SYNTERGIC THEORY

 WHAT HAPPENED WITH  JACOBO?

Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum (1946- 1994?), was a neurophysiologist with Jewish roots, born in Mexico, where he was professor of Neurophysiology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in which, he had contact with Mexican shamans, especially those from Sonora (Llaquis) and with a Mexican woman: Pachita (Bárbara Guerrero, a  psychic surgeon), to whom he dedicate a book (Los Shamanes de México. Pachita. A truthful testimony of the mind over the body. Ed. Heptada, Madrid, 1990), for allowing him to participate in her healing practices from which, due to the extraordinary scenes he saw, he deduced the participation in them of  a neural plane (of the Mexican shaman), on human matter and the underlying space. When Grinberg describes the surgical practices performed by Pachita as amazing, for making them appear out of nowhere: diseased kidneys that were  replaced with healthy ones in seconds, or  damaged cerebral cortices that in seconds were replaced by  healthy cerebral cortices that also appeared instantly out of nowhere, leaving in the end the affected patients :healthy. After analyzing the scientific bases of Pachita's psychic surgeries, Grinberg imitated her procedures for a year, concluding that Pachita's healing ability was the result of the interaction of two realities: a functioning neural field around the shamans' brains  and an environmental spatio-temporal network (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, J. (1997). Ideas About a New Psychophysiology of Consciousness: The Syntergic Theory. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 18 (4), 443-458. Retrieved August 26, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43853834). After revisiting these sessions, Grinberg gave a rational explanation to what he  observed, creating the Syntergic Theory, where he proposed the existence of a continuum of spatial energy of which the common human only perceives a portion from  a basic spatial organization (matrix, lattice), on which the neural plane of the shaman would act, producing physical alterations of this space initially detected in the real world as elementary particles and as  complex distortions (visual, auditory perceptual realities, objects, creation of experience, etc.): with field neuronal interactions  with levels  of the lattice, in which each floor represents a different level of consciousness (auditory, visual), with the sum of activities at the highest  level, contradicting the current concepts of reality, envisioning the tremendous capacity of the human brain as a continuum facilitated by Taoist meditation by enhancing all  of our physiological systems, being the initiate  able to observe even his own brain activity (dipasha technique), visualizing  diseased tissues calmly (brain waves at 10 cycles per second), promising the synergistic theory to be the theoretical framework for the functioning of consciousness and his levels, explaining the creation of perception.Suddenly Jacobo dissapeared in  1994.

PARAPLEJIC WALK AGAIN

HEAD TRANSPLANT: A SERVED DISH

The fact that a young  American  affected  by  paraplegia for 5 years, because of a traffic accident (which damaged his spinal cord),  when he was 26 years old, walked again 3, 5  meters after receiving braincommands (intracerebral electrodes pick up brain waves recorded in a electroencephalogram, sending them  wirelessly to a computer that decodes the waves as an intention to walk or stop), transmitting them to electrodes placed on both   paralyzed knees, enabling the  man to  walk again,  means 3 things: I) the spinal cord is the body segment in charge of all  processes related to walking automatically,  counting with thousands of short interconnected neurons, as argued  SergioCanavero. Such interneuronal networks operate as a relay between the supraspinal impulses and lower motor circuit, being that enough for paraplegics permitting them to walk again after an active sensory guide training that promote neuronal plasticity. These interneuronal networks would be the walking pattern generator in humans, so reconnection of these by electrical impulses has great potential. These interneuronal networks are put into action by electrically stimulation of intact spinal segments connected to damaged segments. II) In others words, the brain is not an essential part for walking. This is only the coordinator (cerebro-spinal cord) of walking function. Such coordination can be carried out by computer, programmed softwares, another brain or a command of any type properly tuned. III) To make matters easy and according to Canavero, the number of reconnected axons necessary for a paraplegic to walk again is only 10% of all descending spinal tracts. So, the first head transplant is served and as Canavero says after that, the world will never be the same.

TRASPLANTE DE CABEZA: EL PLATO ESTA SERVIDO

El que un americano  de 31 años afectado de   paraplejia durante 5 años a causa de un accidente de tránsito (que daño su medula espinal),  halla  caminado 3, 5 metros tras recibir  comandos cerebrales  (electrodos intracerebrales, captan  ondas cerebrales registradas en electroencefalograma enviándolas en forma inalámbrica a un computador,   que descifra las ondas como una intención para caminar o detenerse), trasmitiéndolas a electrodos colocados  en ambas  rodillas paralizadas,  permitiendo a un parapléjico caminar de nuevo,  significa 3 cosas :I) Que la medula espinal es el segmento  corporal   encargado de  los procesos relacionados con el caminar en forma automática  contando para ello con miles de neuronas cortas interconectadas entre si,  como lo sostiene  Sergio Canavero.  Tales redes  interneuronales   funcionan como un  relay entre los impulsos supraespinales y el circuito motor inferior, siendo   suficientes para que parapléjicos vuelvan a caminar tras un  entrenamiento activo con guías sensoriales promotoras de  plasticidad neuronal. Estas redes interneuronales serian  el patrón generador del caminar  en  humanos, por lo que la reconexion de estas, mediante   impulsos eléctricos tiene  gran potencial. Estas redes  interneuronales se ponen en acción    estimulando eléctricamente los segmentos espinales intactos conectados a  los segmentos dañados. II) Es decir,  para caminar no es imprescindible el cerebro.  Este,  es  solo  el coordinador (cerebro-medula espinal), de la función de caminar, pudiendo esta coordinación ser llevada a cabo por  una computadora,  softwares programados, otro cerebro o  un  comando de cualquier tipo adecuadamente afinado. III) Por si fuera poco y según  Canavero el número de axones reconectados necesarios para que un parapléjico pueda volver a caminar es apenas un   10%, del total  de los tractos espinales descendentes. El primer trasplante de cabeza está servido y como dice Canavero después de ello, el mundo ya no será el mismo.