'Knowing' Network–Brain for the Species

The last system completed within the development of a embryo is the nervous system
and brain. We are now entering the final revolution– The Knowing Revolution. This
is where the brain of the new culture will emerge.

Today, mind and brain scientists have made enormous progress in understanding
how the human brain works. There has been many surprises in these recent
advances. But the biggest shocker is that the brain doesn't decide what to do.
Decision making is not controlled centrally in the brain. The mind-brain appears to
act as a coordination and consensus system for all the cells, tissues, and organs in the
body. The brain doesn't decide to eat. The cells of the body decide to eat, the brain
coordinates their activity and carries out the consensus will.

Our human brain stores the gathered information from the body's sensing of its
environment, the brain presents opportunities for action reflective of both the
sensing of environment and the needs and goals of the 40,000,000,000 cells it serves.
The brain is not the leader of the body, it is the follower of the body. It is a system
that matches needs in the body with its sensing of opportunities to meet these needs
by action within the environment. The brain is a 'government' that truly serves its
constituents– the cells, tissues, and organs that make up the human body.

The apparent 'I' is not real. It is really a 'we'.

We have mistaken self-organization for directed organization.

As a biologist I can see that the new 'Knowing industry' can furnish the basis for the
creation of the 'brain' to serve a unified species. As a physician, as a scientist, and as
a human, I wish to participate in the creation of our species' 'brain'.

Why?
TrustMark 2001 by Timothy Wilken

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