Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Boosting mirror neurons

Boosting Mirror Neurons.


Andre Willers
1 Oct 2013
Synopsis :
Simple methods using existing technology to boost Mirror Neurons .
 
Discussion :
0.In order of Effectiveness , ease of use and cost .
    
1.Zapping intestinal flora and fauna .
Use large doses (6-8 gm)of Vit C , antibiotics ,alcohol etc .
Most of the immune system (80-90%) , including T-cells , is clustered around the intestinal tract to keep all the bugs under control .
Killing them off frees the immune system for other tasks.
See Appendix A why this makes you smarter ..
Note that this is an experimental observation , not an explanation .
Still , it works , is simple and inexpensive .
Why creative people overuse alcohol .
VitC (8gm) will have the same effect . But where is the fun of that ?
 
2.Utube
The easiest and cheapest way of boosting Mirror Neurons by usage at present .
See Appendix D .
Take flaxseed oil (Omega 3) with it . You need the building blocks .
Real mentors are expensive and scarce .
Virtual avatars of hyperreal mentors are still a bit in the future .
Use a plain mirror and a book and/or verbal instruction if no computer .

An Interesting aside :
The earliest mirror was a bowl of still water . The earliest bowl was a watertight woven basin . Then came ceramics . Compound mirrors where the bowl was black to maximise mirror effect came next . A type of “glazing” . Sadly  , only fragments remain . Not just for women : essential for shaving if you did not want to scalp yourself with a hypersharp flint razor .
 
3.Juggling
A good illustration of Mirror Neurons . Very quick to learn if a mentor teaches it , visibly .
Otherwise , reinventing the wheel . Actually a good analogue of civilization .
A person with difficulty learning juggling from mentor , will have difficulty being civilized . (He Cannot learn)
See Appendix C .
 
4. Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (TRNS)
A bit more high-tech , but it has the virtue that it is passive and fairly quick .
See Appendix B .
A favourite with biological systems .
  
5.There are many others , but these are measures that can be taken right now .
 
6.Visual Acuity :
Blind juggling .
The body skin sensors instead of the visual senses are used to train the system to form a mirror image of the juggling balls .
Eventually they are dispensed with  .
 
In general , Mirror Neurons are not dependant on visual acuity for effectiveness.
But it helps
The frame-forming effect on peripheral vision of spectacles will make things more interesting .
 
7.Tai Chi
Use a mentor (expensive) or join a group . All involve mirror neurons .
But utube can be used . See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPU4muYW14Y
Trying  it from a book is reinventing the wheel , and not very effective (by about 3 orders of magnitude)
 
8.Transcendental Meditation ™
A method of mirror neuron entrainment by watching the sub-vocalizations of the mentor . For which you have to pay .
The sub-vocalizations are seen in the neck at subliminal level in the neck . Which is why all the luxuriant beards .
Ironically , the brick turned out to be real gold .
Random Mantras .
One-pad encryption to the Infinite .
See Appendix E . Just randomize the elements . Every day .  It doesn’t matter .
Watch your neck in the mirror vocalizing a random mantra .
That’s it .
 











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Appendix A
T-Cells

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Appendix B
Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (TRNS)
May 16, 2013 — In the future, if you want to improve your ability to manipulate numbers in your head, you might just plug yourself in. So say researchers who report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 16 on studies of a harmless form of brain stimulation applied to an area known to be important for math ability.
"With just five days of cognitive training and noninvasive, painless brain stimulation, we were able to bring about long-lasting improvements in cognitive and brain functions," says Roi Cohen Kadosh of the University of Oxford.
Incredibly, the improvements held for a period of six months after training. No one knows exactly how this relatively new method of stimulation, called transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS), works. But the researchers say the evidence suggests that it allows the brain to work more efficiently by making neurons fire more synchronously.
Cohen Kadosh and his colleagues had shown previously that another form of brain stimulation could make people better at learning and processing new numbers. But, he says, TRNS is even less perceptible to those receiving it. TRNS also has the potential to help even more people. That's because it has been shown to improve mental arithmetic -- the ability to add, subtract, or multiply a string of numbers in your head, for example -- not just new number learning. Mental arithmetic is a more complex and challenging task, which more than 20 percent of people struggle with.
Ultimately, Cohen Kadosh says, with better integration of neuroscience and education, this line of study could really help humans reach our cognitive potential in math and beyond. It might also be of particular help to those suffering with neurodegenerative illness, stroke, or learning difficulties.
"Maths is a highly complex cognitive faculty that is based on a myriad of different abilities," Cohen Kadosh says. "If we can enhance mathematics, therefore, there is a good chance that we will be able to enhance simpler cognitive functions."
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Appendix C
Juggling
Use rolled-up socks for practise .
Watch the top of the arc .
 
General

“Susan, I do have a question for you — I am a pretty good juggler already…if I spent 10 minutes a day for like 3 times a week, would it make a difference in the type of work that I do?”

Her response to his question was:

“Yes, juggling for just a few minutes a day will help you be more creative, make faster decisions, and have more access to more of your brain. Take a juggling break when you need to brainstorm something new and creative. It is excellent for building creativity. Try learning a new juggling trick, or juggling higher, behind the back, etc. Be sure to juggle in from of your son–it is good for his mirror neurons!”
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Appendix D
Mirrors , cameras , virtualities
Appl. Phys. Lett. 54, 2512 (1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101078 (3 pages)
Rapid fabrication of lightweight ceramic mirrors via chemical vapor deposition
Jitendra S. Goela and Raymond L. Taylor
Morton Thiokol Inc./CVD Incorporated, 185 New Boston Street, Woburn, Massachusetts 01801
(Received 13 February 1989; accepted 17 April 1989)

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Lightweight Si/SiC mirrors of nominal diameter 7.5 cm have been fabricated via a scalable and rapid, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to demonstrate the CVD mirror fabrication technology. These mirrors consist of a faceplate of either Si or Si‐coated SiC and a lightweight backstructure made of either Si or SiC. The mirrors were polished to a figure better than 1/5th of a wave at 0.6328 Å and a finish of better than 10 Å rms. A procedure for fabricating these mirrors is described. The CVD fabrication process is fast and has the potential to yield several mirrors in a few weeks time from a single reactor. The CVD mirror fabrication technology is quite general and can be extended to include mirrors of other ceramic materials such as TiB2 and B4C.
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Appendix E
Generate a random Mantra .
The TM technique is simple mental repetition of a "mantra" or word. The TM movement claims that only specific "words" can be used. They claim that the selection of words is based upon a secret formula. Court documents have shed some light on this "secret" process. It is nothing other than a set of words given out by age, and/or age and sex, depending on the teacher training course the TM teacher attended.
The TM-Sidhi program is nothing other than a set of sutras (words or phrases), mentally repeated every fifteen seconds after doing a twenty minute session of TM. Each sutra is repeated twice, with a 15 second pause in between each repetition.

The TM Mantra Tables
1961
1969-Male
1969-Female
Fiuggi, 1972
Sex
Mantra
Age
Mantra
Age
Mantra
Age
Mantra
MALE
RAM
0-15
ING
0-15
IM
10-11
ING
FEMALE
SHIRIRAM
15-30
AING
15-30
AIM
12-13
IM
30-45
SHRING
30-45
SHRIM
14-15
INGA
46 +
SHIAM
46 +
SHIAMA
16-17
IMA
18-19
AYING
20-21
AYIM
22-23
AYINGA
24-25
AYIMA
> 25
SHIRING

1976
1977
1978
October,1978
1987
Age
Mantra
Age
Mantra
Age
Mantra
Age
Mantra
Age
Mantra
03-10
ENG
03-10
ING




0-11
ENG
10-12
EM
10-12
IN
10-12
ENG
10-12
ENG


12-14
ENGA
12-14
INGA
12-14
EM
12-14
EM
12-13
EM
14-16
EMA
14-16
INA
14-16
EMGA
14-16
ENGA
14-15
ENGA
16-18
AENG
16-18
AING
16-18
EMA
16-18
EMA
16-17
EMA
18-20
AEM
18-20
AIM
18-20
AENG
18-20
AING
18-19
AING
20-22
AENGA
20-22
AINGA
20-22
AEM
20-22
AIM
20-21
AIM
22-24
AEMA
22-24
AIMA
22-24
AENGA
22-24
AINGA
22-23
AINGA




24-26
AEMA
24-26
AIMA
24-25
AIMA
24-30
SHIRING
24-30
SHIRING
26-30
SHIRING
26-30
SHIRING
26-29
SHIRING
30-35
SHIRIM
30-35
SHIRIN
30-35
SHIRIM
30-35
SHIRIM
30-34
SHIRIM
35-40
HIRING
35-40
HIRING
35-40
HIRING
35-40
HIRING
35-39
HIRING
40-45
HIRIM
40-45
HIRIN
40-45
HIRIM
40-45
HIRIM
40-44
HIRIM
45-50
KIRING
45-50
KIRING
45-50
KIRING
45-50
KIRING
45-49
KIRING
50-55
KIRIM
50-55
KIRIN
50-55
KIRIM
50-55
KIRIM
50-54
KIRIM
55-60
SHIAM
55-60
SHIAM
55-60
SHYAM
55-60
SHIAM
55-59
SHAM
60 +
SHIAMA
60 +
SHIAMA
60 +
SHYAMA
60 +
SHIAMA
60 +
SHAMA
Notes: The year at the top of each column indicates the year the teacher was trained.
"Age" is that of the initiate at the time of learning the technique.
See the TM Checking Notes and Steps to Initiation for details on the initiation and checking rituals.

Advanced Techniques
First:
AING NAMAH
Second:
SHRI AING NAMAH
Third:
SHRI AING NAMAH NAMAH
Fourth:
SHRI SHRI AING NAMAH NAMAH
Fifth:
SHRI SHRI AING AING NAMAH NAMAH
Sixth:
SHRI SHRI AING AING NAMAH NAMAH
(Thought in the heart area)
Seventh:
Age of Enlightenment Technique:
A system of putting attention on parts of the body, environment, world and outer space.
Notes: In most cases students were instructed to use their own, previously assigned mantra where AING appears above.
Translation of Advanced Technique Mantras
SHRI
"Oh most beautiful"
AING
"Hindu goddess Saraswati"
NAMAH
"I bow down"

Ayurveda Techniques
Primordial Sound - "AMRITA," used as a mantra
Psychophysiological Technique - Mantra is thought in heart area.

TM-Sidhi Techniques
The names of the sutras used in the TM-Sidhi program are:
Friendliness
Compassion
Happiness
Strength of an elephant
Bronchial tube
Inner light
Sun
Moon
Polestar
Trachea
Navel
Distinction between intellect and transcendence
Transcendence intuition
Transcendence finest hearing
Transcendence finest sight
Transcendence finest taste
Transcendence finest touch
Transcendence finest smell.
The "levitation" or "flying" technique, now known as "Yogic Flying," is used in the same way as all other sutras:
"Relationship of body and akasha - lightness of cotton fiber."
This phrase is mentally repeated every fifteen seconds after doing a twenty minute session of TM. Each sutra is mentally repeated twice (if time allows 4 times), with a 15 second pause in between each repetition.
After doing the flying sutra for 5-30 minutes, the instruction is to rest for 10-30 minutes and then read the Hindu Scriptures for 5 minutes.
An example of the readings (from the Ninth Mandala of Rig Veda):
Flow Soma, in a most sweet and exhilarating stream, effused for Indra to drink. The all-beholding destroyer of Rakshasas has stepped upon his gold-smitten birthplace, united with the wooden cask. Be the lavish giver of wealth, most bounteous, the destroyer of enemies; bestow on us the riches of the affluent. Come with food to the sacrifice of the mighty gods, and bring us strength and sustenance. To thee we come, O dropping (Soma); for thee only is this our worship day by day, our prayers are to thee, none other.

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