neuroplasticity and awareness

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Brain-Neuroplasticity-Power-Mental/dp/0060988479

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• neuroplasticity
• awareness
• mind

[JoshRom]

I like to think of the mind as an emergent property of the brain; it is a special quality that is more than the summation of its components. For example, your life is an emergent property of your physical components. If you laid out all your particles in a random fashion, you would not have life. However, this idea is fairly romantic and mystical. It may be the case that when someone says the mind is acting on the brain it is simply THE BRAIN ACTING ON THE BRAIN.

[jericomovie]

do educate me.

[leitermann]

Very interesting stuff as usual, I've been particularly interested in plasticity of the brain since a good friend of mine almost died of a massive head injury. Coincidentally, another friend also suffered a similar injury last saturday, but he's ok now we think.

What sort of clients do you have? I mean what sort of job do you have in which you would be taking on clients with brain injuries? Some kind of psychology or medical job?

[jericomovie]

It's a job working at a therapeutic institution for the intellectually disabled and people with acquired brain injuries. So, by working as a therapy aid like I did, you deal with both medical and psychological care. These days I'm just in the business office.

[jamesvhawk]

Try the book by Dr joe Dispensa titled Evolve your Brain, it fantastic i highly reccomend it.

[JoshRom]

@paintitblack01 A special non-physical quality from physical components isn't that unbelievable. You have a mass (physical) causing gravity (not really physical?). You have a magnet (physical) causing a magnetic field (not really physical?). Also, dualism says that the mind and the body exist separately from each other; the mind can exist without the brain. I don't actually know what the mind is, though.

[paintitblack01]

I'm not sure I agree with your summary of what neuroplasticity is...

I've never read or heard of a neuroscientist promoting the notion that the mind creates a special force that precedes the brain....Classic chicken and the egg, but simply the mind cannot precede the brain as without a brain, there is no mind.

My take is that it is the study of how thought patterns (physical phenomena, i.e. electrical and chemical signals passed from neuron to neuron) can have an effect on brain structure.

[paintitblack01]

@JoshRom lolwut?

nice way to paraphrase Dualism....

How can you reach the conclusion of special non-physical quality from physical components....hardest argument for Dualist to handle....It's just not possible.

[cclose27]

Is the book "The brain that changes itself" ?

[LatinaAmante]

thank you for this i have Neuroplasticity i can actually mental feel the movements in my mind i have A.S

[RareBird0]

Your view of NP represents the pre-NP NOTION of a static mind and therefore NP is seen as ONLY related to repair remedy. In reality, it is only when repair is at issue that NP becomes overtly observable. The rest of the time it is an ever-present dynamic we haven't learned to gauge, separate from the mere storage of info or develop constructs around to increase the latitude of learning to allow NP to provide interconnections that make problem resolution successful every day in everybody.

[alleyinated]

Okay, I don't make videos, so I hate to critize other pplz videos. But here it goes anyway. While I'm interested in what you have to say, I can't help but be distracted at the fact that when u talk, u never look at the camera. Why does it matter, well when I watch someone's video and they are looking at the camera, it feels more personal, more interesting, easer to keep my attention. So, though I enjoy what u ahve to say, I'd like ur to look in the camera when u talk :P