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Dr. Selen Atasoy YouTube lecture links again in an SF thread, thank you. Implications of her work towards understanding mind consciousness seems to have been lost in the vast amount of more mainstream dominant complex work in those science fields that are overwhelming those interpreting progress in ways dominant neurology science can understand. I understand most of her presentation except her mathematical Laplace equation she did not bore the audience with. Her part of the video begins at 1:30 and ends at 31:30, so half an hour.
Selen Atasoy - Video Search Results
One off OP subject note at 14:00 in the video is the chart showing the effective observed power of fMRI machine measured brain activity under the influence of a hallucinogen, as a greater amplitude than when patient's were given placebo's. The perceptual phenomenon of heightened awareness is generally in the same dimension as when experiencing other hallucinogens. Examples of which are more perceived intensity of the 5 senses. One can infer that likewise, endocannabinoid system effecting substances result in somewhat higher amplitude in some dimensions of the brain wave fields on fMRI displays.
The fact the experience of senses can be amplified by those substances in the same dimension as the fields, shows how the size of the field itself directly increases the perceptual intensity of that mental experience. Understanding that IMO, absolutely points to why mind is an electromagnetic field phenomenon and not a structure of sequential or logical conductor circuits like our computers. At 15:00 shows how the fields under the hallucinogen also contain greater overall detail by shifting harmonics to higher frequencies.
Now watch this related Youtube video at the most prestigious Oxford University that reflects how respected these radical recent ideas are.
The worthwhile part of her talk starts at 15:30. At 18:00 she discusses how standing wave patterns form on a geometrical mathematical basis from her equation. At 19:50 is a fascinating experiment with sand patterns on a vibrating rectangular plate that shows sand densities form between standing waves peaks. At 20:15 shows how the opposite level of reduced amplitude brain activity occurs when administered anesthesia. So is not a result of say some gateway brain pathway blocking activity but rather one of reduced field power amplitudes.
The inference again is the amplitude of those field somewhat directly correlates with perceived awareness levels. At 29:00 she show evidence the calculated location of standing wave fields in the brain correspond to functional areas fMRI scans shows activity within and such structures have physical geometric patterns. At 21:10 she shows preferred harmonic frequencies to cause sand pattern resonances with the understanding that between those frequencies, off resonance, such regular patterns don't occur.
Animals brains via evolution, have developed brain chemical feedback systems within neural networks to cause brain wave oscillations at such resonances in order to illuminate and focus attention and awareness under acting, purposeful thinking, executive control in different geographical brain locations.
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I wondered if Selen, that I admit to finding quite attractive maybe through the intelligence and emotion I sense in her voice, was married haha, but nothing shows on any websites she is on. Oh well, what the heck, will send her an email asking for a date doing some skiing in Tahoe or backpacking in the Sierra Nevada. That way we might cross pollinate with...ideas.
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