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A New and Comprehensive Way to Make Sense of Humanity and Its Place in the World

The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside- Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886		epilepsy schizophrenia depression autism stuttering internal experience
Everything we do/experience is a function of the nervous system (?)

Neurons and Neuronal Signalling

• The nervous system is a complex assembly of a very large number of interacting neurons
• All behaviors/experiences reflect patterns of signals in those neurons
• Neurons are largely the same in different parts of the nervous system and in the nervous systems of different organisms
• Neuronal signals are largely the same in different parts of the nervous system and in the nervous system of different organisms
• Neuronal signals may originate either inside or outside of the nervous system, and can be influenced by a variety of material agents (including chemicals)
• There is some degree of indeterminacy in the generation of neuronal signals
• The organization of the nervous system in influenced by its own activity