Anesthetic causes unconsciousness by creating brain chaos

…“The brain has to operate on this knife’s edge between excitability and chaos,” said Earl Miller, professor of neuroscience at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the study’s co-corresponding author. “It’s got to be excitable enough for its neurons to influence one another, but if it gets too excitable, it spins off into chaos. Propofol seems to disrupt the mechanisms that keep the brain in that narrow operating range.”

Many theories of consciousness focus on the brain’s network structure, which integrates information and links different parts of the organ. One prominent theory suggests that awareness comes from an ‘ignition,’ an input that produces pulses of activity – or spikes – throughout the brain. Here, the researchers hypothesized that a critical factor in consciousness was the concept of ‘dynamic stability,’ the brain’s operating range that Miller referred to, and that propofol, and possibly other anesthetics, interfere with that stability.

Measuring dynamic stability as someone enters unconsciousness would enable researchers to determine if the unconscious state results from too much or too little stability. In other words, does a general anesthetic cause the brain to become too stable and unresponsive, which causes unconsciousness, or is unconsciousness caused by anesthetic brought about by a state of overexcitement and chaos? Previous studies have produced conflicting results, with some saying that anesthetics cause stability and some saying chaos.

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Who is JD Vance and why is he dangerous? And what can we do about it?

UPDATE: This is an excellent essay and I encourage everyone to read it. I believe this is the kind of outlook we want to get massive numbers of people to understand. We the plebs have some say in how we are ruled pretty much only through public opinion. The better many of us understand the world we really are living in, the more likely we will be able to humanize post-modern totalitarianism if we cannot defeat it entirely, which is a very daunting task. With Sundance’s permission, I have posted the entire essay on this site. ABN

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Abandoned by his father to a troubled single mother; eventually raised by grandparents. He is then recruited from an Ivy league law school by shadow figures, a specific billionaire and a network of interests. He changes his name, writes a book about his life story, and with the support of the aforementioned – who eventually pays for the assembly of a strategic campaign influence network, becomes a Senator for 2 years before being quickly elevated into position in the White House.

Many people reading that paragraph would be familiar with the life story of Barack Hussien Obama. However, that paragraph also explains the right-side version of the exact same storyline, James David Vance. It’s a mirror.

On one side of the UniParty mirror we have an emotionally constructed political figure for the left.  On the other side of the UniParty mirror we have an emotionally constructed political figure for the right.  Each person, each emotional narrative, carrying the specific nuances to appeal to their wing of the UniParty audience.  However, both are following the same playbook.

It started with a conversation several weeks ago.  Who is JD Vance and where did he come from?

How does a person without any baseline in politics, not a council member, not a mayor, not a state rep – or state senate, governor etc., become a U.S. Senator and then quickly get into the White House?

What I was told sounded eerily familiar.

JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio (August 2, 1984). He then changed his name to James David Bowman. He then changed his name to James David Hamel. Eventually, in 2014, notably after Yale Law School (class of 2013) and after marrying his wife Usha, now age 30, he changed his name to write a book.

It was 2014, that’s when JD Vance was born.

Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy was published by Rupert Murdoch’s publishing houseHarper Collins in 2016. The book was made into a Netflix movie, [Reed Hastings] created by Imagine Entertainment and directed by Ron Howard (2020).  However, the interesting background on JD Vance goes back to Yale, and the Obamaesque tap on the shoulder that comes from a billionaire most are familiar with, Peter Thiel.

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Secret Service empty suit Kimberly Cheatle hides behind her own agents as furious US senators chase her down at RNC over Trump shooting

‘You put him within less than an inch of his life,’ Barrasso yelled at Cheatle.  ‘So resignation or full explanation.’

In much of the world, it is a given that you fuckup this bad you resign in shame and apologize profusely. Then go away for a long time. Not in today’s America. My guess is Cheatle believes she is being ‘tough’, a ‘real leader’, ‘standing her ground’, when it is obvious she is incompetent, a liar (sloped roof and much more), and very likely in on a nefarious plot I dare not mention. The assassination attempt was treason. Not being forthcoming, or worse covering up salient facts, perpetuates the treason, prolongs its impact and deepens its effects. Cheatle epitomizes the worst of today’s USA. ABN