I'll never forget what a neurologist said in an interview on an episode of the television show "Nova", that "an inherent characteristic of the brain is the inabilty to understand itself." That struck me as a profound statement, not really knowing why, but a statement that has returned to mind on many, many occasions as I work as a psychotherapist, counselor, therapist, what have you. The mind/brain processes data looping back and forth from the seeming infinite locations in the body, sorting information and transmitting encoded impulses to various organs, in multidinous processes that somehow work in unison with the others. And it's all done automatically, as I understand automation. And as the body, with the facilitation of the processing unit of the brain, seeks homeostasis of its internal events and processes, all is not well in that, as the neurologist said, "a life-threatening immunological crisis developes and resolves itself about three times every hour."
I, frankly, am not surprised what with all the complex processes that would, in comparison, make a major oil refinery look like a game of "Mousetrap!". As in refineries where things occasionally go wrong and engineering sets out to isolate the constellation of pertinent variables and devise measures to return the refinery to a safe level of functioning, so the body experiences variable conditions and events that spin temporarily out of balance; and all the while the brain automatically registers, sorts, and processes the multitudinous permutations of hazardous events and inexplicably returns the body back again to an optimal level of functioning. www.gordonleith.com
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