by Deepthroat » May 21st, 2009, 6:04 pm
[quote="loony28":874e43/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i8]I'm not saying that it would be easy to change sex or develope a womb. What I'm saying is that there is so much that science does not understand about the mind that you just can't rule out the possibility. Yo may have heard that recently a group of scientists have been able to take skin cells and turn them into embrionic stem cells, or at least stem cells I forget which one they said. Now before this people would have said that once a cell becomes a specific type of cell it can never change.
To take this a little farther there have been reports of people with Multiple Personality Disorder that have had some physical changes take place when one personality takes over. I've heard of eye color changing and moles and birthmarks appearing or disappearing. Granted these are small things but they do stand out as the body being altered by the mind. Why couldn't it happen on a larger scale?[/quote:874e43/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i8]
You're right, and this is amazing. There are sub-portions of the brain, otherwise known as the instinctual systems of the mind or primitive brain - possibly our brain stem, that monitors and responds to our body in as much detail given. However, if data passed through, interpreted overtly (cognitively) and was given access to, and had instructed for a chance in the observation or alteration of the body, then thus our system would easily be abused. Therefore, we have security and assessment systems established overtly; our cognitive functions allow ourselves to assess data both external and internal; internal data being that of which is subliminal to our conscious mind during the present (Thus, we will always dream; there'll always be subliminal information unless we managed to expand our awareness through to a subconscious level), and external being what we consciously percieve now - we respond and evalutate this data during the present. Our conscious perception during the present is as effective to reduce data passing through to those systems; some data is likely to reach there, thus causing problems and novelty (e.g. subliminal data in a specific form, or consistent with how the mind interprets this data may pass through, and thus if those systems respond in mediation with this data, a new fetish or interest may arise consequently). Although, it's highly unlikely for mass portions of this data to pass through; it can be speculated that we create barriers, similar to appending the barrier of ports and hosts from within a computer firewall, thus reducing the effect of contingency. However, even so, we are still receptive to the environment; not all data is occluded from this system; perhaps 95%, but the rest may slip through. Moreover, the barriers of which we establish throughout our lives (e.g. to avoid x; for the placebo or nocebo to no longer work; or to obstruct this data due to its damage effect) our likely to operate autonomously once created; that is, they act subconsciously whilst we're actively conscious interpreting the external environment. Thus, these are probably the reason as to why we don't respond to threats (e.g. when one may tell someone to jump off a building or such; if we had no means by which we could establish a treat assessment autonomously (Automated; we don't do this consciously all the time, and the rest of the time it becomes 'second-nature'), our primitive mind would respond by jumping off a building (That is, if it can be interpeted; given that the individual understands this, and if it's comprehended instinctively (More than likely; our instincts are much faster at learning as opposed to our overt functions adapting to the environment)).
Now, given that we pass the data through consciously, as we could when unconscious (Whilst unconscious we have access to our subconscious cognition, and possibly access to the instinctual systems, or may pass through an instruction for the system to process), and if the data is highly significant (That is, if the task is a high priority, and atop of a list of those being processed (e.g. heart beating, etc) - to clarify, let's use a computer analogy again. If we set a task in task manager to high, the task can be completed faster, as with a given process), it may be completed within a short period of time. There have been times during which a cancer patient was given a false cure, but was desperate for a cure - the disease had affected them severely, had full faith in the authority and was cured of the disease within less than a month, and had found a healthy lifestyle commiting to outdoor activities without any symptons of the disease. The same occurs on the contrary; since it is a system, is not overt and operates autonomously, an instruction to process death will result in the death of the system along with the entire anatomy. However, once the individual became aware of the placebo, the process reversed and the cancer had reverted to its prior state; it appears that the system is capable of supressing the disease, but perhaps an additional security mechanism from within this system reacts when our cognitive systems, thus cascading the message along - the entire system - becomes aware.
Now, if we can bypass all the security and set a high priority for bodily growth; and if the system is capable of supressing cancer, releasing opposite hormones (e.g. estrogen; it's worked for me; hypnosis had cascaded a long-term affect upon my mind, but consequently, due to suggestions that increase the depthness of one in trance, I fall too deep and can't really get into a trance properly), then why should it not be capable of activating our female genes, or at least processing the natural growth as it should be towards the present age.
I honestly don't see how this can be far-fetched. It's only far-fetched for our literal mind; our conscious mind see's what it see's, which is mostly to itself, what there is. Our unconscious is more perceptive and can assess more possibilities. Furthermore, life is speculated to have been evolving for millions of years, and at an exponential rate; it wouldn't surprise me if we could grow a womb, given the advancement of life throughout Earth. Thirdly, given the large capacity of time during which life had evolved, and mostly exponentially, I don't see how it could have not obstructed its ability to monitor itself as a whole, and to make adjustments in correlation to higher functions of a system. It's not far-fetched when you compare our development of information technology; we've developed systems that are capable of being under constant observation, can establish security and can respond to adjust the system as desired, all of which had been accomplished within a very short period of time - exponentially (1mb; 2mb; 4mb; 16... 32... 64... 128... 256).
Lastly, our brain progresses with our body from birth; both are progressing almost equally, and are as equally connected.
(Perhaps if we open the possibility to this, we may find many way's in which we can alter these systems consistent with our self-image)