Beyond Biology

Are we machines or more than the sum of our parts?I originally intended to employ brain science in pursuit of a bare human essence or soul. I found in Neurology even deeper insights. We humans bootstrap the brain, through many iterations, in a more secular way. Brain science in the service of religion is a misadventure. Still there is more to humankind than biological description, in that we have far richer experience than biological endowments should allow. That layer of civilization, mediated by the brain, has multiplied mental and physical capacities. This book will reveal for the reader heretofore untold brain machinations in novel ways. It is my hope that my passion for the intellectual challenge of this field is conveyed in these pages. If you are interested in the brain, there is much for you here. But because we have reached a threshold of intellect, we will now step right out of our bodies and heads into a wider realm, that threatens to alter the very definition of self. The eye sees only a sliver of the full spectrum of light, yet we visualize over the entire wide spectrum and picture galaxies and atoms with invisible light. Imagination catapults us from the mundane little world into fiction and prophesy and outer space and we do it all with associative volumes of brain. I invite you to find out how in Beyond Biology.