Are our dreams created by a sentient species?

[wowo]

According to some maps of the brain there is a rather small piece of brain tissue near the top of spinal column that is responsible for regulating sleep. I'm seeking more information on which parts of the brain are involved in controlling dreams, or whatever is going on there. We don't know enough about our neural code to really know what is going on in our brains. Neural code is the manner in which our thoughts are encoded. Look up "neural code" on google if you're bored.

[Wolfjk]

Originally Posted by wowo

According to some maps of the brain there is a rather small piece of brain tissue near the top of spinal column that is responsible for regulating sleep. I'm seeking more information on which parts of the brain are involved in controlling dreams, or whatever is going on there. We don't know enough about our neural code to really know what is going on in our brains. Neural code is the manner in which our thoughts are encoded. Look up "neural code" on google if you're bored.

Hi,
DrmDoc, one of the moderators studies the brain and nervous system and written books about it. He might answer some of your questions.
However my experience is that dreams happen outside the "box" Perhaps you should study particle physics and Quantum theory to gain some understanding.
Dreams happen to connect the brain, so the induction process will not show up in any known scans. A simple test will show you that dreams are a control system: have a read through a lot of dreams posted on this forum! They are genuin and spontanious dreams! Most of them end with: I woke up and those that don't you can infer that the dream woke the sleeper so he or she can recount their dream.
Cheers Wolfjk

[wowo]

Hi Wolfjk and others
I've studied physics more than neurology in fact. The standard physical model of the brain as I understand it is that intelligence is in the electrical interactions of our neurons. The neurons are arranged into other structures, columns for example. It brings up the most interesting question I've ever heard, just what are we. Neuron's fire in patterns called spike trains, can a spike train feel alive? Is that what I am, a certain pattern of electrical activity? Or is some other physical phenomina capable of feeling alive, perhaps a quantum mechanical one as you suggest. I think the answer to our dreams and potentially other intelligences lies in answering this question. I've been studying neural code and consciousness from a scientific viewpoint but it doesn't look like anyone has published anything that nails this down.
Cheers,
wowo

[Wolfjk]

Originally Posted by wowo

Hi Wolfjk and others
I've studied physics more than neurology in fact. The standard physical model of the brain as I understand it is that intelligence is in the electrical interactions of our neurons. The neurons are arranged into other structures, columns for example. It brings up the most interesting question I've ever heard, just what are we. Neuron's fire in patterns called spike trains, can a spike train feel alive? Is that what I am, a certain pattern of electrical activity? Or is some other physical phenomina capable of feeling alive, perhaps a quantum mechanical one as you suggest. I think the answer to our dreams and potentially other intelligences lies in answering this question. I've been studying neural code and consciousness from a scientific viewpoint but it doesn't look like anyone has published anything that nails this down.
Cheers,
wowo

Hi wowo,
I have been wrestling with the problem of consciousness for a long time. The questions of: [size=3Who am I?, What am I?[/size] relate to the Law of Thermo Dynamics. If you look at consciousness both in dreams and in waking life, it can be compared to a pan of of water on a stove. If you want to keep it above the room temperature you constantly have to heat it. As soon as you stop heating the water in the pan, it cools to room temperature. In a living organism it would mean death!
The big problem is the issue of duality! Our phisical side could live on "bread alone" however we need the quantum energies of light, colour, and ideas to keep up, and raise our levels of consciousness.
Without the constant input of quantum energy our consciousness would dissapear. It is like turning the lights out!
Cheers Wolfjk