Researchers decode patterns that make our brains human

The human brain may be the most complex piece of organized matter in the known universe, but Allen Institute researchers have begun to unravel the genetic code underlying its function. Research published this month in Nature Neuroscience identified a surprisingly small set of molecular patterns that dominate gene expression in the human brain and appear to be common to all individuals, providing key insights into the core of the genetic code that makes our brains distinctly human.

"So much research focuses on the variations between individuals, but we turned that question on its head to ask, what makes us similar?" says Ed Lein, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. "What is the conserved element among all of us that must give rise to our unique cognitive abilities and human traits?"

This article is somewhat laughable.

The human brain functions more like a radio transmitter and receiver than a computer. Thoughts are not stored in the brain any more than the music you hear coming from a radio is stored in the radio.

After my death experience from meningitis, people’s thoughts and stored memories became physical objects to my perception. These thoughts and memories are merely anchored in the body. Stored memories are actually in a very organized field that surrounds the physical body, going out about 15 feet at its smallest radius. Consciousness flows through this field in various pathways that determine personality, sexual preference, emotional subconscious responses.....

It’s pretty easy to tell what a person’s mother thought of their father even though the subject is 60 or 70 years old. It’s like x-rays to bones, not psychic ability. To prove that the memory is there, I’ll stand many feet from a person while they have their eyes closed, and my merely poking the memory in their field will knock them off their feet.

I’ve been doing this for over 25 years and can explain and demonstrate the neuropathways and how the field interfaces with the physical body. It’s so simple I’m amazed that no one has ever discovered this.

“Did you know that their is a genetic pattern for our brains?”

“What if the genetic pattern for your brain got mixed up with the genetic pattern for your asshole?”

“You’d be a Democrat.”

The article is about gene expressions not individual memories, thoughts, exc. the gene expressions are the same over all humans but quite different than mice, other primates, and it speaks to species uniqueness. What you’re talking about is, among other things, what makes us individuals.

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