perceptions is directed by what we experienced in early life,
and these circuits cannot be
rewired easily in the adult brain." - Douglas Fields,
neurobiologist
Verbal abuse from peers is
associated with elevated psychiatric symptoms and corpus callosum
abnormalities.
The main cause is
stress hormones, changes in
inhibitory ¡neurotransmitters, and environmental experience affecting the
formation of myelin electrical insulation on nerve fibers which is the same
thing that vaccines do.
The most sensitive period for verbal abuse from
peers in impairing brain development was
exposure during the middle school
years.
During this period
lifelong connections are
developing in the adult brain.
Wiring of the adult brain is
dependent on environmental
experience.
Complexity of
the noumenon is
beyond the ability to describe in
words.
Layered
connections are beyond
the ability of bicameral minds.
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