Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Conscious Brain Time Travels, for a good reason!
Is Time Travel Real?
This is an article written by Quantum Publisher.... I found it very interesting and thought you would too...
September 21, 2010 by Quantum Publisher
Is Time Travel Real?
What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all? If you said “nothing,” then you just passed a test in logic, but flunked a test in neuroscience about time travel.
So what about time travel? When people perform mental tasks–adding numbers, comparing shapes, identifying faces–different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly colored squares on an otherwise dull gray background.
But researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. And this seems to be the time travel connection.
If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what? Time travel.
The answer, it seems, is time travel occurs naturally in our brains.
The human body moves forward in time at the rate of one second per second whether we like it or not. But the human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. It seems to be able to trvel forward and backward through time.
Our ability to close our eyes and imagine the pleasures of Super Bowl Sunday or remember the excesses of New Year’s Eve is a fairly recent evolutionary development, and we think our talent for doing this is unparalleled in the animal kingdom.
We are a time travel race, unfettered by chronology and capable of visiting the future or revisiting the past whenever we wish. But if our neural time travel mental machines are damaged by illness, age or accident, we may become trapped in the present. Alzheimer’s disease, for instance, specifically attacks the dark network, stranding many of its victims in an endless now, unable to remember their yesterdays or envision their tomorrows.
Why did evolution design our brains for time travel?
Perhaps it’s because an experience is a terrible thing to waste. Moving around in the world exposes organisms to danger, so as a rule they should have as few experiences as possible and learn as much from each as they can.
Although some of life’s lessons are learned in the moment (“Don’t touch a hot stove”), others become apparent only after the fact (“Now I see why she was upset. I should have said something about her new dress”). Time travel allows us to pay for an experience once, and then have it again and again – learning new lessons with each repetition. When we are busy having experiences–herding children, signing checks, battling traffic–the dark network is silent, but as soon as those experiences are over, the network is awakened, and we begin moving across the landscape of our history to see what we can learn via time travel.
Animals learn by trial and error, and the smarter they are, the fewer trials they need. Traveling backward buys us many trials for the price of one, but traveling forward allows us to dispense with trials entirely. Just as pilots practice flying in flight simulators, the rest of us practice living in life simulators, and our ability to simulate future courses of action and preview their consequences enables us to learn from mistakes without making them.
We don’t need to bake a liver cupcake to find out that it is a stunningly bad idea; simply imagining it is punishment enough. The same is true for insulting the boss and misplacing the children. We may not heed the warnings that prospection provides, but at least we aren’t surprised when we wake up with a hangover or when our waists and our inseams swap sizes.
The dark network allows us to time travel into the future, but not just any future. When we contemplate futures that don’t include us–Will the NASDAQ be up next week? Will Hillary run again?–the dark network is quiet. Only when we move time travel does it come alive.
Perhaps the most startling fact about the dark network isn’t what it does but how often it does it. Neuroscientists refer to it as the brain’s default mode, which is to say that we spend more of our time away from the present than in it.
People typically overestimate how often they are in the moment because they rarely take notice when they take leave. It is only when the environment demands our attention–a dog barks, a child cries, a telephone rings–that our mental time machines switch themselves off and deposit us with a bump in the here and now. We stay just long enough to take a message and then we slip off again to time travel to the land of Elsewhen, our dark networks awash in light.
This is an article written by Quantum Publisher.... I found it very interesting and thought you would too...
September 21, 2010 by Quantum Publisher
Is Time Travel Real?
What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all? If you said “nothing,” then you just passed a test in logic, but flunked a test in neuroscience about time travel.
So what about time travel? When people perform mental tasks–adding numbers, comparing shapes, identifying faces–different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly colored squares on an otherwise dull gray background.
But researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. And this seems to be the time travel connection.
If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what? Time travel.
The answer, it seems, is time travel occurs naturally in our brains.
The human body moves forward in time at the rate of one second per second whether we like it or not. But the human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. It seems to be able to trvel forward and backward through time.
Our ability to close our eyes and imagine the pleasures of Super Bowl Sunday or remember the excesses of New Year’s Eve is a fairly recent evolutionary development, and we think our talent for doing this is unparalleled in the animal kingdom.
We are a time travel race, unfettered by chronology and capable of visiting the future or revisiting the past whenever we wish. But if our neural time travel mental machines are damaged by illness, age or accident, we may become trapped in the present. Alzheimer’s disease, for instance, specifically attacks the dark network, stranding many of its victims in an endless now, unable to remember their yesterdays or envision their tomorrows.
Why did evolution design our brains for time travel?
Perhaps it’s because an experience is a terrible thing to waste. Moving around in the world exposes organisms to danger, so as a rule they should have as few experiences as possible and learn as much from each as they can.
Although some of life’s lessons are learned in the moment (“Don’t touch a hot stove”), others become apparent only after the fact (“Now I see why she was upset. I should have said something about her new dress”). Time travel allows us to pay for an experience once, and then have it again and again – learning new lessons with each repetition. When we are busy having experiences–herding children, signing checks, battling traffic–the dark network is silent, but as soon as those experiences are over, the network is awakened, and we begin moving across the landscape of our history to see what we can learn via time travel.
Animals learn by trial and error, and the smarter they are, the fewer trials they need. Traveling backward buys us many trials for the price of one, but traveling forward allows us to dispense with trials entirely. Just as pilots practice flying in flight simulators, the rest of us practice living in life simulators, and our ability to simulate future courses of action and preview their consequences enables us to learn from mistakes without making them.
We don’t need to bake a liver cupcake to find out that it is a stunningly bad idea; simply imagining it is punishment enough. The same is true for insulting the boss and misplacing the children. We may not heed the warnings that prospection provides, but at least we aren’t surprised when we wake up with a hangover or when our waists and our inseams swap sizes.
The dark network allows us to time travel into the future, but not just any future. When we contemplate futures that don’t include us–Will the NASDAQ be up next week? Will Hillary run again?–the dark network is quiet. Only when we move time travel does it come alive.
Perhaps the most startling fact about the dark network isn’t what it does but how often it does it. Neuroscientists refer to it as the brain’s default mode, which is to say that we spend more of our time away from the present than in it.
People typically overestimate how often they are in the moment because they rarely take notice when they take leave. It is only when the environment demands our attention–a dog barks, a child cries, a telephone rings–that our mental time machines switch themselves off and deposit us with a bump in the here and now. We stay just long enough to take a message and then we slip off again to time travel to the land of Elsewhen, our dark networks awash in light.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Brain Plasticity; A New Frontier For Education and Learning
Hello Neural Bloggers,
I wanted to simply point you in the direction of a company called Posit Science. They are a credible source for Neuroscience. Attached below is is an article about Dr. Norman Doidge's book and an interview with him on Brain Plasticity. I have been receiving their Newsletters for about 2 and half years and there is always some great tidbits or "odds and ends" that seem to continue to grow or evolve my own brain. I like that Dr Doidge focuses on the "work out" of the brain for better function and longevity. It complements Sport of Mind Institute; we focus on the biology of "Efficiency" and "Creation" of Your Identity.
Thought I would share.... Enjoy,
DrRob
ps. for some encouragment and motivation listen to one of the very first "Train Your Brain to Create Your Identity" 90 Day Challenge - Graduate calls, go to: http://www.sportofmind.com/events.html and scroll to the bottom of page.
Dr. Norman Doidge is the author of the book The Brain That Changes Itself and in this book, he reveals a fascinating look at how the brain can literally re-wire itself throughout the lifespan, even into old age. He shows how the brain is “plastic” and can change at any age, based on the stimuli it is being given. The brain is no longer thought of as “fixed” or “unchanging”. You literally train it in everything you do during your daily life. This is the concept of “Neuroplasticity”.
Dr. Doidge researched this idea of “neuroplasticity” to find that miracles can and do occur as it relates to how the brain can function. Brains can be “re-wired” for success in school. It has been found that functioning can be restored in brains that have either declined because of old age or because of an injury to the brain. This is a fascinating new world to explore in the arena of human development and how people function in the world around them.
Dr. Doidge participated in an interview last spring on the topic of brain plasticity, which you can listen to online. Here are some of the discussion points from the interview:
I wanted to simply point you in the direction of a company called Posit Science. They are a credible source for Neuroscience. Attached below is is an article about Dr. Norman Doidge's book and an interview with him on Brain Plasticity. I have been receiving their Newsletters for about 2 and half years and there is always some great tidbits or "odds and ends" that seem to continue to grow or evolve my own brain. I like that Dr Doidge focuses on the "work out" of the brain for better function and longevity. It complements Sport of Mind Institute; we focus on the biology of "Efficiency" and "Creation" of Your Identity.
Thought I would share.... Enjoy,
DrRob
ps. for some encouragment and motivation listen to one of the very first "Train Your Brain to Create Your Identity" 90 Day Challenge - Graduate calls, go to: http://www.sportofmind.com/events.html and scroll to the bottom of page.
Brain Plasticity: A New Frontier For Education and Learning
- November 11, 2010 by Carrie Gajowski
Dr. Norman Doidge is the author of the book The Brain That Changes Itself and in this book, he reveals a fascinating look at how the brain can literally re-wire itself throughout the lifespan, even into old age. He shows how the brain is “plastic” and can change at any age, based on the stimuli it is being given. The brain is no longer thought of as “fixed” or “unchanging”. You literally train it in everything you do during your daily life. This is the concept of “Neuroplasticity”.Dr. Doidge researched this idea of “neuroplasticity” to find that miracles can and do occur as it relates to how the brain can function. Brains can be “re-wired” for success in school. It has been found that functioning can be restored in brains that have either declined because of old age or because of an injury to the brain. This is a fascinating new world to explore in the arena of human development and how people function in the world around them.
Dr. Doidge participated in an interview last spring on the topic of brain plasticity, which you can listen to online. Here are some of the discussion points from the interview:
- Part One: The concept of brain plasticity, what it means and how it works.
- Part Two: How our brains learn, how technology plays a role in the learning process and how it affects our brain and brain development.
- Part Three: An exploration of communication and the roles of computers, text messages and email messages today, including an interesting discussion of how we tend to keep information on technology outside of ourselves, rather than inside our heads.
- Part Four: Who can benefit from the concept of brain plasticity and how can it help education today?
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Coach G - the student appears
Greg,
I want to thank you for taking the time to put this together and share your experience with us.... Followers.. Enjoy this amazing story by Greg Romero. He is prooof in the pudding process that Neural Inculcation works and it works well.
I want to thank you for taking the time to put this together and share your experience with us.... Followers.. Enjoy this amazing story by Greg Romero. He is prooof in the pudding process that Neural Inculcation works and it works well.
I did a video testimonial but I figured I would type out the story for you all to read....
On November 6th I bought a plane ticket to go to this BMX event, the ABA Grand Nationals (year end final) where over 3000 unique participants congregate in Oklahoma for a very long weekend of BMX bicycle racing. Originally, I was scheduled to go there to represent a company that I am stakeholder in, talk about product, do presentations, etc. The owner of the company wanted to know if I was interested in racing the event. I hadn't competed in over 8 months, however I do ride from time to time. I told him I would think about it, "let me ride and assess" where I am at because I will be racing the Masters Pro Class called "Veteran Pro" and there will be some very fast guys in that class. Now don't get me wrong, I have won this event several times, so I understand what it takes to do so, I am not going into an event with unrealistic goals.
So I knew if I was going to race, I needed to have a goal and to me it had to be hard, yet realistic. For a minute, my first instinctive goal was "to have fun". But then I realized that was just some lame goal to protect myself from failure. During my thought process, I rewound back to a conversation I had with Justin Kosman one day as he spoke about Dr. Rob's theories on if you believe thats the best you can do, you're not going to do any better (or something to that effect). So then I decided well, I will go for the podium and I will be very happy with that. But then I also remembered Dr Rob's dialogue with Nikol and her belief and goal system on "how much money do you want to make?", and he said, only multi 6 figures? Why not a million? So I decided that I was going to win the event. Seriously, that is how I processed my belief and goal system for the event and here it is:
I typed this out on November 14th:
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Because I am excited, in shape, and always do great, I will win the ABA Grands.
Yes that weekend was a real eye opener as I was able to get my mind right using the neural feedback techniques that I learned in an effort to keep the "inner tube" spaceship to keep flowing and going. I literally stared at a pillar near the starting gate to configure my mind to focus for the finals. So thank you guys for empowering me to do so. Also, I notice that this synergy of the belief system really came to life over the weekend event as just about anyone I encountered was encouraging, enthused and supportive of my racing, something that I really never had experienced before, it was really weird...but it was a microcosm of what is happening with my b&g below.
Dr. Rob, I found the video from the race ----> http://www.go211.com/u/abagrandnationals2010/videos/26250
Have a great day!
Greg Romero
2010 ABA Grand National Champion : ) LOL
Winning the race proved to be positive energy because after the event my coaching inquiries have doubled.... Participating fueled me further of reaching my goals...
Oh, by the way, I sold over 150 DVDs over the weekend! and today I shipping over 80 units that I have pre-sold!
Because I am dedicated and enthusiastic, my income will double or triple by 1/15/11 or sooner.
Because I am dedicated and enthusiastic, my income will double or triple by 1/15/11 or sooner.
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