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Thinking by heart (Qalb) vs Thinking by the brain. Heart (Qalb) as a seat of certain types of cognitions

Few Terms:

Déjà vu , 

False memory, 

Confabulation, 

Reincarnation memory,

Rememberance and recollection, 

Unconscious memory, 

Repressed memory, 

Muscles or organ memory, 

Memory of the Heart /Qalb, 

Procedural Memory, 

Short term and Long term Memory, 

Synaptic or Cellular Memory, 

Generic Memory

Memory of THE Reality.

Enlightenment or" Divine Rememberance"

Illustrative Example:
From "A Map of the Divine Subtle Faculty: The Concept of Qalb (Heart) in Classical and Contemporary Islamic Scholarship". https://doi.org/10.4226/66/5a962c67c6893
According to the diagram of Qalb (attached), a person's spiritual life or Ruh has the Heart (Qalb) inside (not the brain).
Qalb has 4 more layers inside (different authors arranged them many ways) but here is the simplified arrangement that Qalb contains. 1. Fuad (Inner Heart) 2. Sirr (Secret), 3. Khafi (Archenum) and 4. Akhfa (Super Archenum).

Where is your Memory in the brain?

It is not as simple you might suspect.

Let me start with...

It is NOT stored in one location.

It is NOT stored in a fixed group of Neurons.

It is not stored in synaptic terminals.

It is not stored in a specific neural circuit.

It is not stored by enzymatic modification of certain receptor or proteins or genetic facilitation or silencing via methylations.

Then where is it?

It is the electrical waves between areas (but the same memory can be represented by similar electrical waves but using different neurons each time which is "different" than the original neuron that participated in the memory "encoding" and consolidation phase.

So there is NO fixed locus of memory.

Because there is No fixed location needed, the brain's physical size cannot impose the amount the new memory can be formed. Same brain regions participate creating new and unlimited amount of memory.

It is like, how many times you can create waves in a pond or in a river.

The correct answer is: There are no limits (unlike computer hard disk where every disk has predefined read and write function shelf life at the time of manufacturing the hard disk. So they have a limited size.

Now ask yourself.. Is wave part of the water or wave is what water does!

Is a Movie is part of the TV set or what TV set displays!

And Finally, is memory part of the brain or what brain does! If so.. there does the memory come from?

Think.

Reflect.

Find out.

Footnote #1:
The root of Memory: Brain or Outside Brain? Transmittable?
Memories could be stored in cells outside the brain. Researchers can use electrical shocks to teach common freshwater flatworms (Dugesia dorotocephala) to respond to lighting cues by moving to a particular part of a petri dish. That is, flatworms can be trained to remember a behavior and perform it on cue. Then their head had been cut off, and its brain had grown anew, and the regenerated worms were able to recall the behaviors they had learned to execute under certain lighting conditions. "The tail regenerates," and "showed as good a memory of the original task as did the heads. Memory in flatworms could be transferred through cannibalism, .ie. flatworm could learn the memories (transferred from another flatworm) of another by eating the flesh (non-brain) of another flatworm who had the experience.
Original Articles:
McConnell JV. Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarians. Journal of Neuropsychiatry. 1962;3(1):542–548.
McConnell J.V., Malin D.H. (1973) Recent Experiments in Memory Transfer. In: Zippel H.P. (eds) Memory and Transfer of Information. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2052-4_15 https://link.springer.com/.../10.1007/978-1-4684-2052-4_15 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/146/3641/274.long
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1962-00603-001
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23821717/

Footnote #2:
Brain-Heart acts as if they are a pair. Anxiety can initiate tachycardia. Non-anxiety tachycardia (drug-induced tachycardia or Atrial fibrillation) can precipitate anxiety in the brain and vice versa. As I mentioned in the essay, there is a heavy reciprocal Brain-heart Neuronal and "non-neuronal" feedback loop [sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation] and each affects the other.

Footnote #3:
From all the comments, I can gather 3 main issues that have been raised:
1. Question regarding embryology and the heart THE seat of the Soul
2. Effect on Brain from Heart: Transplant data. Confusing and inconclusive data
3. Relevance of Planaria studies to the Human level. They are so different!

We have to remember, the concept Qalb is a symbolic expression using the heart as an organ. The goal of my essay is the show the mental rationale for the ancients why they thought so, which is also approved by many scripture verses. So we have to read between the line and develop our own idea from those "signs", symbols and allegories.
# 1: Question regarding embryology and the heart as The seat of the soul.
My comments:
Ancients thought because the planets, sun, moon are moving, they also have a soul. That sounds ridiculous right. Yes, it does, but that's the way ancients viewed the world.
By analogy, the organ that can move also has "a" (not THE) soul. If you accept the idea of a soul (perceptive and analyzing entity or faculty) our whole body (not only the brain as we know it) has souls in different organs. Skin, Eye, and Muscles, to mention a few, all have their local mechanisms (independent of the brain) to detect (perceive) analyze and respond to the stimuli.
In the essay above, no way I said or claimed that the heart is "THE" seat of the soul. All I am saying from circumstantial evidence from history, Islamic literature, and neuroscience research that the heart might possess a soul-like entity that is developmentally more primitive than the brain in this context. It is obvious, all the mental activity that we commonly perceive and use comes from the brain. Then how can scripture insist that the heart is participatory in one's emotional, intuitive cognition? The purpose of this essay is to show the analogy (NOT a proof or Claim).
But if you take this idea to the extreme and want to say concretely that the heart is the seat of THE soul, then probably you misunderstood the whole purpose and context of this short essay written (in 30 min).
In summary:
1. Many body parts outside the brain have a rudimentary awareness of their environment and the ability to respond to it.
2. Muscle and heart have brain some "memory" of their own, independent of the brain.
3. The heart is NOT the seat of the entire soul of our being but has some soul-like properties (Circumstial evidence from Historical way of thinking, Poetic literature and even Islamic literature, and neuroscience studies)
4. Long before the brain is doing brain function during embryogenesis that can be observed (moving limbs, breathing, seeing, etc), the heart can be seen visibly moving (and by the movement of heart analogy) might lead the ancients and medieval scholars to give special attention to have a possible soul like attributes outside the brain.
5. Heart is relatively centrally located (as opposed to the brain, which is quite terminally located in the body). So the Core of our being is also allegorically expressed by the centrality of the heart in the body.
# 2: Effect of Heart on Brain or Cognition: Transplant data
My comments:
In another footnote, I already explained Brain-Heart acts as if they are a pair. Anxiety can initiate tachycardia. Non-anxiety tachycardia (drug-induced tachycardia or atrial fibrillation) can precipitate anxiety in the brain and vice versa. As I mentioned in the essay, there is a heavy reciprocal Brain-heart Neuronal and "non-neuronal" feedback loop [sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation] and each affects the other.
You are right about transplant data. The transplant studies are also just observation data (not double-blind and not able to control all the possible confounders) that goes in the direction (NO way a PROOF) of the heart's participation in mental state and function. No more and no less.
Actually, we don't need transparent data (inherently problematic because of post-transplant immunotherapy, long waiting period, and the neurotoxic effects of drugs [even after statistical adjustment]. We all can see Brain-Heart act as a pair. When you are calm, your heart rate is also comfortably low. When the heart rate is artificially or chemically increased (independent of the brain's input), we feel anxious and this anxiety can affect our cognitive ability. But is nice to see a paper also suggest the same direction that we are talking about here in the post that's why I included it as again as a piece of circumstantial evidence.
# 3: Relevance of Planaria studies to the Human level. They are so different.
My comments:
Planarian data is just to point out that memory has lots of levels and all these levels are also working in our brain neurons and also in other excitable tissues like skeletal or cardiac muscle.
Example:
1. Cellular memory: Receptor upregulation, downregulation, Kinase activate, cAMP accumulation, and the list goes on.
2. Neuronal Memory: Long Term Potentiation, Synaptic Plasticity
3. Circuit level Memory: Facilitations, Occlusion, Feedforward Inhibition or Stimulation, Feedback loop, etc.
4. Epigenetic Level: Rat experiments where granddaddy rate exposed to electric shock can be transmitted as anxiety respond to next generations without gene alterations.
5. Genetic Memory: All the fixed genetic code designed to perform functions related to memory, is actually selected and preserved for remote ancestors for usefulness (sort of genetic imprinted memory)
So Planarian is an exemplary and illustrative case of the scope of such diverse types of memory.
Because you don't need a brain to remember to do certain things in Planarian, by the same token, you don't need a brain to withdrawal your hand from the fire. The nerve conduction velocity is too slow to go the brain, then come back to the muscle to withdraw your hand. In this case, the mechanism does not go to the brain, and the circuit is more peripheral. If you study, you will see those cellular and molecular mechanisms are still working at the human cellular level too. So it is very analogs to Planaria, and indeed this kind of research is still relevant to humans. See more specifics on neuroscience data below.

Footnotes #5:
Q1:
Has your work here been peer-reviewed?
A1:
Although the post here is as academically rigorous as any others to be accepted and published in many philosophical/theological journals, I am not interested to publish it right now. The "peers" are typically gatekeepers and they typically convolute and complicate the simple meaning (as written here in the post) by various academic jargon so that only "initiated" will get the sense and hence the meaning of the post will not be accessible to any generally educated person.
Q2
If so, I was wondering what sort of questions they asked you.
A2:
The moment you need a peer to support or approve your idea, automatically means, you need some confirmation from others. But the nature of Qalb is such that you don't need peer-reviewed. It is self-evident and self-sufficient. But it is always nice to hear from other people, hence YOU are my peers here and we are doing peer review in an unconventional and unfiltered way.
Q3:
I have a few burning questions on the diagram. Qalb is the heart - is it a biological organ or a metaphysical object or both? Where is nafs located? The splits of the three kinds of nafs and then the whole life form being a complete prediction of life itself - how is that handled? Why is it separated from the other concentric circles?
A3:
Qalb is the core, ancient, archetypal, contemplative subtle inclination and perceptive ability that is associated and symbolized by the physical organ heart. It is not located inside the heart. Just like our mind is not located inside the brain and our mind is associated with the brain.

If you can see what Qalb is, then there is no distinction or boundaries or concentric circles. It is just one thing. The division and boundaries are just tools for description and gradations. There are no such physical boundaries. In simple words, Qalb is just a way of thinking and perceiving reality as they actually are. Once you can see the reality as actually, they are, you will see there is no such rigid boundary.

Original Articles:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29055147/
https://doi.org/10.4226/66/5a962c67c6893
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2052-4_15 https://link.springer.com/.../10.1007/978-1-4684-2052-4_15 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/146/3641/274.long
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1962-00603-001
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23821717/
...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293944391_Science_of_the_Heart_Volume_2_Exploring_the_Role_of_the_Heart_in_Human_Performance_An_Overview_of_Research_Conducted_by_the_HeartMath_Institute/figures?lo=1

Suppose you created a new world where you put a similar creature like you (perhaps a biological robot with self aware AI) in it.

In the concluding part of the book "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science," Carl Sagan posed one of the "Ultimate Questions" as

"My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence were provided by such a god ... on the other hand if such a god does not exist then our curiosity and intelligence are the essential tools for survival"

Lets break it down:

Either

"If a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence were provided by such a god"

OR, ... "on the other hand"

"If such a god does not exist then our curiosity and intelligence are the essential tools for survival"

Here is my short comments:

If the instinct of "survival" points to something beyond mere "survival" then both "Either", or ""... on the other hand" points towards something more like a "design" or "telos" or what the ancients used to call "God". 

But Segan chose not to go there; instead, he intentionally tried to confuse people who trusted him. Regrettably, many still trust him and are left in a state of perpetual confusion. 

 Poem: To speak or not to speak:

They say.. those who speak, do not know,

Those who know, do not speak!

I give no damn in either critique,

Just decided, I am free to speak.

The speaker of the truth doesn't care if you accept it or not,

The listener ought to see who knows and who does not!

Once recognized, then Truth will descend upon you,

It will show you the ways that you had no clue.

It will make you proud yet humble,

From that point, you start feeling the ineffable!

Then cycle again starts,

If you want, you can speak again from hearts!

Many will reject, some will attack and some will laugh,

But a few will see the truth and keep it alive on your behalf.

It is not your job to win over people nor to make them adhere,

Rather, Sing the Truth out for those with ears to hear!

They say the gift of prediction abilities comes from decades of "hard work". In old times, it was said that the gift of prophecies comes only from God. Prediction (or Prophecy) is a tricky business, and the only way it is absolutely accurate is when it is a self-fulfilled (after-the-fact prophecies but not known by the rest) Prophecy by design. However, some of my predictions (you can also call them Prophecy) that I did privately about some situations that I do not control came true with time. Unless you make an attempt publicly, then how can you be sure that you don't have the gift or you are just deluded? Here is my prediction (of prophecy).

There are seven major reasons that will lead to significant upheaval, shakeup, paradigm shift, and controlled demolition within the next 30-100 years. These reasons are as follows:

1. Science finds itself in a precarious position. Empirical evidence contradicts the principles of relativity, and there lacks a genuinely satisfying theory for gravity. While science claims that the Earth is in motion, empirical observations suggest otherwise, even indicating the possibility of the Earth being larger than officially disclosed. Furthermore, the official policies concerning health, diseases, and vaccines are no longer considered honest. Science has lost the trust of the people. However, a new generation of scientific theories will emerge, asserting the obsolescence of the "old Einsteinian views" due to their lack of knowledge, despite secretly having possessed this knowledge all along. = "Science reorganization / Controlled demolition to bring a 'new paradigm'."

2. The Moon Landing is a carefully crafted lie and deception, comprising both political and scientific deceptions. Those who were responsible will attempt to shift blame onto corrupt politicians who will be removed from power. "We The People" now in charge, they will say (actually, we the people were and always will be "them," not "we the plebs") = Political shakeups / change in Power structure from "Old ways" to "New Ways".

3. Various secretive entities, such as the "Hidden Hands," CIA, FBI, and pedophile rings, along with deep states, are being exposed by the patriot movement, aided by organizations like Wikileaks and figures like Putin. This exposure leads to political upheaval. However, these entities will selectively highlight certain individuals and attribute all the evils committed by this "group of people" to a single individual, thus creating a new figure akin to Hitler as a convenient scapegoat. They will conveniently ignore the underlying facts. To downplay the significance of these events, comedy movies will be made, treating them as "entertaining things of the past," signifying the end of that era. = Deep State Reorganization / Controlled demolition.

4. Prominent figures like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and other entrepreneurs will get busted for their involvement in dubious activities such as shady vaccines, fake demonstrations, and spying deals. Elon Musk, for instance, will confront a "spiritual crisis" due to the revelation of fabricated footage of rockets in space and a fake Mars mission. A new generation of entrepreneurs will emerge as "regulated entrepreneurs," subject to controls similar to those imposed on stocks and bonds. Entrepreneurship will no longer be accessible to the public, with authorities justifying this restriction as a means of "protecting" individuals. = Full of Stars / Celebrities and Rise of New Stars

5. The erosion of trust in governments and the decay of monetary systems on a global scale are leading to a gradual shift away from the US dollar's petro backing. This shift corresponds with the rise of decentralized currencies and blockchain technology. However, these decentralized systems will eventually fall under the control of the same wealthy individuals who currently dominate the majority of global wealth. By exercising control over the fiat-to-crypto gateway, they will indirectly govern decentralized currencies for the masses. Fiat currencies will persist, but they may be backed by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) or central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Only the elite class will possess the means to acquire and store their own BTC, leaving the rest of the population restricted to "protective" measures, and it will be declared illegal to possess raw cryptocurrencies or face legal consequences. = Centralization Paradigm to Decentralization Paradigm (Even those Decentralized paradigms will still be controlled by the same hidden hands).

6. AI/Crispr/mRNA/Protein Folding/Personalized "medicine" will usher in a False Refuse of Transhumanism and will be seen as the "promised land" to overcome and transcend mortality. Because people will voluntarily embrace transhumanism, they will sacrifice their privacy, freedom, and money to have those "transhuman, interplanetary" citizenship status. AI will monitor your every word and action and guide you to the "right path" as prescribed by the AI smart contract deployers. Only a few worthy will have the license to reproduce in a supervised and organic way. For the rest, you need to have a Stellar social credit to have a permit to reproduce. The rest of the workers will be produced in an artificial womb with an obedient gene implanted via mRNA (Crispr or Prenatal vaccine for "Belligerence"). The workers will work 18 hours a day and spend 100% of what they earn and will remain poor without any reserve and wholly dependent on the "government" for their sustenance. Non-compliant people will be sent to correctional facilities to get their behavior changed analogous to the current prison system. Even a few people who will understand what is happening will be powerless to do anything. If they attempt to do anything, the mass people will not listen to them because they are labeled as AI "conspiracy theorists" or they will be labeled as schizoid personalities or psychiatric disorders and will be sent to mandatory counseling sessions. = Rise of Transhumanism / AI paradigm.

7. The emergence of a "new age" pseudo-spirituality seeks to undermine genuine spirituality as promoted by traditionalists. This "New Age" movement is being actively promoted by entities like the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the deep state. Instead of embracing spirituality, they reframe it as a "New way of Thinking," much like the past promotion of a "new American way of thinking." = Ideological Shift to give the sheeple some "Fresh Ideas" to believe in. It is plausible that many major religions themselves are products of deep state conspiracies or freemasonry, but for ancient times. During that era, social media did not exist, allowing the deep state of that period to successfully seal the deal by creating and solidifying "immutable scriptures" and crystallizing miracle myths. = Spiritual Crisis / Spiritual Rebirth, yet the underlying premise and axiom remain the same.

End Result:

As a result of these factors, the world is poised to enter another transformative paradigm, akin to the industrial revolution, the age of enlightenment, the age of Christianity, and the age of Egyptian supremacy, all of which had their moments of glory in the past. Regrettably, the same group of people, their ideological leaders, and wealthy families who currently hold power and wealth will continue to rule in the future, albeit under different business and brand names. This phenomenon is known as Samsara, a Sanskrit term that signifies moving towards the same core or ending, emphasizing the continuity of power structures and their influence. [Samsara सम्- (sam-) = "with, in company with. Same. Similar. सार (sāra) = Moving towards the same core or same ending. End result)]. The more we CHANGE, the more we remain the SAME.

In conclusion, it is important to acknowledge that nothing will inherently improve in the foreseeable future. The concept of a utopia or promised land is merely an illusion. The time for action is now or never. It is imperative to awaken to the truth for your own sake. Engage in personal exploration, observation, and deep contemplation to uncover the real truth. There is no external savior who will rescue us from this predicament. It is up to each individual to save themselves from this intricate web of deception and chaos.

Sincerely Yours..

5/31/2023