My Neurons, My Self

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5 years later, you need to do this again and update us

I love the WSF so much. Thank you to everybody that participates in putting these videos on YouTube. I may never get to go in person so it's nice to be able to take it in at home.

One of the greatest panels on this show. Bill Blakemore is a most enchanting host.

We live in the present only. The past is represented by our distorted memories. My memory is what makes myself different from anybody else. If my memory get erased, I die (Short Circuit 2). However, it could be not that bad if I can learn the same thing in a shorter time. It is refreshing to hear so many people who bring their own opinion in a complementary way. The questions are pertinent and help the conversation to progress.

My self is whatever I am experiencing in this moment. Weather or not I have memory of my past, or anxieties about the future. It consists of all that adds up to the moment that I am currently in.

We are a brain, the stuff that we think to be ourselves (I, me, thinker, lover, etc.) are tools/creations of the brain. Nature created quantum intelligence and we are it. The brain is using all available information (conscious and subconscious) to output it’s will, we are the conduit for the conscious output of the brain.

I feel it is always nicer when we hold space to contemplate before dishing out our opinions or other products as answers to questions. We all seem to be prepossessed with the desperation to prove ourselves from a sense of importance perhaps due to the many things we have learnt that we do not allow the space for the truth to be channeled through us.

We should also discuss how hormones affect how the brain works. For example how testosterone and estrogen effects how humans behave. Also there is oxitocin and how that rewards the brain for socializing which is key to our survival as a species.

I love Joy Hirsch, she's so energetic I could tell she is excited about her research!

Wonderful beautiful talk about who we are ... I think all of us are fascinated with who we are...this made me appreciate the ingredients of what we are made of...

I'm of the opinion that the legal system and how that may negatively affect people is a reason for the reluctance to cooperate and deeply study and/or encourage neuroscience.

This is inspiring, and I can't wait till I get to study stuff like this, hopefully it'll get more attention. Thanks, world science festival, for creating and sharing this deep discussion.

The way the forum starts -- this is almost exactly the dialogue exploding in my own mind all the time ... mySelf / self ... 'I' ... 'i'... mind ... consciousness ... soul ... self ... pneuma ... psyche ... meaning ... words ... Me <> You (= me for 'you' and you for 'me' ) ... brain science ... neuroscience ... mysticism ... meditation ... inner & outer universes ... mind ... innerspaces / outerspaces / interspaces ... reality ... realities ...

WSF is simply the best.

I love the humor of bright minds! I love WSF! Thank you humbly for all the knowledge that you, so kindly are making accessible to all of us! WSF is way more than a brick in the path for a better world.

I suffer PTSD from early childhood sexual abuse and am currently learning to re-complete myself without insecurities. THAT IS PRESENTING MORE N MORE TRIGGERS THOUGH AND UNEXPLAINABLE SYNCHRONICITIES.

Incredibly fascinating! I use wave sounds in meditation and for stress reduction. I think this is so helpful that you have these symposiums. Thank you so much!

This was an insightful and satisfying discussion

A neuron, neurone (old British spelling) or nerve cell, is an electrically excitable cell[1] that communicates with other cells via specialized connections called synapses. It is the main component of nervous tissue in all animals except sponges and placozoa. Plants and fungi do not have nerve cells. Neurons are typically classified into three types based on their function. Sensory neurons respond to stimuli such as touch, sound, or light that affect the cells of the sensory organs, and they send signals to the spinal cord or brain. Motor neurons receive signals from the brain and spinal cord to control everything from muscle contractions to glandular output. Interneurons connect neurons to other neurons within the same region of the brain or spinal cord. A group of connected neurons is called a neural circuit. A typical neuron consists of a cell body (soma), dendrites, and a single axon. The soma is usually compact. The axon and dendrites are filaments that extrude from it. Dendrites typically branch profusely and extend a few hundred micrometers from the soma. The axon leaves the soma at a swelling called the axon hillock, and travels for as far as 1 meter in humans or more in other species. It branches but usually maintains a constant diameter. At the farthest tip of the axon's branches are axon terminals, where the neuron can transmit a signal across the synapse to another cell. Neurons may lack dendrites or have no axon. The term neurite is used to describe either a dendrite or an axon, particularly when the cell is undifferentiated. Most neurons receive signals via the dendrites and soma and send out signals down the axon. At the majority of synapses, signals cross from the axon of one neuron to a dendrite of another. However, synapses can connect an axon to another axon or a dendrite to another dendrite. The signaling process is partly electrical and partly chemical. Neurons are electrically excitable, due to maintenance of voltage gradients across their membranes. If the voltage changes by a large enough amount over a short interval, the neuron generates an all-or-nothing electrochemical pulse called an action potential. This potential travels rapidly along the axon, and activates synaptic connections as it reaches them. Synaptic signals may be excitatory or inhibitory, increasing or reducing the net voltage that reaches the soma. In most cases, neurons are generated by neural stem cells during brain development and childhood. Neurogenesis largely ceases during adulthood in most areas of the brain. However, strong evidence supports generation of substantial numbers of new neurons in the hippocampus and olfactory bulb.[2][3] Wikipedia