Brain Power

Ted Gallop ( gallope@planet.curtin.edu.au )
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 18:05:20

>Subject: Would You like to Become SMARTER?
>Date: Thu, 08 Apr 99 7:10:46 PM
>From: brainlabs@briefcase.com
>Reply-To: brainlabs@briefcase.com
>
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>billion separate pieces of information every second and it might even be
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Anyone who responds to that would need some serious help. What rubbish.
Read a book and get the same effect and more enjoyment!

================= ABOUT BRAINS======================

It has been recorded many times, even recently, of cases where autopsies
have shown some people had lived normal lives with no brain in the cranium
(usually just a cerebro-spinal type of fluid was present). These people
were functioning normally, including attending University or holding down
important jobs. Many people have been studied who had brain scans and xrays
showing no brain present, but were very intelligent and functioning as
normal as you nad I.

This is fact, attested to by many doctors over many years, and usually
placed in the category of 'unexplained phenomena'. They blissfully ignore
the fact that the very existence of these cases destroys the argument that
consciousness (thought) originates in the brain or even relies on the brain.

These cases are incontrovertible evidence that one's consciousness and,
with it, one's intelligence, occurs independently of the physical brain. A
person's consciousness may 'locate itself' in the brain as the control
point or control panel for the body's nervous system, but it does not exist
as a material entity and does not require (but may prefer or desire) a
brain to be present so that the body can be 'operated' easily.

Medical operations on the brain do effect consciousness and thought
patterns. This probably occurs through an interference with the processes
or ability of the consciousness to interact, through the physical brain,
with the physical body.

Hope this is not too far off topic.

Thanks.
Ted Gallop