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Hello.
Over the last week I was reading and watching videos about and by Russian professor of neuro-biology
Sergei Saveliev. I have never heard about him before and was advised to pay close attention by a
friend of mine. What I found about from the professor is mind-boggling... in its simplicity.
Unfortunately, although he published over 15 books and there is a hundred of youTube videos, I am not
able to find any materials in English language (except his biography
Sergey Vyacheslavovich Savelyev - Wikipedia ), so I will have to give you at least a
shallow overview of his theory. Based on his theory, I will comment Caitlin's article.
Here are a few links:
49 videos from a weekly radio show recorded from a Moscow studio from July 2017 until recently:
Программа "Вынос мозга" - YouTube
This is a short flick from his own youTube channel:
He did not invent the theory of the brain morphology, just developed it further with his ideas. It was
proved that evolution developed the human brain the way we inherited it. Its primary purpose was and
still is to carry out 3 BIOLOGICAL functions: find food, procreation and domination. The critical
difference between animals (even primates) and humans is the developing of
frontal lobes that are responsible for the "social" behavior. Such behavior as sharing of food with
non-relatives was necessary to create and live in societies.
Another part of brain morphology is about the structures in the cortex (neo-cortex). The neo-cortex is
the area where the neurons are residing. There are structures responsible for vision, hearing, speech,
finer motor reflexes, etc. There are about 40+ structures of varying size (on the cortex surface) and
depth. That variability is onthe scale up to 40x. meaning that one person could have a structure that
has 40X more neurons then another person. That variability is individual and determines the
capabilities of that person. It is not inherited via genes and created morphologically. It defines a
person more than a race or a gender. In order to become a genius musician, for example, a person
should have several structures of enlarged size (comparing to a ordinary person) that are responsible
for hearing, motor skills, etc. The front lobes contain the structures that are responsible for
"associative" behavior. They are the ones which structures block "animal" behavior.
I learnt that there are about 150 Billions of neurons in an ordinary brain and every neuron can grow
up to 1,000 synapses. All neurons are created before birth and no new neurons appears during a human's
lifetime. I learnt that the left and right brain hemispheres share the same functions. People, whose
right or left hemisphere is absent may never know about it.
I learnt that "stem cells" therapy is a fake - just a money making procedure. And that functional
tomography - the current method of studying live brains - it measures a blood flow to the active
areas/structures of the brain by observing the blood (that carries radioactive particles) - that flow
becomes visible in a tomograph. Although, the resolution of this method leaves to be desired - around
30 microns and is not sufficient to study the brain structures at the necessary detailed level.
Optical microscopy resolution is less then 5 microns, but it could only be used to study dead tissues.
And this is what has been done in 1930s, when "Institute of Brain" has been created in the Soviet
Union to study the brain of Vladimir Uljanov/Lenin and other "geniuses"... They sliced brains into
6000+ slices, colored each slice (it took 3 years to prepare each brain) and then found and cataloged
the structures that they discovered...
I learnt that when the brain is passive it uses 9-10% of the energy that body gets. When you think
about something, the brain can consume up to 25% of the energy. So, the primary directive of every
brain is to think less and conserve the energy!
There are a lot of facts and interesting stories about that science and the professor. Hopefully, I
did not mis-represent a few facts that I mentioned.
Every society only masks with its laws the primacy of biological functions: to get food, procreate and
dominate. The modern institutions are not different from any ancient one. One person can domineer by
sex with a harem of 500 women, another by being a politician or a general or a Secretary of the
Communist Party, another by writing books. This is the reality that we can't change.
AI is another "nothing burger". There are no computers that could have 150,000,000,000 CPUs to match an ordinary human's brain.
The only aspect where the computers have superiority over brains is calculations because of their CPU clockspeed.
It is 100% useless to pose a question to ourselves as "species". The evolution already reduced our
brain mass by 300 grams over the last 5,000 years. We, "as species" are not evolving, but devolving.
Because, it is easier to live in a society, the brains shed these neurons as no longer needed for
survival. This trend can only be reversed if humans "as species" would suddenly face the nature wrath
and had to survive despite new hardships.
And when catastrophes do happen, it will be like an evolutionary sieve that allows some (more adapted)
individuals to pass their genes forward and thus start a new spiral of humans' evolution.
Apparently, she meant that these were exceptional individuals (with exceptional brain structures) that
gave them this quality. What kind of "transformation" did Caitlin meant that these individuals were
capable of? An example would be great?
How is that jump happens from such rare individual to the collective level? Using weapons of mass
destruction?
I am afraid it is some wishful thinking. We can't awaken from anything since our own brains are still in control. They want food, sex and domination in any form. Maybe someone finds a stash of Neo's blue pills and...
The difference between societal elites is that they have more food, more sex and dominate everyone. The only option available is to get rid of the old elite and become the new elite.
Who else besides Buddha, hippies and Caitlin see how it is possible? Please, explain it to me in details.
I want to stress "if everyone who is capable". That capability (to go against biological) is determined by the associative structure of the front lobes. How would I know if I am capable of doing it? Should I fake it till I make it? Currently it is impossible to measure their size/capacity of the live person. Professor Savieliev calls that measurement the "cerebral sorting". To make it possible, a high-resolution tomographs should be developed, that would give 2-5 micron resolution. With such equipment, it would be possible to map everyone's brain at the young age and discover the potential of every individual - one could be a born mathematician, another - a musician-virtuoso.
The problem is that no one wants to finance that expensive undertaking :( Not in Russia, not in the West.
Every person would be able to develop the inborn talents to their fullest. And the people with super-developed front lobes could organize together and lead the masses of modern monkeys to the bright future of...
and
Over the last week I was reading and watching videos about and by Russian professor of neuro-biology
Sergei Saveliev. I have never heard about him before and was advised to pay close attention by a
friend of mine. What I found about from the professor is mind-boggling... in its simplicity.
Unfortunately, although he published over 15 books and there is a hundred of youTube videos, I am not
able to find any materials in English language (except his biography
Sergey Vyacheslavovich Savelyev - Wikipedia ), so I will have to give you at least a
shallow overview of his theory. Based on his theory, I will comment Caitlin's article.
Here are a few links:
49 videos from a weekly radio show recorded from a Moscow studio from July 2017 until recently:
Программа "Вынос мозга" - YouTube
This is a short flick from his own youTube channel:
He did not invent the theory of the brain morphology, just developed it further with his ideas. It was
proved that evolution developed the human brain the way we inherited it. Its primary purpose was and
still is to carry out 3 BIOLOGICAL functions: find food, procreation and domination. The critical
difference between animals (even primates) and humans is the developing of
frontal lobes that are responsible for the "social" behavior. Such behavior as sharing of food with
non-relatives was necessary to create and live in societies.
Another part of brain morphology is about the structures in the cortex (neo-cortex). The neo-cortex is
the area where the neurons are residing. There are structures responsible for vision, hearing, speech,
finer motor reflexes, etc. There are about 40+ structures of varying size (on the cortex surface) and
depth. That variability is onthe scale up to 40x. meaning that one person could have a structure that
has 40X more neurons then another person. That variability is individual and determines the
capabilities of that person. It is not inherited via genes and created morphologically. It defines a
person more than a race or a gender. In order to become a genius musician, for example, a person
should have several structures of enlarged size (comparing to a ordinary person) that are responsible
for hearing, motor skills, etc. The front lobes contain the structures that are responsible for
"associative" behavior. They are the ones which structures block "animal" behavior.
I learnt that there are about 150 Billions of neurons in an ordinary brain and every neuron can grow
up to 1,000 synapses. All neurons are created before birth and no new neurons appears during a human's
lifetime. I learnt that the left and right brain hemispheres share the same functions. People, whose
right or left hemisphere is absent may never know about it.
I learnt that "stem cells" therapy is a fake - just a money making procedure. And that functional
tomography - the current method of studying live brains - it measures a blood flow to the active
areas/structures of the brain by observing the blood (that carries radioactive particles) - that flow
becomes visible in a tomograph. Although, the resolution of this method leaves to be desired - around
30 microns and is not sufficient to study the brain structures at the necessary detailed level.
Optical microscopy resolution is less then 5 microns, but it could only be used to study dead tissues.
And this is what has been done in 1930s, when "Institute of Brain" has been created in the Soviet
Union to study the brain of Vladimir Uljanov/Lenin and other "geniuses"... They sliced brains into
6000+ slices, colored each slice (it took 3 years to prepare each brain) and then found and cataloged
the structures that they discovered...
I learnt that when the brain is passive it uses 9-10% of the energy that body gets. When you think
about something, the brain can consume up to 25% of the energy. So, the primary directive of every
brain is to think less and conserve the energy!
There are a lot of facts and interesting stories about that science and the professor. Hopefully, I
did not mis-represent a few facts that I mentioned.
...we’re realizing on mass scale that all the rules of society were invented by dead people long
before any of us got here, and we’re seeing that we are free to re-write those rules in a way that
benefits us. From popular grassroots examinations of socialist ideas, to cryptocurrencies and an
evolving understanding of what money is, to redefining social institutions as ancient and ingrained as
marriage and gender identity, more and more people are saying in effect, “Hmm, it looks like all those
old thoughts we’ve been using to describe our reality are causing some problems. Let’s find new ones.”
It could be described as a collective awakening to the fact that reality and our conceptual model for
it are two very different things, and the model is as flexible as your ability to change your mind...
Every society only masks with its laws the primacy of biological functions: to get food, procreate and
dominate. The modern institutions are not different from any ancient one. One person can domineer by
sex with a harem of 500 women, another by being a politician or a general or a Secretary of the
Communist Party, another by writing books. This is the reality that we can't change.
...Our planet is currently in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. If we dodge that bullet, we’ve got
steadily mounting new cold war escalations between the world’s two nuclear superpowers imperiling us
more and more with every moronic increase in nuclear tensions. There’s also the looming and seemingly
inevitable invention of artificial superintelligence, which could end us in any number of completely unpredictable ways.
If we manage to dodge all of those bullets in the next few decades, we’re still headed straight toward
an Orwellian global empire which controls all access to information and ideas using AI-controlled
censorship and propaganda. Serving out the remainder of our existence as a sanitized, homogenized and
propagandized servile class for sociopathic elites would be a kind of extinction in itself, and arguably a worse fate.
AI is another "nothing burger". There are no computers that could have 150,000,000,000 CPUs to match an ordinary human's brain.
The only aspect where the computers have superiority over brains is calculations because of their CPU clockspeed.
So we’re at a pretty significant juncture here. Our present situation could accurately be described as
a question that we are collectively being asked as a species: do we want to (A) live on and find out
what the future holds for us, or do we want to (B) go the way of the dinosaur?
...the people who show up in my social media notifications proclaiming that it is naive to think
humans will ever cease their destructive patterns...They are choosing (B), extinction, and their prize
is that they get to be right and feel good about that if it happens.
Answer A is less sexy. Less egoically satisfying. You don’t get to feel smug and superior with Answer
A, because Answer A involves changing. It involves waking up from that same ego structure which gets
so much pleasure out of being right and knowing better.who wants to change.png
If we’re going to pull away from catastrophe or dystopia and survive, we’re going to have to take full
advantage of the unprecedented situation in which we now find ourselves. We’re going to have to make a
miracle happen. We’re going to have to evolve beyond our current relationship with thought. We’re
going to have to wake up.
It is 100% useless to pose a question to ourselves as "species". The evolution already reduced our
brain mass by 300 grams over the last 5,000 years. We, "as species" are not evolving, but devolving.
Because, it is easier to live in a society, the brains shed these neurons as no longer needed for
survival. This trend can only be reversed if humans "as species" would suddenly face the nature wrath
and had to survive despite new hardships.
And when catastrophes do happen, it will be like an evolutionary sieve that allows some (more adapted)
individuals to pass their genes forward and thus start a new spiral of humans' evolution.
Throughout recorded history and across all cultures around the world, there have been individuals
testifying that it is possible to undergo a transformation in the way one relates to the world,
experiencing life as it actually is instead of filtered through unconscious conditioned thought
patterns. After such a transformation, thought becomes the useful tool it’s supposed to be instead of
the writer, director and star of the whole show.
If such a transformation is possible on an individual level, it is possible on a collective level as
well.
Apparently, she meant that these were exceptional individuals (with exceptional brain structures) that
gave them this quality. What kind of "transformation" did Caitlin meant that these individuals were
capable of? An example would be great?
How is that jump happens from such rare individual to the collective level? Using weapons of mass
destruction?
With a shift in our relationship with thought and ego, we would become impossible to propagandize, and
therefore able to determine a course of action that isn’t selected for us by plutocratic manipulators.
We can awaken from the old patterns of fear and greed and need to control which are constantly used to
manipulate us, and begin working in harmony with each other and our environment instead.
I am afraid it is some wishful thinking. We can't awaken from anything since our own brains are still in control. They want food, sex and domination in any form. Maybe someone finds a stash of Neo's blue pills and...
This as near as I can tell is the only way to avert catastrophe. All the other exits we’ve tried are
bolted shut; political attempts at solutions are shut down with plutocratic manipulations, activism is
shut down with media propaganda and corporate censorship, and violent revolution just puts the same
problems into different hands. The deck is stacked to keep funneling the momentum toward the agendas
of the ruling elites. Our only option is to change ourselves.
The difference between societal elites is that they have more food, more sex and dominate everyone. The only option available is to get rid of the old elite and become the new elite.
Such a collective transformation has always been possible, and everyone from Buddha to the hippies of
the 1960s has pointed to it and insisted that it is possible.
Who else besides Buddha, hippies and Caitlin see how it is possible? Please, explain it to me in details.
The difference now is that we are in unprecedented times, and that we now have no other choice.
...On an individual level, it means letting go of everything you’ve built your identity on. It means
realizing and fully understanding that you’ve been basically wrong about everything your entire life
as mental narratives are seen for the babbling nonsense they are...
Take a step back and watch your thoughts like old television, and they’ll be no less noisy but much
less interesting, and eventually the noise disappears into the background and you can begin engaging
with life as it really is.
...It means resolving to hand your desire over to the highest interest, not just when it suits you but
every time. It means giving up everything you ever do for anyone else’s approval, including your own.
It means admitting to your own arrogance, your own violence, your own hypocrisies, your own
projections, your own sneaky manipulations, your own sins, and tracing them back to the point in time
where you created this little coping mechanism gone mad...
...It means you will have a much clearer idea of what’s your responsibility and what’s not, but it
means taking responsibility.
...it also means getting up the guts to throw out the predators that you suddenly realize have been in
your sovereign space this whole time. It means becoming fearless...
...If everyone who is capable took these steps,
I want to stress "if everyone who is capable". That capability (to go against biological) is determined by the associative structure of the front lobes. How would I know if I am capable of doing it? Should I fake it till I make it? Currently it is impossible to measure their size/capacity of the live person. Professor Savieliev calls that measurement the "cerebral sorting". To make it possible, a high-resolution tomographs should be developed, that would give 2-5 micron resolution. With such equipment, it would be possible to map everyone's brain at the young age and discover the potential of every individual - one could be a born mathematician, another - a musician-virtuoso.
The problem is that no one wants to finance that expensive undertaking :( Not in Russia, not in the West.
Every person would be able to develop the inborn talents to their fullest. And the people with super-developed front lobes could organize together and lead the masses of modern monkeys to the bright future of...
and
the world will change at a miraculous pace.
Individually we will become ungovernable from the outside, and guided from within, and as a group, our
clarion call will siren each other into quietly taking the actions we need to take to avoid
extinction...
...The journey out of egoic consciousness isn’t something that can be undertaken lightly.
Relinquishing everything that has made up your inner world your entire life is not something you can
do as a casual pastime. You need to plunge into it with the intensity of someone fighting for their
life, and what we have working in our favor today is the fact that now we collectively are fighting
for our lives...