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Lets Really OPEN the Window!<\/strong><\/p>\n \n The\u00c2\u00a0 WindowView metaphor is among other things a place holder for seeing unique thoughts and ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not mere whimsical thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 Consider this: No one yet knows where the mind is or memory is stored.\u00c2\u00a0 And, no one yet knows where the blueprints are that direct the assembly of all those proteins and lipids and other molecules that make up your body.\u00c2\u00a0 No one yet knows where the body plan is stored.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about it!<\/p>\n \n An Interesting Thought on Memory:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n The more we see of modern research on the brain the more we encounter\u00c2\u00a0 the presumption that the mind is wholly located within the brain.\u00c2\u00a0 We see an organ that interacts with thoughts, but with little to no real evidence that the brain does nothing more than serve as a processor.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a twist.\u00c2\u00a0 A two-way radio receives and sends signals.\u00c2\u00a0 When researchers use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to explore the brain, they see areas ‘light up’ with brain activity.\u00c2\u00a0 During an operation the surgeon can place a probe on or in the brain and stimulate activity.\u00c2\u00a0 Might the brain be like the radio ‘transceiver.’\u00c2\u00a0 With no real tangible evidence that the mind and memories\u00c2\u00a0 are actually stored in the brain as a whole, we are then faced with the radio analogy pointing to mind beyond the physical location of the brain.<\/p>\n \n We’d like to see comments regarding the material brain and the more non-material aspects of mind.\u00c2\u00a0 Current research may be pointing to a mind and memory that is being tapped by the two-way radio-like function of a brain.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s possible.\u00c2\u00a0 And if so, the brain and mind become more a marvel than ever.\u00c2\u00a0 If the mind is outside, then where is that!<\/p>\n \n Inheritance Beyond DNA:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Equally interesting is the notion that DNA is not the sole source of inherited biological information.\u00c2\u00a0 In recent time science has discovered that the DNA does account for genes that direct protein production.\u00c2\u00a0 Some stretches of DNA with no known function were originally called junk DNA.\u00c2\u00a0 This is often referred to as leftovers from prior steps in evolution.\u00c2\u00a0 But the marvel here is that more and more of the junk is being ascribed to information processing tasks.\u00c2\u00a0 This is more like instruction code in a computer program.<\/p>\n \n The real challenge is the finding the location of the instructions, the blueprints, that put all the proteins and other biological molecules into their proper place in three dimensions.\u00c2\u00a0 And it turns out that certain physical locations in the egg cell and in membranes may be part of the blueprint.<\/p>\n \n What comes to mind is the criticism that apes and humans had to have evolved from one another because the DNA and genes are so similar.\u00c2\u00a0 But the sum total of biological information is just not the genes that make proteins!\u00c2\u00a0 The blueprints, where ever they end up being located, may prove to truly distinguish man from ape … and distinguish in a way that is orders of magnitude more complex than the apparent similarity in genes.<\/p>\n \n The Marvel of it ALL<\/strong><\/p>\n \n We assume things way too often without knowing the real story.\u00c2\u00a0 Might the mind reside in extra-cranial space?\u00c2\u00a0 Might the instructions that direct the construction of an ape body be in fact dwarfed by the complexity of the blueprints for a human.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, at the very least, let us add the differences in blue print complexity to the known differences in the DNA of ape and human.\u00c2\u00a0 The sum of these differences is far greater than just in the genes in DNA alone.<\/p>\n \n In amidst all the talk of origins we forget the brain is a marvel of complexity that really defies an evolutionary explanation. Something happens in an organ beyond its physical structure that requires as much exploration and explanation than cell or tissue structure alone.\u00c2\u00a0 Inherited information that makes the brain (that supports the mind) is also a marvel and we have yet to learn more about this aspect of the complexity of our being.<\/p>\n \n Time at this window reminds us to consider our being here as the potential product of an act of intelligence.\u00c2\u00a0 This comes with some interesting prospects.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of which science cannot yet explain–if ever!\u00c2\u00a0 We think being here, living today, is a marvel and an opportunity to think of what purpose life offers.\u00c2\u00a0 And if we are purposed into being, then the location of the mind and blueprints of our body plan may be a wondrous bit of evidence in support of our being here by design.<\/p>\n \n Director,\u00c2\u00a0 WindowView<\/a><\/p>\n Lets Really OPEN the Window! The\u00c2\u00a0 WindowView metaphor is among other things a place holder for seeing unique thoughts and ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not mere whimsical thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 Consider this: No one yet knows where the mind is or memory is … Continue reading
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