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Is autism, or some types of autism, an evolutionary effect.
This is an uninformed notion I have had, and this is the first time I have found support for it.
Toward the end of this TED talk Enriquez provides some numbers on the rate at which autism has increased in a decade, 78%.
He says, "We are trying to take in as much information in a day as people use to take in in a lifetime."
Is autism a rapid evolution of the brain?
Jun 14 2012: Interesting; I happened upon this discussion in almost identical fashion - I started from the Enriquez talk "Will our kids be a different species", a piece that resonated with me as deeply related to recent philosophical discussions and personal writing topics. When he mentioned that the norm for human evolution is that you have multiple species sharing the same overlapping time windows, I began to look for evidence of this.
Part of this led me down the path of looking at Autism, a condition that always struck me as being... different...a syndrome at most, but certainly not a true disorder. This is a very subtle difference in the realm of abnormal psychology that is often misunderstood, in that the study of *unusual* patterns & behaviors does not always lend itself to the diagnosis of a disorder or disease.
The problem is that terms like "abnormal" and "syndrome" carry with them a negative connotation - so the entire language of discussion has the propensity towards a feeling that there is a defect in play - some underlying pathology that must be identified and later "corrected". I've always found issue with this because, as history shows, the observation of "normal" vs. "abnormal" is a slippery, slippery slope. Regardless, Autism is currently classified as developmental disorder - a problem that begs prevention and treatment.
Ami Klin's talk "A new way to diagnose autism" struck a chord towards the end when he mentions that the goal is not to cure autism - and that, in fact, individuals with autism have a unique perspective on life. This is the point that sticks with me along the lines of a potential evolution that is simply not well understood or in the early developmental stages.
A simple hypothesis - what if, as humans grow closer and closer to global interdependence, nature is simply selecting for cognitive specialization? To me then, something like Autism could instead be viewed as an efficient, pattern-based organizational behavior *advantage*.
Jun 14 2012: George, that is a really interesting viewpoint and even more profound question - I like it.Jun 14 2012: I've read the comments here and something interesting strikes me about Autism: Emotional detachment.
From all the literature I've been exposed to, I would probably classify myself as having a mild form of Asperger's. That is by no means a clinical analysis - just a personal guess. From this viewpoint I would propose a simple cause-effect-effect-.. regarding why Asperger's and Autistic people are so detached:
No one understands them.
"Birds of a feather flock together" is an old, old saying and it probably applies here too. I'm socially outgoing enough (thanks, mom) but I don't feel like I 'connect' with people. I have always been the awkward one. I never connected with kids when I was a kid and I have a very hard time connecting with adults now. It's not that I have nothing in common with people, it's just they don't have anything _deep_ in common with me. I would propose this is a mild version of what Autistic people endure.
Lets say you are 23 years old and you LOVE space exploration. You're confined to a room with a bunch of your peers and all they can talk about is American Pie and getting drunk. Your world revolves around physics, space, astronomy, cosmology, orbital mechanics, robotics, and.. Their world revolves around people being dumb and getting drunk.
Wouldn't you clam up and disconnect from them after a while? You'd recess into your own little world. What if you were confined to that room of you vs. 100 for a day.. for a week.. for a year.. what if you were confined to it your entire life?
Even better: What if those 100 were in charge of defining "normal"?
I'm not sure if Autism is an evolutionary effect in and of itself. I'd postulate that it is an expression of the evolution that has already been happening since human life started - just another step on the road.
I'd also propose that "normal" people might be part of devolution (going the wrong way - lower cognitive capacity, causing them to become less aware of details)
Jun 15 2012: re: No one understands them
"A few years ago, the marriage of David and Kristen Finch was falling apart. They barely spoke anymore. And then Kristen asked David to take a test - a quiz with 153 questions that led to a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome. The diagnosis changed their lives. They talk about how the recognition of Aspergers changed how they relate to each other."
http://ttbook.org/book/david-and-kristen-finch-asperger-diagnosisJun 7 2012: Autism: The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis
ASDs (autism spectrum disorders) are hypothesized as one of many adaptive human cognitive variations that have been maintained in modern populations via multiple genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Introgression from "archaic" hominids (adapted for less demanding social environments) is conjectured as the source of initial intraspecific heterogeneity because strict inclusive fitness does not adequately model the evolution of distinct, copy-number sensitive phenotypes within a freely reproducing population.
Evidence is given of divergent encephalization and brain organization in the Neanderthal (including a ~1520 cc cranial capacity, larger than that of modern humans) to explain the origin of the autism subgroup characterized by abnormal brain growth.
Autism and immune dysfunction are frequently comorbid. This supports an admixture model in light of the recent discovery that MHC alleles (genes linked to immune function, mate selection, neuronal "pruning," etc.) found in most modern human populations come from "archaic" hominids.
Mitochondrial dysfunction, differential fetal androgen exposure, lung abnormalities, and hypomethylation/CNV due to hybridization are also presented as evidence.
A short video introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_85vNaSMA
The full 2-hour video presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-6Naz-C0MJun 6 2012: "The Assortative Mating Hypothesis" A recent theory put forth last fall by British researcher Simon Baron-Cohen claims that more children are being born in the autistic spectrum because people with certain autistic traits are more likely to meet, marry and reproduce than in past generations. The theory of "assortative mating" is based on anecdotal evidence, speculation, and what appears to be a pretty common-sense assessment of various societal trends.
"Basically, what it comes down to is, as more women are going into the fields of science, math, and technology than ever before and because people within the autistic spectrum are drawn to those fields, it is only natural that more couples where both the male and female carry autistic characteristics that would be passed on to their children. One of the anecdotal pieces drawn from is an observation that it is unusually common among alumni of MIT to have children diagnosed with Asperger's. Another cites a study that found children in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, considered to be their Silicon Valley, two to four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than children in similar cities that aren't so tech-centric."
But there is more to the story. There is always more.
I have been sorting through the research and found that the research that put forth by Baron-Cohen builds on differences in the brains of males and females. Autism occurs in more males.
Jun 6 2012: That's actually the talk that I was hoping to hear. Maybe soon...
Jun 9 2012: I propose Dr. Baron Cohen speaks from personal experience. His obsession with an amagladic (fear based ) approach towards those people he hopes to help (he "treats" autistics---his A.Q test for autism greatly increases the number of autistics he helps to self-identify online because of it's poor sensitivity...in the 20's. No one else but the "World Autism Expert" could get away with that. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22679215
It's not that I wouldn't take his work seriously, but I would look at it as the desperation it is as his Theory of Mind theory of autism loses prominence on the world stage. http://questioning-answers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/where-is-autism-research-heading-in.html
Jun 9 2012: Thanks. It's specifically the genetic observation that I'd like to hear more of. I don't find a lot of use for psychology in its present state. It does tickle me a bit that believing that a functioning human being would be lacking ToM and empathy could indicate some deficiency in ToM and empathy.Jun 17 2012: Autism and other syndromes are diagnosed based on a series of conditions so as difficult as it is to specifically define, it is as difficult to give a cause or track an increase. The 11% increase best measures an increase in diagnosis. It's entirely possible that the incidence of these conditions have not increased but simply went undiagnosed in the past. That being said I can't imagine that we aren't currently evolving. Autism alone won't indicate our evolution nor will the insignificant mutations found in some Olympic athletes or blue eyes. This small genetic difference doesn't make us different enough to fulfill the technical definition of being a different species and although there is such a small genectic deviation between humans and the other great apes, chimps and humans are different in a way a person with blue eyes and a person with brown eyes are not. The most curious detail of the Juan Enriquez TED Talk that brought me to this discussion is that unlike the several co-existing species of other life on this planet and evidence of co-existing multiple human species in the past, why now is there only one? One originating in Africa that migrated throughout the world? Also currently Africa remains the most genetic diverse population of humans? So if we're evolving, we're evolving there. Is our evolution like our single species status, a natural anomaly? Is our evolution aided by there being only one species, making us biologically more tenacious to survive? Or did consciousness which brought awareness of differences bring volatile interactions between the multiple human species very like much like current racism and genocide leaving only one species standing? It would seem that consciousness is a significant cognitive evolution, so yes, the discussion of mental evolution is most motivating. It must be occurring as the pattern of evolution seems a ceaseless aspect of life. Will the leap of the next evolution of humans result is the gap of communication?Jun 15 2012: Some new findings over the last decade suggest that at least part of those we call autistic have a brain disorder due to some neurotoxins produced by intestinal bacteria.
During the first three years of life the flora down the intestines are building up to a number of cells that outnumber those of the body of a hundred to one. Their composition in species to over a hundred are balancing each other out by mutual control and cooperate to decompose our food to useful stuff our body needs.
As a young child is prescribed antibiotics this work in progress can be disrupted as species that are more resilient get dominant while others vanish. One of those kind of survivors produce propionic acid what disturbs the fat building in the brain.
To my view the word autism is used for disorders of various kind that have some symptoms in common .
Jun 15 2012: The website you listed stated the findings are preliminary, so obviously more research is needed. I wonder, if this is the causative mechanism behind a portion of autism cases, why the increase in autism cases wasn't recognized sooner. Antibiotics have been around for decades and they've been used widely by kids for at least 30 years (probably much longer).
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Jun 15 2012: When he talks about autism the problem is not that the incident of autism has changed they are specious statistics because the definition of autism has been changed since 1943. So yup it is not being measured right. And nope it is not some bizarre "rapid evolution of the brain".
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http://staugustine.com/opinions/2012-06-06/thomas-sowell-playing-words#.T9EEwlJoz2EJun 13 2012: Are emotions outdated? The autism spectrum as the mind's exploration of the ways to deal with emotional stimulus and motivation: people with Aspergers would be likely to tell you that emotions are a stupid way to base decisions and behaviour - people with Dyslexia might say emotions are the peak of the human experience.
With such an increase in the amount of input we receive, a corresponding increase in the changes of emotional states must surely follow. Autism perhaps as the mind evolving to reduce the load?Jun 11 2012: I've had those same thoughts. That so many of our children struggle to cope with the demands of an "old school" approach, may have more to do with new hard-wiring. I see this in my own kids who seem able to make sense of information by arranging it in a very visual way that leaves me scratching my head in an attempt to re-create their process, and leaves them frustrated in an attempt to help me play "catch-up."
(See blog for example. http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2534511609442505262#editor/target=post;postID=5585191525690572555 .)
I'm not suggesting that I have some special "Indigo Children", but I think we all may be seeing the birth of an "Indigo Generation".Jun 8 2012: I'm really very grateful for your post Ted. Autism or no autism I feel that the point needs to be frequently restated that sex differences should be handled with extreme care if we are to avoid them being used as generalisations which can in turn be used to impose discrimination, as indeed they continue to be used. I feel that the economic realities (women earn on average 1/3 that of men) that continue to affect women are masked from everyday realisation and can be readily used to explain why women continue to be dependent on men's good opinion. The man-free alternative is to work or not work and to bring up children or to remain child free. Not to work and to have children exposes women to the very worst that the neo-liberalist establishment has to offer and the bad opinion of all in this miserly world.
Jun 11 2012: This is a tremendous point and Simon Baron-Cohen does stress this about his research in one of the Youtube videos Thank you for underscoring it.Jun 7 2012: I'm pleased by the thoughful response to this question. I have learned a great deal about autism and see that it is our understanding of autism that needs to evolve.
Another of Baron-Cohen's videos on Youtube that more directly address the topic of autism:
This interview, and a particular statement in it about how autism is a developmental condition, with faster brain growth, cause me to wonder if we properly understand how to interact with autistic babies. Are we misunderstanding its developmental windows and thereby contributing negatively to the outcomes. Baron-Cohen mentions the development of language in babies with autism being slowed. Are there factors of nurturing that need to be examined? I'm recalling a statement by the mother of Jake, a math prodigy about his near failure to thrive.
Finally, this very touching video from the TED MED 2012 Conference.
John Dunbar
Jun 5 2012: http://ww3.tvo.org/video/177352/allen-j-frances-overdiagnosis-mental-illness
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The link I posted is a presentation by a psychiatrist who is also a professor at Duke. He served on the committee that pieced together dsm-5. I know that Autism is on the rise but it's probably a mix between some undetermined factor and changes in the diagnostic criteria. As far as rapid evolution goes Im really not sure how Autism could be viewed this way mainly due to the fact that we are social animals. Autism which was once referred to as childhood schizophrenia sits on the opposite spectrum of being social. I see how you could tie the information age to some of the savants we see who have a form of higher functioning autism. I just don't see technology demanding so much out of us that people are being born to serve its progress. Great question
Jun 6 2012: Children with autism self isolate from frustration, not an inherent tendency away from social interaction. Even non-autistic children tend to stray from peers who consistently have trouble understanding them.
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Jun 6 2012: So would the problem therefore lie in self expression?
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Jun 6 2012: In children specifically, the solution lies in exposing them to the tools they need to express themselves. I have no conclusion as to where/what the problem is.Jun 6 2012: It's a two way street: the problem is not only with self expression, but with the ability to interpret the communication cues given by others. Perhaps those are related, in the same way that a deaf person can not easily form spoken words, even with training, though there may be no structural defect preventing them.
BTW, evolution doesn't come with a directional arrow; if there are selective pressures for a population to lose an ability that it previously had, that's the direction it'll tend to go.Jun 7 2012: See the link to the TED MED talks.Jun 4 2012: or is autism the result of having one glass of wine cooler containing a perservative which has been increasingly in human foods and drink in the first two to three weeks of conception?
In the early eighties, Bakers switched yeasts to one which raised breads in much less time than previously, a lot of women around this time developed yeast, mold, sensitivities, and overgrowths, In addition the use of antibiotics to treat strep throats and sinus infections increased dramatically, so did the use of acetominophen to avoid the rare deaths from asprin induced Ries (sp)syndrome in children with viral infections.
In our family we tend towards introversion as a character trait, and to wide ranges of interests from mechanical through to science, to psychology as well as a certain oversensitivety(?) to human atmosphere, and enviromental sensitivities, Having done a little cultural investigation into the family tree on both sides I find that the trees are full of nomads It makes complete sense to me that enviromental sensitivity would lead to nomadic tendencies, and that nomadic life styles would be more suited to introverted, curiosty driven intellegence, whose other factors express a certain mild paranoia and suspicion and a deep sense of privacy. Could autism be the extreme genetic result of introverts marrying introverts down the genetic line? Why not? is it possibly a genetic dead end as well probably.
Jun 5 2012: Recent research shows that the chemical issue can be transgenerational.
"New research has shown that exposure to commonly used chemicals causes changes in rats that are passed down through multiple generations."
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Jun 4 2012: I think our lifestyles and adaptations of technology will have a big impact on how we evolve, and how fast we evolve. Technology is evolving much faster than us, and maybe it will encourage our own biology to keep up, and adapt to the rapid changes happening around us.Jun 9 2012: :) Good man!Jun 5 2012: Very interesting question.
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What an easy, wonderful, tasty meal. I followed the recipe and some of the reviewers suggestions. I used non-fat yogurt and the food coloring. I did add the cilantro to the marinade, in addition to putting it on after.
I marinated it for the 24 hours and it was PERFECT. Spicy and flavorful. I will be making this MANY times and hope to share it with all my friends.
Updated: I make this about twice a month. I make 16 chicken thighs and freeze them for when I want some of this tasty meat. I also bake this at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes.
This version is perfectly edible but pales, in MY opinion, when compared to Tandoori chicken generally available. I suspect that this may be the result of cooking at too low a temperature. A Tandoor is an Indian clay oven, where the temperatures regularly reach levels far hotter than the standard kitchen oven. I tried this recipe as specified and was disappointed, and I have given 3 stars as a result. I then cooked it at a much higher temperature, which resulted in a better consistency but dried it out too much. I finally slightly increased all the quantities of spices and yoghurt and cooked that on the highest heat I could, and found THAT would have rated 4.5 stars. So the spice combination is good, the principle is good, the cooking is not. I strongly reiterate that this is MY opinion. I also have a vague problem with using food colouring. By using Turmeric, you can get a good yellow colour without needing the artificiality of colouring, and tomato purée (or harissa if you like heat) can add a reddish tinge.
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This was the best, most flavorful chicken tandoori I have ever made.
I used skinless breasts on the bone, marinated them for 24 hours, and broiled them for 10-12 minutes on each side.
My husband is from Pakistan and he loved this recipe! It was VERY easy and delicious! As a matter of fact, it was the best Tandoori chicken I've had anywhere. I used boneless, skinless chicken breasts and they were very moist and tasty. For dessert, try Simmi's Kulfi recipe.
Excellent and easy. I let the chicken breasts marinate for a day to give full flavor. I also left out the food colorings, and my guests laughed when we initially looked at the chicken..it was the craziest shade of pink/coral that I've ever seen. But it still looks like the chicken I'd get at my local Indian restaurant. Everyone loved it. I paired it with basmati rice, coconut-curry sauce, steamed vegetables, and naan. It really tasted authentic!
Thank you very much for this recipe! I marinaded it for 24 hours, scraped off all the marinade , and then cooked in my Romertopf clay pot for about 45 minutes at 480deg. The chicken came out perfect. I almost didn't add the food coloring, but I'm glad I did because the finished product looked exactly like what it looks like in restaurants. My husband declared it a success. I'll be making this again and again.
Excellent recipe! Used boneless skinless chicken thighs that I put on kabobs. Don't like food coloring? Use some colorful spices instead. I used some turmeric and some paprika to give it a brilliant orange color! The taste was the same.
This was great! I baked it in the oven at 350 for about an hour and a half. I was pressed for time, so I didn't remove the skin first. I wish I had because when you remove the skin after cooking, it takes away all the flavor! I will definitely make this again though. The dish went nicely with "Indian Dahl and Spinach" from this site. Thanks for the recipe!
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Since Navy keeps bringing up Europe (and I lived there for two years so I KNOW Europe well) he should also know that, in Europe, there is almost no gore or violence shown in regular television programming (i.e. CSI would not be allowed on their channels over there.) Would you guys like it if I put a picture of some rotting body in my signature? I don't thinks so, it would be disrespectful and out of line. The same goes for half (or entirely in some cases) naked women posted here since we have female posters and they should feel just as welcome as the male ones period.


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Question - Should we make increasing our consciousness as important a topic in schools as the 3 Rs.
"Cogito, Ergo Sum"( I think, therefore I am) Rene' Descartes . Is not self-awareness evidence of consciousness? I am just a layman when it comes to science, so I am not sure my comments are relevant, but the fact that this discussion is being presented seems to back this up. We have advanced technologically, which may in turn be slowing the evolution of consciousness. If we taught self-awareness in schools along with the 3 Rs would we of gained a greater understanding of consciousness. This in turn could have resulted in an increase our study and understanding of consciousness a lot quicker. We appear to be on a race to increase our animal desires for profit, which appears to be resulting in a decrease of consciousness. As I said I am not sure if any of this is relevant or not, but for me, any focus on consciousness helps us head in the right direction.
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Jul 25 2013: You can't understand consciousness because the mind can't grasp anything that's not intellectual. You can only feel it in yourself. The statement: "I think, therefore i am" can't be true. A baby IS before any thought enters it's mind! Fully complete and perfect as it is. The newborn looks at you with pure awareness without any distracting thoughts until the conditioning begins.... This is good - This is bad.
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Being conscious doesn't mean when you wake up in the morning that you are actually conscious. Usually the mind starts chatting right after waking up. Oh i have to do this or that have to be here or there in an hour. This is being lost in the mind.
How many of you actually feel their body breathing or their heart beating when waking up. Have you ever really felt your sheets or your pillow? How does your skin FEEL? How does it feel to loose your mind and just feel your being inside yourself? Do you need a thought like: "i'm going to breathe in now" to breathe... No, it's the body's intelligence that's doing it and it doesn't have anything to do with our minds. We would die on the spot if we had to control any of our body functions ourselves.
Consciousness or awareness is there before anything else. No thought actually exists or is good nor bad. Only the mind makes it either. It's literally just in our heads and we believe every thought that comes up as if our lives depend on it. What we need to teach in schools is not to identify with what we think and that kids don't need to become anything besides what they already are..... which is themselves!
Don't believe me? No Problem: Find out for yourselves: Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, Pema Chödrön, Paramahansa Yogananda, Ramana Maharshi, Alan Watts, Gurdjieff, Osho, etc.
All the best
Jul 25 2013: I greatly appreciate everyone's response and it is all good. I agree with a lot of what you say; however, I wonder if we enter the world without (if not a consciousness) a pre- consciousness, a knowing, a destiny, or a life of experiences/lessons/fears to overcome. I have had a lot of people, self help groups, and seminars, books, etc, some of those who you mentioned, which have helped me increase my knowing. I believe we are all on a soul journey and having assistance to become more aware has made it easier. I just wonder if this had been a focus in schools, like cultures seem to have, how much of my life experience would have been. I am trying to stay away from absolutes, even though I slip at times. I am also not fully sold that consciousness doesn't go beyond the five senses, which could mean there is something more than you appear to believe. Can't say that's true, but may be?
Aug 4 2013: I not only believe that consciousness goes beyond the five (or more) senses, to me is is part and parcel of the Universe. The Universe, not just ours, but the totality of all universal life we can see and not see, is all One, living, breathing, feeling, thinking consciousness 'soup.' But that's just me and a few billion others who see evidence of it every day in every way.
I read recently that a belief is only a thought we keep thinking over and over, and that to change our thinking is to change our lives. Our minds, our thoughts--thinking--have the ability to change, alter, create our current realities to those more in tune with what we would rather experience. I know it; I've seen it; Ive done it. Change your thinking, change your life. That is part of the path the new 'consciousness' is taking, will be taking us right along with it.
When we finally get to the point where we realize that LIFE is not happening to us, but that WE are happening to life, that we have choices in the lives we lead, the circumstances we are in, the experiences we have, we will have taken a giant step for the future of humanity.Aug 2 2013: re" A baby IS before any thought enters it's mind! Fully complete and perfect as it is
What level of consciousness are you referring to. We might conjecture that they have the capability for consciousness in the same way they have the potential for language.
Babies do not have a fully developed frontal cortex. Babies do not have a sense of self, and sense of other, and do not develop an Theory of Mind until age 4.
Other animal demonstrate a limited level of consciousness but it does not rise to the potential level of human consciousness.
Aug 3 2013: Thank you for your question and statement.
The level of consciousness i am referring to, doesn't seem to be any kind of level at all! It appears to be the origin of consciousness. Which is inaccurate in itself because, as far as i understand it, consciousness can't be explained, described, categorized or analyzed. It IS itself. It can only be felt or pointed to because it is the one thing which makes perceiving, feeling and thinking possible. (Dao, Dharma, Buddha-Nature, Now, Great Spirit). It can't be understood intellectually, only experientially!
You say it yourself: Babies do not have a sense of self or another until the THEORY OF MIND slowly enters it's brain.
That in itself suggests we are all one to begin with (Beings coming from and returning to the same source) but through conditioning we forgot the natural state of "being-ness", "timeless-ness", or "I am-ness" many spiritual teachers have pointed to throughout the ages and are still pointing to in modern times.
If you look into the eyes of a newborn animal, without being completely consumed by your mind, you will see a natural, unconditioned and curious attention that's looking back at you, ready to be formed by life, to learn and experience whatever there is to come. This, in my opinion, is the same attention that is looking out of the eyes of a newborn human baby and is what i am referring to.
All the best
Aug 3 2013: Let underline two portions of your statement: "as far as i understand it," and "This, in my opinion,"
Spiritualism is a BELIEF system. To point to "spiritual teachers... thoughout the ages" is to ignore what science has discover in the last twenty years about the brain.
The age old concept that consciousness is a soul or spirit has little scientific basis. The concept that it is an emergent property of the brain allows for measurement and observation
You have also distorted my statement when you say "Babies do not have a sense of self or another until the THEORY OF MIND slowly enters it's brain." They develop senses about self and others within the first year of like and understand that an other has separate likes and dislikes at about 15-18 months.
Consciousness is brain dependent.Aug 3 2013: "Although a newborn lacks self-awareness, the baby processes complex visual stimuli and attends to sounds and sights in its world, preferentially looking at faces. The infant's visual acuity permits it to see only blobs, but the basic thalamo-cortical circuitry necessary to support simple visual and other conscious percepts is in place. And linguistic capacities in babies are shaped by the environment they grow up in. Exposure to maternal speech sounds in the muffled confines of the womb enables the fetus to pick up statistical regularities so that the newborn can distinguish its mother's voice and even her language from others. A more complex behavior is imitation: if Dad sticks out his tongue and waggles it, the infant mimics his gesture by combining visual information with proprioceptive feedback from its own movements. It is therefore likely that the baby has some basic level of unreflective, present-oriented consciousness."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=when-does-consciousness-ariseAug 3 2013: Infants have a conscious experience of the world at as early as 5 months of age, new research finds.
New parents may raise an eyebrow at the idea that their baby might not be a conscious being, but scientists have, until now, not been able to clearly show that infants react with awareness rather than reflexively. Even in adults, much of the brain's processing of the world occurs without conscious awareness, said Sid Kouider, a neuroscientist at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique in Paris and the Technical University of Denmark.
A glimpse of consciousness emerging in the brains of babies has been recorded for the first time. Insights gleaned from the work may aid the monitoring of babies under anaesthesia, and give a better understanding of awareness in people in vegetative states – and possibly even in animals.
The human brain develops dramatically in a baby's first year, transforming the baby from being unaware to being fully engaged with its surroundings. To capture this change, Sid Kouider at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and colleagues used electroencephalography (EEG) to record electrical activity in the brains of 80 infants while they were briefly shown pictures of faces.
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Aug 3 2013: In general, it's true that spiritualism is a belief system. It requires a belief or concept to be kept alive. Unless someone experientially learns something to be the truth of what they belief, a belief system, if adapted without question, can't be confirmed nor denied. But if it is experienced, it doesn't stay only a belief any longer. It becomes a knowing!
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The consciousness i am referring to, is something that can't be described with words but that i encountered myself through vision quests and, as arrogant as this might sound, know to be a fundamental part of our world. That's why i use statements like: "in my opinion" and "as far as i understand it!"
I have encountered a state of "Being" i was never told about by my friends or family, schools or churches while growing up because only very few people used to know about it. After that, i looked for people who are talking about what i've experienced and experience ever since it "started" in my everyday life. The people i found are Eckhart Tolle and others i mentioned before.
Eckhart tolle: http://youtu.be/1FPjxnLicJw
What would you do if you come to realize a truth that is so contrary to the world you grew up in and that goes against everything you've ever learned to believe? How would you deal with that? Eventually you'd have to acknowledge and live it, matter what anybody else says!?
Because you experience it, you simply know it to be true and would like to share it! But everyone you try to tell about it, is so consumed by their minds (like you were before) that they can't hear you. Their thoughts make to much noise! The more you talk about it, the more they don't want to hear what you would like to tell them. The only thing you can do is accept it as it is and continue to live your life with the knowing of what you've experienced, regardless of what the majority of the world tries to tell and teach you.
Adyashanti: http://youtu.be/3cPwAGbkl6YAug 3 2013: Scientists like Gopnik are great in explaining the processes they observe of how things work on a physical level, that means, if they don't get lost in meaningless labels and descriptions. Science in general does an amazing job explaining a lot of the facts and wonders our world has to offer and i'm sure it will continue to do so. That's one reason why i love TED.
I honestly don't claim to know a lot about science either, but to me, It sometimes just lacks the sacredness we've almost completely banned out of our world and which i have found to be an essential part of myself. In science, many things are often made to look like dead matter, machinelike and completely random. Which, in my opinion, they are not!
Evan Grant: http://www.ted.com/talks/evan_grant_cymatics.html
Your statement: "Consciousness is brain dependent" doesn't explain Near Death Experiences millions of people have almost every day. Why is it for example, that when the brain stops functioning, that the deceased are able to perceive themselves and others from the outside?
Deepak Chopra and Stuart Hameroff: http://youtu.be/erSd5xep30w
Sogyal Rinpoche: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tibetan_Book_of_Living_and_Dying
Aug 4 2013: Nice reply and I respect the position you take.
One point however; Near Death experiences, NDE, do not even explain themselves. they are rare and I'd expect them to be more common if there was something to them.
My criticism of PSI is that there is no overall framework that incorporates what can be reasonably explained and eliminate the parts that do not fit. Without this there is a shadow over the entire subject.
Jul 24 2013: Consciousness, in my belief, is something that cannot be taught. Consciousness is discovered by the self. I was never taught how to be a consciously aware being, it just came about as life naturally progressed. We have this innate ability to ask questions, and we do so everyday. Asking yourself questions spawns intellectual thinking, and it just so happens that we all don't ask the same questions. Some are more horizontal with their questions: how can we make this product a better product; others are more vertical questions: is my decision to do something come from my free will or am I hard wired this way. Asking questions can lead you down multiple paths of discovery.
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I believe a more appropriate agenda would be to teach young ones how to ask questions. Then, naturally guide these students in the right direction so they can ask the RIGHT questions, and conscious awareness will naturally come about.
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Jul 23 2013: I don't know whether this will address your question, but I think teachers as part of their training, at least in the last twenty years, are educated in child development at the levels they teach. One reason for this focus in teacher training is precisely so that they can engage students in age-appropriate reflection about their learning, both process and content. The focus is to complement and enhance students' metacognitive development- self-understanding of what they know and how well they understand, processes of thought and work that seem to work best for them, and so forth.
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Is this the sort of thing you are referirng to? I think this is a more serious item on the agenda of teachers of grade school and middle school, because middle school catches kids at the time when metacognitive development is most pronounced for almost all kids. It is prime time for students to learn how to consider and monitor their own learning.
This sort of work can and does take place across subjects.
Jul 24 2013: Thanks for your response. I was thinking about it being part of the curriculum (age appropriate). I have met a lot of adults seeking a greater awareness due to lacking it and finding life wanting. It seems to me that if we focused on things like, why do we exist and our purpose. Not that any particular answer is right, or that there is even an answer. My perception is that we have drifted away from our connection to all things and lost the awe, magnificence and wonder of existence. We teach technology and science, but what about our innate awareness and depth. Getting students to ponder for instance, what if westernization had never come along where would we be consciously? Just to encourage a more conscious awareness and maybe see the development of something beyond imagining. I know the education doesn't deal well with abstract concepts, but maybe if this was a topic in school, I wouldn't have dropped out at 15, due to the lack of simulation. I believe that music and the arts stimulate our consciousness, which has appeared to of been so since that Stone Age (cave drawings and the drumming etc of age old civilizations). Yet we devalue them compared to topics of the intellect.
Aug 4 2013: age and ability appropriate - I know this has been a "Bad" word in education for many years but maybe we should be looking at tracking in some form with the ability to opt in or out. There is one caveat : teachers need to fail those who opt in and do not or can not do the work. This also requires the the admin to support the teachers.
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Jul 24 2013: Great theory but have not seen it done in practice.Aug 22 2013: While I dont disagree with what you say, i think that first the 3R's are far from being taught, and taught well.
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Writing - some cant even write 'joined up', apparently they (some teachers) don't see the point of have a pen flow across the page like your thoughts do in your mind. No doubt reflective on the level of comments often found on the internet today.
Reading - 80% of graduates never read non-fiction after completing their studies. 60% Don't ever read, unless it work related.
Arithmetic - Ask anyone to do really simple math, is now seen as a reason to have/own a calculator/phone/cash register - or an excuse.
Remember Descartes said that at a time where knowledge, even of own self, was a prized possession. The value of that and the discoveries of the ancient Greeks still resonates deep within many cultures - but remains all but unknown.
Today with reality shows, media, titillation, 10 second sound bites etc, it no longer is, "I think, therefore I am"... we live too much in the age of "I don't think, therefore i ain't".Aug 7 2013: Thanks again for the great discussion. I think it is all good food for thought. It seems there are various perspectives based on life experiences and/or frame of reference. One of them seems to come from the point of view that matter is where it all stems from, in this case the brain, this brings about one belief system and another appears to be a belief we are more than a physical being. Again, I personally have found an open mind is important. I apologize ahead of time, as I sometimes fail to remember where I saw/heard something, in this instance I think it was "What the #*#@! Do I know?" Anyway, part of it talked about some Native Americans standing on the beach when the first ships arrived, apparently they could not see the ships on the horizon because they did not have any idea they existed. That was, until the witch doctor pointed them out to them. It seems it was his open mindedness that allowed him to experience and see more than the average person. Also, if far viewing is a true ability, then how or what enables it? Sometimes we just have to be open to something before we can even consider its validity. The world was believed to be flat and those who could not travel had to choose to come to believe otherwise even though they had not experience anything different. Do we have a spirit maybe or maybe not, but it is sometimes the willingness to be open that paves the way to new horizons. I am not sure if science couldn't be more open minded. A theory that considered we have a spirit, as yet not provable, but could be; this spirit could be the consciousness that exists before birth and after death. Right now as with many theories we may not have the understanding and means to prove it, I don't know, but maybe?
Aug 7 2013: It is people who are, or are not, open-minded- not disciplines.
There are also situations in which open-minded is the wrong word. For example, one person may know the answer to a question and another person may not yet. To the first person, an answer is known and other possible answers are therefore known to be incorrect. The second person knows less and therefore more seems highly likely..
For example, you may know how to drive a car- what the brake does and what the accelerator does. A person who has not yet learned to drive a car may be open to the possibility that the brake makes the car go faster and the accelerator stops the car if pressed quickly.
I have never noticed those who study science to be less open-minded than those who don't. I have noticed that those who are suspicious about science are often quite decided about the nature of scientists and scientific thought, thinking or being convinced that science is much more narrow than they are.Aug 4 2013: Absolutely. It is AS important, if not more so, than math and history. Humanity is becoming more aware, not just of the world, but of our place in it and our ability--and responsibility--to keep its citizens from destroying their only home. Spirituality is not religion... Spirituality, and its offspring such as bio-feedback, meditation, visualization, intention, etc., are states of consciousness that have proven to reduce stress, create happiness, increase health AND wealth, even heal us from terminal illnesses.
So, yes... the time is ripe for consciousness to be made a mandatory curriculum in schools. People (children are people too) tend to meet our expectations of them. We must expect more of them, greater of them--not less.
I might add that, courses like math and history might be diminished to make room for classes in self-esteem, anger management, social skills, and communication, to name a few.Jul 24 2013: Actually, I do not think this would be such a great idea. What is your definition of consciousness? The implication is that it is not merely on or off, but that there is, some and more.
Here is some things to ponder. Consciousness requires a "self."
Professor Bruce Hood shows that the concept of the 'self' is a figment of the brain, generated as a character to weave our internal processes and experiences together into a coherent narrative.
Robert Kegan's theory of adult meaning-making has influenced theory and practice internationally across multiple disciplines. In a special RSA event, he considers: is it really possible to grow beyond the psychological independence of the "self-authoring mind," so often seen as the zenith of adult development?
Jul 24 2013: This is a totally uneducated personal perception of what my mind tells me based on my life experiences. The fact that this discussion is taking place may indicate a belief of something greater, whether it is meaning or an entity. My current thoughts regarding consciousness are the yearning for the intangible and a knowing of something far greater than me, a collective consciousness and belief in purpose. I have trouble separating things out of the equation like, the possibility of a sixth sense, spirits and out of body experiences. Even though I have only a little personal experience with some of these and none with the latter, I am open minded enough to consider all possibilities. Plus, the idea of unconditional love is an ethereal concept, which some peruse, why? what drives us to this end. I can imagine an understanding that has been within us since time began, a conscious contact with something divine, so consciousness is this awareness that precedes intellect. I hope this makes sense and I will try to view your suggestions.


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