The brain

[David Maes]

If you have to take higher doses of the medicine Levodopa, your personality changes. There is no doubt, our thoughts and our emotions are all a part of our brain; we are our brain.
It's proven scientifically.

[dipayankar]

Or the brain is us..

If you have to take higher doses of the medicine Levodopa, your personality changes. There is no doubt, our thoughts and our emotions are all a part of our brain; we are our brain.
It's proven scientifically.

[David Maes]

Well Dip, I am certainly not a neurologist, but you certainly aren't one either.

We need to be neurologists to talk about the brain.
I have a book, written by two neuroscientists, but since I am no neuroscientist myself, what guarantee can I give to everyone, what I say is not just wrong?

And if you don't have any knowledge about neurology, then how would you ever be qualified to discuss about the brain?

I don't know, but I have this funny feeling this whole website is full of people who all think they are Einstein, and who are all very sure of their own ideas; and I am one of them.

[baudrunner]

It occurs to me that making things seem more complicated than they really are is actually a form of vanity. As the human beings that we are, we tend to place ourselves above "simple science".

The reality is that, irrespective of the complexity which evolution has ultimately bestowed upon the sentient being, among all species of whom we place ourselves on the top tier, we are still no more than a biological system, our consciousness the result of no more than a sequence of bio-chemical/bio-electrical reactions.

The genes responsible for causing the conscious mind from deviating from the stable "norm" of cognizant awareness and which manifest into the disease called schizophrenia have been identified, and they are found on chromosomes 11 and 15.

Our brains are responsible for the interpretations which arise from the chemistry that happens within us. This is why the visual and auditory hallucinations are a function of the individual's character and personality.

Interestingly, there are exceptions. People who suffer from a variation of Alzheimers called Lewes Body disease experience the same peculiar set of hallucinations, and display a common set of symptoms. They often hallucinate "little people", or elves, and walk, or rather shuffle, by taking extremely small steps. This is further proof that chemistry is everything, because the affected area of the brain in these patients is very specific.

There really isn't a great mystery to the concept of consciousness. It's all the evolutionary result of recognizing which foods benefit us and which don't. It begins with the senses.

[austintorn@aol.com]

There are no wee folk?

I would still like to thank all the little people who made me what I am today. Since there are no elves (darn!), I'll thank Homo Habilis, who was not three-foot tall but was three-foot small.

[dipayankar]

In fact the brain is way too complicated than we can imagine.

There are no wee folk?

I would still like to thank all the little people who made me what I am today. Since there are no elves (darn!), I'll thank Homo Habilis, who was not three-foot tall but was three-foot small.

[David Maes]

I just watched 'My Brilliant Brain' on National Geographic Channel.

It was about this female chessmaster; she won against everybody.
Scientists investigated with a brain scan which part of her brain she used during playing chess.

The result was remarkable; she used the same area of her brain for playing chess as for recognizing faces!

She actually recognizes a patron of positions of chess pieces in the same way as she recognizes a face!

She played chess without thinking.

In this program, they claim that genius can be made!
For example; to become a chess genius, you have to start playing chess from when you're about five years old; and always practising; again and again,...
Would it be true: 10 % inspiration, 90 % perspiration?

I guess when you're still a child, you are like a larva, you absorb information. Also you brain is still growing, it's still getting wired.
I guess when you want to have some extra perception, you probably have to grow it.

Although in another broadcast on NGC, they said there is also some component of nature (the right genes) required.

Anyway, I also think, if you have the right genes for becoming a chess genius for example, but you never practise when you're still about five, you'll never become a chess genius.

As I heard in the broadcast, Mozart made his first composition when he was five years old; he came from a family of musicians, and he was stimulated already at very young age.

[dipayankar]

I think I recall this program. It was on whether Genius are made or born. I think Genius is made, its only the attitude and interest level in a person that makes him/her a genius.

I just watched 'My Brilliant Brain' on National Geographic Channel.

It was about this female chessmaster; she won against everybody.
Scientists investigated with a brain scan which part of her brain she used during playing chess.

The result was remarkable; she used the same area of her brain for playing chess as for recognizing faces!

She actually recognizes a patron of positions of chess pieces in the same way as she recognizes a face!

She played chess without thinking.

In this program, they claim that genius can be made!
For example; to become a chess genius, you have to start playing chess from when you're about five years old; and always practising; again and again,...
Would it be true: 10 % inspiration, 90 % perspiration?

I guess when you're still a child, you are like a larva, you absorb information. Also you brain is still growing, it's still getting wired.
I guess when you want to have some extra perception, you probably have to grow it.

Although in another broadcast on NGC, they said there is also some component of nature (the right genes) required.

Anyway, I also think, if you have the right genes for becoming a chess genius for example, but you never practise when you're still about five, you'll never become a chess genius.

As I heard in the broadcast, Mozart made his first composition when he was five years old; he came from a family of musicians, and he was stimulated already at very young age.

[dipayankar]

I think I recall this program. It was on whether Genius are made or born. I think Genius is made, its only the attitude and interest level in a person that makes him/her a genius.

I just watched 'My Brilliant Brain' on National Geographic Channel.

It was about this female chessmaster; she won against everybody.
Scientists investigated with a brain scan which part of her brain she used during playing chess.

The result was remarkable; she used the same area of her brain for playing chess as for recognizing faces!

She actually recognizes a patron of positions of chess pieces in the same way as she recognizes a face!

She played chess without thinking.

In this program, they claim that genius can be made!
For example; to become a chess genius, you have to start playing chess from when you're about five years old; and always practising; again and again,...
Would it be true: 10 % inspiration, 90 % perspiration?

I guess when you're still a child, you are like a larva, you absorb information. Also you brain is still growing, it's still getting wired.
I guess when you want to have some extra perception, you probably have to grow it.

Although in another broadcast on NGC, they said there is also some component of nature (the right genes) required.

Anyway, I also think, if you have the right genes for becoming a chess genius for example, but you never practise when you're still about five, you'll never become a chess genius.

As I heard in the broadcast, Mozart made his first composition when he was five years old; he came from a family of musicians, and he was stimulated already at very young age.

[David Maes]

Some people have the opinion that the human brain is nothing more than a complicated machine. Is a human only a machine or is he more?