You are not your brain

YOU ARE NOT YOUR BRAIN!
disclaimer: these are just my thoughts on things, I am not claiming to be anybody but some guy on the internet


So I've been thinking about our bodies and the way they work. So there are two types of organisms: multicellular and and single cellular. Bacteria and stuff is single cellular.

Now with this fact we can determine that our bodies are nothing but a large mass of single cellular organisms fuzing together to form one organism united.

So we as humans are composed of our bodies, our survival instinct (some might call this a soul) which takes care of us and controls our bodies, and our higher thinking (some might call this a spirit or conscience) which guides us and makes us who we are. This higher thinking could be summed up as our ability to control our bodies, think, and make decisions.

I could probably go far out on some spiritual stuff but I'm trying to stay on topic for this one.

So we have our body which is a composition of cells forming together to make your skin, your eyes, your hair, your heart, your brain, your muscles. And then we have your higher thinking which is call the shots.

Now we know that the brain connects itself to the body at the spinal column. So since the spinal column is so useful to the brain in connecting it to the body that it could be considered the the spinal column is loosely a part of the brain.  So the spinal column connects to the rest of the body by a system of nerves connecting throughout the body using electricity to communicate to itself.

Your nerves are what transfers information from your hand, eye, nose, heart, everything and send it all to your brain with electricity to be interpreted into physical and psychological feeling.

So our bodies are pretty advanced in theory. Our little tiny cells are coming together for some reason and forming this evolved being, this giant among single celled organisms. Our cells are generating electricity like a generator. It powers our feeling, our movement, the beating of our heart and it is this electricity which is keeping us alive physically.

So now we can see the picture that we are this mass of cells fuzed together, talking to itself and staying alive. Now if the same little cells are forming together to make up my hand then it's the same cells that are forming my brain and it's my brain that is controlling my body.

How crazy would it be to consider that we have more control over our body determined on how we think? In our brain, we are communication with the rest of the body through electricity but what if we imagined that each part of the body, being formed by the same cells, has it's own sort of brain that thinks and feels but just not as smart as our brains because it has the higher thinking (soul?) which is learning, thinking, evolving.

So if our brain is in charge and if it can communicate through the body with nerves and the nerves and the brain and the rest of the body is all made up of the same cells then could we just say that maybe the brain is in charge of more than just what we think.
When we hurt ourselves our bodies go straight to work to fix itself. I'm not telling the grease burns on my hand to heal but it's still happening. And this type of thing is controlled by our bodies.
My skin is collecting the nutrients it needs to scab over, form a new layer of skin and push the old damaged skin to the outer layers to die and fall off.

Even when you think of it like that, our bodies are constantly being renewed, new skin is being created as we speak and the old layers are dying. Our hair, our nails, everything is being renewed. As we age our cells start to low down in the renewing process which is what aging is (our body slowly dying).

My brain is thinking and my cells are thinking and they are getting work done. So since my cells seem to have some sort of brain which can tell it to process nutrients and repair itself and I am a multicellular organism forming one large organism then my brain must be the brain that my cells are forming up to create the brain of any organism (be that single or multicellular) but this brain (like a brain of a single celled organism) is in charge of show.

This is where things start to get trippy...

When a single-celled organism gets hurt, it's "brain" or whatever is in charge of it is causing it to heal itself (or whatever). Now if our brain is what is in charge of an entire body of cells then what is preventing it from having more control over itself? Potential, it can be argued that our brains could allow us to be, dare I say, super-human? But why can't we control bodies the way we want to?

Well this would go back to the three things that make us up, our body, our survival instinct, and our higher thinking. Now for the sake of argument, lets say that our individual cells don't have this higher thinking? Or maybe the higher thinking isn't just our brain but our entire body of cells communicating with each other forming a super brain, an entire matrix of brains working together to form one brain throughout (or whatever)?

Now, when we want to control our cells then what do we need to do? If higher thinking is what's really calling the shots then we need to get control of our higher thinking and tape into our survival instinct to maybe heal faster, or be able to remember things, just daily tasks our bodies do with out us thinking about it but only us doing in a faster and efficient way. But how would we do that?

I feel that our emotions are tied in with our higher thinking. Emotions can control our mood, our way of thinking, even the way we physically feel. So maybe emotions are a tool for us to use to trick our brain into being more productive. And in effect our entire bodies to be more productive.

Now we can sit down and start picking this apart and comparing it to the Law of Attraction which it would make an excellent scientific explanation. Whether you do believe in that sort of thing or not you cannot deny that when you feel good things just run a little bit smoother...

Now before anybody starts nit picking about atheist science or anything this idea could easily be used to explain our Soul. Our higher thinking is sort of a mystery when you think about it. We have the ability to ponder things, remember sights, sounds, tastes. And we can choose between right and wrong (or the idea of right and wrong). We could say that yes we are a multicellular organism composed of just little specks of cells built together. The Christian Bible describes us as being formed out of the dust. The Bible used many analogies and 6,000 years ago no body would have ever have understood the idea of being made up of microscopic cells. Maybe God just said dust so he wouldn't have to describe science to his stupid kids.
And our Soul is of a Spiritual world and it could be argued that our soul is what is giving us our life and is the higher thinking controlling an otherwise savage and uninteresting organism.

Now if you want gripe about Jesus stuff then whatever. There are obviously two different trains of thought and there are a good amount of people on both sides so it would be idiotic not give both trains of thought a good look and its fare share of respect.

Now I am not an expert...
       I am not a Psychology student...
                I am just a guy who thinks too ponders too much.

Also, I'm not sure if I made any typing or grammar mistakes in this, too lazy to give it a once over.