In Search of the Existential Hub

Three dimensions of consciousness (Börje Peratt, Twelve Senses, 2012)

In the book, Twelve Senses I present three different consciousnesses which all within themselves can have different dimensions.

The first is a body consciousness that originate in the body. With evolution, we got a brain and consequently a brain consciousness .

These two consciousnesses should not be particularly controversial. We can all feel that the body “tells” how it feels, what it lacks and when it becomes too much. Stomach rumbling when we are hungry and we get sore when new muscles activated. The body reacts to fear by whiten and neck hairs stand up.

Brain Consciousness is dependent on brain fitness and in dementia or concussion we can lose memory and the ability to cope with simple tasks of everyday life.

We can also see the interaction between the brain and body consciousnesses. Mental trust and emotional self-confidence can get the body to increase its performance while intoxication can knock out both brain and body.

How should we define consciousness? Yes, science has ended up in more or less animated discussions and to contend with both hard and soft problems. I find no sense in me intermarry with those not leading to any real explanation.

We have senses that perceive the condition which conveys the impression. We may experiencing these as sensations in the body and as emotions and balances or imbalances and we can then interpret those impressions using the brain’s thoughts.

Nervous system that connects the brain with the body goes through the spinal cord and the so-called reptilian brain up into the cognitive system in which we can name and understand impressions.
As long as a strong impression is retained in the body it will be experienced emotional and it will mostly result in physical expressions and reactions.

Center of the body consciousness in the heart?

If the existential hub has its physical center of the body consciousness in the heart this might also be both the core sense and the brain of the body. A theory that is strong in other cultures such as in Africa and muslime world.

Body Consciousness carries the experience from the heart through the spinal cord to the brain and mediates various needs that brain consciousness will handle and decide.

To support a hypothesis of heart significance are studies of a large number of heart transplants who testify that people can undergo fundamental change of personality and suddenly get new interests and changing tastes. Such interests and tastes that they can then relate back to the donor. (Twelve Senses 2012 page 100, Twelve Senses 2015 pp 97-98).

But this existential hub does not end there. I have found that the mind has an entirely own level and it is outside the body and outside the brain. I call it “independent mind.” Medicine Dr. and the former Research Director Larry Dossey calls it “Non-local”.

This independent consciousness becomes apparent at out-of-body experiences (OBE) and Near Death Experiences (NDE), especially when the brain has been declared clinically dead or in a coma. From such conditions, people who have returned to life may tell the most outstanding impression, even how doctors and nurses have acted during a patient’s “unconsciousness” or death. But the person have not been “unconscious”, the brain has been turned off, the brain consciousness has not worked, however another much sharper “independent consciousness” has been present.

The question is how the independently consciousness interact with the body and the brain? Is there an existential hub?

The independent consciousness may capture images of its “dead” body and the thoughts and feelings of this body, even if it is on the other side, in the so called spirit world. That means a consciousness that we can not yet explain or understand with the laws of nature that science today allows describing and drawing the boundaries of reality.

My only explanation for an independent consciousness is a mind-body or a soul. And then it is probably always present. That could explain the ability to morality and to love and their differences. These features of the soul may be unconditional and nonjudgmental. While body and brain conditions them for its survival.

Börje Peratt

Välkommen till min mediala värld

The Hard problem

Börje Peratt – David Chalmers at TSC 2014

In April 2014 I participated in the week-long conference Toward a Science of Consciousness.

My diary here.(Länk), Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6.

David Chalmers Keynote speaker at TSC 2014

Keynote speakers on April 22 was David Chalmers who made a brief history of the 20 years that have passed, and then he took up the problem area “how to explain consciousness?” Chalmers presented it in the manner that has become known as “The hard problem”. (Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness)

It is undeniable that some organisms are subjects of experience. But the question of how it is that these systems are subjects of experience is perplexing. Why is it that when our cognitive systems engage in visual and auditory information-processing, we have visual or auditory experience: the quality of deep blue, the sensation of middle C? How can we explain why there is something it is like to entertain a mental image, or to experience an emotion? It is widely agreed that experience arises from a physical basis, but we have no good explanation of why and how it so arises. Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Chalmers’ statement: – “It is widely agreed that experience arises from a physical basis,” Is that true? Is it generally and widely agreed? In the quest to create stable explanations for consciousness researchers like David Chalmers gained much importance. But based on my research his perspective leads straight into the physics materialism even if it is quantum.

The simple explanation for this belief is that Chalmers and the majority of these scientists are stuck in the brain consciousness and seeking neurological, biological, physiological, mathematical, physical, and especially quantum explanations. But what if consciousness is not created in the brain. What if the thinking capacity has a non-physical immaterial origin?

Well the brain is very important for the living body and you can see the brain as a communications vessel for consciousness. When the work is all fine and dandy you can sit back and let it work but when the vessel is turned off, degenerates, or a person is under strain, a parallel consciousness or rather the origin of consciousness may emerge. In some people is this awareness space more or less constantly present as a fluctuating ocean. This is also a way to explain the so-called transpersonal (paranormal) experiences.

Dr. Robert Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific director of Advanced Cell Technology Company. Lanza points to the structure of the universe itself, and that the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life, implying intelligence existed prior to matter. He also claims that space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding. Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist. LINK
Having said that the author or Lanza still directs a theory of quantum to explain consciousness.

“The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their consciousness will disappear too. If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when the body dies. But if the body receives consciousness in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle. In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. In other words, it is non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.”

Since Lanza believes in Biocentrism and has stated “Quantum physics proves that there IS an afterlife” we must conclude that his solution to consciousness is Quantum physic. But is not also quantum matter with its smallest components, quark particles?

The Easy Problems

Chalmers contrasts the Hard Problem with a number of (relatively) Easy Problems that consciousness presents. He emphasizes that what the easy problems have in common is that they all represent some ability, or the performance of some function or behavior.

the ability to discriminate, categorize, and react to environmental stimuli;
the integration of information by a cognitive system;
the reportability of mental states;
the ability of a system to access its own internal states;
the focus of attention;
the deliberate control of behavior;
the difference between wakefulness and sleep.

Qualia is a term used in philosophy to refer to individual instances of subjective, conscious experience. The term meaning “what sort” or “what kind”. That is, the feelings or experiences that allegedly are not able to describe, such as the taste of chocolate, the experience of the color red or physical pain.

How qualia should be understood is a central problem in philosophy of mind, as it is often seen as a fundamental problem for materialist explanations of the mind-body problem. It is therefore assumed that qualia can not be explained neurology or cognitive science.

The starting point that conscious experiences can not be explained with brain mapping or cognitive theories might be a progress. I believe that the conscious and subconscious has its place in an existential hub that brings together sensory experiences, reflections and experiences with an infinitely wide awareness of non-physical origin. Thus falls Chalmers assertion “It is widely agreed that the experience derived from a physical basis”. Instead experiences derives from an metaphysical intelligence. It also explains the hypothesis that we know before we understand and life is to find out what we already know and to develop our understanding of it.

Börje Peratt official
LinkedIn

Human Body Frequencies

Are there different frequencies of the parts and organs in the body? After a severe car crash I came to the conclusion that there need to be some sort of differentiating frequence acting as a code for the body’s organism to “know” where to heal.
Googeling didn´t get many hits but i will present one here allthough its a mechanical illustration. I have found some others but no one refer to scientific research or even messuring results. Just stating numbers that can be of assumption and having no validation at all.

At Physics Forum I found the figure and quote belowe.

People were talking about resonant frequencies for body parts and/or the entire body and someone was looking for a chart, not sure if this is the one from NASA which they had mentioned but it appears to follow the numbers I am seeing in various research I can find out there (such as research conducted about pilots, as well as the Harvard study posted in the previous thread)

Please help me locate other scientific studies that actually proves the frequency of an organ in the body.
Allthoug the asumption of Frequencies in different chakras and organ seems obvious in Asian (Indian, Chinese, Japanese) medicine (even in islamic medicine tradition), I find no scientific publications from there either.

All the best
Börje Peratt official
LinkedIn

Towards consciousness revolution

Reductionist science assumes that the whole is equal to the sum of their parts. Something that empiricism opposes. Empiricism commends ”the whole is greater than the joined parts.”

Descartes has had great influence on science. His reductionist method involves dividing the problem into components and explain how the parts fit together. That means a reducing from the general to the smallest.

Descartes reduction theory has long been the criterion for science methodology. Many have not understood that Descartes method excluded the observation and was settled by internal thinking and ”God’s grace”.

Descartes proclaimed a universal doubt, especially to the experience through senses – he argued that our senses often deceive us and questioned the possibility of knowledge through sense observation. Thus Descartes doubted that perception should be part of the learning process. Instead, he argued that knowledge was innate ideas of the Soul and by turning inward and thinking you could keep the dubious influence of senses in place and allow calculations and reflections formulating concepts and truths. Compare with how yogis, shamans and others get to the world truths through meditation.

This idea that we already know everything and just need help remembering is thus supported by Descartes while his theories underpinning the philosophical rationalism. Mysticism turning to the universe and ”opens” for alltets wisdom (Einstein, Bohr and others). Rationalism does the exact opposite and get to the consistency of a mathematical, physical and reductionist world where micro discovery replaces macro realism.

Descartes regarded animals as mechanical machines like the ignorant man. Free will was to such a background, an illusion and could only be explained by acts of the moment with the choices that the immediate practical consciousness led to. Advance planning, the choice between good and evil was, according to Descartes, the fruit of God’s grace or brought to mankind through supernatural revelations.

His most famous quote: – ”I think, therefore I am”, meant not to consider the surroundings but being in an introspective state breaking down thoughts into theoretical puzzle pieces (reductionism). He did not intend that thought in itself was enough to get to the evidence, but that the logic could formulate undoubtedly true knowledge. Based on the reflective doubt you could reach a conclusion that he meant was a spiritual revelation.

Descartes’ dualism did not solve the problem of how spirit and matter are communicating. He failed to explain these revelations which he believes has led to insights. Those who espouse Descartes principles have rarely realized that his theory thinking is based on ”God’s grace”.
Descartes’ reductionist views, elevated to the modern natural science main method is therefore often misunderstood.

From translation of Twelve Senses page 33 (2012 in Swedish.) Will be published in English late 2014 under a new extended title “Mind, dimensions and Twelve Senses”.

Börje Peratt officiell hemsida
LinkedIn

Reference
J F Scott, The Scientific Work of René Descartes (1987)

Is the problem expectations or emotions?

scienceichooseyou.wordpress.com

During the 1900s, science has attempted to minimize the effects of emotions influence and sought the rational, common sense ideals. Can such a strategy shrink human and dehumanize society?

If evolution seek solutions to problems is it then possible that it gives rise to mutations that turn off emotions? Or is it only emotion hostile environments that reduce human.

Heredity or environment the classic question can probably be answered with that they interact and lead to mental disability. Consequences of emotional handicap are difficulties interpreting and understanding interpersonal signals.

Emotions are important for communication and interaction, and even necessary to create meaningfulness.

It has been a concern if its influence logic and conclusions. But the problem here may be the expectations and not emotions. Objectivity may be a desirable ideal but not even clinical trials are considered as meeting requirements of objectivity when the researcher’s expectations can control tests. [1]

One reason that emotions have been banned in parts of science may therefore be from asumption that they undermine the ambition to be objective and hampers the ability to stick to the facts. This science sanitation from emotions have resulted in limited understanding. You win some knowledge but lose a whole.

The problem is considered that presumptions color impression and this can cause devastating effects. Both investigators as scientist are affected by hidden motives and expectations leading to systematic error and bias. [2]

Börje Peratt official web
LinkedIn

References
1) BIASES IN THE INTERPRETATION AND USE OF RESEARCH RESULTS.
2) Quota from “Twelve Senses” (Preliminary published in English late 2014.)

Final day of TSC Near death experience? What!

George Mashour giving speach about his rat study at TSC Tucson 2014

I really wanted to listen to Sam Parnia this last day and hoped to get the latest news about the eventual results of the Aware study. Because of its design I believed it has limited chanses of getting any results at all. (These doubts are widely spread among those who have had NDE)

And no, he didn´t show up. (A relative got sick)

Instead I got to listen to a study about killed rats. And before i left Susan Blackmore talked about her “two and a half hour experience” of what she called Near Death Experience.

“I had a two and a half hour experience of Near death Experience” (Susan Blackmore stated at TSC Conference 27 april 2014)

To begin with if you have a NDE you can not/will not measure Time since time is of no relevance in this dimension. Her speech turned out in some almost arrogant statements contradicting her earlier thoughts and believes. She made jokes about NDE and a lot of the audience laughed. Well laughing about a field that are of such meaning to people isn’t that something. It reminds me of the immaturity of bullying.

For a while i felt that I was in a daycare center listening to mumbo jumbo. Blackmore is a respected researcher in the area. Then why so harsh when she has changed her mind and promotes the idea that every NDE is baloney.

The killing of a rat was it aimed to kill NDE?

The ratstudy has been transformed into “New discovery teaches us about near death experiences,” which got some attention in media. But, no, this study tells us nothing about NDE experiences. It provides only a technical information about an electrical change in the brain at the moment of death of some rats.

Human and animal acts and experiences can not be explained in the same way as we explain the physical movements of things and their changes. Actions of living beings are purpose-driven, motivated by different reasons, carried out under varying psychological influences and not triggered by mechanical causes. The human person, behavior, and communication can not be measured in absolute values such as the falling of a coin.

Near death experiences can certainly not be measured mechanically.

First and foremost you have to understand that the particular circumstances of the NDE is independent minds that can not be registered by the technology we have access to. Maybe not any technique since those minds are just independent from physical and technological methods.

Experiences from independent minds (nonlocal mind) is seldom or never to be repeated with accuracy. On the contrary, they are unique phenomena. Then you rely on individual witness statements in the same way as in a court of law. If one can collect several such observations they can discern a pattern.

Near death experiences are unique in several ways. To scientifically be able to substantiate such an experience requires a person on the border between life and death. There are examples of those who have been registered as dead with loss of brain activity but which have returned to life (sometimes in organized maner after a surgery).

To gain access to the experience requires that the person has regained the brain power and is abel to retell the experience.

Reports on NDE

The multitude of reports of near-death experiences, NDE not only demonstrates a consciousness that works when someone is in a coma, but even when no brain activity can be recorded.

Reports written by doctors gives examples of patients who have been anesthetized but crystal clear can report details of about what happened while they were unconscious and the brain was not active, and then after awakening they could tell what the people around them said and did during their unconsciousness. Many can even tell what happened outside the room. The patient shouldn´t be able to perceive anything yet the patient has observed all.

There are enough case studies that provide support for that consciousness has a parallel “independent existence” independent of the living body.

(Holden, Greyson & James, 2009)

“The day I died”

A BBC documentary recounts how the American singer Pam Reynolds in 1991 underwent a spectacular brain surgery. The procedure required that the breathing and heart were stopped, and the body was put in a state of clinical death for 60 minutes!

Without any blood flowing in the brain, with taped eyes and plugs in her ears she watched anyway from the sealing perspective her surgery and heard the sound and the dialogue that went on within the medical team.

Interviews with involved physicians and with Pam herself bestows a strong credibility to the narration.

“sit in a train hurtling along at an incredible pace.”

Chris Carter, who has studied NDEs argue that :

– “consistent, reproducible evidence already presented. If this was any other field of scientific compilation of the data presented would contestation have been resolved decades ago.”

Excerpts from the book Twelve Senses ( Peratt 2012)

The rat study

To study the death process of the brain activity of rats and believe they have found the mechanism of NDE is pseudoscience. “Near-death experiences are ‘electrical surge in dying brain'”.

A discovery carries within it several problems. The physical registration of brain processes during a moment of death is not NDE. To be able to catch a glimpse of NDE you need to get the self-perceived experience from the person who has returned to life. Even trying to communicate with from the rat that resurrected from death still would not give anything since the rat wouldn´t be able to tell you anything unless of course you don´t hire a rat whisperer.

These experiments on animals, regardless of lab technical biological or behavioral, will be marginal and will not lead to evidence for NDE.

However, there is reason to once again raise the voice of a research on human beings that would address the NDE from a psychological perspective. There is such research implied in my book Twelve Senses and many researchers around the world want to get funding for similar studies.

Sorry but maybe Sam Parnias project Aware Study lessen the chances. We were many who mistrusted layup and despite the involvement of many hospitals and hope for promised results I think there is small chanses of results. Sadly he couldn´t participate to tell of eventual new findings.

I really hope that it can get a new venture based on new insights. In rat studies, by all means but it ‘s not about the NDE.

Susan Blackmore

Then Susan Blackmore gave a speech and also used the brain to explain NDE. Well without repeating my self you will not find the explanation of the experience in Blackmores brain.

The reason for using harsh language is that Blackmore used the occasion to ridicule a transpersonal consciousness and try to figure out a too many crucial experience beyond what you usually can perceive. And now it seems that TSC is reaching dangerously close to supporting a materialistic skeptic intolerant conservatism.

I have come to understand that to develop a to me more interesting path needs a content shift integrating and balancing transpersonal researcher to encourage a broader discussion within TSC. This also needs courage to really attack the “hard question”. Perhaps TSC is not ready for that.

All though David Chalmers brought it up and Deepak Chopra emphasized these open questions the dominance of the box thinking seems to have minimized such development at TSC 2014.

So then what is weird? All those who believes “Searles Theatre” is the whole truth and nothing but the truth or those who thinks that “Chopra Movie” gives possibility for another world as true as any theater in the world.

I hope the intolerance will vanish and open up for a more giving cross scientific dialogue that I believed was the intention of TSC in the first place.

Borje Peratt

Reference on Blackmore
Susan Blackmore’s Consciousness Link
Susan Blackmore’s Research Link

Fifth fantastic day TSC conference april 25 -personal diary

Börje Peratt in interview with Filmmaker Magdalena

This friday was a range of synchronicity that changed my path. But lets start with the first session of the day.

Petra Stoerig, –Your’s, Her’s, Mine? Self-Related Processes– talked about her research on visual perception from monkey study and then about blindsight.

The presentation was a biological and neurological perspective with presentation of slides from brain scan showing activation spots in brain. It was to me two separate talks and I couldn´t figure out how to correlate them. To me such studies would be more catching if they started with the question: Is blindsight possible, if so how? and if so what can be the outcome in real life?” Perhaps that also was a part of the content but in that case I didn´t understand it.

My purpose of knowledge about the brain is of practical use
When I did a documentary (Stress 1986) the purpose was to understand what stress causes in perceptions and how it may effect a driver of a car. Then it was interesting to find out how especially disturbing situations caused the frontal cortex to block. That is the logical mind is gone for the force of fear and fight of the reptile brain.

When i wrote my first book Succébo (2011) in pursuing development of the brain and trying to understand how brain works I had several purposes. Among them it was to find consequenses in the brain and body of certain attitudes and behaviors. Brainscans could show how visual perceptions perhaps could limit the mind. I was also interested in what led to mental expansion and power. For example where to find the process of placebo (Martin Ingvar 2012). I believe I might have initiated that research with my questions in 1986 when Ingvar was into research on phobias.

My first interest was motivated by understanding the effect on difficult daily situations and also the effect on problemsolving, for instance tunnel sight during teamwork, communication and in traffic.

My other interest was to find out where in the brain to find placebo and also if it can be learnt. This neurologist Martin Ingvar began to study after me asking him if placebo was possible to find in the brain.

I now have another interest and that is to find creativity i brain.
A study on music improvisations might be a way to locate this creativity. I also think that such a study might show that training expands creativity spots in brain. I also think that these spots might be kind of an orchestra, that is you will find several locations activated and growing when trained.

Only the medical aspect certainly might be of great interest for medicine doctors and neuro scientists and other interested in the physical aspects of consciousness and brain damage.

The development of transpersonal psychology
A lot of interesting studies have been made of patients from the second world war. This also led to the creating of Transpersonal psychology a new disciplin taking the stand of a holistic view.

Today it seems like most of researcher at TSC are reductionists. My reflection on this is how specialists can be so focused and pursue mechanic responses but not so interested in an holistic understanding and surrounding possibilities. On the contrary I overheard a discussion calling it weird trying to figure out experiences of more spectacular kind. So then I am also weird. Well that isn’t new to me. If You are a boxthinker then every free thinker is weird.

The two following talks was:
– Mary Peterson, Beyond the Classical Feed-Forward View of Figure-Ground Segregation and – Russell Hurlburt, Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Implications for consciousness science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and self-understanding.

Neurons neurons neurons …..

On my way to session 8 about Integrated Information Theory whith Christof Koch and Gulio Tononi I stumbled upon Dan Park MD and Ph.D.

He wanted to record an interview with me and that took about an hour so I came late to session eight and ended up in more neurons. Therefore I can´t give justice to tell anything about that. But I agree with Dan Park that TSC 2014 is mostly about brain from a technical point of view. And I also appreciated the conversation with Dan Park that was very giving. So hopefully we stay in touch.

I came half way in to the session with Koch and heard him say:

“you can only experience one thing at the time.”

Is it true? Then I am an anomali.

I then was on my way to session 9 Quantum Approaches with Max Tegmark, Stuart Hameroff and Anirban Bandyopadyay. But now I stumbled upon Magdalena who is doing a documentary and I told her that I also was filmmaker. She asked me about the background and interest in consciousness. I told her about the car crash that started it all. She immediately asked me to do a short interview (supposedly half an hour). This took two and a half hours and it became a profound experience for us both and also for her partner. She wanted to show me her ten minutes filmpilot and I was impressed by its fine story and talented editing.

Filmmaker Magdalena and partner Dean Morgan

I really hope that she gets funding. The illumination around this couple is beautiful.

Concurrent sessions

At 5:00 PM concurrent sessions started and I choose Anomalies of Consciousness.

It handled subjects that at least interested me more than any other session. And I wasn´t disappointed. I summarize it with the last speaker

“Sometimes we got to get into the dark to see light (Gary E. Schwartz)”

At 7:00 PM it was poster session. I tell about them separately.

Sad to say I miss saturday and especially the discussion about the upcoming 20 years. I would have a lot to say but then again perhaps it is best that I then sit on a flight back to Stockholm.

Hopefully I will be able to participate a moment on session 10. Death and consciousness the for me most interesting session of all week. What will Sam Parnia tell about the Aware study? Are there any results?

Anyway thank You TSC and Tucson for another fantastic day.

Börje Peratt

Fourth day TSC conference april 24 -personal diary

Sitting in the thursday seminar about Time and Consciousness and its mostly about perception and brain with two speaches. The first is David Eagleman, Time and the Brain and second is Julia Mossbridge, Predictive Anticipatory Activity. Both were interesting and also entertaining.

The main subject of TSC seems to me to be perception and brain. And then perhaps still the Quantum field. I think though that track might has come to an end.

Well there is of course a consciousness depending on the brain. And science use different approaches to locate where in the brain different mental and emotional actions and/or signals occurs. That is the mind of the “Searle Theater” (my metaphorical term of a determined materialistic view) where Daniel Dennet always can ask “and then what?” Because that is often what the plot in the play demands – “and then what” questions goes on untill we know how it ends.

Deepak Chopra constantly asks “what if? How? and what of?” But how many of the crowd at TSC know what he means? These are to me the “real questions”. Searching for answers to the so called Hard Questions : “what sort” or “what kind?” How do colour appear and how do we differentiate smell and taste? Well all these are actually materialistic questions.

Searching for Consciousness

• The real question is whether consciousness can ever be explained mechanistically. As I see it you can only mechanistically register and try to analyze different modes and what causes them such as lie detector by polygraph.
• I believe there is also a consciousness in every life and it can be recognized by studying choices and communications that even microorganism and insects do. (Bodyconsciuousness)
• I suggest there is a communication sense in every life so it eventually will develop its language to communicate with others.
• As I propose three different kinds of consciousness, body, brain and the independent mind I also suggest a distinction between mental and physical states or properties.

Perhaps the independent mind is the “One Mind” that Larry Dossey suggests and also Deepak Chopra but then using the word “Non Local”.

When this “One Mind” is dependent of a body or a brain there are physical conditions that determine the capacity and quality of consciousness. When independent there are no such limitations.

How to deliver more studies of true holistic perspectives?

I think this is the motive for Julia Mossbridge. She uses the word Non Local and also sprititual consciousness. To try to use the accepted scientific concept she presented statistic data of her research and that is often necessary in the adademic domain. But not necessarily in a presentation. I hoped for a more reflecting discussion of her result.

There is a need for belonging to the main stream so you are not defined as weird. Therefor most of the researcher “Out on a Limb” has to be restrained att not to far away from accepted or should I say conservative and rigid science.

My interest is more of creating a holistic modell that can integrate body, brain and independent consciousness.
Many discuss the need of it and eventually there will be engagement and guts to do it. Leaving the data and statistics in an appendix for those who are interested.

Anyway what I want now is to seek to fill some gaps that can overlap the reality of “Searls Theater” and the visions of “Chopra film”.

1. I want to develop more about Body consciousness and the theory of an ECO system. (Emotion-Communication-Orientation senses in the body)
   Thank You Camelo for links will add it on https://ontheoriginofconsciousness.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/tsc-poster-session-wednesday-april-23-personal-diary/
2. Another is to develop understanding and theory for the “hub” that transform Independent consciousness to the understanding in Brain consciousness. I call it The Existentialistic hub. This includes research on NDE Near Death Experience that I find have the evidence for an entity outside or within the body and explaining the Independent mind.
3. The third is to find the “hub” that unite the cause and effect of healing.

Some questions are concerning subjectivity and placebo and the effect of for instance meditation. Other questions are related to healing through activity from healer or hypnotist and then again there is the effect of praying that don´t even need to be related by other means than a name and a place and “let the best thing happen”.

This third field is not at all discussed or a subject at TSC. 2014. Its to controversial?

It took me 20 years to step out of that closet to tell about the experiences from NDE and the gate of transpersonal experiences that it opened.

So for them in the “Searls theater” these kind of reality seems weird. But I´m certain that especial in TSC there are a lot more people having sort of the same experiences and also pre cognitions of the future. That is also considered weird of course by those who knows but are afraid (to step out of that closet) and by those who don´t know and reject this possibility. But this precognitions are sometimes very real, they can be helpful and warn you so you can choose to challenge possible events.

Clair Sentience on april 24, example of Independent mind

One example of Independent mind is Clair Sentience another is Pre Cognition. The group of Conference participants that made an excursion into the mountain before the anniversary dinner at thursday evening was likely to suffer serious harm.

Some of us who didn´t participate the excursion sensed or “saw” that something terrible could happen to them. The day after I heard one of the speakers refering to a phone conversation talking about missing this bustrip and got the message:

“Believe me You will not want to be on that bus it will burn and crash.”

The day and time it happened I expressed my concern to Tomas, a person I met at the conference and he can confirm that I was right even about pointing out the man that was in most danger. We had no phone contact what so ever with the people in the bus. I just sensed something was very wrong.

Well they crashed into a house and the corner of the house smashed through the window of the bus just were my friend sat almost decapitating him. Then the brakes of the bus burned so they had to stop and wait for another bus since several of the passenger refused to continue with the unfortunate bus.

When I expressed my sense of fear I was of course “weird” so I tried to excuse my behavior. Sitting still detached just praying for them.

Thank God every one was safe.

Börje Peratt

TSC Poster Session Wednesday april 23 personal diary

Deepak Chopra at Poster Borje Peratt 23 apr. 2014 #4

Deepak Chopra at Poster “On Origin of Consciousness”

Deepak Chopra at Poster Borje Peratt 23 apr. 2014 #3

Deepak Chopra showed up at the poster session and gave me the opportunity to tell how I perceived the final discussion of today’s seminar on Subjectivity and Objectivity.

Then he studied my poster for quite a long while and I didn´t know what to expect. Finally he turned to me and sid.

I totally agree!

To my satisfaction mr. Chopra totally agreed upon both my theory on the poster and analysis of the discussion that i mentioned on the latest blog article here.

Listening to the debate between Deepak Chopra and John Searle was to me interesting in especially one way. They were talking about different forms of reality.

The easiest way to metaphorically described it is that John talked about what he can see and measure in a theater were people act on a stage. And Deepak talked about film were the same story can be told but using all kind of means to prolong, stop a picture or rapid a process and also simultaneously show scenarios from different parts of the world from any perspective moving back and forward in time.

In this special perspectiv on the world, the real time and place doesn´t exist so called Non local, in my terminology Independent mind.

Deepak even momentarily during the discussion used “independent mind” in a phrase. Which off course both surprised me then that is the term I have choosen to use for this reality.

Back to the discussion and two perspectives of Searle and Chopra. Imagine sitting down in the Searle theater where everything happens right there in a certain order possible to observe and measure. Imagine the Chopra perspective as the earlier metaphorically described film being showed all over the world at the same time. That isn´t possible, is it? 🙂 And imagine people saving it and being able to see it when they want. That isn´t possible either is it? Or seeing it in a fast mode 128 times regular speed. Is that possible?

So what i´m trying to say is that there is a dimension where natural laws as we know them regarding time and space are not applicable. I call this Independent. It is independent of materialism, physical data and body. And still very real.

Since my poster was perfectly placed between the bar and the buffet I received many spontaneous visits. It gave me a chance to explain the model in different ways, which was very rewarding for my own sake. I could tell that my daily profession is leadership development and then easily apply Searles theater.

Since 10 years I work on leadership training within the Swedish transport industry, which means main responsibility for both the course (three steps) and content within TYA that is the National cowork organization of Industry and Union.

I´m also a filmmaker and was asked about present projects. (Guide, John Bauer)

Some visitors tipped me about research and studies confirming different parts of my model.

There was also a visitor that didn’t agree upon the idea of interdependence of time and place referring to an own experience from visiting a haunted house. Disappointed leaving the house since nothing occurred she was suddenly in front of an imaginary runaway herd of cattle. The sound was alarming and she rushed towards the car to get protection, but felt that she was run down by the flock. Though it ran straight through her ​​as it was imaginary, she said that “it was a time and a place where this took place”. I tried to explain that her example was perhaps evidence (although it was anecdotal) for that time and space are not applicable to transpersonal experiences of this nature. It showed, if it was a true transpersonal event, that time and a space may occur whenever independently of the actual time and space. Although she believed in ESP phenomenon she could not grab essential conditions for enabling that something like this could happen.

There are many descriptions of such multiple simultaneously perceived events and i refer to some in my book Twelve Senses to Ann Winsper conducting research on so called paranormal events.

This was also a fantastic day!

Börje Peratt
Linkedin

Third day TSC conference april 23

Plenary 2 session about “Attention and Consciousness”

This interesting session implicated already in the headline that it was more about perception and understanding and then describing consciousness by the way senses and brain works.

Speakers Michael Graziano, Alison Gopnik and Ned Block.

In the way Ned Blocks presented his research i came to think of brain´s limitation of consciousness that an illusionist might use to fool the perception of reality.

How attention affect awareness was a question to Graziano who answered that it was a two way process.
Childhood consciousness have a lantern (wider) observance while the adult has a spotlight focus.

Are feeling (consiousness) and thought (cognition) fundamentally different?
by Ned Block philosophy

Ned Block says his perspective is the opposit of Daniel Dennets “Consciousness is just a sort of judgement”.

meaning Cognition is sparse and Perception is rich.

Ned gave some amusing samples of this statement also reffering to where in brain the perception occurs.

Subliminal or unconsious perception
Percept vs Concept. You need concept to formalize perception.

Attention and broacasting
Youtube Ned Block on Consciousness as an Illusion

Afternoon

Subjectivity and Ojectivity

John Searle

Among his notable concepts is the “Chinese room” argument against “strong” artificial intelligence.

We should think of consciousness as perceiving…

We are in the early states of correlations and we don´t yet know what is significant.

There is a higher level that excludes the problem of cause and effect. On a lower level action can be described as neuron communication but that still don´t explain the question.

Rebecca Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American novelist and philosopher. She has written six novels, a number of short stories and essays, and studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
Her speach was to explain that feature and fiction do the same thing namely externelize consciuosness that the scientist do but much richer. By using tricks to show that it is a subjective process in the brain.

“And then miracle occurs”

Deepak Chopra

Dr Chopra discussed different points of views regarding the hard problem that Chalmers introduced and stressed that he did not involve any of a long range of indian thinker, philosopher or yogis.

A good yogi can regulate inner organs of the body.

Comment: This is the first dimension in my theory named “Body consciousness”. You can compare this body controll with Archaean organism moving around DNA molecules without endangering its life just trying new solutions./end comment.

Then Chopra ask:

What is consciousness?
What is existense?
What is awareness of existens?

There is no explanation for any experience, mental or perceptual.

How do atoms and molecules buildup to a brain producing consciousness?

(My reflection: Cell consciousness? cell mind? cell intelligence?)

How do we explain intention, experience imagination?
Perhaps a top down approach is the answer?

Non Local Possibility Field (Comment: Term from Larry Dossey?
My term Independent or of material world consciousness)

Consciousness is non-local and acausal

It expresses itself as qualia gestalts, which are fundamental properties of mind: sensations, images feelings and thoughts

Consciousness agent are expressions of consciousness there are species and culture.

Chopra text

Plenar discussion

showed that there were two different levels of thinking and since they didn´t understand each other it led nowhere.
To use my terminology Deepak talked about Independent Consciousness and John about elemental mind.

Finally there was a question of creativity. I couldn´t find out what they ment. Att that point I guess they were to aggravated.

Well in my opinion Creativity is a fundamental force in every consciousness on any level down to mikroorganism.

Börje Peratt

Second day TSC conference and official start april 22

This day started at the breakfast table with a long meeting with my friend Jan Pilotti and saying hello to some i met earlier. You find photos and most meetings in gallery below.

Melody Hong from Taiwan was on the plan to Tuscon from SF and we had a long talk the whole trip. Then Graeme Breckon NZ turned up with a surprised look. To meet him even for a short second gives both energy and joy. So the breakfast continued until lunch and there was no seminar for me this morning.

Official start
Stuart Hameroff introduced the speakers starting with David Chalmers first giving a historical summery of what has happened the last 20 years. And also bringing up different views, pros and cons about The “Hard Problem” (note).
Second speaker Daniel Dennet representing not only a hard materialist but also the Four Horsemen of New Atheists opened with a statement that he had the only usefull statement.
What is the “Hard Question” and postulating that this conference haven´t reached anywhere during this 20 years.
Third speaker Donald Hoffman started up with a story about a lost beetle and i came to think of Darwins the surviving of the fittest or the ones who are not rigid but flexible. So when the numbers turned up I left. I´m not fit to follow consciousness in mathematical formulas.

Afterwards there were many discussions. Daniel Dennett were stopped and listened patiently to questions and defended his (professional) atheistic attitude. “Someone has to stand up for this discussion” he said. He also answered a few questions and admitted that he had seen that the group also has been called the Apocalypse Riders (on Swedish Wikipedia).

I then met Adarsh Deepak again with his wonderful wife they form a winning team but she is rather behind the camera than in front of it. It would be nice to develope our contact into a work this also Adarsh suggested. And that also goes for Dan Park. We have had several long ineteresting conversations.

At the evening it was a big feast with food and drinks and more meetings. Overall a fantastic panpsychic day.

If someone wants to fill me in the hard problem, feel free to do that 🙂

I have my Poster session (P1: 337) this Wednesday April 23, 2014, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm at Arizona Historical Museum.

Börje Peratt

Melody Hong from Taiwan

Graeme Breckon from New Zealand

Stuart Hameroff introducing speakers

David Chalmers first speaker

David Chalmers The Easy Problems

David Chalmers, The Hard Problem

David Chalmers Combination Problem

David Chalmers Empiricist rational solution

Daniel Dennett and Stuart Hameroff

Daniel Dennett-The hard question

Daniel Dennett-The coffey machine theory

Donald Hoffman

Daniel Dennett_Boerje Peratt 22aprtsc

Henry Vyner about Healthy Mind and Jody Weiss already into meditation

Peter H. Psycho Therapist New Zealand

Adarsh Deepak Taksha University and BP

Daniel C. Park M.D., Ph.D and BP

Robert Rhodes, physicists

Penelope Rowlatt scientist and economist from London

Note Wikipedia
The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why we have qualia or phenomenal experiences — how sensations acquire characteristics, such as colours and tastes. David Chalmers, who introduced the term “hard problem” of consciousness, contrasts this with the “easy problems” of explaining the ability to discriminate, integrate information, report mental states, focus attention, etc. Easy problems are easy because all that is required for their solution is to specify a mechanism that can perform the function. That is, their proposed solutions, regardless of how complex or poorly understood they may be, can be entirely consistent with the modern materialistic conception of natural phenomena. Chalmers claims that the problem of experience is distinct from this set, and he argues that the problem of experience will “persist even when the performance of all the relevant functions is explained”.

First day and meetings at TSC Tucson

Monday 21 april at TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2014 in Tucson Arizona USA.
The first day was actual preconferens with a number of workshops and random meetings. I present them in this gallery. We started in morning with Nondual Awareness and the Unity of Consciousness: Experience and Research by Zoran Josipovic and Judith Blackstone
giving a workshop containing of contemplative experiences describing a unity transcending self-object dichotomy. Neuroimaging reveals possible mechanisms for nondual awareness.

There are questions about this still to be answered.

Then I met Mr Jameson Ford who gave me a personal lesson about Quantom.
In the evening I met the very nice mr Graeme Breckon NZ, and also Peter Walling Texas MD, and we had a very interesting conversation.

Börje Peratt

Nondual Awareness and the Unity of Consciousness: Experience and Research Zoran Josipovic, Judith Blackstone contemplative experiences describe a unity transcending self-object dichotomy. Neuroimaging reveals possible mechanisms for nondual aw

Zoran Josipovic brainscanpictures

Jameson Ford_Quantom Boerje Peratt_TSC 21_2

Jan Pilotti Swedish psychiatrist and a friend participating in TSC

Kersti Wistrand psychologist and friend, Boerje Peratt

Indian scientist and postersession

Indian postersession

BP and Mr. Stig Ollmar Scibase, Scientific advisor.

Peter Walling MD. Texas and Graeme Breckon NZ,

The project – Origin of Consciousness

More than 30 years ago I wrote a monologue for well known Swedish actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård. It was based on the conflicts involving:

We think something, feel something else, want a third thing and doing something completely different.

It turned into a practical life compass that helped me in almost all situations professionally and in life as such when one day disaster struck in the form of a severe car crash. It caused not only a tough physical convalescence but also a spiritual development.

It made me question if we are guided by some external or internal force that we can perceive as a hunch, mystery helping hand or a random coincidence.

Questions about those conflicts led into a long scientific research about motives, perception and decision. It became clear that we seek the good and want the best but for different reasons, we sometimes seem to discourage success and not listen to our self. And waht ai mean by listening to our self is not only the logical thought or the guiding emotions but also something else. Coming from what?

I was an Atheist but the situation demanded me to question a new reality.

I suppose that there is a common misconception to think that if God exists he/she/it would not allow all evil. In my view it is necessary for the development of mankind to experience mostly everything of life to be able to know and to choose what life find most favorable.
And then again God might be a metaphor for the gift in every life form to create it’s own destiny and also evolution.

Free will?

The purpose of the free will and choice is also commonly regarded as enabling improvement through processes of “trial and error”. But I think that is also a misunderstanding. At least it is not all true. We learn and develop by success, try and try again. And then, life must try everything, evil and good to know what life ultimately want and need. This is a principle of developing the aim for success, in all life, even at primitive levels, and I have come to call it Succébo as a parallell to placebo.

The pursue to know more turned into science

“Succébo-the seed of success“
is the first part in a trilogy “On the origin of Consciousness”. The findings are so transformative, you could say radical, as it needed many years to explore and test hypotheses.
Succébo is a phenomenon that links the mental imagination of the mind and body development, and could therefore have preceded the placebo.

The world’s scientific conclusions are always based on the explanation of – cause and effect -, but evolution is often described as events of random mutation. It is an unreasonable assumption that is questioned and discussed here. Instead, it shows more evidence that evolution is intentional and therefore intention-oriented. In what then, one might wonder. Well to create the best conditions for survival. (Darwin)

The second book “Twelve Senses“
categorizing perception in a new way will be released in the spring 2012. It introduces an entirely new classification of the senses that puts the ancient physical senses in a new context. The aim is to get this new approach presented in an accessible, reassuring and convincing manner. Although it also discuss spirit, soul and mediumship, topics that are highly controversial in the scientific domain. The findings around Near Death Experience contains convincing evidence that we have an independent mind that make it possible to perceive environment, even if all the physical senses are eliminated.

What now is needed is an extensiv research with test and theory development for further exploring. Hopefully “12 senses” will inspire that.
After participating “Toward a Science of Consciousness” at Stockholm University in may 3-8 (2011) it certainly gives hope.

The third book “TRY AGAIN – Try and Try Again!”
confronts the long lived idea of “trial and error”. Modern brain research shows that we learn of the success and not errors.
This book, which are expected to be released in 2013, also provides a theoretical and practical foundation for life coaching as currently discussed by the Cultural Chronicle “If life coaching for all”.

Coach!

When I started this business and took the title Coach never did I know how great it would be. In 1988 it was the american title of the college teacher and team leader in sport. In UK it stood for bus and horse wagon. I used coach in order to reduce the tension for groups and people in talking about different questions of solving problems and initiate progress. In almost ten years I was alone with this title in occupational areas. The first time I heard it spread was on a mission for Ericson where coach soon after were used by someone guiding other in projects.

When “Coach” both as title and function, was spread in several areas I witnessed how people with no relevant training or skills throw themself into the role of coach. It was then to me as disrespectful as when some who think they are mediums give readings without asking if someone wants them. It is of course totally unprofessional. For this reason I am looking now for a new concept which is also discussed in particular the second part, Tvelwe Senses, but presented already in Succébo. I think there could be a new type of scientific experience grounded psychology based on partly new view on intelligence. Where practice are educated in combining communication, exploring, management control and achievement.

Emology

EMOLOGI (Swedish) is a newly created word (Emotion + logic) which highlights the importance of emotion and treats them equally with the rational logic that otherwise currently dominates the field of science even in psychology and thereby excluding at least half the mind. The underlying theory is the theory of a Life Compass, which is built around “Life intelligences”. A form of IQ and a form of EQ (Social and emotional skills) are included, but supplemented with an exploratory probing intelligence “Management IQ” and a “Power Potential” that is the Executive Intelligence. These Life Compass intelligences are empirically proven in extreme situations in elite sport in particular and occupations, especially in vulnerable and demanding projects.

Three tracks

So this project proceeds in three different tracks 1) Body consciousness 2) Brain Consciousness an 3) Independent Consciousness. It raises three key questions: 1) Is there a purpose in life to always seek the favorable? 2) Is there a life compass built into all life that provide adequate wits to find the most favorable solution? 3) Is there an independent mind, a soul that accompanies every life, sometimes hinting the Life Compass and Brain Consciousness.

There is also a fourth question 4) If there is a soul connected to each life is it possibly to reborn into new lives. And if it comes to it, even then this kind of process should apply even the smallest organisms?

In that case some Asian religions are right? I wouldn´t like to turn this into religion but the question is obvious.

The book series published by VISAM and distributed through Bokrondellen (Swedish). Part one release (in May 2011) and will soon be available at all major online publishers, and on any central university library, city and royal library in Sweden. The trilogy is hopefully translated into english in 2014 or 2015.

Börje Peratt