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conscious mind to brain and two, this information is processed along with the information available in the brain from the body. The brain has an electric field. The information from the conscious mind is supposed to transfer to the brain by the process of resonance, when the two fields, conscious mind and brain, excite at the same frequency due to thought activity or stimulation of brain field by demands of the body. This is only a preliminary assessment of the processes going on in the brain and conscious mind and further investigation are necessary to uncover and open out the secretes of the subtle part of our existence.
Any thought activity is a joint operation of both the conscious mind and the brain. Measurements on the brain represent only a part of the mental thought process. The hidden part of conscious mind may be much more than the roleplayed by the brain. So interpretations of mental processes based on brain measurements alone are not only incomplete they may also lead to erroneous inferences, e.g. the brain produces consciousness. The materialists must know this fact before making their claims.
Is the information stored in mind or brain or both? We know that in the scientific methods of information storage, hardware as well as an electromagnetic means is required in some way. The hardware and the electromagnetic medium together make it possible to store information. The same can be assumed to be true in organisms. The brain is the hardware and its electric field and the conscious mind provide the electro magnetic media to complete the storage system. This system can not only store but also process information at the instance of the soul via adhyavasaya. None of the individual component of this system can either store or process information. The information storage in the karma body, unconscious mind, is made on the principle of hologram and it is of different kind. A hologram can store immense amount of memory, one cubic centimeter of holographic film can held as many as 10 billion bits of information. A hologram is capable of encoding and decoding frequencies; a function that is assigned to karma body and it is because of this that organisms perceive the world according to Karl Pribram. The holographic memory is carried forward by the soul during transmigration from one body to another but the conscious memory is lost on brain death.
The conscious mind is connected to breathing. When the conscious mind is in agitated state the rate of breathing is high and when the conscious mind is calm the rate breathing is low. Every one experiences such conditions, for instance in a state of anger the mind is agitated and the breathing rate is high. The breathing rate is low and the mind is at rest while sleeping. The opposite is also true; by controlling the rate of breathing the state of conscious mind can be changed. The breathing exercises known as pranayama are potent methods to train the conscious mind. For the breathing process is linked to prana body, the prana body is coupled to conscious mind. This is why the conscious mind and prana Arhat Vacana, 23 (4), 2011
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