Knowing thyself is the best thing I find in this world.Whenever I look back into my diary entries I see myself improving
and sometimes degrading too .It helps me feel where I am up to and where do I stand .Just as my daily duty I was penning down my diary entry where I was wondering who am i??What am I? “I”..and simply “I”.We find ourselves lost in this fast world where each one of us are moving with time but loosing ourselves somewhere.We are loosing the dignity of living and being ourselves truly.This very thing was troubling me to think ,think n think ..which never ended up.Finally I came through an article more interesting that says do we really exist?Or are we just an
illusion created by the brain?Thats what neurosists belive now.I was more into the depth of thinking on it .Its a mindstorming note ,just go through it.I hope we all get the answers we are searching for.Who are you?Do you exist only in your mind?Twenty first century science and technology opening the brain to us as never before ,is now revealing something about the mystery of
conciousness itself;there might not be an “I”at all.The sense of “self”may just be an illusion created by the brain ,by 100 billion neurons at work ,writes Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard Steven Pinker in Time Magazine.“Conciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain .These events compete for attention ,and as one process outshots the other ,the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.”The brain ,a 1.4kg lump of wrinkled tissue,with no moving parts,no joints or valves ,not only serves as the motherboard for all the body’s other systems but is also the seat of the mind,your thoughts,your sense that you exist at all.The major religions locate conciousness in a soul that survives the body’s death but neuroscientists have come to agree that our thoughts ,sensations ,joys and aches consist entirely of psychological activity in the tissues of the brain .Conciousness does not reside in an ethereal soul that uses the brain like a PDA ;conciousness is the activity of the brain.“Another startling conclusion from the science of conciousness is that the intuitive feeling we have there’s an executive “I” that sits in control room of our brain ,scanning the screen of senses and pushing the buttons of the muscles ,is an illusion.Conciousness turns out to consist of maelstrom of events distributed across the brain.These events compete for attention ,and as one process outshots the other ,the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along”Scientists now say that every aspect of conciousness can be tied to the brain.Using functional magnetic resonance imaging,they can almost read people’s thoughts from the blood flow in their brains;whether a person is thinking about a face or place ,or whether a picture he’s looking at is of a bottle or a shoe .Conciousness can be manipulated by physical manipulations .Electrical stimulation of the brain during surgery can induce hallucination that are indistinguishable from reality.Chemicals that effect the brain from caffeine and alcohol to prozac and LSD ,can alter how people think,feel and see.And surgery ,that serves the corpus callosum spawns two conciousness within the same skull.Think and wonder whether you exist as I do??