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Postmodernism, Neuroscience and the Brain

BACKGROUND For centuries, we have struggled with countless questions on workings of the human brain, from defining concepts of the Mind, to actual processes within cerebral cortical circuitry. The initial notions of the brain as a bodily organ, a component of other physiological systems essential for normal life functions, would appear to be a logical starting point1. Given the complexities of the brain, this certainly proved too simplistic. The advent of Neuroscience has held hands intimately with this journey, but research has often raised more questions than provide answers for even the most basic essence of cortical functions. Consciousness, the awareness of the surrounding environment, is a most candid example. Neuroscience has unravelled processes of how environmental information can be collected, transmitted centrally, processed, and utilised to modify effective behaviour. We seem to have arrived at a fairly structured hierarchy of escalating sensory input within the various levels of the central nervous system2. ‘Consciousness’ and ‘awareness’ may not necessarily be interchangeable. The human nervous system is capable of responding subconsciously to stimuli; at a different level, it also manifests implicit or subliminal learning acquired without actively undergoing physical or mental practice. Critically, though, bridging the gap between understanding of an ordered reciprocation of active neuronal cells and conscious realisation of an existential changing surrounding still represents a much uphill task.