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    Pointers
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    Pointers

    By Brad G. Berman

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    Thoughts do not reside in the Brain, they are a permanent feature of an invisible Electron band structure that comprises all of space. Our Brain grows pointers into thoughts previously encountered in this Universal structure. The reentry process is so good that it gives us the false impression that we are generating thoughts when in fact, we are merely accessing them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrad G. Berman
    Release dateJan 14, 2017
    ISBN9781370815357
    Pointers
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    Brad G. Berman

    I graduated in 1969 with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University. My employment has included OSU as well as Hewlett Packard. My main hobby and pastime is creative writing. As a creative writer, I like to look at the world of words and physics from new points of view, hoping to discover a pathway not yet taken. I have, for over 60 years, maintained that, once you figure out how the brain works, then you will have captured the essence of the entire universe. This reasoning is simple, considering that the brain is the pinnacle of nature's creations, thus it must be important enough to be worthy of examination.

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      Pointers - Brad G. Berman

      Introduction

      The universe is reluctant to reveal many clues about its Operating System, which may explain why we know so little about time, or how our brain is engaging in thought. Yet, software structure mimics aspects of thought processes because software developers are modeling how the brain and body are interacting with the material world. So why not utilize the concepts within the software development process to access the hidden architecture underlying the universal OS? That is the subject matter of this manual.

      Can software concepts reveal the workings of the universal Operating System?

      Many of the ideas we acquire during creative thought are not always coming from our own prior experiences, so how is our electro-protoplasmic brain able to access, store, then retrieve massive amounts of novel information from out of thin air? Our brain seems to be tapping into that external mass storage we familiarly know as the Mind.

      The Mind is our external source of information

      The software developer must become familiar with the architecture of the Mind in order to more efficiently tap into it. Therefore, we must ask what and where is this Mind and its driver, the OS? Are the OS and the Mind so far away from our scale of size that they are invisible, preventing us from seeing and understanding their properties? To answer both these questions, it shall be accepted for now that the Mind and universal OS are aspects of the same thing, of a single system process, resulting in simpler questions: where is the OS-Mind located, from what is it made, and what is its architecture?

      The Mind and OS are aspects of the same thing

      The most obvious place to locate this mass storage is in the invisible spacetime that is permeating the entire universe, especially our material brain. For this to be possible and for the brain to be allowed access, the best guess is that the OS-Mind is likely enfolded within a very complex, invisible temporal Potential Energy structure comprising all of spacetime.

      The reason for this conjecture is that the brain seems to be operating on an electrical threshold and sequencing principle, so perhaps there is a type of temporal-covalence mechanism going on between the brain and the Mind. If we can accept these few concessions for now, then the concepts of software development will allow us to move forward, to discover how our brain is accessing this proposed PE data structure comprising spacetime.

      The OS-Mind is a Potential Energy structure comprising spacetime

      The electro-protoplasmic brain is a decoder of temporal information

      Consequently, from out of the many concepts within the building blocks of software, the two that are of the greatest interest are data structures and the pointers that access them. These two simple ideas, plus those listed below, comprise the tool kit to be used in discovering how it is the meat brain is accessing the universal OS-Mind. These following four subjects should assist us in heading in the right direction:

      The physics of electron band and valence structures that comprise the volume of every atom, semiconductor, crystal, and likely all of spacetime

      Temporal Multiplexing: the concept of strobe lighting a fast spinning fan in order to read what's written on its blades

      The physics underlying holography

      A few additional concepts provided by quantum physics

      Perhaps these and the related topics below will allow us to understand our thought processes, and in the end, we may look at nature in a slightly different way. Perhaps we may begin to see the Mind as if it were a universal living organism, a Mind containing all possible times, personalities and outcomes.

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      Pointers

      Pointers are utilized within software in order to access and manipulate data sets. Through dereferencing, *pointers are the way we extract information from a specific data structure by knowing the starting address of that data. The pointer process is capable of opening a small doorway into a gigantic random access memory.

      Pointers are data access devices

      Considering the infiniteness of our universe, it is likely that the OS-Mind is an infinitely expansive random access storage system. The output coming from the Mind appears to be flowing through the cerebral cortex of the brain in the form of time-sequential serial data. Usually, the information is recognizable as sub-audible strings, often appearing as an imperceptible little voice, perhaps entering our real-time awareness through a subconscious background task.

      In many situations, the most profound information arrives from the Mind as a visual data stream, an entire high definition string of active information, usually seen behind closed eyes or in day and night dreams. The typedef of this information is video-like, an overlay stream that is being painted upon the visual cortex.

      Mind data passes through the brain's neural sieve as temporal audio strings and video clips

      As an infinite-sized database, the OS-Mind is like a supercloud storage medium, where all the information is simultaneously distributed throughout. The information appears to be embedded within context corridors, such that upon access, the readout of a *pointer stream arrives as large context-related serial or parallel data streams. If the information is of a highly creative nature, it will often flash by so fast that it seems impossible to lock onto its content, while mundane every day maintenance data comes in slowly in the form of sub-audible concept strings. Moreover, there seems to be a rate of time aspect to the indexing of this information flow.

      Data in the OS-Mind is indexed utilizing a rate of time mechanism

      Much of the data in the Mind as well as in the brain seems to be stored as videos of pictorial events that have been smashed down into flat planes and organized by time, likely through a holographic storage process to be described later. Moreover, the brain seems to be behaving as a temporal diffraction grating, by utilizing a temporal de-multiplexing method for its retrieval mechanism. Like a prism that disperses light into its colors, the brain seems to be strobing, capturing, decoding, and displaying thoughts, as if from

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