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Friday 17 August 2007

The Quantum Mechanical Brain & Creativity

We create our reality moment to moment. Noted physicists and mathematicians, as well as psychiatrists and neurophysiologists, are now supporting this opinion. Quantum mechanics supports the theory that personal creativity plays an essential role in our perception of the what we call reality.

When a perception of any kind takes place, an electrical impulse is sent from the senses to appropriate neurons in the brain. This impulse is carried along the axon out to the dendrites. Between each of the billions of dendrite connections within our brains there are little gaps. These gaps, called synapses, are microscopic in size. Communication takes place between these synapses through the use of neurotransmitters.

Quantum physics has determined that wave patterns are the essential building blocks of the brain's electrochemical neurotransmitters. It is at the synapse that quantum wave patterns are transformed into neurotransmitters. Through this neuronal synaptic firing the translated wave frequencies are made coherent. These coherent frequencies are then transferred from dendrite to dendrite to the appropriate areas of the brain.

Psychologist William Greenough conducted studies on rats in isolation as well as in stimulating environments. Upon examining their brains he discovered that the rats in the stimulated environment revealed, "that neurons grew larger dendrites with more synapses in response to complex experience." It could be concluded, therefore, that a stimulated brain is able to process more information because it is richer in synaptic connectivity.

We can only perceive, or literally see, what we can conceive of. We must have neuronal firing in our brains, whether it be in the imaginable state or actual perceptual state, for us to register an object as a reality.

Neurophysiologist, Karl Pribram has done extensive work to prove that the brain acts holographically to produce our experience of reality. Again, the brain is a transducer of interference wave patterns. It turns these wave frequencies into electrical and chemical patterns. A hologram is produced when a laser beam is split, bounced off of an object, and then reflected from a mirror onto a photographic plate. Another laser beam directed at the holographic plate produces a three dimensional hologram.

Our brain also converts and mirrors the interference patterns of the quantum world into three dimensional constructs. John Briggs and F. David Peat in "The Looking Glass Universe" explain that, "If the world is composed of frequencies and the brain is a frequency analyzer (itself made out of frequencies of matter), how does the three dimensional solid world we know come into being? The answer is as before: We have to learn it. We learn to respond mainly to certain frequencies and not to the constant transformations of frequencies. A few selected holograms become stabilized and apparently separate from one another into "things." The holograms, formed as memory, reinforce the impression of these separate things, and so the explicate space-time world we know evolves out of the implicate universe of waves and frequencies."