Week-5 -Summary

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, the Nobel prize-winning physicist gave a lecture at Harvard last year and he spoke on the subject of associative memory. He used the example of a rose, whose scent might evoke the memory of its color, and went on to reason that it took about three neurons to store the memory of an aroma. Truth of experience which we tap, be it ever so condensed as an instinctive act we can physically experience. ‘Fight or flee’ question of our ancestors in the savannah we reenact: and we know it as adrenaline rush. Such memory must be associated with material nature of matter of which neurons are the carriers.
Aren’t there cases of Near Death Experiences where patients have had hallucinations of angels in white guiding them through a dark tunnel into blinding light? Science may attribute them as a result of frontal lobes of the brain being starved of oxygen. Nearly all those who survived NDE have attested to their life having changed with it. (I am not citing St. Paul’s converson on the road to Damascus.)
Our material body holds a shadow, which must extend far beyond we may put our finger on. Man against cosmos.
benny