The Enchanted Loom Teasing sturdy threads from neuroscience masterworks
The Enchanted Loom Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks
Teasing 10 threads
from
Susan Greenfield’s…
Thread 1:
“It is better to know some of the questions
than all of the answers.”
(pg. ix)
Thread 2:
“Memories, no less than molecules, are
physical objects, part of the physical
universe, but objects
we are capable of
recognizing under
names other than
those physics
gives them.”
(pg. 3)
Thread 3:
At each stage of your day, various factors drive
an endless succession of brain states, which
are themselves based on very large numbers
of brain cells
working together
for just a fraction
of a second. “Ass-
emblies” are rela-
tively unknown
and under-
investigated. (pg. 4)
Thread 4:
The brain is not a rigid and inflexible building;
instead we should think of it as a heaving ocean
that is some-
times rela-
tively calm,
but some-
times choppy,
churning,
even stormy.
(pg. 45)
Thread 5:
Just to be crystal clear: what I’m suggesting is
that transient configurations of large-scale
neuronal assemblies
throughout the
brain correlate
with varying
degrees of con-
sciousness at
any one moment.
(pg. 50)
Thread 6:
“All truly great thoughts are conceived
by walking.” ~ Friedrich Nietzche
(pg. 53)
Thread 7:
A natural environment spares us relentless
reactivity to the outside world and shapes
our consciousness
more subtly in a
more voluntary,
proactive manner.
Creativity scores
after a 4-day hike
are 50% higher.
(pg. 54`)
Thread 8:
As our brain develops , so the connections
will be shaped by our experiences of the
outside world:
this phenomenon
whereby experience
almost literally
leaves its mark on
our brain is
known as
plasticity.
(pg. 61)
Thread 9:
Emotions must be the most basic form of
consciousness.
(pg. 149)
Thread 10:
A normally active, fully matured prefrontal
cortex will link the past and the future with
the present and provide a bigger cognitive
picture.
(pgs. 138)
Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://bit.ly/2wOQyHC
Slide 12 - http://www.bbc.com/earth/columns/the-big-questions
Slide 2 - http://www.nndb.com/people/962/000169455/
Slide 6 - https://fineartamerica.com/featured/stormy-seas-vince-cavataio.html
Slide 5 - http://go.nature.com/2wV8jn2
Slide 11 - https://pixabay.com/en/photos/fire%20heart/
Slide 10 - http://bit.ly/2xtVmmk
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://goldwallpapers.com/main/1819-image-beautiful-scenery.html
Slide 8 - http://justcuteanimals.com/post/286
Slide 7 - http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2015/06/the-whirling-dervishes-of-cairo/#1
Slide 4 - http://bit.ly/2wOONKt
Mark Brady, PhD [email protected]
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