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The Brain as a Hologram

Kids, the brain is as complex and complicated as the universe. The brain has as many neurons as there are stars in the universe and just as many unanswered questions. Karl Pilbram came up with idea of the brain as a hologram when the optical laser came on the scene in the 60s and optical holograms became possible. He figured that the hologram might be a way to explain the brain’s magnificant ability to process 400 billion bits of information when in the waking state … simultaneously.

The hologram brain theory maintains that the brain is continuosly engaged in coorelation processes. The hologram provides  an obvious computational advantage for the brain storing sensory information in the spectral domain. Pribram used the action of the inverse Fourier transform as a way to re-experience to some degree a previous perception. This is what constitute memory.

Bear with me kids, I’m trying to learn about this, and at the same time, trying to interest you in this quest to uncover mother nature’s secrets about the brain. Some of grandpa’s  information has the potential of being erroneous. This is very complicated stuff. Hopefully you older children who will be entering college and will take calculus and help grandpa out.

Holography makes an interference pattern from an image … and the whole image is in every pixel in the interference pattern. You can see how Pribram jumped on the concept that “the whole  is in every part” as a way for the brain to be able to access what is in memory so quickly, while  monitoring and controlling all the bodies function continuously and simultaneously. You can see how this concept of the whole in every part could place the scientific “provable”, right at the interface where the “unprovable” begins.

The brain, the subconscious & conscious mind are in the world of the small and quantum mechanics. I suspect that some of the brain’s activity are beyond our ability to measure. I’ve always wondered if the synapse “firing” was generating light. Light that forms an interference pattern that someone like Daniel Tammet can see … and covert into a number in order  to do his amazing calculations in his head. Recent experiments demonstrate that blue light can activate neuron cells. This might be additional evidence that the concept of the brain functioning as a hologram has merit.