BrainCAFE - Mind Bending Math Equation

BrainCAFE - Mind-bending Mathematical Equation

By Ramana Annamraju

We are entering the next phase of the human consciousness journey. Reported experiences: With an increased dose of DMT to 25mg This high dose of DMT experience takes a stark departure from previous experiences with the lower doses. A radically different experience! This is the summation of all experiences reported by scientists, doctors, celebrities who experimented with DMT.

Space-time Distortions.

Space opens up right in front of you and closes behind you. You are a front-row passenger in Warp drive passing through the space-time continuum. Warp is a fictional device that can bend space-time. We probably see them in sci-fi movies. (Star Trek)

Deities: Hindu Gods, Buddhist chants, Mandalas, and chakras commonly appear along with other religious symbols and Patterns

Time: Subjects feel Time stops. Past, Present, future all become one.

Ego: Egoism dissolved - Ethical, Psychological, and Rational egoisms are dissolved and wonderment takes over.

Objective: I like to take all these subjective experiences with DMT and simulate them through the Mandelbrot Fractal equation and bring mental relaxation without any chemical dependency. Subjects feel these experiences are not quantifiable,. But, when thermometers were invented, skeptics said, how do you quantify dampness, freezing cold, and frying heat!

Space-Time Distortions: Space, the environment around you, appears and disappears like magic. These mesmerizing space distortions can be created through a special kind of geometry called "Hyperbolic Geometry". Hyperbolic tessellations and Hyperbolic fractals create unusual shapes and colors. Hyperbolic shapes are pleasant but have a haunting influence on our minds. But unfortunately, we don't often come across these shapes in real life.

The famous painting called "Relativity" by MC Escher, a Dutch artist comes close to the description of hyperbolic geometry. ,. Later the 'Relativity' drawing is of particular interest to Oxford mathematician Sir Roger Penrose. Roger Penrose redrew the impossible steps with a mathematical lens. In the impossible steps, you keep climbing forever, but still, you keep ending up in the same place where you started.
These impossible steps are shown in Christopher Nolan's mind-bending movie "Inception". Leonardo DiCaprio plays the main character.

The plane has zero curvature, the sphere has positive curvature, whereas the hyperbolic structure has negative curvature. The famous person who used this kind of geometry was Albert Einstein. He was trying to understand the universe through geometry. He proposed a compelling theory in 1915 that blew everyone's mind. Gravity is not a force; it is a dent in the fabric of space-time. We are constantly falling into that dent that he calls gravity.

According to Einstein, the place you were born, and the Time of your birth, are graphical points in the space-time continuum. Your life history is being recorded in a series of points in that space-time graph. Yes, it is theoretically possible you could meet your young self. Gravity is a simply geometrical construct of non-Euclidian negative curvature, thus creating the illusion of force. The functions with negative curvatures can create mind-boggling graphics.

If you are lost in the Amazon jungle, you have a better chance of finding a way back than in hyperbolic space. In hyperbolic space, it could be a small room. It becomes exponentially harder to return to the original spot with every step you take. You are in the land of the abyss. If you go on jogging in hyperbolic space, it is almost impossible to return to the starting point. The Hyperbolic walks are widely used in Virtual Reality platforms,. You can move in so many ways virtually, though you are confined to a small area. DMT-influenced Space-time distortions are hyperbolic functions, and Mandelbrot Hyperbolic Fractals can easily recreate that.

So far, we have explored the outside world but how about inner experiences? Conscious experiences? How mathematics and science can explain blissful feelings. These kinds of questions bothered scientists and philosophers alike, for centuries.

Emmanuel Kant, an 18th-century German philosopher, considered space as an inbuilt principle of the mind. The architecture behind the mind is geometry. It is known that savants remember sounds and memories with shapes and colors. The brain and mind are two distinct entities. Radio is the brain, and music is the mind. Scientists say your "mind" isn't confined to your brain or even to your body.

In 2014 the Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for the discovery of unique kinds of neurons in the 'hippocampus' of the brain. They are named "PLACE CELLS" and "GRID CELLS". These cells create an inner GPS system for humans. They let you navigate locations and places. . If you turn your head to the left, these cells fire up and create a map. That's how you know your head is now, moved to the left. These cells are brain positioning systems for us, constantly making geometrical coordinates for your next movement.

The "place and grid" cells temporarily suspend their activity during a deep meditative state. It makes you feel that you are lost in space and thus creates the feeling of omnipresence That is interpreted as blissfulness! In the case of Alzheimer's, "place and grid" cells are permanently damaged. These cells in dementia patients are not able to produce geometrical maps. So they lose the sense of location, wandering, not knowing where they are at. Recent studies suggest the functions of Place and Grid cells can be extended to even the concepts like Thought and Time. Thought is a geometrical construct in the brain. Even abstract concepts are believed to be stored in geometrical patterns in the brain.

BrainCafe

Virtual Reality(VR) is not just for entertainment.; it can play a critical tool for mental relaxation. Mental Health professionals started using VR for PTSD and Phobias. VR is also being used as a tool in pain management. I designed a "BrainCAFE" program in 2015. Brainscape is a physical space similar to yoga centers but equipped with VR and neuro meditation devices. Every day 10-15 minutes of watching this dazzling array of fractals with guided meditation may be the mass solution for impending mental health catastrophe.

Bernardo Kastrup, a former CERN computer engineer philosopher, eloquently summarizes the human mind. We are all one mind, but we all humans are afflicted with mental health disease called Dissociative identity disorder (DID),. This disorder gives you a false impression that you are separate from everyone else. He argues there is ample scientific evidence that we are all one mind! Benoit Mandelbrot, an unassuming IBM engineer, and his elegant mathematical equation with Virtual Reality just precisely do that, creating one Universal conscious mind!

Roger Penrose teamed up with anesthesiologist Dr.Stuart Hameroff in the 1990s, proposed a novel theory of how consciousness manifests in the brain. Experimental scientist Anirban Bandopadhya from Japan gave life to that idea. Recent studies are showing that fractal dimensions may be the key to understanding our minds. So watching Fractals may have a profound influence on our minds.

I believe if you spend 5-10 minutes every day watching Mandelbrot equation generated-Hyperbolic Fractals in a Virtual Reality setting, along with meditative music, it will ease the pressures of the day. MedBricks designed BrainCAFE enterprise for in-hospital settings and traditional office settings. It will help healthcare professionals and returning office workers who are almost mentally at the breaking point.

It is not all known, but fractal geometry has a profound effect on brain and mind well being

Watch my proposed venture and let me know what you think of it

Personal Note:

I am so honored to meet one of my heroes and living legend, Oxford Mathematical Physics Professor Sir Roger Penrose. In his book "Emperor's new mind", he argues computers never replace human consciousness because nature's mathematical laws do not permit it!