Gregg Braden
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because it's not in the stuff. They're looking in the stuff for consciousness. And because of that, they think the electrical synapses in the brain, if you can capture that, put it on a chip, you've captured consciousness. And what we now know is that those electrical synapses are the antenna tuning to the place in the field. Can I just share an experiment? Sure.
That really helps to illustrate this. And you and I talked about this offline a little bit. I do this in live audiences. And first you can hear the audience gasp when they hear this, and then the room is quiet. And you can hear literally a pin drop with a couple thousand people in the room. So this experiment's been done a couple of times.
One of the first was at the Salk Institute here in California. They took neurons and placed them into a Petri dish that was connected to a specialized chip. And for our techies out there, I mean, literally the little dendrites, there were ports on the chip that could accommodate those dendrites. So now you've got a neuron computer chip interface. So they did that successfully.
And then they took that chip and they hooked it to a computer that was loaded with an old game. Some of our viewers may remember. It was first launched in 1972. It's called Pong. And I was working in industry when Pong came out. And it's so primitive today. It's ping pong on a very flat two-dimensional screen. I would come back from lunch
when we were working in the high-tech industry during the Cold War, and engineers working on nuclear triggers for our weapon systems were glued to their screens playing this game of Pong because nothing had ever been seen like that before. I mean, you know, it's hard to think with the advanced gaming world we live in now. It's so simple. But here's the point. They took
They took that computer chip with the neurons, they hooked it to a computer that was loaded with this game Pong, the neurons started playing the game. And the longer they played, the better they got. They were learning from playing this game. So the question becomes, how does a neuron not hook to a person in a Petri dish know how to play Pong, where are the instructions for the Pong?
The answer is the instructions are not in the neuron. The neuron is the resonant antenna that tunes to the place in the field that scientists now have acknowledged. July 4th, 2012, the CERN superconducting supercollider announced the existence of the field underlying all existence. So this is not a metaphor, not new thought, new age make-believe.
So the neurons are tuning to the place in the field where Pong lives. There's a place in the field.
Yeah, his morphic resonance, morphogenic field. But we all know this in everyday life because when we choose to learn something new, Andre, and you and I are both guitarists. If you're learning another language, you know, a foreign language, You, the first time you try to learn something guitar, it feels awkward or you're speaking phonetically in a foreign language and it sounds weird.
All of a sudden you wake up one morning and you're playing like Steve Vai, hopefully. Or, you know, you're speaking French or you're speaking English and you say, well, God, you know, what happened? It was hard a couple of days ago. Here's the answer to that. The time-lapse photography shows it takes about 72 hours for neurons to find one another. They're very social cells. They want to hook up.
So these neurons, they want to hook up.
Absolutely. We all have them. So it takes about three days, about 72 hours. And you can see under a microscope, here's where we come in. It is the act. The act.
of a human choosing to be more in the moment in front of them than they were in the moment behind them, the act of choosing to learn something new and different or to accomplish or to master something, that choice is the biological trigger. It's the impetus for the cells, including the neurons, to do what they need to do to support that choice. That's how powerful we are.
Well, this is another place where the new studies, well, let me follow with the pong. So now scientists are stuck. And this is the way science learns. If science is honest, science can only serve us if we keep science honest. If science is honest, they will have to acknowledge that there's something happening, number one, that they don't understand. And that's hard for some scientists to do.
It's a mystery. Number two, they'll have to acknowledge the information can't be in the neuron. So where is it? And that will lead to the new story that it tells, rather than taking those neurons and trying to force the phenomenon of Pong to fit into an old story that no longer serves us. And this is the challenge for science in general, is always...
Are we willing to follow the evidence to the new stories that the evidence tells? Or are we going to take the new discoveries, force those discoveries into preexisting models, like a square peg in a round hole? You can do that. A square peg will fit into a round hole, but then it's not a good fit. There's little spaces around it.
And that's exactly theory of evolution, theory of the origin of the universe. I mean, all of this. That's exactly where this is happening. So this is why I encourage our viewers, if you're going to learn something new or you have children or grandchildren that are frustrated, if it doesn't come to them just like that, give it three days.
And you'll be amazed because it takes about the 72 hours for those neurons to come together to support the choice that we've made. So now you just asked, what was the question that you had just asked? Because I wanted to address that as well.
New discoveries are showing when I was a kid... again, school 50s, 60s, and 70s, we were taught, and I think they may still be teaching this in some schools, that we were born with a finite number of brain cells, finite number of neurons.
And the joke at that time, this was the leverage for every college student, every beer you drink in college, you're going to lose brain cells, and you've only got so many to start with, you know, so don't drink all those beers. Well, now what they know is that the hippocampus is constantly producing new neurons until the last breath we take on this planet. You could be 104 years old.
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