Cotard's Syndrome: The Walking Dead

So I am dead, see. Don't ask me how I can be writing this. You just have to understand that I am dead. The doctor says I suffer from Cotard's Delusion, but I know better. He's wrong. I'm dead. It is so clear to me, if not to him. This is real. He is deluded.

Such might be the response of a patient with Cotard's Syndrome, or Cotard's Delusion.

Neuroplasticity?:Tibetan Monk Meditated & Cured Gangrened Leg

Because by itself your mind cannot make a table move, the notion of mind over matter is regarded as a fiction. Of course, that has given rise to the quip, "I believe in mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

Paul Bach-y-Rita:Your Brain Can See With Your Back. So Just What Is Vision?

In the 1960s the neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita at the University of Wisconsin began chewing on the problem of how to give vision to the blind. His father had recently had a miraculous recovery from a stroke, and Paul found himself enchanted by the potential for dynamically reconfiguring the brain.

A question grew in his mind: could the brain substitute one sense for another? Bach-y-Rita decided to try presenting a tactile "display" to blind people. Here's the idea: attach a video camera to someone's forehead and convert the incoming video information into an array of tiny vibrators attached to their back. Imagine putting this device on and walking around a room blindfolded.

Ramesh Balsekar's Snake Oil; Jean Klein's Antidote

Two pieces, one on brain science, the other on Neo-Adviata, are included together here as they are both topically related to the question of self.

What Will You Be Thinking 30 Seconds From Now

Cogito, ergo sum, said Descartes. I think, therefore I am. I=ego. If you do the thinking, why don't you know what you will think 30 seconds from now? If "I" think, why do "I" try to control "my" thoughts?

Descartes had it backward. I am, therefore I think. Over centuries, this has proved hard for people to "get" but once "gotten" it becomes rather like riding a bicycle. A natural place of rest, a balance, is discovered.

Am-ness is the source of your being. Pure subject; no objects.

Nothing objective for science to find. Because consciousness proves eternally elusive as an object, some insist that the scientific paradigm is not flawed. It's just that consciousness does not exist.

Rather than focus on what objective neuroscience study can reveal, they insist that only by the non-existence of consciousness can the paradigm be saved for the study of mind/brain. Go figure.