Stan Grof on the Brain and Consciousness

Grof explains how the brain is the hardware, like a telelvision set, that picks up the signal from consciousness, which is in the field and turns it into thought.

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[whitenightf3]

to everyone else, especially if you have any research interest in the area around consciousness, neuroscience etc.

[whitenightf3]

@AnduinX you can see Peake's video's on here. if we were in a simulation there would be glitches that give it away. Peake puts forward the idea that Deja vu is one such glitch and that we are remembering the future because we have been here before. You would be welcome to join his forum and his fb page. The idea that the brain is a transmitter is compelling and goes back a long way. It would explain much of the psi phenomena that reductionism cannot explain. The invitation to Tony's site is open

[whitenightf3]

@AnduinX No memories are not made in the brain they are not even stored in the brain. All that happens is the brain tunes into the fields where memory is stored and retrieves the memory. Everything is information and you should check out the worker of researcher Anthony Peake because in his hypothesis we are in a simulation that keeps recurring that he dubs the Bohemianimax.

[AnduinX]

@taicleis: Ex, if consciousness were not in the brain then who knows what kind of spectacular memories we would have with our unfiltered consciousness. Many of which would probably inhibit our ability to live as humans. A memory filter would be a necessity.

[AnduinX]

@taicleis: When it comes to memory, you could say that the brain structures involved are a kind of code that dictates what the filter allows to pass. If consciousness were not in the brain, then there would be a very good evolutionary reason for this. In the words of Cyril Burt: "... to restrict them to those aspects of the material environment which at any moment are crucial for the terrestrial success of the individual"

[AnduinX]

@taicleis: "If consciousness were the source of memories, 'transmitting' them into the brain, then the memories could not be damaged without being put right back - but they aren't." The memories themselves are never damaged, what's damaged is the brain's ability to play them. If consciousness tried to ;play' the memory, the brain would no longer recognize it and would filter it out.

[AnduinX]

@taicleis: Again, if an area of the brain is associated with a specific kind of memory, that does not prove that the memory is itself physical as you seem to be implying. What it shows is that the structures of that part of the brain have a correlatory relationship with the memory. The filter model would say that those structures allow the memory to be experienced, rather than produce the memory.

[taicleis]

@AnduinX

It's not a question of whether it COULD. The fact is that the memory centers of the brain are mapped and can readily be associated with specific memories. what's more, damage to a particular memory pattern renders the 'consciousness' unable to remember that memory.

If consciousness were the source of memories, 'transmitting' them into the brain, then the memories could not be damaged without being put right back - but they aren't.