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Ученые из Каролинского института (Швеция) разработали искусственную нервную клетку, которая обладает функциями настоящего нейрона. Она состоит из полимеров, которые способны проводить нервный импульс. В человеческом мозге сигналы между нейронами передаются через синапсы (соединения между нервными клетками). Посредником в передаче сигнала выступает химическое вещество, выделяющееся в пространство между нервными клетками.

По словам исследователя Агнеты Рихтер-Делфорс (Agneta Richter-Dahlfors), чувствительная составляющая искусственного нейрона улавливает изменения в химических сигналах. Затем информация переводится в электрический сигнал. Потом выделяется нейромедиатор ацетилхолин. Его влияние на клетки можно отследить.

Новая технология позволяет стимулировать нейроны химическими сигналами. Ученые надеются, что их разработка поможет медикам восстанавливать функции поврежденных нервных клеток. В будущем специалисты планируют уменьшить нейрон и попытаться имплантировать его в человеческое тело.

(публикация: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956566315300610)

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It all began at the end of 2009. I was going through a lot at the time but the worst was watching my father’s failing struggle against lung cancer. He was slowly withering away, each day being worse than the day before. And towards the end I just wanted him to die. I just wanted his suffering to stop. I couldn’t enjoy anything anymore – worrying all the time just took the joy out of life.

Although I knew that worrying was pointless, I couldn’t seem to help myself. No matter what I tried—positive thinking, getting busy, accepting the worst, etc.—there was no controlling it. And somehow, I found that curious. Why couldn’t I just stop? There was obviously no point to it – whatever’s going to happen will inevitably happen regardless of how I feel about it, I thought.

So I began to try and figure out how to stop worrying.

And so it happened, that one day when I was discussing this plight with some friends, one of them said something that I believe set in motion something truly remarkable.

“You should try being more in the present moment,” he said, in effect, kick-starting the thing.

I don’t remember how I responded, but I immediately knew that he had said something important. Once I got home that night I went online and looked for more information on “being in the moment.” I soon discovered some Buddhist teachings. It was some YouTube clips of some Australian monk whose dharma talks had been filmed and put up online. I watched almost all of them. I don’t really know why I enjoyed those talks so much; there wasn’t anything special about them. Perhaps I just liked the way the guy talked.

Anyway, this gave me a glimpse of what Buddhism was about, and although this guy had talked briefly—and somewhat vaguely—about this thing called enlightenment, I soon found others who openly discussed it. I learned that enlightenment wasn’t something mythical – it was something real; something that ordinary people like me could attain. It was something that could be
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The purpose of this essay is to get you to understand Enlightenment – what it is and how to attain it. To attain enlightenment is sometimes referred to as Waking up, which is a shorter way of saying Awakening to Enlightenment – but what that actually means requires some further explanation.

so what does ‘awakening’ mean?

In order to understand what Awakening to enlightenment really means, we need to first understand the nature of reality – and the short version goes something like this:

You’ve seen the movie The Matrix, right? If you haven’t, please go and do that now. But assuming you have, envision the matrix but without anything outside. No machines, no big computer running things, no space, no time; nothing at all – in fact, there isn’t even an outside. Are you imagining it? That’s our reality. Put differently, there is no material universe out there beyond our experience. There are no atoms. No planets. No stars. No space. There’s only subjectivity. There’s only this ever-changing field of experiencing otherwise known as consciousness or awareness.

That’s the short version. The long version—where I actually provide the proof for all this—is detailed in my book; and this essay is somewhat targeted to those of you who already read it but are now ready to step off that cliff and turn these truths into a living reality.

Anyway, the key point is:

There’s no objective reality – there’s only experiencing
But to the un-enlightened, things don’t seem that way. Rather, it seems as if we’re human beings walking around on planet earth; as if we exist as physical entities in a universe of time and space. It seems as if we experience an objectively existing world – as opposed to, let’s say, a field of subjectivity that’s perpetually transforming, morphing and modulating itself – which is how the awakened experiences life: as a mere flow of ever-changing phenomenality.

But why does it seem like we’re entities in a universe that exist independently of us?
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