The limits of the current understanding of the following question bundle should be knowable. And knowing those limits should be able to strengthen and / or modify my current visual mythology of how I see the brain physically.
So this is the type of neuroscience I should really try to bring myself up to speed on. It's definitely something that Carl Jung wouldn't have had any clue about.
How much more restrictive is one's version of reality if they have never felt the otherworldly effects of a psychotropic substance? What does a normal reality look to a brain that has only ever had their normal faculties? And to what extent are the effects of such a perturbation physically neuroplastic versus mentally mind-expanding? Is there a one-to-one correspondence between the physical changes (chemicals, physical structure, electrical activity and connections) and those that are purely mental-historical (visual imagery and trauma)? A very fascinating thing to discuss... For example, does every memory (that can be recalled) have a physical correspondence in the brain? An imperceptible scar or fold in the physical brain? An added connection to the neuronal circuitry (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230301141432.htm)? A new recombination of existing neuronal paths (gestalt and Bergson's creative mind), does the number of available neurons at birth suggest a predictable limit for knowledge? Or does infinite potential existential experience in a finite temporo-spatial world always ensure that limits can be broken? What happens if you run out of memory or space to organize existing memories? Does your mind force a hard reset (e.g. ecstatic seizures) or an emergency arc to a new island of neuronally-grouped information to connect to? Or is it impossible to run out of memory due to forgetting? What about the role of dreams in reclustering / realgorithmizing our neuronal pathways? How do we make the phenomenal physical / chemical / electrical switchboard correspond to the noumenal mind? Should go into this in more detail...
So there are two boundaries: the forces governed by physics that create mental imagery from brain to mind (process), and the external world governed by humans that provides the physical sense-data to be internalized as memory (content).
Bergson's creative mind: how do we create brand new ideas from recombining what is already known from both a mental and a physical point of view?
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