God is in the Neurons

Neuroplasticity. Creating specific stronger neuronal connections that can be defined as a skillset. Rationality and emotional resilience can be developed the same way. All actions are contributing to reinforcing new or connections. Leading to an “identity”.

Part 1: Social Neuroscience

Norepinephrine and other NTs are released to trigger a defensive state when our thoughts feel the need to be protected from the influence of others. Similar to the response when our survival is at risk. The primitive part interferes with rational thinking and the limbic system can knock out most of our working memory, physically causing “narrowmindedness”. Poker players and stubborn people will refuse valuable ideas.

When we express ourselves and our views are appreciated, the defense chemicals reduce and dopamine neurotransmission is increased, making us feel empowered and increasing self-esteem. Self-esteem is linked to serotonin. If in lack, we may get depressed and become self-destructive. Social validation increases dopamine and serotonin in the brain, allowing us to let go of emotional fixations and become self-aware more easily.

Part 2: Mirror Neurons & Consciousness

Social psychology calls the need to fit in “Normative social influence”. Our moral compass is formed from validation within culture and development.

The mirror neuron doesn’t know the difference between self and others and leads us to be in duality between self-esteem and validation from others. When self-aware, we can alter misplaced emotions because we can control the thoughts that cause them. A neurochemical consequence of how memories become labile when retrieved and how they are restored through protein synthesis. Self-observing changes the way our brains work. It activates self-regulating neo-cortical regions, which give us control over our feelings. Rationality and resilience are strengthened. When not self-aware, our thoughts and actions are impulsive and feel random, creating frustration. The brain resolves this by creating explanations for our behavior and physically rewiring it into our memories through memory reconsolidation, making us believe we were in control. Backward rationalization. Leaving negative emotions unresolved and ready to be triggered at any time. A constant fuel to confusion as the brain keeps trying to figure it out.

No center of consciousness, the appearance of unity is each of the separate circuits being enabled and expressed at one particular moment in time – Joseph E. LeDoux. Our experiences are constantly changing our neural connections, physically altering our consciousness. Split brain patients don’t even realize anything is wrong.

Part 3: God is in the neurons

When neurons fire at the same time we can measure activity as a wave. Brainwaves underpin almost everything going on in our minds, including memory, attention, and intelligence. As they oscillate at different frequencies, they get classified in bands, such as alpha, theta, gamma, and delta. Associated with different tasks. Ignoring irrelevant signals. The transfer of information, between neurons becomes optimal when their activity is synchronized. Why we experience cognitive dissonance (holding two opposing ideas at once). Will is the drive to reduce dissonance between each of our active neural circuits. Evolution can be seen as the same process. When a person faces the paradox of wanting purpose while thinking that human existence is meaningless, cognitive dissonance occurs. Leading to spiritual or religious guidance.

Part 4: I am Athene

The left cerebral hemisphere is largely responsible for creating a coherent belief system, in order to maintain a sense of continuity towards our lives. New experiences get folded into the pre-existing belief system. If they don’t fit, they are denied. The right hemisphere challenges the status quo. When discrepancies are too large, the right forces a revision to our world view. When beliefs are too strong it won’t succeed at overcoming denial. Mirror neurons can create dissonance in this way.

Consciousness is always changing from second to second, depending on our current status and interaction with the environment. Mirror neurons allow integrated consciousness when dissonance isn’t obstructing. The neural synergies that produce our oscillating consciousness go beyond our own neurons. We are equally the result of cerebral hemispheres interacting electrochemically, as we are the senses connecting our neurons to other neurons in our environment. Nothing is eternal. Understanding ourselves through others.

Over time our neocortical regions evolved to permit the modulation of primitive instincts and the overriding of hedonistic impulses for the benefit of the group. Our selfish genes have come to promote the reciprocal social behaviors in super-organismal structures, effectively discarding the notion of survival of the fittest. The brain’s neural activity resonates most coherently when there is no dissonance between these advanced new cerebral regions and the older more primitive ones. “Selfish tendencies” are a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behavior entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed paradigm of identity.

A more scientific view of who we are: A momentary expression of an ever-changing unity with no center. The psychological consequences of this as an objective belief system allow self-awareness without attachment to the imagined self, causing dramatic increases in mental clarity, social conscience, self-regulation and “being in the moment.”

The common cultural belief is that we need a narrative to establish moral values. With our current understanding of the empathic regions of the brain we now know that a scientific view, with no attachment to our identity yields a more accurate and meaningful paradigm. Our traditional tendency to define ourselves as imaginary individualistic constants neurally wire and design the brain towards dysfunctional cognitive processes, such as compulsive labeling and the psychological need to impose expectations. Practical labeling underpins all forms of interactions, but by labeling the self as internal and environment as external, we constrain our own neurochemical processes and experience a deluded disconnection.

Ideas and culture transfer through society like neuronal transmission when synchronized. We are a global network of neurochemical reactions. And the self-amplifying cycle of acceptance and acknowledgement, sustained by the daily choices in our interactions, is the chain-reaction that will ultimately define our collective ability to overcome imagined differences and look at life in the grand scheme of things.

The Grand Scheme of Things

Time and space are interconnected and can’t exist without each other. Einstein’s theory of relativity addresses this.

Accepted interpretations of the quantum world:

• The Copenhagen interpretation
• Many-worlds interpretation
• Consistent histories
• Ensemble interpretation
• de Broglie-Bohm theory
• Relational quantum mechanics
• Transactional interpretation
• Stochastic mechanics

Part 1: De Broglie’s Equations

Unanswered questions:

• Why is there more observable matter than antimatter in the universe?
• What is the origin of time?
• What is the origin of mass?

De Broglie showed how all matter behaves as a particle and wave and includes Einstein’s E=mc2 equation with the quantized nature of energy. Experimental evidence includes the interference pattern of C60 fullerene molecules in a double slit experiment.

Conscious (c) = constant of Planck (h) frequency (f). C is responsible for what we experience as the now, a quantized or minimum unit of an interaction. The sum of all moments C up until the current moment is what shapes our concept of life. A consequence of all matter and energy being quantized. The formula shows how life and death are abstract constructions of Cnow.

Another consequence of his equations is that the rate at which matter or energy fluctuates and acts like a wave or a particle is relative to the frequency of the frame of reference. Increases in frequency due to velocity are relative to others and bring about phenomena such as time dilation.

Part 2: Antimatter & Unperturbed Time

Antimatter is created everywhere in the universe where high-energy particle collisions take place. This process is artificially simulated in particle accelerators. When matter is created, antimatter is simultaneously created. When we trap antiparticles through electromagnetic fields, we can study their properties. The quantum state of particles and antiparticles can be interchanged by applying the charge conjugation (C)(C-symmetry), parity (P), and time reversal (T) operators. Mesons switch back and forth between one and the other.

Similar as observed in mesons, our personal experience of time or interval of the current moment reaches its threshold when C is canceled out by its antiC.

Part 3: Theory of Everything

Quantum mechanics is merely mathematical descriptions and their practical implications are often counter-intuitive. Classical concepts like time, mass, and energy can also be approached with similar descriptions. Building on De Broglie’s equations, we can substitute these concepts with abstract vectors. Probability oriented approach. These vectors can only exist when we assume an arrow of time. They can be derived as resonance and interference with the quantum reference frame, which defines the minimum unit or spacetime constant c, equivalent to the constant of Planck.

Conversion of matter into energy through antimatter brings gamma rays with exact opposite momentum. What seems to be a conversion, is the ratio between opposite vectors interpreted as distance and time, matter and antimatter, mass and energy or interference and resonance within the abstract arrow of time Cnow. The sum of vectors is always zero, this is the reason for the symmetry or conservation laws in physics or why, at the speed of c, time and space are zero due to the length contraction and time dilation. A consequence is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum cannot be known simultaneously to high precision. A single particle is its own field.

Quantum superposition: A quantum is not subject to any notion of space or time and can occupy all of its possible quantum states simultaneously. Every electron could be the exact same one. The only requirement for an abstract arrow of time and consistent continuity or reality is the algorithm describing the pattern or abstract sequence of vectors. Since this continuity brings about our ability to be self-aware, it inherently makes us subject to its mathematical consequences: the fundamental laws of physics.

Time: We traditionally associate the notion of an arrow of time with the sequence of events that we experience through the arrangement of short-term and long-term events. We can only have memories of the past and believe that reflects why there must be an arrow of time. With distance and time being opposites, the passing of time can be interpreted as the distance that the hands of a clock travel as they move in a direction that is opposite to time. Any single separate minimum unit of experience is always instantly annihilated within a timeless now. This understanding sets the record straight between wave function collapse and quantum decoherence. Blackhole theory has the “horizon problem”.

Neurological implications are the questions about free will. Since awareness seems to only take place after the action within our perception of time. Action is taken before consciousness of it but a deterministic point of view is based on erroneous concepts of time, as is illustrated by the mathematical probability descriptions in quantum mechanics. Any neural circuit is a vector with direction, underpinning cognitive dissonance and interference or resonance within C. There is no such thing as a free choice while being emotionally attached to a belief system.