Unsupported Speculation

How incorrect lengths of communication pathways reverses Self / Other

Very short entry, and this is very simple.

Basically, there are probably LOTS of places in the brain that are there for remembering interpersonal interactions, mostly for conversations, but also for correctly attributing deeds to the person that did them; ie Did YOU do something, or did HE or SHE do something?

Say a correct recollection of something requires one of the as-before-mentioned nodes that attribute a deed to self or other, but the pathway is the wrong length, then other aspects of these pathways and memories which are used for this recollection may be perfectly intact, but you will think you did something when it was actually someone else, or you will think someone else did something when it was actually you.

This is because whether a nerve branches to one neuron or another in the brain depends on the polarity of the electrical signal coming into it, and this is because polarity flips between negative to positive and back to negative for every jump between a neuron a pathway makes.

This means that if a pathway is off by one, at the destination the wrong neurons will be selected. BUT, if the pathway is off by two, the correct neurons will be selected. Further, if the pathway is off by three, then again the wrong neurons will be selected.

Lots of things can cause pathways in the brain to become the incorrect length. In THEORY, a concussion can cause it, and when the head is hit with sufficient force, then SOME nerves between neurons in the brain will sever. The brain will then quickly reroute pathways to get signals through still connected neurons in the brain to the correct destination, and half of these new pathways will be the wrong length for having the correct polarity which chooses the correct neurons at the destination. Then for the person with the concussion, some things will get flipped sort of randomly.

It can happen with prolonged radio healing as well, as when the rate that the brain and body replicates cells increases substantially, then the pathways between origin signal locations to destinations will get lots of new neurons and nerves. A signal may then become rerouted along a new pathway which is more convenient for the brain for electrical reasons, and then that person will start having outcomes reversed randomly in the brain.

But this is a small but interesting example of a misattribution phenomena which makes it seem like you did things you didn’t, and that other people did things you did.