Category: Mind Philosophy
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Non thinking. As complex as thinking?
In 1959, a scientist named Edward Gray showed that the miniscule gaps between neurons where chemical messages are sent, called synapses, come in two main varieties, which researchers later dubbed "excitatory" and "inhibitory." Inhibitory synapses act as the brakes in the brain, preventing it from becoming overexcited. Researchers thought they were less sophisticated than their…
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New neurons. Old neurons…
Buried deep underneath the folds of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells in the hippocampus continue to generate new neurons, inciting a struggle between new and old as the new attempts to gain a foothold in memory-forming center of the brain. [tip: we do not know where and how memory is stored but anyway] Researchers…
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Alchemy. Soul. Growth. Consciousness on the rise…
Alchemy is the science of multiplication and is based upon the natural phenomenon of growth. "Nothing from nothing comes", is an extremely ancient adage. Alchemy is not the process of making something from nothing; it is the process of increasing and improving that which already exists. If a philosopher were to state that a living…
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Consciousness: Σκέψεις.
We all agree we are conscious beings. But what is consciousness? There are numerous Harmonia Philosophica articles about consciousness and various aspects of that elusive and yet so familiar concept. We know we "are", we know it is "us" who speak and act, we understand and question everything as persons and yet we fail every…
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