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Re: Serious discussion about pot & looping/music
Title: Re: Serious discussion about pot &
looping/music
At 3:53 PM +0100 5/23/03, Geoff Smith wrote:
Just out of curiousity where is the brain
stem?
I have never heard this term
before.
AKA medulla oblongata.
It's the part of the brain just before the spinal column. The
motor and sensory nerves pass through it, and it hosts the autonomic
functions of the nervous system. The brain stem is a part of the
nervous system where a lot of physical performance messaging takes
place. Not being a neurologist I can only offer my opinion that in
musical performance a lot of the lower level control mechanisms can be
"offloaded" from the cognitive areas of the brain to the
brain stem.
One of the "cosmic insights" I had during psychedelic
experiences is that consciousness is not the exclusive province of the
forebrain. I think a lot of physical activity is controlled and
coordinated further out in the body (this might give new levels of
meaning to the expression "far out"). Physical coordination,
as in sports and music, may be due in part to one's ability (whether
inborn or learned) to distribute one's consciousness throughout the
body.
Again, this is my opinion based on personal experience. If anyone
has scientific evidence pro or con I'd like to hear it.
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