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September 25, 2026 · Speculations · v6

Something has to glue this together

On polarity, the body's many fallback channels, and whether a cell can read where it sits and what it remembers from the fields around it.

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I feel that there’s something about the pieces of this system that tell more about the whole. I keep wondering whether polarity and polarization could say something about how the system has to be communicating. You can actually run experiments on living neurons through software nowadays, which is interesting, and I’m wondering what would be the correct way to go about this.

I think that for a system this complex, that still seems to work so well in so many cases, understanding this might also help us see how we could be dysregulating it. For example, we as a society have so quickly adopted all of these different wavelengths and electromagnetic devices. We think about the chemical pollution of the planet. I wonder whether we should think about electromagnetic exposure in the same way, and what it might imply.

I’m just wondering about cells, which in one form or another make up all living things. We can see that they use bioelectricity as one of the many ways they run. I’m not talking about magnetoreception or electroreception. I’m strictly talking about a cell reading its own bioelectric field and its neighboring cells, which are descendants of the same cell, and being able to know the status and the position of another part of the body, and then infer things from that. Maybe memory. Maybe history.

For example, melatonin is regulated by light. So there’s an external clock, the sun, that talks to our internal circadian clock, and there are changes associated with it. So what if our internal clock uses that reference to locate memory? Like, to work out where the memories are sitting in the body, and how the neurons need to rearrange to achieve retrieval of a memory. And because we have so many things interfering with that light, you have a weaker system, a system that’s not as good at geometrically rearranging itself.

There’s cymatics, where vibration arranges matter into geometric patterns, and the idea that nature rearranges itself geometrically when several influences combine. What if the body uses these multiple modalities not as a convenience but as a multi-step fallback relay system? A system that is required for understanding not just the world around us, but also the memories and the gene expression. A system that is built dependent on, and connected to, and very aware of the planet, the environment that we live in, as far as where the sun is in the sky indicating how the body should be working and what state it should be in. So that the neurons know where to look for things, and how to send a signal and receive it back as an echo or a relay, and know the state of that other system compared to their own, because they can compare the two different modalities that they sent the signal by, or three different modalities.

And the extracellular activity that we’re seeing is actually not just cells firing in unison, but rearranging as well. Maybe if we could see at that level: when the heart emits a frequency that the neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) or in the insula recognize, they know it as one of the parts of the salience network. It knows that part. It knows how long it took for that signal to get there, and it also knows that it took a little bit too long, or it’s dampened, or the shape of the signal has changed. And so then it rearranges the neurons and fires in such a way that sends another message.

Cells also have mechanical and electrical resonances. And so these are all relay systems. They fire and can be fired by those same frequencies, and there’s a cascading that happens. It doesn’t feel all random to me. I suspect something has to glue this together.

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    I'm just wondering about cells, which in one form or another make up all living things. We can see that they use bioelectricity as one of the many ways they run. I'm not talking about magnetoreception or electroreception. I'm strictly talking about a cell reading its own bioelectric field and its neighboring cells, which are descendants of the same cell, and being able to know the status and the position of another part of the body, and then infer things from that. Maybe memory. Maybe history.
    And the extracellular activity that we're seeing is actually not just cells firing in unison, but rearranging as well. Maybe if we could see at that level: when the heart emits a frequency that the neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) or in the insula recognize, they know it as one of the parts of the salience network. It knows that part. It knows how long it took for that signal to get there, and it also knows that it took a little bit too long, or it's dampened, or the shape of the signal has changed. And so then it rearranges the neurons and fires in such a way that sends another message.
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    I think that for a system this complex, that still seems to work so well in so many cases, if we can understand this, then we can understand the obvious ways that we're causing dysregulation of the systems. For example, we as a society have so quickly adapted and adopted all of these different types of wavelengths and electromagnetic emitting devices. We're concerned about the chemical status of the planet. We're concerned about the chemical implications and pollution of the planet. But we're not concerned about the electromagnetic pollution and thewhat implicationsit of thatimplies.
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    And the extracellular activity that we're seeing is actually not just cells firing in unison, but rearranging as well. Maybe if we could see at that level: when the heart emits a frequency that the neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) or in the insula recognize, they know it as one of the parts of the salience network. It knows that part. It knows how long it took for that signal to get there, and it also knows that it took a little bit too long, or it's dampened, or the shape of the signal has changed. And so then it rearranges the neurons and fires in such a way that sends another message.
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