Hommie in Alchemy In alchemy, homunculi are sometime seen as Pain-catchers, entities created in moments of overwhelming or painful experiences in this or past lives, and deliberately created within the R-brain for the protection of the human being. These entities cultivate a crappy attitude and gutter language in order to protect themselves and their creator….
Hommie in Medicine? somato-sensory cortex The cortical homunculus is used to describe "the body within the brain", a distorted human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space certain body parts occupy on the somato-sensory cortex (sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (motor homunculus). The left hemisphere receives input from the body’s right side. The…
Homunculus ? A mini-man in the brain? Life Science Information coming through our eyes is sent to the visual cortex in the back of our head. There, the image is inverted. Then the data is sent to various areas in our brains, that filter it according to their functional programming. Then these areas create perceptions…
Any common senses ? Polarized light direction/detection This is used by bees to orient themselves, especially on cloudy days. Humans can learn to roughly detect large areas of polarization by an effect called Haidinger’s brush. Other internal senses An internal sense is "any sense that is stimulated from within the body". This involves numerous sensory…
Special senses ? Direction Magneto-ception or direction is the ability to detect the direction one is facing based on the Earth’s magnetic field. Directional awareness is most commonly observed in birds and bees, but also present in humans. Magneto-tactic bacteria build miniature magnets inside them, so as to orient themselves relative to the Earth’s magnetic…
Any other senses? Temperature Thermo-ception is the sense of heat and its absence (cold) by the skin and its internal passages. There are specialized receptors for declining temperature and heat. Heat receptors are sensitive to infrared radiation. The thermo-ceptors in the skin are quite different from the homeostatic thermo-ceptors in the hypothalamus which provide feedback…
More traditional senses? Smell Smell is the other "chemical" sense. Each olfactory receptor binds to a particular molecular feature. Odor molecules have a variety of features and thus excite specific receptors more or less strongly. Excitatory signals from different receptors makes up what we perceive as the odor molecule’s smell. Olfaction is processed by the…
Traditional Senses Sight Sight or vision is the ability of the brain and eye to detect electromagnetic waves within the visible range of light, and interpret the image as "sight." There are 2 receptors: One for the perception of color (frequency of photons of light) and the other for brightness (amplitude/number of photons of light)….
How many senses? Our senses are the physiological methods of perception. Similar to plants, each sense has its own dedicated sensory system within your nervous system. Definition Among scientists there are differing definitions of what constitutes a sense. The traditional five senses are sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. However, humans have more senses, some…
MULTI LEVELS OF ‘KNOWING’ click image The Star-Tetrahedron is the level of operation of the human mind, the external observer of the cube, the 3rd dimension. The expanded cube becomes a dodeca-hedron, the awakened mind. Their interdimensional angle is 32°. See image below: The 5 white nodes of each of the 12 pentagons were then…
A New Level of Knowing? In Aristotelian thinking, the western world way of thinking, a certain Thesis will attract its polar opposite, the Anti-Thesis. This way of thinking can be called bi-polar thinking. In geometry it is expressed in a pyramid and together with its mirror/polar image in the Octa-hedron: …
H2O Filtration Systems Water pollutants have huge impacts on the entire living systems including terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial flora and fauna. Newly emerging micro/nano-pollutants, increasing global warming, and consequent climate changes are posing major threats to the fresh water availability. They increase the salinity level of both land and sea water, and thus decrease the…