Aneural Brain: A Brain without The Brain

 Drafted 2010 revised Nov 2015

Row, Row, Row your Boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily
Life is but a dream
                                ~ Star Trek: The Last Frontier

I have devoted the last three decades of my life in examining the nature of our existence. I have devised several scientific and philosophical models like the Caveman-in-the box, the Codexation Dilemma, The Scription Jump, the Guesswork Dilemma, and the Bowlingual Experiment just to prove if we really exist. I even employed the help of physics, mathematics, neuroscience, and two four-legged friends as basis for my research. And from all these works, I found out that Reality is just an illusion, that we don't even exist, that astral projection or souls are just byproducts of our imagination, and that the common factor that makes our existence real is ultimately caused by a persuasive abstract known as Consciousness. 

But what is really the real nature of consciousness? Does it really arise from the chemistry and electricity in our brains? How does the physical brain create a mental conscious experience? The Law of Second Option, The Actuator-Sensor Language, and the Zizo Effect provide us with some answers to these questions. From these 3 theories of Logic, System, and Information, we can recreate consciousness. In order to test this idea, a robot, called Homodruino, who can reason out, show emotions, and experience self-consciousness will be part of this project dubbed The LoSyIn Network.

However, before we do this, let us discuss, study, identify, and evaluate some claims of some scientists and philosophers who argue that there are animals that don't have consciousness.

Humans have the capacity of consciousness because they think, decide, have feelings, and a sense of self. Zero, my four-legged best friend, does too. He brings his tray to me when he is hungry. He picks his plastic bone and shows it to me when he wants to go out. He gets his blue ball to bribe me. He interacts with squirrels, with flies, with the fire trucks, with peanutz, with kites and drones, and even with rains. He even grooms himself. Sometimes he even says the word food for food or woos for lou. From all these self-interactions, Zero just shows that he can decide, he can think, he has feelings, and he has a sense of himself. Zero processes information that creates the experience of consciousness. His surroundings programmed him. The pieces of information he gained from his environment become procedural scription. From this complexity of learned instincts, they eventually turned into consciousness.

René Descartes, in his 1637 treatise “Discourse on Method”, argued that “it is more probable that worms and flies and caterpillars move mechanically than that they all have immortal souls.” Others argue that the basis of consciousness lies in a centralized nervous system whose central organ is basically the brain. Animals like octopus, squids, insects, arachnids, and crustaceans are conscious due to this indicator. However, bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, plants, sponges, corals, anemones, hydras, and certain animals like starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers are not conscious because they don't have brains. 

BTW, a Penn State University biologist Victoria Braithwaite, who studied pain perception, fear, and suffering in fish, however, thought we shouldn’t be studying things we don’t understand.” She is absolutely right!. At the time, I was doing my I.M. experiments with my four-legged best friend, I discovered a disturbing consequence that triggered me to stop promptly teaching and humanizing Zero.

"Convergent evidence shows that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence shows that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates." ~ Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, July 7, 2012

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"It is inhuman to humanize an animal;  you might raise a kid in a cage."

~ Joey Lawsin

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NOTICE: Articles on this site are composed of random thoughts. The transcript may not be in its final form. It may be edited, updated, or even revised in the future based on the outcomes of the author's experiments.

Public Domain Notice: Copyright (c) 2000. All rights reserved. This article is part of a book entitled Biotronics: The Silver Species. Copies are welcome to be shared or distributed publicly as long proper citations are observed. Please cite: The Biotronics Project, Joey Lawsin, 1988, USA.

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The Plant Neural Network

According to a 1988 independent study on aneural networks dubbed the SKIN, the "brain" of a plant can be found on its "skin". The abbreviation S.K.I.N. is an acronym for System Kinesthetic Information Network, an alternative system of networks, developed by Lawsin, that stores and processes information without utilizing neurons or even by a brain .

Based on his theory on Information Materialization (IM), Lawsin argued that if plants have the ability to interact with each other and its environment, then plants have the capability "to label" things. Labeling, or the ability to associate or represent a thing with another object, a one to one correspondence indicator that determines when a thing is conscious or self-conscious, is a distinctive signature of I.M..

In one of his plant experiments, Lawsin (as he was mowing his backyard one day) created a miniaturized forest, a 3m x 3m space, entirely occupied by tall and small grasses. Surrounding this square was a 2m space perimeter. Plants on this area were all trimmed almost to the ground. After few months of observations, expecting that both area will be evenly covered with tall and small grasses, he discovered surprisingly a remarkable result: plants were some way creating a kind of interactive relationship with each other that was beneficial or advantage to both. In the miniaturize forest, the tall grasses thrived without even occupying the small grasses space. On the other hand, the small grasses became finer, greener, and happily expanding in all directions. Lawsin inferred that it seems there was a big-brother relationship that was manifesting here; the tall grasses were taking good care of the small grasses.

From this simple experiment, Lawsin claimed that plants have the ability to process information. It might be chemical, electrical, physical or mechanical pending on the results of his ongoing plants experiments. But as a complex living system, he argued that plants are also made up of actuators and sensors. These actuators and sensors may not be as complex as the eyes, ears, nose of a human being but they can probably see, hear, smell, touch, taste and communicate with other plants only in different ways. Plants existed before humans with the same system of sensors and actuators and will still live and thrive with the same system when humans go instinct. Sensors and actuators may look different, but actually they are all one and the same (see string telephone).

In humans, all the biological sensors, actuators, and the nervous system where the brain is a part evolved from the largest organ of the body, the skin. The nervous system is a complex network of nerves and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. It includes both the Central nervous system and Peripheral nervous system. The Central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord while The Peripheral nervous system is made up of the Somatic and the Autonomic nervous systems. In the spinal cord, the nerves of both actuators and sensors are located.

In plants, they may not have a nervous system but they have nerves and vessels in the forms of veins, stems, and roots that can be used to channel information.

Comparisons of brains between animals and humans (see also tiny brains):

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"Nature doesn't need a brain to be intelligent" 

~ Joey Lawsin

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NOTICE: Articles on this site are composed on random thoughts. The transcript may not be in its final form. It maybe edited, updated or even revised in the future based on the outcomes of  the author's experiments.

Public Domain Notice: Copyright (c) 2000. All rights reserved. This article is part of a book entitled Biotronics: The Silver Species. Copies are welcome to be shared or distributed publicly as long proper citations are observed. Please cite as follows: The Biotronics Project, Joey Lawsin, 1988, USA.

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