The whole nervous system is segmented. The spinal chord is a series of discs that enable limb movement. Each disc is actually a brain with a regular fixed structure. Each disc contains the input and output connections and an interconnection. This interconnection is actually complex. The data goes through a series of registers each of which has a special function. There is one that serves as a long term store, there is a comparator, there is a generalizer, and a logical differencer. In each disc a reference signal is received from higher up and the disc sends out a signal to move the limb so its position matches the reference, this movement is computed from the stored data of previous movements and the result and the present position of the limb and the reference signal and it may be a sequence of output signals. There is also an analogue system of positive and negative feedback to make a "dead beat" feedback control system.
In the brain itself this segmentation continues and the segment that has eyes, ears, smell and the motor system is the main arc with all the other bits. It must be remembered that all the disks once had primitive eyes, ears and smell, so these are vestigial structures in the spinal chord.
There are however extra segments known as the frontal lobe which has a very sophisticated function. These are also reflex arcs with all the components mentioned including vestigial eyes and ears and smell.
When a mammal makes a plan it puts the output of the main arc into the first extra segment of the brain and this predicts the outcome of the intended action, the next extra segment calculates what to do about that, then the following extra segment computes the outcome of that, then the next what to do about that...
These feedback reflex arcs act as simulators for the environment and have the property of driving vision, sound, touch and smell as well as the kinaesthetic sense so that the previous segment gets these as if coming from a real world. The data for this simulation comes from the main memory elsewhere and is loaded as required.
A man has 5 segments, an ape 3 and mice probably 1. It is possible that there are 7 segment men to. The mouse does not understand an ape, an ape does not understand a man and a 5 segment man does not understand a seven segment man, 9 segment man was not successful and these died out but 15 segment man was quite successful but is slow to respond and sometimes quick and silly wins the fight but for complex environments 15 segment man easily wins. Each "segment" is a cascade of a repeated sequence of disks that are copies of the spinal chord so that the planning process can mimic all the muscles of the body.
When a plan or philosophy is reasoned out each step requires a segment so an animal with more segments outwits another animal with less segments. In a predator-prey relationship the hunter plans his attack and the prey plans his escape, so the hunter starts his plan and the next segment acts as the prey then the next segment is the hunter and the following segment is the prey. Now in a game of chess, it is experimentally found that most people can do this three moves a head. This takes 7 segments but chess masters can plan for more moves ahead. The additional segments that store the registers of the main set allow recursion and so plans of much greater length. My guess is that the Hapsburgs like the British Royal family have 15 segmented brain. My mother (a Goddard) probably had 17 segments so was able to survive better.
There is another extra repetition "pre-frontal" that mimics the rest of the frontal lobe which controls it and allows plans of unlimited length and is important in speech and understanding. It acts as a register store for interrupt processing.
There are input registers that store information for comparison and logical processing especially related to language and damage to the brain can cause serious problems of understanding bank statements because of total loss of retention for comparison with other items on the page. Such brain damaged people cannot look after themselves as, for example, the person cannot retain the contents of the viewing of a food cupboard so that a list of shopping may be constructed from the memory of the viewing (lost by damage) and the stored long term memory of previous experience the comparator cannot then send the difference to the output for the missing items to be listed.
Has it occurred to you that when a man makes a plan he is actually moving limbs in his head analogous to the two pairs of real limbs in his body and also the other muscles of his body. Look at a worm that we a related to.
Our heads contain extra segments, the frontal lobe, and these have limbs, embedded in our face and top of the head which move according to our mind developing a plan. So if I "think" "I need to move my right arm" a analogous movement occurs in the analogous vestigial limb buried in our face or head. As we act out through a "plan in our head" the extra pairs of vestigial limbs in our heads move as a sequence of movements before the real movements are executed by our real limbs.
Interesting, this shows that these extra segments are essential for normal living.
These extra segments allow planning, philosophy and all the intellectual properties that make us men. A sentient being is one that knows about his own inevitable death.
In around 1970 I did a dissection of the brain as a research student at St Thomas' hospital. I do not remember much but the idea at the time was to try to trace the axons in the cerebrum to get a rough idea of the wiring diagram of the brain. I think J Z Young was in charge.
The front part of the brain, largest in man, contains arching fibres that end in these modules called projection areas. I do not remember the details but the general principle is that each projection are receives a one or two or more bundles of axons from another area and within the projection area a logical process goes on to make a Boolean function such as "and" with the incoming fibres and then this function performed on the incoming Boolean arrays (of axons) is outputted on an output Boolean array (of axons). This is the work Maia was doing in theory in her "Thinking Machine". You can see why she was so much in fear of the destruction of this region of her brain! She understood it and knew how crippled she would be and in fact she is now, a terrible atrocity of the worst possible kind to a completely innocent person. Her machine was a digital computer simulation of this process and she was well on her way to make her general problem solver.
She is now a smiling happy looking person but is silent, looks at you when you speak but there is not any verbal response. Her expression changes agreeably. I do not believe she is a person.
These projection areas are arranged in series in each segment and form the components of a reflex arc. The use of thee regions may be calculated by timing the response and since each synapse takes 100ms then timing the response gives the number of processes passed through. Some outputs take years of internal churning before the output in printed. This is why psychiatry is bunk; the fast response is of little use in the complex world of abstract things like banks and insurance, investment and so forth.
It does appear that a specialist disc "parietal" stores data which is accessed during reasoning by the frontal lobe reflex arcs. This area stores input and output data.
The general conclusion is that removal of one projection area knocks out that segment and partial damage impairs the segment function in proportion to the fractional damage.
This is entirely in agreement with Laskey’s results of the effect of brain damage to a rat when you look in the appendices. I think there are further books he has written on the effects of segmental damage and its effect on the rat’s ability to solve problems which is agreement with the way the ascending segment model predicts.
There does seem to be an extra segment that performs the function of a stack to store the state of the system to service an interrupt. This is the pre-frontal region I would think. This extra storage allows the cycling of the planning process so that plans of more that the normal that I have indicated can be made and forking is also permitted by this additional area. I wonder how many segments are in this pre-fontal area.
This stuff is widely known to the aristocracy and this knowledge allows them total mind control.
That is the reason for this western hell.
Psychiatry is to disable these extra segments as a way of controlling dissidents and other misfits.
People who believe they are immortal are deluding themselves but it a common way of protecting ourselves from our knowledge of death. Religion is a mental illness.
Frontal lobe destruction is the most terrible atrocity that could ever be practiced by man on man. It is just plain murder.
I am in a constant fear of my imminent death and this is totally normal and healthy for any sentient being.
Having a religion enables us to live long and fruitful lives else the fear of our inevitable death cripples us and blights our lives.
Don't cut them off.... We need our extra segments.
My hated of psychiatry:
Come and be assessed! That's what psychiatrists say.
Seems harmless enough, then they cut out your brain and you cease to be.
Psychiatry is hell invented by the Church of Christ (the king).
Or the abuse you with brainwashing and pills (they try that first), just because you disagreed with some trivial teaching of the Church of Christ (the king).
Is there life on Mars?
Christians have manufactured hell on Earth. It need not be.
It’s the Christians! It’s the Christians! The Christians are coming! Too late they're here!
Knife through the brain - that's the Christians, that's Psychiatry, that's
hell on Earth, Knife through the brain, like Mum, Maia, Teresa, Carol, Richard
and Robin, Roy too and all those others who read up about Science and thought
for themselves, (Is there life on Mars?). No! But there's Jupiter, Europa,
Saturn, Epsilon Eridante, Zeta Reticuli, and many other yellow suns in the sky
with planets habitable to some alien skin. And yes and even Mars.
The doctors believe that frontal lobe activity is an illness. When the
neopallium is active (that is the other name they use) the muscles of the face
move. This is because these muscles are connected to that part of the brain. The
face and head once had limbs operated by the brain in the segments that make up
the head but the process of forming the head these limbs became the face. Now
this part of the brain is a series of copies of the spine and when we plan
movements we do them in these images first. The segments come in pairs (linked
with hunting behaviour) where one segment in "self" and the next segment is
"prey" and the action of one is tested on what the prey might do there are a
series of these pairs (probably 4 pairs) that enable the possessor to plan four
steps ahead (like chess) and represent muscle movement. The segment controlling
movement is anterior to this structure and when the plan is complete it is
passed sequentially to this region for action. There is an additional region
(pre-frontal) which is a copy of the anterior region that enables the possesor
to store the state of the "registers" of the anterior region enabling the
possessor to deal with interrupts and this additional storage also has a stack
that enables plans of unlimited length to be made by storing each sub plan four
steps each to form a master plan. During the planning of action the process
moves the muscles of the face and head and you may guess what "he" is thinking
by watching the muscles of the face.
(for example: The muscles just above and to the side of the eyebrow (they move
it) are an arm and hand and sudden movement here indicates that the person has
thought of hitting something, movement in the cheek is a leg movement and the
person has thought of running or walking or kicking). We hide our thoughts and
these movements are normally blocked by the pons. We learn this in childhood. If
the face is mobile it indicates that the person has not learned to control them.
In my opinion frontal lobe activity is normal, all people and mammals use this
region of the brain so an active face is not a sign of illness. The dead-pan
face is learned but partly inherited.
It applies to philosophy generation too.
Dr Chris