What The Bleep Do We Know Page #6

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veins of electric light...

and then you see it

hit the ground.

- The brain looks like a thunderstorm--

- [ Electricity Crackling ]

when it is presenting

a coherent thought.

- So no one is ever seeing the thought.

- [ Thunderclap ]

What they do see

in neurophysics...

is that they see

a storm raging...

around different quadrants

of the brain.

- [ Thunder Rumbling ]

- Those are areas that are mapped in the body...

and what a person

must be responding to--

a holographic image--

rage, murder, hate...

compassion, love.

[ Man ] The brain does not know

the difference between...

what it sees in its environment

and what it remembers...

because the same specific

neural nets are then firing.

The brain is made up of tiny

nerve cells called ''neurons. ''

These neurons have tiny

branches that reach out...

and connect to other neurons

to form a neural net.

Each place where they connect

is incubated into a thought or a memory.

Now, the brain builds up all its concepts

by the law of associative memory.

For example, ideas,

thoughts and feelings...

are all constructed and interconnected

in this neural net...

- and all have a possible relationship

with one another.

- [ Electricity Crackling ]

The concept and the feeling

of love, for instance...

is stored in this

vast neural net.

But we build the concept of love

from many other different ideas.

- Some people have love

connected to disappointment.

- [ Moaning ]

When they think about love,

they experience the memory of pain...

sorrow, anger

and even rage.

Rage may be linked to hurt,

which may be linked to a person...

which then is

connected back to love.

We build up models of how

we see the world outside of us.

And the more information that we have, the

more we refine our model one way or another.

And what we ultimately do

is tell ourselves a story...

about what the outside world is.

Any information that we process, any information

that we take in from the environment...

is always colored by the experiences

that we've had...

and an emotional response that we're having

to what we're bringing in.

Who is in the driver's seat when we control

our emotions or we respond to our emotions?

We know physiologically that nerve cells

that fire together wire together.

If you practice something over and over,

those nerve cells have a long-term relationship.

If you get angry on a daily basis,

if you get frustrated on a daily basis...

if you suffer

on a daily basis...

if you give reason for

the victimization in your life...

you're rewiring and reintegrating

that neural net on a daily basis...

and that neural net now has

a long-term relationship...

with all those other nerve cells

called an ''identity.''

We also know that nerve cells that don't

fire together no longer wire together.

They lose their

long-term relationship...

because every time

we interrupt...

the thought process that produces

a chemical response in the body--

every time we interrupt it, those nerve

cells that are connected to each other...

start breaking

the long-term relationship.

When we start interrupting

and observing...

not by stimulus and response

and that automatic reaction...

but by observing

the effects it takes...

then we are no longer

the body-mind conscious emotional person...

that's responding to its environment

as if it is automatic.

- ^^^^[ Rock ]

- [ Cheering, Applauding ]

^^^^[ Continues, Indistinct ]

[ Man ] Does that mean

emotions are good or emotions are bad?

No, emotions are designed

so that it reinforces chemically...

something into

long-term memory.

That's why we have them.

All emotion is

is holographically imprinted chemicals.

The most sophisticated pharmacy

in the universe is in here.

[ Man ] There's a part of the brain

called the hypothalamus...

and the hypothalamus

is like a little mini factory...

and it is a place that

assembles certain chemicals...

that matches certain emotions

that we experience.

And those particular chemicals

are called 'peptides. ''

They're small-chain

amino acid sequences.

The body's basically

a carbon unit...

that makes about 20 different

amino acids altogether...

to formulate its

physical structure.

The body is

a protein-producing machine.

In the hypothalamus, we take

small-chain proteins called peptides...

and we assemble them into certain

neuropeptides or neurohormones...

that match the emotional states

that we experience on a daily basis.

So there's chemicals for anger,

and there's chemicals for sadness...

and there's chemicals

for victimization.

There's chemicals for lust.

There's a chemical that matches...

every emotional state

that we experience.

And the moment that we experience that

emotional state in our body or in our brain...

that hypothalamus will immediately

assemble the peptide...

and then releases it through the pituitary

into the bloodstream.

The moment it makes it

into the bloodstream...

it finds its way to different centers

or different parts of the body.

Now, every single cell

in the body...

- has these receptors on the outside.

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[ Woman ] Now one cell can have

thousands of receptors...

studding its surface,

kind of opening up to the outside world.

And when a peptide

docks on a cell...

it literally, uh,

like a key going into a lock...

sits on the receptor surface

and attaches to it...

and kind of moves

the receptor...

and kind of like a doorbell buzzing,

sends a signal into the cell.

- [ Buzzing ]

- It's party time!

^^^^[ Rock ]

[ Shutter Clicking ]

- [ Chattering ]

- [ Shutter Clicks ]

^^^^[ Piano ]

[ Man ]

What happens in adulthood...

is that most of us who've had

our glitches along the way...

are operating in

an emotionally detached place...

or we're operating

as if today were yesterday.

- What is it?

- Mixed.

[ Man ]

In either the disconnected place...

or the overly emotional

reactive place...

because they've gone

to an earlier time in reality...

the person is not operating

as an integrated whole.

^^^^[ Rock ]

[ Shutter Clicks ]

[ Shutter Clicks ]

- ^^^^[ Continues ]

- [ Shutter Clicking ]

Along the outside

of the cell...

are these billions

of receptor sites...

that are really just receivers

of incoming information.

A receptor that has a peptide

sitting in it, um...

changes the cell in many ways.

It sets off a whole cascade

of biochemical events...

some of which wind up with changes

in the actual nucleus of the cell.

- [ Shutter Clicks ]

- Hi.

When I grow up, I want to become

a photographer just like you.

- Oh?

- Got any tips?

- Take lots of pictures.

- Thanks!

Each cell is

definitely alive...

and, uh, each cell

has a consciousness...

particularly if we define

consciousness...

as the point of view

of an observer.

There is always

the perspective of the cell.

[ Male Cell Grumbles ]

[ Female Cell Murmurs ]

[ Male Cell #2, Indistinct ]

[ Woman ]

In fact, the cell is...

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