{"id":135421,"date":"2016-08-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretenergy.com\/?p=135421"},"modified":"2019-10-05T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T11:20:21","slug":"where-is-the-location-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secretenergy.com\/where-is-the-location-of-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Location of Consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-135421\" class=\"clearfix post-135421 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-fringe category-news tag-activity tag-brain tag-capacity tag-consciousness tag-neurons tag-potential\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">The human brain is a complex organ that remains a mystery unto itself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">While the common myth that we only use ten percent of our brain still prevails, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/innerversity.secretenergy.com\/\">valuable insight<\/a><\/strong> on the matter proclaims we actually use much more than that.\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u201cWe use virtually every part of the brain, and [most of] the brain is active almost all the time.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s put it this way: the brain represents three percent of the body\u2019s weight and uses twenty percent of the body\u2019s energy,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 explains neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">That fact makes the idea of someone living functionally with only ten percent of their brain intact truly mind-boggling.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">But a French man who lives a relatively normal, healthy life is doing just that.\u00a0 Despite missing 90 percent of his brain, the man isn\u2019t mentally disabled.\u00a0 The case has been puzzling scientists for nearly a decade.\u00a0 Though researchers found he had a low IQ of 75, he was working as a civil <\/span>servant<span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\"> and was also married with two children.\u00a0 The man is challenging the way we <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretenergy.com\/mindfulness-app\/\">understand consciousness<\/a><\/strong>, which begs the question:\u00a0\u00a0<em><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">How can someone without the majority of their neurons still be aware of themselves and their surroundings?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Being aware of one\u2019s existence remains a confusing subject, with research still fairly thin.\u00a0 Yet, since we do know awareness is somehow based in the brain, this man\u2019s abilities are truly confounding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">At 44 years old, the French man went to the doctor complaining of muscle weakness in his left leg.\u00a0 Brain scans showed his skull was mostly filled with fluid.\u00a0 There was a mere thin outer layer of actual brain tissue, while the internal part was almost completed eroded away.\u00a0 Doctors concluded that hydrocephalus \u2013 a condition he had been diagnosed with it as an infant \u2013 had slowly destroyed the brain over the course of 30 years.\u00a0 As a <\/span>child<span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">, it was treated with a stent.\u00a0 Because it was removed when he was 14 years old, fluid built up in the brain and resulted in the evident erosion.\u00a0\u00a0His apparent well-being led scientists to question what it actually takes to survive and be aware of the life you\u2019re living, as this man certainly demonstrated despite his condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secretenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fx1_lrg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135438 aligncenter\" style=\"width: 600px; display: block; margin: 0px auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/secretenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fx1_lrg.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secretenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fx1_lrg.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.secretenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fx1_lrg-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secretenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fx1_lrg-600x590.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.secretenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fx1_lrg-672x661.jpg 672w, https:\/\/secretenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fx1_lrg.jpg 894w\" alt=\"fx1_lrg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Researchers have linked consciousness to regions of the brain such as the claustrum (a thin sheet of neurons running between major brain regions) or the visual cortex.\u00a0 But these hypotheses don\u2019t correlate with the French man\u2019s awareness.\u00a0 <em>\u201cAny theory of consciousness has to be able to explain why a person like that, who are missing 90 percent of his neurons, still exhibits normal behavior,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>states Axel Cleeremans, a cognitive psychologist from the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Axel Cleeremans hypothesizes that consciousness is not something we are born with.\u00a0 Rather, it is learned and such a phenomenon can occur in different brain regions.\u00a0 Its location can be flexible.\u00a0 <em>\u201cConsciousness is the brain\u2019s non-conceptual theory about itself, gained through experience \u2013 that is learning, interacting with itself, the world, and with other people,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>he says.\u00a0 His hypothesis, called the <em>\u201cradical plasticity thesis,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>is connected with recent research that has found the adult brain is more adaptable than we originally thought \u2013 even capable of taking on new roles when <\/span>an injury<span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\"> occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">According to Cleeremans, even though the French man\u2019s remaining brain was so small, the leftover neurons were still capable of generating a theory about themselves.\u00a0 This explains how the man remained conscious of his actions.\u00a0 This situation is a reminder that our brains can learn more than we might think, even under grave circumstances.\u00a0 It also gives us hope that one day we may be able to reverse some of the illnesses caused by neurodegeneration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Consciousness can operate beyond the brain, body, and the present, as hundreds of experiments and millions of testimonials affirm. Consciousness cannot, therefore, be identical with the brain.\u00a0 In science, we have largely ignored <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretenergy.com\/blog\/balancing-your-left-and-right-brain-the-real-new-age-movement\/\">how consciousness manifests<\/a><\/strong> in our existence.\u00a0 We\u2019ve done this by assuming that the brain produces consciousness; although how it might do so has never been explained and can hardly be imagined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">My conclusion is that consciousness is not a thing or substance.\u00a0 It is a non-local phenomenon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Non-local is merely a fancy word for infinite.\u00a0 If something is non-local, it is not localized to specific points in space, such as brains or bodies, or to specific points in time, such as the present.\u00a0 When scientists muster the courage to face this evidence unflinchingly, the greatest superstition of our age \u2013 the notion that the brain generates consciousness or is identical with it \u2013 will topple.\u00a0 In its place will arise a non-local picture of the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain is a complex organ that remains a mystery unto itself.\u00a0\u00a0While the common myth that we only use ten percent of our brain still prevails, valuable insight on the matter proclaims we actually use much more than that.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe use virtually every part of the brain, and [most of] the brain is active almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secretenergy.com\/where-is-the-location-of-consciousness\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"","web1url":"","linkedin_url":"","fburl":"","twitterurl":"","instagram":"","youtubeurl":"","tags":[],"ratings_average":"","ratings_users":"","sc_name":"","sc_title":"","sc_description":"","sc_social_links_instagram":"","sc_social_links_secretenergy":"","sc_social_links_youtube":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[969],"tags":[1272,760,1273,1063,1274,1275],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where is the Location of Consciousness? 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