Miguel Ochoa – författare

A secret program by a totalitarian regime gets out of hand with disastrous consequences for the human race. Could humanity ever succumb to mens ambition, deceit, covetousness and treasury powered by modern technology?

A man who has lost his memory wakes up in an apartment splattered with blood. Is he the serial killer he is accused of being?

A prison physician is conducting experiments in behavioral modification with inmates who are granted parole for volunteering. But more sinister purposes lurke behind the promising facade. Could there be an escape to the total control of their lives by the diabolical perpetrators?

The book consist of three stories with a common underlining theme: a jail whether physical or spiritual.

Life on Earth appears to be integrated by hierarchical levels from the most humble molecule of DNA, which is a collection of atoms, to multicellular organisms, including Man, who are made up of collections of cells. Each one of these levels appears animated by a conscience of its own. Is there any evidence of a still higher level of conscience belonging to human communities and therefore supra-human in kind?

The author believes that this is so and that cultural manifesta-tions, mostly language and scripture, exert in these communities the same role that genes in biological organisms, in other words, they are carriers of information. Cultural specifications, he affirm, could be used to predict societal dynamics, including the fate of economic and political systems.

The works include examples of the evolution of cultural traits in human communities as well as parallel evolutionary studies of human groups, a process that could be compared to evolutionary radiation among biological species.

It is a generally accepted notion that science is a cool dispassionate human endeavor which explicit purpose is to unravel the secrets of Creation, so events could be predicted, manipulated and harness for the betterment of Man and society. To this effect it is necessary to resort to our Reason, that is, the use of the intellect to discern the hidden components that need to be sorted out to achieve our purpose.

It is common in our culture the belief that the process of ratiocination need to avail itself of notions like causality, which we assumed to be deeply enmeshed in the dynamics of events, so explanations could be afforded and predictions made, frequently after models for the given subjects of our enquires are designed based in concepts like particles and waves.

The author, tracing historically the roots of these premises of our understanding and after offering some notorious examples, attempts to provide evidence, based in Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological facts, that those taken for granted categories of our reasoning mind are deeply rooted in the internal organization of our relational apparatus: The Brain. He then concludes that our cherish notions and concepts might not be valid at far removed universal horizons, but instead be a hindrance to the true understanding of these remote realms. Man, he believes, should divest himself from taken for granted concepts and adopt a pre-suppositional frame of mind in his future quests of the Cosmo. The book closes with a review of epistemological problems specific to the Medical Sciences.