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    The Entangled Monkey Papers
    The Entangled Monkey Papers
    The Entangled Monkey Papers
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    The Entangled Monkey Papers

    By Steve Merrick

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    Welcome to the second edition, three more papers added.

    Humanity, emergent time, quantum physics and evolution merge together, creating one unique system. Thoughts formed from my lifetime love of science, seven different papers that try to unify many different elements of the human puzzle with the cosmic, papers that include several of my unique theoretical conclusions about us and the universe. Each one is written in very plain English so we can all hopefully understand the science behind them. Whether I am right or wrong? Time will tell. Yet as you read them draw your own conclusions, and since they are free the only thing you have to lose is time, time that you can only learn more from by exploring the ideas behind the papers, and if you draw a different conclusion to myself, then you should tell the world about it. Enjoy them or run off screaming, the choice is yours. ;-)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Merrick
    Release dateJul 15, 2015
    ISBN9781311991447
    The Entangled Monkey Papers
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    Steve Merrick

    Why is it so hard to write your own Biography and why do words like pretentious and dilemma keep ricocheting around my head as I type this. So from the top, I am Steve Merrick, I am also known as stevesevilempire the photographer, check the website any time you want or type that into google, really I am a one man evil empire. My life long dream has been to write good science fiction, real stories that use the future in an allegorical way to reflect our present. Other than cycling and tree hugging my hobbies are Physics, Marine Biology, Ilford HP5 Film, music and my first love is photography. Steve Merrick AKA stevesevilmpire

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      The Entangled Monkey Papers - Steve Merrick

      The Entangled Monkey Papers

      By

      Steve Merrick

      Copyright Steve Merrick 2015

      Smashwords edition

      Introduction.

      Time slips easily past us humans, sliding as it does effortlessly though our fingers as fine sand at the beach would, it is everywhere, but as to what it is? Well many would have you believe we are far from capable of comprehending the stuff of time. Which leaves scientists looking like small children playing in a sandpit at the aforementioned beach, and fortunately that image is very far from scientific reality, time is understandable for all of us, that much I am certain of. Yet the implications that time and its structures create are vast, in fact the potential still makes my head spin. If the concepts in the following papers are proven right or wrong, it matters little because ultimately we must question everything so we can understand everything, and the jurors of science will confirm or destroy what I am saying here, but these hypothesis have to become live, before we can move beyond the logic of animated stardust. Hopefully it will also make your head spin as I attempt to put many pieces of the puzzle together, and if you enjoy a challenge, you too can evolve these very basic ideas I am writing of and see a potential beyond any of our wildest dreams.

      Steve Merrick, 14/06/15

      THE ENTANGLED MONKEY PAPERS

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      DOES ABSURDITY HAVE MASS?

      Its an absurd question and I can answer it, but to understand the answer you have to take a journey through the mind and all of its interconnected neural architecture, so my answer is at the end of this voyage.

      Throughout our lives our brains undergo changes, when we are born, we react to every stimulus thrown at us, a child's brain can be making 700-1000 new neural connections every minute, in that rush of childhood, children's brains even prune themselves, as useless connections are cut off and absorbed back into the grey matter of the overall structure. All of which results in an adult, and you would be mistaken to think that the adult is complete, because new neural pathways can be formed throughout your life or at any age. All that human potential before I look at basic's like the wear and tear that time can create as we get older, or the physical injuries that could happen at any point. The brains developmental dance, results in a conclusion or three, but the biggest thing to accept is that there is no such thing as a perfect brain, we are a successful and resourceful species, yet if we were all wired identically, that could not be the case, every one of us is a set of unique combinations, these reflect in our personalities, physiques, and humour. Yet how does it happen, how does a highly evolved upright walking monkey mammal reach this plateaux called humanity. How does the brain become this.

      If it was simply different neurons giving us a greater acuity, then I could leave it at that but neurons alone wouldn't give this result. There are many different neurons too, the most common are pyramidal. Then in higher functioning mammals we find a newer addition to the neuronal set up, collectively called Spindle neurons, they are present in the brains of whales, dolphins, higher end primates, and elephants, every one of those species has reached a point where the brains size, creates a necessity for information to be relayed quicker, these obligatory neuronal adaptations have resulted in all of these species evolving their own uniques spindle neurons. If you look at humanities closest relative, the Bonobo monkey, they have an average of 2159 spindle neuron cells, whilst a Homo Sapien Sapien like me and you average about 82,855. Wow aren't we clever, but before you get carried away with our brilliance, some Cetacean (Toothed whale) species can have three times as many as we have, but spindle neurons alone are not capable of creating intelligence, they simply speed the signals up so a larger brain can relay data efficiently, we have even found primitive spindle neurons in Macaque monkeys, so the speeded up system helps but speed alone cannot become a human being.

      The question left me stalled mainly because I didn't have enough of the science to get the overall picture of the question, what is a human being? I was vaguely aware of all of these factors before I researched this, but another frustrating question was where the hell does imagination come from? Seriously it does leave me even now wondering how something that sublime could fire through my neurons and create whole civilisations and concepts, or more playfully interact with information to draw its conclusions, so the correct question became. How the hell does animated stardust get this complex emotionally? If I look at my notepad at the beginning it states.

      A spark plug is not an engine, yet it fires up, starting the engine. Emotions work the same way a spark plug does in the human brain.

      You see we have an often emotionless or emotionally suppressed view of our intelligence. I call it the Spock factor, and it is an impossibility. Everything about the human brain is emotional. The amygdala is an emotive control centre, which coordinates the speed that different information is relayed, call it an emotional scorecard that ranks the emotional by urgency, thus extreme fear will be a level ten and operate at a higher speed than a rumbling stomach would. This Cephalic Emotional Matrix works throughout the brain, as it prioritises emotional responses. Memories are recalled via the emotional context, and our actions hinge on them, imagine this scenario, you are in a cafe, and thinking about what to have, the stomach will be relaying its requirements, whilst you will also be having an emotional choice in front of you, your decision hinges between your needs and your desire, hence a cup of coffee and a muffin, versus a water and a pasta dish, is connected to your emotions combined with your nutritional needs. Yet this emotional processing is a vital biological imperative for our survival, it is key for our social and physical needs too, it even effects our perception of time. All of us have felt blue at some point in our lives, whilst hopefully we have all experienced happiness, when happy, time flies, when sad, its slow and yeuch.

      The fact that the emotions can effect our own perception of time is amazing in itself, but our emotions do not stop there, even in the hippocampus and the thalamus is an emotional filtering, when you add memory to this mechanism, you begin to see a true gestalt forming, a gestalt is any system that cannot be summed up just by its parts, and believe me the brain much like the universe is a gestalt of complexities, yet at its core it is simple. The brain has many emotional impulses, that give many various combinations from those basic emotions, the variation of our emotions from satisfied to terrified, are combinations of

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