The human brain really is an incredible piece of machinery. So incredible in fact, that it has self awareness, and to push it even further, we even question our own existence. That's a beautiful thing. In order to get to that, we had to develop, really, only one thing. Complex language. Putting words to thoughts gives us the ability to formulate ideas and thoughts that are much more complex than that of a dog or a cat for example. Sure your dog knows "sit" and "wanna go for a walk?", but, at least from what we can observe, they don't seem to be able to learn a large vocabulary and piece together thoughts out of them. In the name of philosophy though, of course, who are we to say they can't? That aside, the fact that it evolved to this point... man, it just gives me goosebumps thinking about it.
Fact is, you ARE your brain. That's the simplest way to put it. Our consciousness is made up of our senses, which is controlled by the brain. Our personalities can be drastically altered by small changes in our brain.
Has anyone ever heard of David Eagleman? This is kinda long, but he makes his most important points in the first 10 minutes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREriwV71...re=related
Fact is, you ARE your brain. That's the simplest way to put it. Our consciousness is made up of our senses, which is controlled by the brain. Our personalities can be drastically altered by small changes in our brain.
Has anyone ever heard of David Eagleman? This is kinda long, but he makes his most important points in the first 10 minutes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREriwV71...re=related
