Bruce Lipton & the cell (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, December 22, 2015, 17:55 (3038 days ago) @ dhw

I came across this very long article and interview, offering all kinds of fascinating ideas about identity, body and spirit, epigenetics, quantum physics, medicine, immortality, the power of belief....Bruce Lipton is a cellular biologist, and some of his ideas are described as ”iconoclastic”. They include his views on the nature of the cell, and below are some relevant quotes, but that is just a small part of the area he covers: 
	
	The Biology of Belief - Dr Bruce Lipton - The Truth About ...
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The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton, ... from outside the cell. Cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton, ... , intelligence and behavior? A: ...-QUOTE: Dr. Lipton conducted a series of experiments that reveal that the cell membrane, the outer layer of a cell, is the organic equivalent of a computer chip, and the cell's equivalent of a brain. Although this view conflicts with the widely held scientific dogma that genes control behavior, papers by other researchers have validated his iconoclastic thinking.-Dr. Lipton has also been a pioneer in applying the principles of quantum physics to the field of cellular biology. Traditional cell biology focuses on physical molecules that control biology. Dr. Lipton on the other hand focuses on the mechanisms through which energy in the form of our beliefs can affect our biology, including our genetic code.-Q: What is the fundamental difference between the conventional science we have all come to learn and the "new biology" that is emphasized in your book?
A: Our source, "identity," is not from within the body, and it is immortal; We are not victims of life we are creators of life; a human organism is not an singular individual, it is in reality, a "community" of sentient cells.-Q: Cells can be conceived as miniature "people"?
A: Cells have "lives," they need basic requirements, they have social order among them, as well as politics. Their "necessities" are fundamentally our necessities.-Q: Do cells have a "brain"?
A: The cell membrane [ie, its skin] reads environmental stimuli, transduces the information into a biochemical "awareness" which is then used to regulate cell behavior and gene activity.-Q: What is cellular consciousness?
A: Cells are aware of their environments via their receptors and make informed decisions in response to stimuli that comprise their "field".-Q: Your work emphasizes that the fundamental units of awareness are actually molecular units of "perception." What are perceptions? How do they relate to beliefs?
A: The cell's I/O's are receptor and effector protein complexes; they provide awareness of the environment [receptors] and send stimuli [effectors] to engage the cell's systems. By definition, these membrane proteins provide the cell with an "awareness of the environment through physical sensation", this is the precise dictionary definition of the word perception. Complex perceptions, as experienced by humans, are based upon interpretations of experiences. In society there is an especial emphasis to express conformity with our interpretations. We may "buy" our interpretations of life experiences (learning) from those we perceive to be experts. However, experts can be wrong, so we may be operating from acquired misperceptions. Conclusions: perceptions control life, but they might be right or they may be wrong…hence they are our beliefs.-Q: Through evolution, individual cells came together in the form of communities. We perceive such communities as "organisms, eg, a fish, snake, tree, and even a human. What is the essence of a community and why did they evolve?
A: Cells came together in community to share awareness and enhance their survival. The same thing applies as to individuals in a human community. In community, each individual gives up their own "control" of what they are going to do and instead conforms to the coordinating central voice's directives. In the cellular community of a human, that central voice is the mind.-Q: How is a cell community organized so that it survives. What/who is in "control"?
A: The brain is the source of the "central voice." It has two subdivisions, the subconscious and the conscious mind. The subconscious is a million times more powerful than the conscious. But the subconscious is only "habitual," it will only play the programs with which it has been loaded. 95% of our daily activities are controlled by the subconscious mind. The less powerful conscious mind is unique for it is creative, it can "observe" the body's operations and manually control the mechanism, overriding the read-only subconscious programs.-Much food for thought, though this can only be ingested through an open mind.