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Histo-Psychology
Graeme Smith
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 04:50 UTC
We are beginning to understand the nature of neurons, and scientists are attempting to blaze new trails in understanding the nature of Columns.
However, we really will not understand the nature of the brain, until we begin to understand the nearly 1000 different types of tissues that make it up.
The massive brain atlases that allow us to pick out the tissue areas aren’t especially helpful in deciding what the psychological effect of the tissues is, for that we often need to be able to reach deeper into Architectonics and Connectomics, or do our own staining studies of each individual tissue.
However, I believe that real psychological understanding of how the brain works, will be dependent on us doing the work. That is why, I have begun to promote the idea that the standard psychological interpretations, might be quite significantly changed if we truly understood networks at the Heterogeneous Group Level, and could thus understand the mechanisms of the individual tissue areas.
For lack of any competing name, I have chosen to call the study of Tissue Psychology Histo-psychology. It was not my intention to be the first pioneer in histo-psychology to name it so, but the discipline has a great potential for knowledge and so I think it deserves its own name.
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Dear Graeme,
you wrote: “It depends on what your definition of sentience is, and I have defined it as being at least both intelligent and conscious.”
No! It does not depend on my definition nor on yours. Science is quite big a phenomenon and it has well established rules.
So the definition has to come by an agreement that is not like an election but one that follows a scientific discourse.
My guess what is the case with c. elegans: it is probably regarded as sentient but not as conscious. That would indicate that sentience is regarded to be of a lower level than consciousness.I have suggested to look into the dictionary – sentience means e.g. there:
1. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
2. the faculty through which the external world is apprehendedor wikipedia: Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively
But in any case definitions are still messy. So not our fault…
I wonder, do you want to stay an amateur out of principle reasons or would you take into consideration to join the bandwagon of pro-scientists? It may not be such a big step for someone like you.
Yours friendly
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Hans, Well frankly I couldn’t afford a Dictionary that precise.
I have no objection to earning a living. However, I have distinct health limitations that have up until now, and will probably have in the future, a distinct damping effect on my ability to hold down a full time job. As a result, I have been marginalized for so long that the local system is sure that I will never work again. I would like to prove them wrong, but having placed myself in situations that I found torturous in the past, am necessarily skittish about taking on any particular position, especially if it removes me from my admitedly scanty support base here in Canada.
If that doesn’t scare you off, I am open to suggestions.
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Dark Matter Chemistry for Biology?
[Philip Benjamin]
Graeme Smith wrote:“Philip…I have suggested that the correlation is not enough by itself to make the classification system interesting”.
Of the various possible correlations two with experimental data to confirm and further possible experimental designs are:1. ELF photon emission rates differing by orders of magnitude across the taxa
2. Induced paranormal phenomena and increased ELF emissions in a “complex” low energy magnetic field. Both can be related to “dissociation” of EM/non-EM Co-ordinate bonds.
Frankly, my interest is not in dark matter or axions per se, nor in WHAT constitutes sentience or sapience or what is being touted around as “consciousness” (which nobody knows what!!). Only, my curiosity is aroused by the absence of any reference or application to anything mundane here on earth, especially in livingmatter, of something supposedly of the order of 90% of the mass of the universe.
It seemed reasonable to posit axion-like particles (not necessarily the same as in astrophysics or theoretical physics) are present in living matter also not as some fleeting/ubiquitous ethereal weirdo, but as integral participants of living matter.
If it were not for physical and chemical laws, most probably fermions also will be dancing around doing nothing much. Bonding between fermions depend on stability factors resulting from “spins” and “configurations” (duets, octets etc of electrons for example) and electric charges. Organic life (with transience) is made possible with these EM “light-chemical bonds” including those of DNA. Perhaps sentient life (with intransience) is made possible with non-EM dark-chemical bonds including dark DNA, involving axion-like particles , their “spins”, “configurations” and “monopoles”.
As I have indicated a correlation that agrees with experimental data exists between ELF photon emission rates and a differential distribution of axion-like particles in plants, animals and humans. For example if C.Elegans is sentient like an animal it will emit ELF photons three times more than in plants and three times less than in humans from equivalent number of their living cells.
Para normal events are reported to be induced by complex low energy magnetic fields. ELF emissions may also increase in a “complex” low energy magnetic field. Both effects may be correlated to ‘stretching’ or ’dissociation’ to various degrees of the EM/non-EM bonds. The OBE events could then be due to high “dissociation” of these bonds, bot yet reaching “decoupling” (death).
Best regards,
Philip Benjamin
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Some recent references on theoretical calculations and indirect experimental evidences for axion-electron, axion-proton and axion-neutron interractions:Axion-electron interaction in a magnetic field. Authors: Skobelev, V. V.. Publication: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Volume 60, Issue 3, March 1997, pp.410-417 adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997PAN….60..410S by VV Skobelev – 1997
Axion-electron interaction induced by an external magnetic field .
Vassilevskaya, L. A.; Mikheev, N. V.; Ovchinnikov, O. S.; Parkhomenko, A. Ya.
Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Volume 62, Issue 9, September 1999, pp.1556-1561Proca Effects of Axion-Like Particle-Photon Interactions on Light Polarization in External Magnetic Fields. Cheng-De Li · Yan-Fu Cheng www.springerlink.com/index/d1247682n7674205.pdf – by CD Li – 2008
The dynamics of strong interactions makes the C P-violating coupling of an axion with a neutron and proton nearly equal even if C P violation at small link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.097703 – by M Pospelov – 1998
Search for axion-like particle production in 400 GeV proton-copper interactions. Authors: Bergsma, F.; Dorenbosch, J.; Allaby, J. V.; Amaldi, U.; adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985PhLB..157 458B – by F Bergsma – 1985
It is found experimentally that the probability of axion emission in an M1 transition in 125mTe is The residual neutron–proton interaction in www.springerlink.com/index/WV41617577G73375.pdf by AV Derbin – 2002
Search for axions emitted in nuclear magnetic transitions
V. Derbin1 , A. I. Egorov1, I. A. Mitropolsky1, V. N. Muratova1, S. V. Bakhlanov1 and L. M. Tukhkonen1
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, 188350, Russia. Received: 11 April 2001 Accepted: 11 July 2001Abstract :Searches for invisible axions emitted in the electromagnetic transitions of isomeric nuclei are continued. It is found experimentally that the probability of axion emission in an M1 transition in 125m Te is less than 8.5×10−6 (90% C.L.). From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 65, No. 7, 2002, pp. 1335–1339. Original English Text Copyright © 2002 by Derbin, Egorov, Mitropolsky, Muratova, Bakhlanov, Tukhkonen.
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Graeme is your theory on Tissue Psychology Hiso-psychology based on any ideas connected with Fascia Research?
http://www.fasciacongress.org/2009/about.htm
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Tina, I don’t eliminate Fascia Research per se.
Fascia, is a Tissue after all. But can you explain to me how soft-connective Tissue affects the psychology of the brain?
There might be a role for it, in separating the organs and nuclei within clusters of nuclei like in the thalamus. And this implies a sort of encapsulation or separation of function that might be critical to understanding the brain since it would isolate the functions of the different neural tissues, is that what you were thinking of, or did you assume some more active involvement? To assume a more active role I would have to know more about it.
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Correction:
The order is reversed here by mistake:“For example if C.Elegans is sentient like an animal it will emit ELF photons three times more than in plants and three times less than in humans from equivalent number of their living cells”.
The correct order is:
For example if C.Elegans is sentient like an animal it will emit ELF photons three times LESS than in plants and three times MORE than in humans from equivalent number of their living cells.
Plants: animals: Humans = 3^1 : 3^2 : 3^3
Philip Benjamin
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Dear Graeme,
you mention on your website that 5 (?) of your papers are under review by David LaBerge. This would be a step in the direction – what does he think about your work? I am not aware that he is an editor of any journal though. Studying with experienced people is a good idea. Publishing an article would be step to be more pro.
Ask an editor! You must not ask Nature right away, but any scientific journal that covers the field you are working on.
Yours friendly
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Thanks for the suggestion Hans.
I have been thinking about publishing, in a journal, but have not been sure of how to approach it, since I have no background in scientific publishing and can’t evaluate my own work. Certainly I can’t afford to publish in Open Journals like Foundations of Neuroscience. I was thinking of trying to publish something in Psyche, but was scared off by their demand that I have a degree in a related field, or support from two of the Editors.
One thing I don’t understand about publishing in a journal is, how does that increase your income, if you aren’t an academic? I mean I can see that it will improve your job prospects within a University or research department but if you are outside that supportive environment how does it have any impact on your income, especially for the first while before you become recognized as an expert?
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