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Book Review from page 8 profoundly, computer networks in our times, all revealing are capable of conveying not merely instincts but
the complex, yet decipherable functionalities of the brain. thought. And these thoughts are never lost, but become
to medical intervention. It can also be noted out that In his fascinating study, Livewired, Professor embedded into the physical structure of the brain. Our
this approach of a doctor cataloging the symptoms of Eagleman of Stanford University shows how neural thoughts become memories which in turn are retained
his patients has remained the most enduring practice. network transform electrical impulses or chemical in one locus as short term, and another as long term
Fox tells us that Shakespeare’s son-in-law Dr. John Hall reactions into inanimate thought. He points out that memories, latent and capable of being impulsively
was known to have kept copious records that survive, of the brain is not static, but is constantly implementing or instinctively called up. Perhaps what the Greek
his engagements with his patients, continuing today, the informational input for the purpose of evolutionary philosopher Anaxagoras described as the universal nous,
epilogue of each of our visits with our physicians are the survival. If you were to lose an arm, or even half of your mind or soul, characterized in Hebrew Genesis as “the
oral or written recitations, or doctor’s notes. brain, the impulses will continue to be transmitted and Lord’s breath” mixing with and revivifying the Chaos.
We can attest to no shortage of mistaken diagnosis in will seek a healing and/or activation of other senses to Might it not be true that the universe itself undergoes a
the history of medicine. Common in the ancient world compensate like hearing and smell if one loses sight. parallel process where thought has been transformed into
was the near universal view that the heart was the seat Beethoven after all created his greatest masterpieces after intelligence in matter that guides the evolutionary process
of feeling and intelligence. With the advancement of he became stone deaf and was stimulated by the sounds including the most basic element of existence: survival
the instruments of medical science from telescope and contained in his yet livewired brain. Eagleman moreover and Natural Selection, and belies the doom gloomed
microscope to MRI’s, we know that that interpretation suggests that our dreams themselves are compensations Second Law of Thermodynamics?
was mistaken. Among the most promising area of research created by the brain for the lack of visual acuity in the
is the behavior of some eighty six billion brain cells dark night. The greatest prospect is self-healing whereby Dr. Ronald J. Meyers is an Emeritus Professor of
or neurons, and mapping their interconnectivities is the brain instructs and induces our cells to correct many, English. rmeyers@esu.edu.
the ambitious goal for the next century. The method of if not all of our deficiencies.
transmission was abetted by the engineering development What remains most amazing is how these neural
of telephone networks in the nineteenth century and, more networks of electrical impulses or chemical reactions From The Desk Of from page 1
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