Biological Faith, Synapses & The Extended Yãy Hã Miy
Biological Faith, Synapses & The Extended Yãy Hã Miy
By Jackson Cionek — Decolonial Neuroscience of Human Action
INTRODUCTION — “The Self Is the Body Becoming Aware of Itself”
I begin with a simple but profound principle:
“The self is the tension pattern of the body.
When the body changes, a new self is born —
and this new self perceives the rigidity of the previous one.”
This is not philosophy — it is biology.
The body changes before consciousness.
The body changes before movement.
The body changes before faith.
And when the body changes, the self changes.
This principle anchors the Damasian Mind, the Tensional Selves, Fruição, Zones 1–2–3, the Human Quorum Sensing, and my concept of Extended Yãy Hã Miy, where imitation, habit, belief, faith, blind faith, and high performance all emerge directly from physiology.
1. Biological Faith: Before Culture, Before Religion
Ten thousand years ago, the Umbu culture carved quartz spearheads.
To throw such a weapon, the body had to have faith before throwing.
This is what I call biological faith:
the faith that I can move
the faith that I can act
the faith that I can hit the target
the faith that I can learn
the faith that I can exist in the world
Faith does not originate in religion — it originates in synapses.
It is Hebbian learning + interoception + proprioception + bodily states.
A baby only walks because the body believes before it proves itself.
Without biological faith, there is no action.
2. Electrical Synapses — The Body’s Immediate “Yes”
Electrical synapses:
are extremely fast
synchronize neuronal groups
prepare motor readiness in milliseconds
generate the “I go now” before any conscious thought
In my conceptual language, they are the immediate Yãy Hã Miy —
the imitation that happens before awareness,
the quick faith that prepares the gesture,
the tensional self that precedes intention.
Without electrical synapses → no synchrony, no rhythm, no action initiation.
3. Chemical Synapses — Where Imitation Becomes Habit, Belief & Faith
Here lies the laboratory of human learning:
LTP strengthens circuits
LTD weakens circuits
metaplasticity decides whether the brain is open or closed to change
This is the core of the Extended Yãy Hã Miy process:
→ IMITATION
Initial activation of a circuit.
→ REPETITION
Synaptic reinforcement.
→ HABIT
Automatic action.
→ BELIEF
The habit gains emotional meaning.
→ FAITH
The body trusts the pathway.
→ BLIND FAITH
When metaplasticity freezes (Zone 3)
and the system only reinforces what already exists.
4. The New Word — When the Whole Network Becomes Unstable
This is a key insight:
When we learn a new word, the entire network becomes unstable.
The self does not learn — the self changes.
A new word forces the system to:
reorganize semantic networks
reassign emotional meaning
reshape interoception and proprioception
destabilize the old tensional pattern
form a new global coherence
To learn a new word is:
not an addition
not a file saved
not a concept stored
It is:
the birth of a new self.
Your body changes →
your network changes →
your emotional landscape shifts →
and your consciousness only perceives after the new self emerges.
Learning is not accumulation.
Learning is transformation.
5. Myelinated Axons — When Faith Becomes High Performance
Myelin:
increases conduction speed
reduces energetic cost
increases precision
refines skill
When a skill is repeated intentionally (Zone 2):
specific circuits become myelinated
movement becomes fluid
technique becomes art
Biological faith becomes efficient faith,
the kind that creates:
mastery
expertise
craftsmanship
musical precision
scientific rigor
athletic excellence
Umbu hunting accuracy
All high performance is faith + repetition + myelin + metacognition.
6. Unmyelinated Axons — Emotion, Threat & Blind Faith
Unmyelinated pathways carry:
fear
guilt
shame
threat
emotional urgency
When these pathways dominate, the result is blind faith:
emotion hijacks cognition
metacognition collapses
the self becomes rigid
the past dominates action
Blind faith is Yãy Hã Miy without updating —
imitation without reflection.
7. When Biological Faith Fails: Freezing in Parkinson’s Disease
Freezing of gait is the perfect example:
The patient wants to walk,
remembers how to walk,
but cannot start the movement.
What is missing is not knowledge —
what is missing is biological faith.
The circuits that initiate action:
weaken
desynchronize
fail to ignite readiness
The same principle applies to:
severe depression
extreme anxiety
post-traumatic shutdown
motivational apathy
All are forms of collapse of biological faith —
the body loses the ability to say “yes” to movement.
8. The Biology of Self: Past, Present & Future
Ancient wisdom says:
“We are slaves of the past and masters of the future.”
Neuroscience confirms it.
The past self is a learned tension pattern.
The future self is a reorganized tension pattern.
Thus:
“Each bodily change creates a new self.
The old self does not change — the body creates another.
And this new self perceives how tense the former one was.”
Your self is not continuous —
it is iterative and metabolic.
9. Final Synthesis — Faith as the Engine of Human Existence
- Faith is biology
- Blind faith is frozen metaplasticity
- High performance is faith + metacognition
- The self is produced by the body
- A new word destabilizes the entire network
- Learning is the birth of a new self
- Extended Yãy Hã Miy explains development from infancy to mastery
- Freezing is the collapse of biological readiness
- Spirituality arises from physiological dynamics
- Consciousness is always late — it arrives after the body changes
This is Decolonial Neuroscience of the Human Action
rooted in physiology, interoception, proprioception,
and the metabolism that creates the very possibility of “being”.
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Movement, Freezing & Parkinson
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La Fe Biológica, las Sinapsis y el Yãy Hã Miy Extendido
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