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Central Nervous System
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last updated December 17th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
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central nervous system
central nervous system noun
Abbr. CNS
The portion of the vertebrate nervous
system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
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The human brain holds between 1 and 7 terabytes (1
and 7 million megabytes) of data.
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Electrical
stimulation in certain areas of the brain can revive long lost
memories.
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Your brain is 80%
water.
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If you stimulate the Medulla, which is part of the
brain stem, you will barf so violently that it will shoot about 3 feet.
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Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast
as 170 miles per hour.
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One human brain generates more electrical impulses
in a single day than all of the world's
telephones
put together.
track _Web In Front_ MP3
by
Archers
Of Loaf off of _Icky Mettle_ 12"
on Alias (1993)
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was
to be your spine.
Lost your friction and
you slid for a mile.
Overdone, overdrive,
overlive, override.
You're not the one who
let me down,
But thanks for offering.
It's not a voice and
I'm not around.
But thanks for picking it...
Up, on the radio.
Sampled your rust from
a faucet, I know.
I've got a magnet in
my head,
A magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long,
the way it was wasted.
And there's a chance that
things'll get weird.
Yeah, that's a possibility.
Although I didn't do
anything,
No, I didn't do anything.
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted was
to be your spine.
(repeat)
And a mouth kept shut
and a
tongue
twist
tie.
You're the web in front,
you're the favorite lie.
You're a buck my lip,
you're a lash my lie.
You're the web in front
of a favorite lie.
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was
to be your spine.
I've got a magnet in
my head, a magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way
it was wasted... wasted.
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604 track _We Know Nothing_ MP3
by Lunar Asylum
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sample: "We were speaking of belief, beliefs and
conditioning. All belief possibly could be said to be the result of some
conditioning. Thus the study of history is simply the study of one system
of belief deposing another. A psychologically tested belief of our
time
is, that the central nervous system which feeds its impulses directly to
the brain - the conscious and subconscious - is unable to discern between
the
real
and the vividly
imagined
experience."; "To allow the unknown to occur and to occur requires
clarity. And where the is clarity there is no choice. But why should anyone
listen to me? Since I know nothing."
- taken from Monkees' movie _Head_
- 604 track _Sub Atomic_ MP3 (192k)
by Logic Bomb off of _Headware_ CD
- sample: "brain... the universe...
brain... the universe... behind the electrons we find new mysteries..."
(from the computer game _Alpha Centauri_)
- 604 track _Mystery Brain_ MP3
by Kailash off of _Abstract Phaze_ 12"x3
compilation on
Matsuri
Productions
- 604 track _Bouncing Brains_ MP3 (192k)
by Mr. Peculiar off of _Elements_ CD on Tribe-A-Delic (2002)
- 604 track _Brain Forest_ MP3
by
X-Dream
-
ambient
track
_Dimensions
Unmeasurable_ MP3
by The Brain off of _Access & Amplify_ (1996)
- track
_Flux_
MP3 (256k)
by Young American Primitive off of s/t CD on Zoe
magik
(1993)
- "I have developed a link
gate... complex enough to regulate the
forces,
the field energies surrounding us... these
waves
are all around us now... radio waves, television channels, x-rays, the
sun...
the entire
electromagnetic
flux... I have no actual power myself... by using my brain patterns as a
sort of
focusing
device I'm able to direct electromagnetic field energy into a discreet feeling...
It's as though my brain were a
lens...
lens..." - Donald Pleasance in an episode
_The Man With The Power_ (vhs/pal)
of
_The
Outer Limits_
-
Twilight
Zone episode _Brain Center At Whipple's_
- heavy grunge track
_Brain
Center At Whipples_ MP3 (192k)
by Melvins off of _Hostile
Ambient
Takeover_ on Ipecac (2002)
- release _Nervous System Turn To Red/Are You Receiving_
10" by
Killing
Joke on Malicious Damage (1979)
- techno track _Spinal Chord_ MP3 (vK)
by Johannes Heil off of _Fully Fledged 2_ compilation 12"x2 on Kanzleramt
(2000)
- techno track _Reverbrain_ MP3
by Inigo Kennedy off of _The
Silent
Tantrums_ 12"x2 on Missile #027 (1997)
- new
wave
track _S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)_ MP3 (160k)
by
Devo
off of _Duty Now For The Future_ 12" (1979)
- heavy metal track _Crash Course In Brain Surgery_ MP3
(160k)
by Budgie off of s/t 12" on Roadrunner (1971)
- speed metal cover MP3 (160k)
by
Metallica
off of _5.98 ep - Garage Days Revisited_ 12"
(1988)
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- ambient house track _A
Huge Ever Growing
Pulsating
Brain that Rules from the
Centre
of the Ultraworld (loving u): Live Mix mk 10_ MP3
by
The
Orb off of _The
Orb's
Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld_ CDx2
(1991)
- ambient house track
_Lights
In My Brain MP3
by Ultramarine off of _Every Man & Woman Is A Star_ on Darla (1992)
- tribal house track _Lights
In My Brain (Spooky Remix)_ MP3 (192k)
off of _Nightfall In Sweetleaf ep_ CD5 on Dali (1993)
- "
I
don't entertain, I enter the brain..."
-
DJ
Spooky - _Degree
Zero_
MP3
off of _Riddim Warfare_ CD
on Outpost/Asphodel (1998)
- electro track _The Brain_ MP3
by Uberzone off of _Space Kadet ep_ on
City
Of Angels (1996)
- samples: "what is the brain? sleeping... dreaming..."
- post rock release _Spine & Sensory_ by Tristeza
on Makoto (1999)
- hip hop neo soul track _Brain_ MP3
by NERD off of
_In
Search Of_ on Astralwerks (2002)
- alternative pop release _Cold Brains ep_ CDs by Beck
(2000)
- 4. _Runners Dial
Zero_
MP3 (160k)
- experimental track _The Brain Sneezing_ by The Hafler
Trio off of
_How
To Reform Mankind_ CD on Touch (1993)
- track _Nervous System_ MP3
by
Killing
Joke
-
604
track _High Energy Protons_ MP3
by
Juno
Reactor off of _Transmissions_ CD on Nova Mute
- sample: "You are the brain and the central nervous
system." from film
_2001:
A Space
Odyssey_
DVD
(1968)
604 entity Nervasystem
Member: Mark Dressler (aka Drezz, of Paradise Connection
and Anti-Matter with
Tsuyoshi
Suzuki), Darren Beale
- NERVA = nuclear engine for rocket vehicle
application
- release _Mama
Matrix
Most Mysterious_ CD
by Nervasystem &
Aether
on Elektrik Orgasm (1999)
- reference: "mama matrix
most mysterious" from _Finnegans Wake_ by
James
Joyce
- sound: highly overlooked
non-intrusively mixed cd that has touches of
fusion...
very psychedelic, and not always full on. my only complaint
is that track 2 is misplaced and kind of spikes through you in the beginning,
of what is otherwise a nice herb filled vibe throughout... - @Om*
10/19/01
- _Arouser_ MP3 (160k)

- _Triple Edged Ektoplasmo Funk_
MP3

- _Technicolour (Lost &
Found)_ MP3

- _Gonzo_ MP3 (160k)

- _Beelzedub_ MP3 (160k)

- _Many Anamans Atomik Space
Jam..._ MP3

- _...The Grinding Lenny Liquid
Light
Show_ MP3
- _The Self Transforming Machine
Creatures Of
Hyperspace_
MP3 (160k)
- _The Unknown Controller_ MP3
(160k)

- _The Klangummwandler_ MP3

- _Coda_ MP3 (160k)

- sample: "the many
moments...
when you feel as if, your own
boundaries
are dissolving... as if, somehow you're, merging into the universe...
at the end, i felt a great weight had been taken off me... instead of
feeling like it was the end of something, i felt like it was the beginning...
like it was something had opened up... that things could be seen in a
different
light..."
- track _Donovan's Brain_ MP3 (192k)
off of _Deck
Wizards
- Sid Shanti - Aural Sect compilation_ 12"x2
on Psychic Deli (1996)
- release _Formasi Voices/Liquid Lifeform_ 12"
on Psychic Deli
- release _Zones MP3
/Initiation_
MP3 12"
on
Phantasm
- release _Stardust MP3 (160k)
/Matter
Transfer_ 12" on
Matsuri
Productions
- release _Seven Serpents/Distorted Waves Of Om_ MP3
(192k) 12"
on Elektric Orgasm
- track _Kinetic Space Dilation_ MP3
by Nervasystem & Aether off of _Psychedelic Electronica_ - _Psychic Deli
Volume 2_ compilation 12"x3
on Psychic Deli (1998)
- IDM
ambient
entity Brain Pilot
- track _Matrix_ MP3
off
of s/t CD on Nova Zembla #007 (1994)
- track
_Serotonine
Flow_
MP3 (192k)
off of _Mind Fuel_ CD on Nova Zembla #037 (1995)
- track _Terraform_ off of _Psychic Deli Volume 1_ compilation
12"
on Psychic Deli (1996)
- track _Decoder_ off of
_Resonance
Mood_ compilation 12"x3
on
Matsuri
Productions
- track
_Whirling
Dervish_ MP3
off of _The
Truth
Of Communication_ compilation CDb
on Matsuri Productions (1996)
if we strip ourselves of all our biological tools for
perception,
we
imagine
ourselves to be "floating brains" with the tail being the spinal column.
this literal jumble of nerves is designed to navigate and deal with the environment
so it can continue to survive utilizing
wetware.
thus the primary interaction for consciousness is the
DNA/CNS
communication. all our limbs, skin color, eyeballs, and toenails
are just
evolutionary
aids for our floating brains to perpetuate their own existence.
so what is the purpose of the survival of our
CNS? the CNS is a biological manifestation of another recombinatory
state: the interaction of energy (solar) with that of the earth (
gaia).
so we are novelty production engines for variety
in forms of the children of gaiasol.
my guess is that this serves some other purpose,
perhaps to reach some sort of
critical
mass in CNS/DNA entanglement to produce... what?
- @Om*
4/27/00
Erik Davis: I know it is dangerous
for a nonscientist to make these speculative leaps between science and Buddhism,
but there is a passage in
_Zen
Mind, Beginner's Mind_ where Shunryo Suzuki seems to express something very
similar to the idea you and Maturana developed—before you encountered Buddhism—about
the nervous system as a closed system.
Francisco Varela: It's important that people don't think
that we are saying that the nervous system is closed, but rather that the nervous
system has closure. It's not the same thing. Closure is away of looking at the
interactions in a different way from the standard model of inputting
information.
Closure means that you actually shape what counts as information in the coupling
you have with the world. Information is brought forth by the actual activity
of an organism or a cognitive system embedded in the world. Some people think
that means a solipsistic or autistic world. But the contrast is not between
a closed system and an open system but rather an input-driven system and a system
that is actively shaping the world. That's the real tension.
After all, implosion is not just
a structural
process–it
is subjective, phenomenological. Where else do
time
and space break down but in the body of a
perceiver?
If implosion has any validity at all–and surely it does, if only as an inflated
allegory of speed and technocapitalist convergence–then we will feel it in our
nervous systems, if not our bones. "I was an infinitely hot and dense dot,"
Mark Leyner tells us. We get to find out what this feels like. Intimations of
the infinitesimal, as when you can no longer tell the difference between Times
Square and Shibuya, or when all airports fuse into one, or when your wireless
data device, rather than unleashing your inner nomad, reduces your physical
movement through space to a shadowy projection of an incorporeal
matrix.
Today's music collapses into
dimensionless
data files; the new dollar bills are tattooed with molecular print; and micro-targeted
marketing mechanisms reflect you back to yourself, everywhere you turn. Implosion,
the
feedback
of free-fall
fusion,
is the insistent overtone of contemporary experience.
- Erik Davis - _Anchors Aweigh!_
Think of your nervous system as
if it were visually inverted, dangling from the exterior of your body, as if
you had no real outer membrane, nerves and
nodes
all clutching facets of the ecology around you. More responsibility probably
resides within this subliminal mess of interdependent
processes.
Your environment is your extended nervous system - and the
Internet
is a fascinating extension at that.
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