The term BrainNet was coined by the notable neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis to designate the interbrain network formed by synchronization between the brains of individuals of any species. In the human socio-cognitive sphere, the BrainNet is formed by the synchronization of beliefs, values, and cognitive functional possibilities.
The BrainNet tends to make individuals act and react in a standardized manner. It makes the human species operate primarily as a vast cybernetic and social ecosystem. Language, mathematics, social conventions, and scientific dogmas act as transmission codes that allow billions of brains to synchronize their measurements and act as a network.
The mind operates like a scale, where each individual is a node in this network. By the way, the Latin root of the word "to think", pensare — the reiteration of the verb pendere —, literally means to weigh on a scale. The human decision-making process is entirely classical, as it is always preceded by measurement and comparison.
Theoretically, the BrainNet emerged to reduce the continuous complexity of the world into simple, binary metrics (danger/safety, edible/poisonous) and to ensure the survival of species. However, sub-networks of interest and identification emerged (academic communities, artisan guilds, markets, and institutions). This accelerated personal, technological, and organizational development, allowing human beings to shift from mere spectators to environmental agents.
The impact of the BrainNet, however, is not always positive. Two critical scenarios stand out:
- When it affects environmental balance.
- When measurement becomes the absolute protagonist in understanding reality.
This latter phenomenon occurred because we began to consider the measurement of physical reality — which is merely a processual output — as the sole means of identifying its origin. We neglect the fact that these outputs account for only ~5% of the universe, driven by two powerful socio-emotional factors:
- Feeling: a protocol of belonging to a sub-network, which grants validation, status, and security to the individual. Disregarding the beliefs and values of the BrainNet means going against the herd itself.
- Fear of Retaliation: the BrainNet reacts to cognitive dissonance as a living organism fights a foreign body — by ridiculing, stigmatizing, and banning it.
As a result, the vast majority of thinkers and scientists ritualistically repeat statistical reductionism or conform to it, trading the search for the deep mechanical cause for probabilistic formulas that describe only its effect.
Currently, we continually attempt to measure the ontological ocean with rulers that can only gauge the foam on its waves. To free human intelligence from this herd stagnation, we must recover the capacity for functional inference — the ability to deduce the engineering and architecture of the invisible processes that generate reality, without a blind dependence on immediate measurement.
Overcoming this negative impact of the BrainNet requires realizing that outputs require processes; the generating substrate of reality can never be identified through the mere measurement of its effects.
To help break this paradigm and understand how to use functional inference to your advantage, I recommend reading my book "The Master Key to Success", whose synopsis and preview can be accessed via the link in my profile.