The brain has been traditionally viewed as a deterministic machine where certain inputs give rise to certain outputs. However, there is a growing body of work that suggests this is not the case. The high importance of initial inputs suggests that the brain may be working in the realms of chaos, with small changes in initial inputs leading to the production of strange attractors. This may also be reflected in the physical structure of the brain which may also be fractal. EEG data is a good place to look for the underlying patterns of chaos in the brain since it samples many millions of neurons simultaneously. Several studies have arrived at a fractal dimension of between 5 and 8 for human EEG data. This suggests that the brain operates in a higher dimension than the 4 of traditional space-time. These extra dimensions suggest that quantum gravity may play a role in generating consciousness.
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hammpix: For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.
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The central figure is St. Bede the Venerable. He is surrounded by ornamentation from the Book of Kells, the monasteries of Jarrow and Wearmouth, and inset icons of Sts. Aidan of Lindisfarne, Hilda of Whitby, and Cuthbert. Bede is illuminated from above by Christ as the Morning Star, just as Bede referenced in his famous work “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” which he is shown here writing.
[The imagination is a faculty for seeing rather than inventing. - Br. Aiden]
[by Br. Kenneth Hosley]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/d335ac306b533f27c718324e5b86ddc2/tumblr_mmie8dBMpO1qa7auxo1_500.jpg)
The central figure is St. Bede the Venerable. He is surrounded by ornamentation from the Book of Kells, the monasteries of Jarrow and Wearmouth, and inset icons of Sts. Aidan of Lindisfarne, Hilda of Whitby, and Cuthbert. Bede is illuminated from above by Christ as the Morning Star, just as Bede referenced in his famous work “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” which he is shown here writing.
[The imagination is a faculty for seeing rather than inventing. - Br. Aiden]
Some people say that Buddhist practice is to dissolve the self. They do not understand that there is no self to be dissolved. There is only the notion of self to be transcended.
Thich Nhat Hanhॐ
