1/1/2014
A New Year. A new beginning, whether you are one who like making New Year Resolution or not, everyone will find this time of the year as a fresh start to change one’s life no matter how small or drastic your goals are. Yet every year, we find ourselves disappointed with the results, even if you manage to fulfill your previous resolutions there is always something not quite right about your present state and thus we make a new promises to ourselves. I am yet to meet an individual who is perfectly content and I don’t think I will ever find one.
Why is it that we often find ourselves in such a
predicament? Why is it that every year when we contemplate upon our journey, we
find things that are different from how we remember them? Yes, our mind has
grown and alters in the course of the year and hopefully it is for the better
but how has it changed? How is it that certain memories that may not seemed
anything out of the ordinary when we were experiencing it has magically
transform into a nostalgic moment of your life when reflected upon? Are we not
fully embracing those moments or is our memories not to be trusted?
Someone dear to me once said to me, that I often
have a selective perspective on certain events in my life. Strangely, I agreed
with her though I never really understood why or how during that moment and I
don’t think she did either but I asked myself why it is so. Yes she had a
different point of view of such events from mine but her recollection of that
memory is less bias for she wasn’t influenced by her raging emotions even
thought her version was not entirely true. Yet that debate had sparked a
curiosity in me to understand how one’s mind work when recalling old memories
because as the Doctor once said ‘A man is the sum of his memories, a time lord
even more so.’ So if one’s memory is the
main influence of one’s present perspective but yet our mind deceives us by
having selective recollections, how can I really trust this organ of mine to be
the basis of my consciousness? How do I truly define myself?
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| WHO AM I ? |
What do we know about our own little brain? The
brain is an organ in our body that consist of the largest mass of nerves tissue
which bath itself in cerebrospinal fluid and membranes called the meninges. The
brain’s complex infrastructure of chemical secretion and electrical impulses of
networking neurones is the basis of one’s consciousness and thus any imbalance
or impairment of this delicate organ even in the tiniest details will alters
the constitution of your awareness and thus yourself. This unique and beautiful
evolutionary masterpiece by Mother Nature is protected by the tough skull’s
cranium.
Though neuroscience is yet to understand in full details on how exactly our consciousness interacts with the brain but it is safe to state that the whole complex composition connection of the pathways of our electrical impulses is the very foundation of our Self- Awareness with its different state of brainwaves frequencies as the levels of Consciousness. In essence our brain is an intricate musical instrument with the sparks of the neuro-plasticity acting like strings in a violin that echoes the beautiful symphony of our consciousness. In this song of our mind there are the lyrics of the past memories influencing the rhythm of the present. But how much truth those these memories holds?
Though neuroscience is yet to understand in full details on how exactly our consciousness interacts with the brain but it is safe to state that the whole complex composition connection of the pathways of our electrical impulses is the very foundation of our Self- Awareness with its different state of brainwaves frequencies as the levels of Consciousness. In essence our brain is an intricate musical instrument with the sparks of the neuro-plasticity acting like strings in a violin that echoes the beautiful symphony of our consciousness. In this song of our mind there are the lyrics of the past memories influencing the rhythm of the present. But how much truth those these memories holds?
In 2003, Daniel Schacter, Joan Chiao and Jason
Mitchell from the Department of Psychology, Harvard University released a paper
with the title ‘The Seven Sins of Memory’ in which they examine the relation
between memory and self by considering the errors of memory. Such an idea on
the nature of the relationship between memories and self awareness is not a new
concept with scientist and philosophers have been long discussing the intimate interdependence
between the two. The earliest record of such can be found as early as 1829 when
James Mill wrote: ‘The phenomenon of Self and that of Memory are merely two
sides of the same fact, or two different modes of viewing the same fact.’ Yet
in the major public such ideas are rarely mention, and thus we fall prey to the
very sins of our own memories. So what are these seven sins?
The
Seven Sin of Memory
Sin Description
Transience
* Decreasing
accessibility of memory over time.
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A certain memory degrading over due to
lack or recollection the brain’s obeying the entropy principle of energy in the
universe.
Absent
– Mindedness * Lapses of attentions that result
in forgetting.
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Loss of focus on certain details of an
experience due to lack of energy or other influences (alcohol, drugs, emotions)
to retain all the information of that particular memory.
Blocking *Information is present but
temporarily accessible.
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A failure to recall a memory due to the
self imposing obstacle of ignorance.
Misattribution *Memories are attributed
to an incorrect source.
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Corruption of memory due to influences
and by mismatching the information of the details. Often the case of
imaginative recollection on certain aspect of the experiences which may
contradict the reality of such memory.
Suggestibility *Implanted memories about
things that never occurred
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External influences and emotional state
of the individuals that has distorted information of the memory.
Bias *Current
knowledge and beliefs distort our memories of the past.
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Present understandings and state of mind
that alters the perception of the past.
Persistence *Unwanted recollections
that we can never forget.
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A constant nagging of an unresolved
memory that transmute the discernment of the individual.
These sins listed as above are a completely natural
occurrence in the human mind and one should not be ashamed of it. Nevertheless,
as you read through these words I hope that such knowledge of the faulty
machinery of our brain should never interfere in our daily perceptions of the
world. It is not in my authority to tell you how to use these information of
the sins of our memory to improve your individuals life for I am still a
student in such subject but as a member of this society I have the rights to at
least theorize why there is such an unrest in the mental clarity.
There had been research on the Modalities of Memories, which is basically the sensory channels or pathways that an individual receive and store new information in his brain. These modalities or sense includes the Visual, Auditory, Tactile/Kinesthetic, smell and taste.
Researchers, including Reiff, Eisler, Barbe, and Stronck have concluded that in a classroom, the students would be approximately:
From such a study on how we human beings process new information, we can fully understand how sensitive our minds are when living throughout our daily lives. There are plenty of visual and auditory pollution that may alter your state of consciousness and your recollections on those memories. And if your individual personality consist of your episodic memories of your life story, then what story have it been? Has it been sponsored by Coca-Cola and Zara Clothing?
There had been research on the Modalities of Memories, which is basically the sensory channels or pathways that an individual receive and store new information in his brain. These modalities or sense includes the Visual, Auditory, Tactile/Kinesthetic, smell and taste.
Researchers, including Reiff, Eisler, Barbe, and Stronck have concluded that in a classroom, the students would be approximately:
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25-30% visual
§
25-30% auditory
§
15% tactile/kinesthetic
§
25-30% mixed modalities
Therefore, only 30% of the students will remember most of what is said
in a classroom lecture and another 30% will remember primarily what is seen.
Visual learners are those who learn
by seeing. They need to see overheads,
diagrams, and read text books, etc. to understand a concept.
Auditory learners must hear what they
are learning to really understand it. They enjoy listening, but cannot
wait to have a chance to talk themselves. These students respond well to lecture and
discussion.
Tactile/kinesthetic
learners need to feel and touch to learn...these learners also learn better if
movement is involved. They may be those
students who are not doing well in school.
Instruction geared to the auditory learner can be a hindrance to these
learns, causing them to fall behind. One
key reason at-risk children have trouble with school is that they tend to be
these types of learners. About one-third
of students do not process auditorially and are educationally deaf.
Students with a tactile strength learn with manipulative such as games, the internet, and labs.
From such a study on how we human beings process new information, we can fully understand how sensitive our minds are when living throughout our daily lives. There are plenty of visual and auditory pollution that may alter your state of consciousness and your recollections on those memories. And if your individual personality consist of your episodic memories of your life story, then what story have it been? Has it been sponsored by Coca-Cola and Zara Clothing?
It may sound like a conspiracy theory when talking about the
subject of the media influences on our mind through subliminal content but as mentioned about I can safely state that our process of memory
recollection is very sensitive to outside influences. Therefore it might have
been unintentional actions of the media party but such presences do corrupt our
thoughts. Such contents streaming out of the mainstream media or our cyberspace
activities creates too thick of distortions for our minds to think for
ourselves without manipulation of ideas.
Silence is truly golden. With endless persuasions we have become dazed and confused with the abundance of both factual and fictitious information that it is increasingly easy for a person to fall prey to their own biological prisons of a human body. Our body is the temple of our souls as many religious and spiritual ideologies have long suggested and through science we understood how it is so. Our body is just a machinery flesh for our consciousness; it is a tool for our mind. It may be that our body creates the consciousness on its own or it may be that it is just a temporary state for our consciousness to rest in this lifetime before returning to the universe, such question is still in need of further exploration. Nevertheless it is understood that we must keep our body healthy and clean from any physical harms and we must do the same to our mind by cleaning out the dirt of emotional pornography before it becomes the very cage for our thoughts.
Silence is truly golden. With endless persuasions we have become dazed and confused with the abundance of both factual and fictitious information that it is increasingly easy for a person to fall prey to their own biological prisons of a human body. Our body is the temple of our souls as many religious and spiritual ideologies have long suggested and through science we understood how it is so. Our body is just a machinery flesh for our consciousness; it is a tool for our mind. It may be that our body creates the consciousness on its own or it may be that it is just a temporary state for our consciousness to rest in this lifetime before returning to the universe, such question is still in need of further exploration. Nevertheless it is understood that we must keep our body healthy and clean from any physical harms and we must do the same to our mind by cleaning out the dirt of emotional pornography before it becomes the very cage for our thoughts.
A trap mind leads to suffering of the soul, and
reaching the freedom of happiness is a futile quest.
Mankind has created the illusion of Time. Time is just a mere abstract concept that we human intellectuals have designed for ourselves in order to comprehend the expanding nature of the universe. It is our way of making sense with our predicaments being stuck in the flow of entropy, where the perception of Time is linear in the form of cause and effect. This ideology of Time in such a straight progression is only strengthened by the Human Mind that constantly chronologicalized the events in your life in order to create an autobiography of your individuality and personality, thus your Timeline of Existence is the best definition of your Consciousness.
Science has yet to answer the origin of Consciousness, according to Stuart Hameroff "The origin of Consciousness reflects our place in the Universe, the nature of Existence. Did consciousness evolve from complex computations among the brain neurons as most scientist assert? Or has consciousness in some sense has been here all along as spiritual approach maintains?" Stuart Hameroff is currently testing his 20 years old theory of Consciousness named : Orchestrated Objective Reduction. In this theory he suggests that 'consciousness derives from quantum vibrations in microtubules, protein polymers inside brain neurons, which both governs neuronal and synaptic function'. Basically it is a theory of Quantum Consciousness, that your brain acts like a radio antenna and that picks up the transmission of the Universe Consciousness, your brain also adds an unique beat to the frequency of that Universal Consciousness.
In addition to this there is also the idea of the Bodleian Loop Theory :
For More Info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
In the light of this such theories of the human consciousness, the idea of having an adventure using psychedelic substances to alter my consciousness is theoretically possible that I am not actually mad at all. That I am literally travelling through the quantum tubes of the universe and entering into another world of insanity every time I take that drop of acid or smoke that marijuana, or take a sip of that Ayahuasca...
So what is this whole random post all about? It is my justification of my drug habits and my mental illness which it not a illness at all. It is my gift. As the Psychedelic Time Traveler.
This is not an article to teach you something, this is not a rambling of a mad man, this is not a diary of a junkie, this is an introduction for you simple minded people to me, Neil Adams also known as Mr. Nobody. The man who run this blog, Nazreen Abraham, wanted to tell you that he shall post a proper interview with me sometime in this coming year. So in case you might find the interview too much of a mindfuckery, he told me to post this up so that you people can at least take your time to do your research so you wont be lost when reading the conversation we had.
(COMING SOON IN 2014)
Mankind has created the illusion of Time. Time is just a mere abstract concept that we human intellectuals have designed for ourselves in order to comprehend the expanding nature of the universe. It is our way of making sense with our predicaments being stuck in the flow of entropy, where the perception of Time is linear in the form of cause and effect. This ideology of Time in such a straight progression is only strengthened by the Human Mind that constantly chronologicalized the events in your life in order to create an autobiography of your individuality and personality, thus your Timeline of Existence is the best definition of your Consciousness.
Science has yet to answer the origin of Consciousness, according to Stuart Hameroff "The origin of Consciousness reflects our place in the Universe, the nature of Existence. Did consciousness evolve from complex computations among the brain neurons as most scientist assert? Or has consciousness in some sense has been here all along as spiritual approach maintains?" Stuart Hameroff is currently testing his 20 years old theory of Consciousness named : Orchestrated Objective Reduction. In this theory he suggests that 'consciousness derives from quantum vibrations in microtubules, protein polymers inside brain neurons, which both governs neuronal and synaptic function'. Basically it is a theory of Quantum Consciousness, that your brain acts like a radio antenna and that picks up the transmission of the Universe Consciousness, your brain also adds an unique beat to the frequency of that Universal Consciousness.
In addition to this there is also the idea of the Bodleian Loop Theory :
For More Info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
In the light of this such theories of the human consciousness, the idea of having an adventure using psychedelic substances to alter my consciousness is theoretically possible that I am not actually mad at all. That I am literally travelling through the quantum tubes of the universe and entering into another world of insanity every time I take that drop of acid or smoke that marijuana, or take a sip of that Ayahuasca...
So what is this whole random post all about? It is my justification of my drug habits and my mental illness which it not a illness at all. It is my gift. As the Psychedelic Time Traveler.
This is not an article to teach you something, this is not a rambling of a mad man, this is not a diary of a junkie, this is an introduction for you simple minded people to me, Neil Adams also known as Mr. Nobody. The man who run this blog, Nazreen Abraham, wanted to tell you that he shall post a proper interview with me sometime in this coming year. So in case you might find the interview too much of a mindfuckery, he told me to post this up so that you people can at least take your time to do your research so you wont be lost when reading the conversation we had.
An
Interview with A Madman :
The
Psychedelic Memories of A Time
Travelling Consciousness
(COMING SOON IN 2014)
