Guest guest Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 NonDualPhil , " Tony OClery " <aoclery> wrote: NonDualPhil , Insight <insight@s...> wrote: > > Pete: When a patient was shown a picture of his grandmother, > one particular cell fired up. This cell didn't respond to > any other face. Another cell responded only when the > subject face was seen. It was named the narcissistic cell. > This has lead neurosurgeons to speculate that maybe > every object we know has its dedicated brain cell. > > Joyce: The narcissistic cell? A tad anthropomorphic? > Recognition of your granny's face is narcissim? So there is a > Walt Disney cell, a Ghandi cell and if the scientist > had peeked into Ramana's ear you'd see a little cell wondering > Who Am I? > > > Pete: We could further conclude each bit of knowledge we know, > each word, has it own cell, or number of cells, which responds > when stroke by stimuli, just as piano keys do to pressure. > The next questions could be, who plays the piano in our brain? > Is it a piano, or pionola? Who writes the songs? Is > there a cosmic composer, or just pure improvisation by that > great maestro called chance? > > Joyce: Wouldn't that be the Great Composer Cell? Namaste, It seems to me that even in illusion, it proves that the mind uses the brain like hardware only. The samskaras and vasanas need to manifest somewhere so they do so in a 'cell', and even smaller. It is quite probable that associated ideas also may occupy the same space as the cell. Like other ideas about Grandma etc........ONS...Tony. --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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