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Individual and Cultural Implications of Brain Activity
Mapping and Training
James V. Hardt, Ph.D.
"Feedback changes any system to which it is added. From engineering we know that adding feedback to a mechanical or electronic system endows the system with new and often surprising properties. When American culture received the first televised feedback from the cultural activity known as war [Vietnam, 1970s], the culture was rapidly changed by that feedback in ways that surprised the government.
When individuals receive Brain Activity Feedback, they can change in ways which give them greater objectivity, increased self-honesty, greater self-responsibility, more choices, and a degree of freedom from cultural conditioning, all of which changes can have surprising consequences, and beneficial consequences. With appropriate Brain Activity Training, individuals can improve their skills and their abilities, and they can learn both how to have new desirable experiences [happiness, vigor, contentment] and how to stop having undesirable old experiences [like anxiety, depression, paranoia].
Indeed, people can learn how to change the core dimensions of their personality, by changing their brain activity, just as a computer's basic characteristics can be changed by loading a new operating system. By changing their brain activity, people can change their behavioral characteristics and they can learn how to regulate almost any process in their minds and their bodies. An individual with such a range of capabilities is far outside the range of the cultural norms.
The appearance of such individuals, even in small numbers, will have an enormous impact on established cultural values and cultural institutions, and will rapidly redefine our cultural beliefs about what is possible and desirable, and what is normal. A culture of consciously self-regulating individuals will bear little resemblance to any culture as we know it, and it is beyond our current abilities to fully imagine.
We know from physics that harmonic oscillators brought into resonance will exhibit "emergent properties", which are new properties which cannot be observed or inferred by study of the individual oscillators. As the oscillations in different regions of a person's brain are aided by feedback in coming into resonance, there will be emergent properties of mind. As brain scientists who are using this powerful new tool of brain activity feedback, we must prepare to accept as real, to carefully study, and to communicate to our culture about these emergent properties, these paranormal abilities which we will be assisting our trainees to develop. And beyond the individual paranormal mind skills, there will also be new collective mind abilities.
Brain activity feedback can become the nervous system which connects together the human brains, which are the neurons of the Global Brain. A superconscious awareness emerging out of a neural net composed of suitably interconnected human brains will constitute a new stage of human evolution. We can speculate about how many people need to be connected together, and in what types of connections, to create a higher order noetic entity. Our research will discover the enabling details, such as the minimum number of brains required, maximum allowable transmission delay times in the interconnection network, required bandwidth of the interconnections, etc. Once we can reliably create higher order collective noetic entities, we can attempt to measure the effective IQ of the collective superconsciousness thus formed, and we can begin to wonder what intentions our new creations will have.
All sentient beings have intentions, including continuity of consciousness. How will the collective conscious awareness "feel" about its "neurons" disconnecting from the network and going away to separate homes at the end of the day? Would the collective awareness view the departure of its "neurons" in the same way we view a brain tumor? Is this individual action by the "neurons" to the detriment of the "brain" and the consciousness arising in the "brain" a comparable example at our current level of integration? By considering a few detailed examples of the transformations possible with brain activity feedback, we will begin to see the likelihood, of changes so rapid and so vast as to quickly produce alternative futures beyond our present comprehension. We shall also see the likelihood and the means for a correspondingly rapid increase in our abilities of comprehension.
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www.biocybernaut.com
Individual and Cultural Implications of Brain Activity
Mapping and Training
James V. Hardt, Ph.D.
"Feedback changes any system to which it is added. From engineering we know that adding feedback to a mechanical or electronic system endows the system with new and often surprising properties. When American culture received the first televised feedback from the cultural activity known as war [Vietnam, 1970s], the culture was rapidly changed by that feedback in ways that surprised the government.
When individuals receive Brain Activity Feedback, they can change in ways which give them greater objectivity, increased self-honesty, greater self-responsibility, more choices, and a degree of freedom from cultural conditioning, all of which changes can have surprising consequences, and beneficial consequences. With appropriate Brain Activity Training, individuals can improve their skills and their abilities, and they can learn both how to have new desirable experiences [happiness, vigor, contentment] and how to stop having undesirable old experiences [like anxiety, depression, paranoia].
Indeed, people can learn how to change the core dimensions of their personality, by changing their brain activity, just as a computer's basic characteristics can be changed by loading a new operating system. By changing their brain activity, people can change their behavioral characteristics and they can learn how to regulate almost any process in their minds and their bodies. An individual with such a range of capabilities is far outside the range of the cultural norms.
The appearance of such individuals, even in small numbers, will have an enormous impact on established cultural values and cultural institutions, and will rapidly redefine our cultural beliefs about what is possible and desirable, and what is normal. A culture of consciously self-regulating individuals will bear little resemblance to any culture as we know it, and it is beyond our current abilities to fully imagine.
We know from physics that harmonic oscillators brought into resonance will exhibit "emergent properties", which are new properties which cannot be observed or inferred by study of the individual oscillators. As the oscillations in different regions of a person's brain are aided by feedback in coming into resonance, there will be emergent properties of mind. As brain scientists who are using this powerful new tool of brain activity feedback, we must prepare to accept as real, to carefully study, and to communicate to our culture about these emergent properties, these paranormal abilities which we will be assisting our trainees to develop. And beyond the individual paranormal mind skills, there will also be new collective mind abilities.
Brain activity feedback can become the nervous system which connects together the human brains, which are the neurons of the Global Brain. A superconscious awareness emerging out of a neural net composed of suitably interconnected human brains will constitute a new stage of human evolution. We can speculate about how many people need to be connected together, and in what types of connections, to create a higher order noetic entity. Our research will discover the enabling details, such as the minimum number of brains required, maximum allowable transmission delay times in the interconnection network, required bandwidth of the interconnections, etc. Once we can reliably create higher order collective noetic entities, we can attempt to measure the effective IQ of the collective superconsciousness thus formed, and we can begin to wonder what intentions our new creations will have.
All sentient beings have intentions, including continuity of consciousness. How will the collective conscious awareness "feel" about its "neurons" disconnecting from the network and going away to separate homes at the end of the day? Would the collective awareness view the departure of its "neurons" in the same way we view a brain tumor? Is this individual action by the "neurons" to the detriment of the "brain" and the consciousness arising in the "brain" a comparable example at our current level of integration? By considering a few detailed examples of the transformations possible with brain activity feedback, we will begin to see the likelihood, of changes so rapid and so vast as to quickly produce alternative futures beyond our present comprehension. We shall also see the likelihood and the means for a correspondingly rapid increase in our abilities of comprehension.
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