So, basically you are asking the purpose of our existence.

Why things are the way they are, and why they have the pattern of directional importance inside them.

The answer is this and whatever we have is given to us, catch this vision (alas many are unable to reason).

Arhum Tajammal 💖

Who knows or truly seeks to understand all the ill-considered (particularly venous) processes ravaging human brains?

Called to help (also the worst-off victims of such diseases), wouldn't actual physicians often be obliged to eliminate an all-pervading clinical trial mentality? Putting the profits made on top of the tested products on top of anything else?

This is very interesting!

World's first completely open- and crowd-sourced neuroscience experiment launched

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230711/Worlds-first-completely-open-and-crowd-sourced-neuroscience-experiment-launched.aspx

Hi, Arhum Tajammal that resonates with what Islam taught us to believe... but what I mean is a bit different than what your perspective is destined to see..it is precious info too actually, and will explain shortly, about mine.

It was an occupied weekend and the scorching weather of 40-41 C in the desert is not helpful with the GSM system for the internet but keeps disconnecting it..I try now to appreciate those who are friendly to share deep thoughts hidden within. Franz Schelling - your reply is concerning and I empathize and feel the pain of such " # " I dunno what to name it.

Meanwhile, deep within me, what concerns me is the brain is the organ that is like a machine that brings the mind hologram-like entity of its existence, which without it, life seems impossible. In Islam, it is among the most important aspects of humans who chose to be Muslims after the factors of religion itself and the life that allows the brain to function.

A sound brain (no. 3) is very crucial as among the prerequisites to be eligible for accountability to the Islamic Laws and Rulings - one must be:

1) Muslims

2) Reached puberty (Ar. bāligh)

3) Sound mind-intellectual-awareness-mental health (Ar. ʼāqil)

4) intentionally to choose to do something (Ar. nāwī)

5) capable to choose to do something and to do it (Ar. qādir)

6) knowingly of the religious Islamic Laws and rulings in the first place (Ar. ʼārif)

Plus, religious persons who involve in the Islamic Jurisprudence (Islamic Fiqh & Iftā') have to know about the brain very well because it helps knowing and understanding the "mind" better as it is critical to produce and convey fair and just rulings that suit humanity as the Muslims' God: Allah Sees it with full of reliability+honesty+commitment+care+entrustment+obligation+ protecting sense (Ar. amānah) according to His Divine Guidance. That is the core base of the importance of the brain to myself, my religion, and my country as well as my beliefs on what is important in dealing with the Earth with full of amānah as among the major tests of life assigned by Him as the agent of conserving and developing the Earth for prosperous life not only Herelife but also Hereafter life together.

What about yours, friends? We are encouraged to get to know others too to understand and be friendly with others as decreed in the Sūrah al-Hujūrāt.

I wish we have a database to know about others - to respect others' sensitivity/ies and see things from their perspectives respectively, therefore, we can live life more peacefully together. Most of the things, there are missing pieces of information are not there to see things as others see that make us feel or think differently and always it starts a grudge, quarrels, or even wars out of diverse opinions/beliefs/thoughts that are creatively co-existing. Subhanallah (expression of in awe). Peace = Salām.

To Allah and God, to their all-encompassing wisdom, such completely open- and crowd-sourced enterprises also become possible beyond the neurodysfunctional domain!

What about applying such an exemplary teaming up of researchers to studying the venous damages that keep pestering vulnerable structures inside the craniovertebral space?

Your brain makes you who you are. The rest of you does not really influence your character or anything else that makes you, you.

But who programs our brains, Mary C R Wilson? Are clinical guidelines all medicine needs to help those who need medical help the most?

Another interesting latest development:

Scientists Working on Merging AI With Human Brain Cells

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-working-merging-ai-human-brain-cells

ِActually, when I read about neuroscience, I think, it is the data that the brain processes whether from genetic or epigenetic sources are equally contributing to that process of what in the end, we call it "character" - I saw how my kids are different in different countries while adapting and responding to different data like our own cultural interpretation of something in various places, e.g., the way I used knife is different from it is used in Jordan (cut towards opposite yourself to avoid injury) that led them to tell me it is wrong (they cut inwardly towards self that may injure but usually not as they got used to it). Meanwhile, for me, it is normal and difficult to change to use a knife like them even though it is considered as "wrong" there. There are things keep resilient/firmly unchanged – however, some are not but we have to follow the local adaptation like cannot take shower 3 times daily like in Malaysia while in the Arabian region, while in Malaysia if you do not shower daily, you are considered lazy, dirty, and smelly because it rains daily but it is not like that in the dry Arabian region as water is filtered from the sea, it can dry our skin and becomes eczema and be sick of "lafheh" due to weather. Even if you shower 3 times daily in the winter, people will think of you as crazy.. hahaha. So, I think it is fair to say that everything is unifyingly inter-influence brain-mind - body - society-culture, and environmental factors incessantly as I experience it and observed it. Anyhow, it may be different to others as nobody is identical even though they are identical twins. Things may co-exist without being "wrong" but different/diverse ways of things can happen or be, right? That is why it is important to get to know about each other intersubjectively to understand better because sometimes our perspectives are very limiting to explore all that may exist in the creativity of the Creator who Create them in rich probabilities. We can learn these probabilities and put in algorithms too to understand better the make-up of each of us. It is a very rich knowledge to harvest than feeling better above others tendency (any form of supremacy) that put our expansion of knowledge at halt...

My source that they are all working together (at 0:45-46):

Multiomics is revolutionizing research, here’s why - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsyp0qqKzkY&t=45s

You hit the sorest point, Nur Afifah binti Abas: Can anyone derive any piece of dependable knowledge of (endless) probabilities?

Is it possible to understand the vagaries of one's playing dice?

Ought we to cross a motorway based on some statistical evaluation of rush hours or traffic intensities at different points in time?

Sure, our kids cannot escape adapting and responding to cultural vagaries. And yet, wasn't it relieving if we might prevent them from absolutizing at least one or the other of our contemporary follies?

I agree with the last para-part of your argument Prof. Franz Schelling !

I saw Prof. Thagard is making those probabilities the like of AI-based also on the semantic pointers theory of his student - Kajic. It we got a database, it can be put into the algorithm to pull all data into certain programmable whatever we need to manage from the data. Then, we do not need to be stupidly arguing (to contend the status of imposed absolutist ideas/dictatorial practice = only one practice is right/accepted, others are sentenced to epistemicide movements/programs e.g., conventional medicine) based on our limited perspectives due to our limitations as common human beings. Maybe we can justify better why some people are doing things differently before our short-sighted biases hijacked our cognition as emotions are faster in milliseconds compared to the snail-like cognition paces. If so, we as proud of claiming we are in that very very very advanced era of civilization... ;)

I am involved in this plane embarking from cultural competencies for health care professionals specifically from religious platforms, more specifically the Islamic bioethics-like perspectives for them to understand when dealing with patients of diverse backgrounds - like Prof. Padela's work.

Any idea, Nur Afifah binti Abas, on how to foster cultural competencies from any religious background (or bioethical platform) in such a way as to prevent short-sighted probabilistic medical biases from hijacking our cognition?

Possibly in taking advantage of emotions to speed up our snail-like cognition paces - thus maybe prepping some colleagues for a critique of such age-old pieces of evidence as were given at

http://www.ms-info.net/evo/msmanu/1021.htm ??

You have great meal of knowledge feeding my curiosity too Prof. Franz Schelling . Thank you, Sir.

This is interesting too:

ChatGPT is not a search engine. Here’s why you should think of it as a ‘glider’ to get better results, says engineer with Harvard PhD in neuroscience

https://fortune.com/2023/07/24/what-is-best-way-to-use-chatgpt-ai-prompts-microsoft/

This is MORE interesting...

SCIENTISTS WORKING ON MERGING AI WITH HUMAN BRAIN CELLS

"THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY IN THE FUTURE MAY EVENTUALLY SURPASS THE PERFORMANCE OF EXISTING, PURELY SILICON-BASED HARDWARE."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-working-merging-ai-human-brain-cells

Another somewhat dubious

"... IN THE FUTURE MAY EVENTUALLY ..."

Please forgive my preference for focusing on more concrete facts ;)

I have no problem with your preferences, Sir.

I read the Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, he said the IMP can feed data from the outside environment of our body and be programmed externally. So, what you said on that with regards to what Adeel Razi and team is developing - DishBrain?

Self-driving cars and trucks, autonomous drones, delivery robots, and intelligent hand-held and wearable devices ... it's a pity none solves the worst problems humankind is struggling with.

Will cell cultures of the most intelligent human brains achieve the required new type of machine intelligence?

An intelligence that is capable of learning throughout its lifetime?

Associate Professor Adeel Razi may not see how hard it is to keep learning what humanity requires most in one's lifetime - despite the best of goodwill.

If only I might find out how to show any colleague how much medical teaching is mere fiction! ;)

I bet you will Prof. Franz Schelling - very soon as AI will help you speed that up..good willing. We will co-expose them all...with AI, right? There are many other things too... even in other sciences like archeology, or say, Darwin's evolution, too? Or either they will drag more towards endless illusions, we'll see...pretty soon. I saw so much of old info that got swiftly debunked these days like the NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is doing daily to theories in physics and astronomy. It will not be long...

e.g.:

SCIENTISTS SAY TEXTBOOKS ARE WRONG ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

CHEERS TO THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS!

https://futurism.com/the-byte/textbooks-wrong-origin-life?traffic_source=Connatix

Another interesting new discovery that is AI-based contribution that over-write old science discrepancies due to human limitations:

+Machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson's disease

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230810/Machine-learning-can-accurately-predict-subtypes-of-Parkinsons-disease.aspx

Why not see?

How the bumblebee,

In peace, in quiet,

and thus endlessly

overcomes gravity?

Compare this to

the hustle and bustle

of IT technology?

Or even AI? ;)

P.S. Sorry for this apparent lack of due appreciation of the progress made by I.T. and AI, Nur Afifah binti Abas.

It's because of my having realized the worst mistakes humankind suffers from are not to be solved by such technological advances ... but by conceptual corrections.

Prof. Franz Schelling - I find your highlighted "conceptual correction" fascinating. Would you please explain more, maybe somebody who silently read will take the baton from your ideas and do something wonderful that we expect to realize soon? We never know... Sometimes, it is just because we did not ask for what we want only that hinders us from getting it, right?

I saw technology as a medium like other tools e.g., spectacles or PC... only to overcome our limitations as human beings.

Would that be promising as real bumblebees in pristine nature?

If we are expected to do, manage, and crave first what is socially (or guideline) acceptable, above all well remunerated - long before asking what is reasonable, common-sensical, or universally (not just proper, suitable, adequate but) right ...

Can we, Nur Afifah binti Abas, anyhow better characterize such a state of affairs than by these three letters: S A D? ;)

Very #speechles#. I feel a surge of empathy rushing in. May Allah/God Help people to be free from all undesirable life events soon. Amin.

May one day soon, everyone endowed with freedom for rightness and justice unharmed but encouraged and becomes normalized as the way of living everywhere. Amin.

P.S. I just knew what she said (in still pic)... I was shocked.

More in the progress of science revised "knowledge" nowadays:

Is Quantum Mechanics a Science? Here’s What Karl Popper Thinks

Why did philosopher Karl Popper believe that quantum mechanics should be revised?

https://www.thecollector.com/quantum-mechanics-science-karl-popper/

Thank you for alerting us to the importance of Karl Popper's topical thoughts, Nur Afifah binti Abas.

But who realizes the extent to which his concerns apply, at least as much, to

any clinical, in particular pharmaceutical, trial?

Who sees how easily vast expanses of our neuroscientific thinking were to be falsified once it wasn't any longer propped up by over-mighty economic forces?

I think we need another Karl Poppers who delve an intense interest in the last inquiry you highlight, Prof. Franz Schelling . Someone who is unifying science + moral + politics + economics all in one - no longer segregated mind. That demonstrates the monsters it produces from being disconnected and is a blessing in disguise to credit multidisciplinary practice/view that is unifying the view lenses one must acquire to secure everyone's safety especially safe from his/her evils on others innately. Can Elon Musk or whoever giants change this norm soon?

I just stumbled upon an article about absolutists to understand what you mean by absolutism... Would you comment if is it the same as what you meant, Prof. Franz Schelling? Thank you.

Absolutist Views Crumble As COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes Available

https://speakingofresearch.com/2021/02/16/absolutist-views-crumble-as-covid-19-vaccine-becomes-available/?fbclid=IwAR3xjy192paMT1PGFOvqxYeHZAU8-jZ_LJ2gxuf-UOb3LStNKJwTnRknHLU

Nur Afifah binti Abas, please forgive anyone who distrusts earthly giants, caught up in particular material interests ;-)

But once anything has been transformed, pieced up in +bits, -bits pieces, some more people might rather see some reason for seeing humanity and its urgencies as indispensable wholes.

Very deep wisdom to digest, Prof. Franz. Thank you.

Hi, any comment..Prof. Franz Schelling ?

Could depression and anxiety be early signs of MS?

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/depression-anxiety-bipolar-among-early-signs-of-multiple-sclerosis-ms?utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MNT%20Daily%20News&utm_content=2023-10-02&apid=&rvid=a5a4d11b2c524cd198b8a659eadf035b35844ef101bd278fd8d15fe5abafad5a

Thanks for this link, Nur Afifah binti Abas.

Patients with neurological troubles whose causes are convened upon to remain unexplained - must we not expect them to get depressed?

Isn't it amazing no more neurologists pronouncing such a clinical diagnosis share their patients' depression? If not due to their ignorance, then at least out of a medical doctor's empathy?