On my highly anticipated field trip to the ice skating rink in the eighth grade, I broke my leg within five minutes. I waited in a daze on the ice, thinking I had just sprained an ankle, until I felt the bones in my leg jiggling. The ambulance immediately came, I was shipped off, and put to sleep. When Iwoke up, Dr. Martin, a renowned orthopedic surgeon, announced to me that I had a broken tibia and fibula, both in multiple places, and am bleeding internally. We cannot delay this operation. You’re scheduled to undergo surgery immediately" . . . My face was masked and my IV flushed with intravenal anesthesia. I had no recollection of what followed until I awoke with an excruciating pain in my knee. I breathed slowly and deliberately, but why was I awake? My knee was being torn open, and I couldn’t open my eyes or wince! Then I recalled waking up from my surgery sobbing, surrounded by nurses cooing and repeating, “Everything will be all right.” I had acquired a 16" titanium rod and 4 screws in my leg through a 2" slit in my knee, and I was conscious for a part of it!. . . In Chaos Theory, Fractal Dimensions, and the Human Cerebrum, I discuss the evidence and development of a model to describe the dynamical processes responsible for consciousness and cognition. Emphasis is placed on chaotic neural activity and its mathematics in fractal dimensions to explain the phenomenon of subjective consciousness using objective physical mechanisms….. Read More

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