Seth Messenger : Patrice Van Eersel's quotes

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#37424
The six most important drivers of dendritic growth are, among many others and without order of importance: desire, affection, questioning, reflection, action, voluntary effort. What destroys neurons? Five great possibilities for response (there too, among many others and in disorder): aging, stress, pollution, certain diseases, but above all passivity. A neuron wears out and dies much faster if it is not used; its synapses stunt and end up not detaching, putting it out of play. Conversely, learning, loving, acting, meditating makes our neurons and their synapses vigorous.

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37425
Wisdom is simply to learn to desire what you have, not systematically what you don't have. From the moment one achieves it, one is not only in wisdom, but also liberated.

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37426
Most of the researchers and practitioners currently working on these issues conclude that altruism is an instinct. What for? Schematically, because we feel the suffering of the other in ourselves, and by rescuing him, we are basically seeking to relieve ourselves.

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37453
We already knew the "acquired impotence", thanks to Martin Seligman who, before becoming the champion of positive psychology, had shown that by putting animals in a position of impotence (with the help of inevitable electric shocks), these unfortunates found themselves plunged into a kind of lasting depression: even if they were then put back in a pleasant context, they remained fearful and depressed; having learned to be powerless, they had developed a depressive worldview, and were no longer leaving it. Fortunately, this experience has its counterpart: by getting animals used to feeling good and safe in the presence of sound or light stimuli, a sense of confidence can be engrammed in their brains that then, even when placed in difficult situations, it will only take a click (the stimulus in question) to bring back the memory of well-being and thus give them a redoubled energy to get out of embarrassment - for example to cross a pool. A kind of positive Pavlovian conditioning that can increase our resilience... This is reminiscent of the "anchor," that small, precise gesture (e.g. holding the left wrist with your right hand) that sophrologists teach, only to regain a feeling of well-being that has been experienced in the past.

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37455
The farmer who farmed his field on the banks of the Nile four thousand years ago was probably much more connected to life and its own nature than we are through our sophisticated technologies. We have created a civilization far removed from common sense. Cut off from nature, we delirious, in the etymological sense of the term that comes from the Latin verb delirare: we have "gone out of the furrow". We seek only to protect ourselves and conquer, we no longer know how to tame and dance with life. Our civilization is warlike and morbid. We want to tame and dominate everything even if we damage and kill, even to ourselves.

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37456
Homeostasis is the ability of a system to self-regulate, i.e. to remain within a certain "viable range of instability." When everything is stable, it is death.

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37457
Is consciousness produced by the brain, or does it exist in itself? Two famous experiments suggest conflicting answers. The first one has caused a lot of ink and passionate controversy, but it remains unresolved a quarter of a century later: it is that of neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet, of the University of San Francisco. Libet wanted to know if it was the decision of a gesture, such as bending a finger, that initiated this action. By measuring the action times of the various cortical areas concerned at a thousandth of a second, he discovered that the brain always sent its orders three to four tenths of a second before the subject consciously made his decision. All sorts of conclusions have been drawn. For example, consciousness is able to go back in time - to give orders retroactively! Or that consciousness is in an out-of-time dimension... But the most common conclusion of neurologists is that the brain makes its decisions "alone" and that our consciousness, produced or not by neurons, is not much: just a way to observe, after the fact, their action. The second experiment was conducted in 1998 by neurologist Matthew Botvinick of Princeton University. Imagine hiding your right arm under the tablecloth and placing a false right rubber hand on the table, someone is caressing, while under the table you also caress your hidden hand. After a while, you feel like the rubber hand is yours — to the point of feeling something when you only caress it. Better yet: On December 6, 2011, Australian Lorimer Moseley of the University of Adelaide revealed that this illusory feeling caused the immunity of the hidden arm to drop, in other words that it was no longer considered by the brain as a part of the body! Our ability to differentiate the self from the non-me, the basis of our consciousness, can therefore be influenced by a trompe l'oeil. But, if pure subjectivity can deceive the brain, isn't consciousness independent of it?

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37458
Thich Nhat Hanh and especially Matthieu Ricard - as passionate about neurology as his friend the Dalai Lama. For them, consciousness is the ultimate nature of reality and the brain can momentarily channel it into a temporary self...

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


#37459
However, access to consciousness does not guarantee its maintenance in adults. Philippe Presles draws up a list of obstacles to our lucidity. Some seem obvious: become insensitive and rationalizing, prejudge the thinking of others, be trapped by excitement or personal success, or compare themselves to others. But other pitfalls can surprise, especially the most common: neglecting one's health. Philippe Presles: "Everything happens as if we forget that our consciousness is our brain, and that our brain is our body." This opens us up to an approach we are not used to in the West: our consciousness is first and foremost physical.

Patrice Van Eersel
(Your brain has not finished surprising you)


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It was then 18:42:40 (Paris time, France, planet Earth - Known Universe).
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