The Brain That Change Itself: Stories Of Personal Triumph From The Frontiers Of Brain Science - Norman Doidge, MD - 9.5
Holy fucking fascinating. This book covers a ton of ground, from the history of brain science (all the way back to Descartes), the internal science behind psychotherapy, a girl with only one brain hemisphere, the brain and body changing from pure thought, the neuroplastic implications of internet porn (he says he thinks foot fetishes come from the brain map of the feet being next to the genitals...) and fetishism, and so on. It has all sorts of added significance for those of us into RAW, Leary, Crowley, and such.
He talks about an experiment where they were able to create austistic rats to study, by exposing the babies to white noise. It contains many different frequencies and so excites many different areas in the sensory cortex during the sensory imprinting periods, and so becoming the SNAFUd up baseline state... He says that excessive white noise from electronics and the environment could be what is causing the autism epidemic. This begs the question:
DID NOISECORE CREATE JOFA?!?
Good read/listen for sure.
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