The Brain Is Processing Information: Then, Why Does Research Into Human Brain Disorders So Firmly Avoids Information Processing Modeling?

Abstract

Brain disorders are a rapidly growing global health problem affecting millions of people worldwide. To date, however, no effective problem treatment is available because the efforts are directed not at the possible roots of disorders (which are still unknown) but only at the disorders’ symptoms. To better understand disorders’ causes and their underlying mechanisms, a large amount of scientific research is focused on developing disease models that rely on biological mechanisms taken from various fields of knowledge, such as genetics, molecular biology, neural and behavioral processes. It is extremely surprising that information processing mechanisms are never mentioned in this regard. (despite the fact that the dictum “The brain is processing information” is widely spread and generally accepted in the research community). A possible answer might be – the research community does not know “what information is”. To reverse this bizarre situation, I introduced my own definition of information. In biological systems information is represented as text strings written with nucleotide letters and amino acid signs. which makes information a physical entity with distinctive physical properties: length, weight, structure. Consequently, brain information processing is regarded as a chain of interconnected neurons (neuron network) with information flowing between successive network stages. In the course of information processing, only part of the processed information is advanced within the network. The remaining (not used) part of the information must be destroyed, demolished, and led out from the neuron for further recycling and utilization. Nature has provided the brain with genetic mechanisms for such “information waste” processing and utilization. But over time and especially in course of human aging such mechanisms become damaged and dysfunctional. Consequently, neurons clogged with the “information waste” become damaged and dysfunctional. And the brain disorders mounting. “Genetical engineering” can serve us as a remedy and the answer to neuronal disorders expansion.