Dhruvaditya explores the profound structural parallels between human neural networks and the vast cosmic web for DifferentTruths.com’s readers.

Hypothesis

Our emotions, born and generated due to chemical reactions in different parts of the neural structure of the brain, are related to connecting with the wider universe. The structure of the brain, basically the way neurons are connected, represents very striking similarities to the structure of the brain.

Furthermore, the emotional bursts caused by chemical reactions can also be related to how gas clouds form when a disturbance occurs within the universe, and new stars are born. Let’s read on.

Main Theory

Anything that is condensed enough, containing matter and/or energy, will likely fold in on itself, causing a breach in space and time. Usually, a black hole, but that applies to material objects. Now, bear with me. What if we talk about emotions, feelings? What are they?

They seem like byproducts of chemical reactions occurring due to activation by a certain stimulus. Sometimes it can be a unique stimulus, or action or experience, like, say, the sight of someone you love so dearly, which can engage a unique emotion. Or it can be multiple common stimuli, like the smell of a flower or the first weeks of summer, triggering nostalgia.

And yes, getting to the point now, our emotions, those feelings, those byproducts, can become a physical, almost tangible sensation in our bodies, should they be condensed enough. Screaming in anger, crying in sadness, jumping in excitement, and nervous jitters – these are all our body’s ways of stopping the condensing act of these emotions.

Should they not be enough, it causes physical damage to the body, changes in the mind and many more things, some quite unexplained by science even today. The same way black holes, wormholes and other bends in space-time are. We know they’re real, but interaction is near impossible.

Now, the neural structure thing is kind of a prequel to what I said before about emotions (it was born out of the emotion idea, surprisingly). The way our brain is structured is not just the structure of the observable universe visible to us, but even the dark matter tendrils deep within voids that exist in space, the same matter that makes up nearly everything. No, this is not a creepy pasta; I’m not going into all the “darkness is absolute” stuff.

Organic Matter vs Dark Matter

Just pointing out a similarity: the very basis of our universe, even things we have hypothesised and our science says exist but aren’t visible to us, that whole structure looks exactly similar to our brain. The only difference is that the brain is made up of “organic” matter, as we call it, while the universe is made up of dark matter, something that breaks the very understanding of physics; its energy-forming phenomena are only theories that exist.

It is vast.

But regardless, it does look like our neural structure was magnified to scale with that vastness; it’d have some very striking resemblances, provided, of course, the density, volume, and every other dimension are scaled so that the ratio remains the same as it is now.

Now, hypothetically, if we go with the CC, or Cold Contraction, theory of the universe ending, someday it’ll reach its limit, and at that moment, things will grow so cold, and it’ll collapse, essentially going from the end to the beginning again. There’s no way of knowing just how fast or slow it will be, but I’m willing to lean towards the theory that the sheer concentration of gravity collected over aeons after the universe’s beginning and to that moment, would be pretty efficiently brutal in drawing it in.

Now, what happens in our final moments? That’s right, our brain replays everything from the beginning to the end. According to some theories, systems shut down, and eventually, after the brain activity settles down, our body grows cold. We contract upon ourselves, including our minds.

Aside from that, every disease in our minds can be explained. This includes the unexplained ones, especially. It involves gaps in memory. It includes sudden hyperactivation of neurons in the cerebral cortex due to external and/or internal stimuli. It covers emotions and controls so abstract and complex that we don’t know how to deal with them.

The Super Void Clusters

Everything can be explained in relation to the super void clusters in space. They don’t normally let anything in. This is due to a force of theirs at the edges that pushes everything out. But within them, deep, deep within those voids that span millions of light-years across, lie lonely, bright blue galaxies. These lie atop tips of dark matter tendril connections, eerily similar to our neuron systems. Their light is unable to penetrate the darkness.

But they are there. They are alive. They are slowed down nearly 10x or more. This is from the speed of evolution and formation and motion of our galaxies lying in superclusters in the “light zone”.

Much like the repressed memories of a comatose patient, or black spots in memory inaccessible by the rest of the brain, those memories still lie there, able to be felt, not gone, but unable to penetrate the darkness. Those super-voids in space grow as an amnesia patient’s mind loses more and more. And there are many such diseases, phenomena, etc., that can be related to space.

In the Indian and other mythologies, every scripture of every religion points to a connection to a higher power that comes from within us. I think this is what they were talking about, from a scientific perspective at least: if we can explain and research our minds, our internal emotions, and reactions, we’ll unravel the mysteries of reality itself, and vice versa. Because we’re connected by a neuro-chemical psychic link, not by tangibility or superpowers, but by structure.

As the Gestalt school in psychology believes, “The whole is something greater than the sum of its parts.”

Brain, a Quantum Universe

On an end note, I’d like to say a fact, and a rather ridiculous claim, that the brain is designed to be a quantum universe by structure, and it is running an organic body with cells inside it, living, breathing cells, and viruses and bacteria and everything else, the same way the universe has galaxies and within them planets and stars and solar systems, and if we exist, surely there is life, some harmful like viruses, while some are like good bacteria, just like within our very bodies.

I’ll leave you, dear readers, to ponder that one.

And I welcome additions and expansion on this theory; no doubt there are many like this one, research papers going way beyond what I explained, but I just wanted to make this easier for both the general population and me.

I hope to expand on this theory someday, with the right people, hopefully.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Dhruvaditya Tiwari

Dhruvaditya Tiwari aka Dhruva (15) is an avid reader and a passionate writer. He can weave stories with the same ease as he ponders upon scientific theories. He wrote his first novelette – The Hiding when he was just eight years of age and became one of the world’s youngest authors. He has a warm and philosophical personality, and has overcome many challenges of life in fifteen years. Now, he wishes to share his thoughts with the world by publishing some meaningful write-ups for the world to read and discuss. Simultaneously, he is working on another book.