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“Biologists Discover Tiny Neural Computers in the Brain”
“Neuroscientists have learned that dendrites do more than just provide passive wiring in the brain. These nerve cell connectors also process information, essentially functioning as tiny computers. Our brains, it would appear, pack more computing power than we assumed.”

“In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrated that dendrites do more than transfer information — they also actively process information, effectively multiplying the brain’s computing power.

“‘Suddenly, it’s as if the processing power of the brain is much greater than we had originally thought,’ noted study co-author Spencer Smith through a press release. ‘Imagine you’re reverse engineering a piece of alien technology, and what you thought was simple wiring turns out to be transistors that compute information.’

Previous research showed that dendrites use certain molecules to autonomously generate electrical spikes. But scientists weren’t sure if these spikes were simply the result of normal brain activity.”

“The researchers realized that the dendritic spikes were happening selectively — and they depending on the visual stimulus — an indication that the dendrites were processing information about what the mice were seeing. And after developing a visualization technique, the researchers showed that dendrites fired spikes while other parts of the neurons did not. This meant that the spikes were the result of local processing within the dendrites. Subsequent mathematical models validated this interpretation.

‘All the data pointed to the same conclusion,’ Smith said. ‘The dendrites are not passive integrators of sensory-driven input; they seem to be a computational unit as well,'” quoting io9.
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UPDATE: January 15, 2014
“Discovery of Quantum Vibrations in ‘Microtubules’ Inside Brain Neurons Supports Controversial Theory of Consciousness”
In ScienceDaily.
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– UPDATE: February 3, 2014
“Capturing ultrasharp images of multiple cell components at once”
From Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
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– UPDATE: February 7, 2014
“Why Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is A State Of Matter, Like a Solid, A Liquid Or A Gas”
“A new way of thinking about consciousness is sweeping through science like wildfire. Now physicists are using it to formulate the problem of consciousness in concrete mathematical terms for the first time
From The Physics arXiv Blog
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– UPDATE: January 16, 2015
“Discovery of quantum vibrations in ‘microtubules’ inside brain neurons supports controversial theory of consciousness”
Source: Elsevier
Summary:
A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside brain neurons. The recent discovery of quantum vibrations in “microtubules” inside brain neurons corroborates this theory, according to review authors. They suggest that EEG rhythms (brain waves) also derive from deeper level microtubule vibrations, and that from a practical standpoint, treating brain microtubule vibrations could benefit a host of mental, neurological, and cognitive conditions.
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– Ramtha has taught extensively on the brain since March 1993.
This audio recording from 1994 is an excellent resource.

Click here for Diagrams: Nerve Fiber, Carbules, Synaptic Cleft, Dendrite Spines with named parts.
Track Sequences
Disc 1
01. Associative Memory and the Personality Self
02. Anatomy of a Nerve Fiber
03. Neuron Wiring in the Brain and Associative Hookup
04. Visual Thought in the Frontal Lobe from Associative Memory
05. How Electrical Energy Occurs Inside the Nerve Fiber: Reverse-Firing
06. Muscular Movement from Signal Firing and Practiced Concentration
07. Associative Conditioned Response and Predictability
08. Synaptic Firing in the Brain: Mind in the Cleft
09. Neurons Firing on the Head of the Soma and Getting Out of Dante?s Inferno
10. Learning and Memory with and without Association
11. Real Genius and Mastering Attention

Disc 2 01. Changing Self by Changing Neuropatterns
02. Rewiring the Brain through Repetition
03. Attitudes and the Release of Enzymes Causing Illness and Disease
04. The Fundamentals of the Teachings
05. Emotional Effects on the Body and the Acquisition of Knowledge to Cause a Reversal in the Brain

– Ramtha
July 2, 1994
Yelm, WA.
Assay 6
“Cell Biology, Associative Memory”
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– Another CD of note is “The mechanics of creating”
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– Ramtha’s definition of his word: Carbule:
The carbon tubules, the microtubles, or skeleton of the cell.
Click here for Ramtha’s Glossary of Terms in “A Master’s Reflection on the History of Humanity, Rediscovering the Pearl of Ancient Wisdom.”