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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: smart on 28/05/2017 15:04:50
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Very often my mind is wandering into a cascade of spontaneous thoughts. Is it possible that antipsychotic medication alter the way my brain is creating spontaneous memories? I also experience non-psychotic episodes of lucidity while being conscious, a phenomenon I define as "hyperdreaming". Can antipsychotic medications promote mind-wandering/hyperdreaming?
What do you think?
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Is mind wandering a form of multitasking or a mecanism to increase creativity?
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Mind wandering is controversial and poorly understood. I believe the activation of neuroenergetic pathways related to dopamine neurotransmission may influence mind wandering. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3696720/
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Positive mind wandering is hyperdreaming in 4D logic. It is also known as "hyperlucidity".
Negative mind wandering is the absence of lucidity during conscious activity.
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The brain is designed differently from computers, in the sense the brain uses firmware instead of software, Firmware is like software that is chemically built into the hardware instead of being a separate thing.
When we store memory in the brain, chemical potentials can be created in the hardware because of firmware being composed of software merged with hardware. In contrast, because computer software is separate and uses a binary language based on semiconductors, where letters and numbers are assigned a binary representation, there is no significant chemical potential difference between extremes of meaning.
That being said, since the ego has willpower and choice, our personal and socially collective choices and the memories created, can create chemical potentials in the brain, that are different from natural and instinctive. Mind wandering or day dreaming, as it used to be called, is a way for the brain to lower potential. Since the chemical potential released is connected to chemical hardware, which is also connected to firmware, the energy lowering process can become conscious as memory sequences.
This allows the psychologist to reverse engineer the content of the mind wandering, to infer the sources and dams which cause the potential, for the specific action and reaction. As an analogy, if I see a creek overflowing, I can assume there is a damming somewhere. If I trace the place of release, where a second sub-creek appears, I can then work my way back toward the source of the dam. The brain makes that easier because of firmware. I do not need a probe in the hardware to find the source. Nature is very efficient that way
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The brain is designed differently from computers, in the sense the brain uses firmware instead of software, Firmware is like software that is chemically built into the hardware instead of being a separate thing.
When we store memory in the brain, chemical potentials can be created in the hardware because of firmware being composed of software merged with hardware. In contrast, because computer software is separate and uses a binary language based on semiconductors, where letters and numbers are assigned a binary representation, there is no significant chemical potential difference between extremes of meaning.
That being said, since the ego has willpower and choice, our personal and socially collective choices and the memories created, can create chemical potentials in the brain, that are different from natural and instinctive. Mind wandering or day dreaming, as it used to be called, is a way for the brain to lower potential. Since the chemical potential released is connected to chemical hardware, which is also connected to firmware, the energy lowering process can become conscious as memory sequences.
This allows the psychologist to reverse engineer the content of the mind wandering, to infer the sources and dams which cause the potential, for the specific action and reaction. As an analogy, if I see a creek overflowing, I can assume there is a damming somewhere. If I trace the place of release, where a second sub-creek appears, I can then work my way back toward the source of the dam. The brain makes that easier because of firmware. I do not need a probe in the hardware to find the source. Nature is very efficient that way
Is mind wandering a natural way for the brain to optimize its firmware?
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I really don't understand what the mania is about knowing what the "evolutionary explanation/advantage" of everything anyone can think of is.
If your mind wanders and subsequently you wander in front of a fast moving truck, that's not an advantage.
If your mind wanders and you make a mental connection that leads to discovering a cure for the flu, that could be an advantage for the whole species.