(January 4, 2013 at 10:37 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:Quote:really so where do they actually come from?
Good grief!! You want a lesson in biology now?? Didn't your mummy and daddy explain sex to you?
This is your brain on 'god'. It is interactive ...so click on the {EXPAND +} and really read for once.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=110997741
Also by Mr de Grasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson said: Wrote:"… I want someone to put electrodes on my head. And when I reflect on our kinship with the cosmos. When I do the calculations that show that a 15 ton meteorite that we have at the Rose Center for Earth and space. It’s an iron meteorite. When I do the calculations that shows if you take all the iron from the hemoglobin of the people in the tristate area of NY City. You can recover that much iron out of their blood and realize that the iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.
IF ONLY THINGS WERE SO SIMPLE
http://www.neuropsychologycentral.com/in...72cabe599d
If the question is, "How does thought originate?," we have to begin with defining the nature of the mind. From my investigation of brain evolution, I've learn that thought is a product of the mind and that the mind is an environment of cognitive activity within the brain's structure that arises from brain function. Brain function involves a concert of cortical and subcortical neural activity; therefore, thought is a product of cortical and subcortical neural activity.
One of the greatest misperceptions of the brain is its association with cortical function only; i.e., a misperception that the cortex constitutes the entirety of brain function. However, the evolution of brain structure suggests that the cortex merely enhances the efficiency of subcortical structure. This is why extensive damage to the cortex does not endanger life as such damage to subcortical structure would cause.
Back to your original question,"How does a thought originate?," to have a thought is to have a mind and to have a mind--as brain evolution suggests--is to have the capacity to integrate multiple sensory information in way that produces behaviors independent of instinct. With a mind, our animal ancestors gain the capacity to behave proactively rather than reactively; i.e., the capacity to think before reacting.
If the question is, "How does thought originate?," we have to begin with defining the nature of the mind. From my investigation of brain evolution, I've learn that thought is a product of the mind and that the mind is an environment of cognitive activity within the brain's structure that arises from brain function. Brain function involves a concert of cortical and subcortical neural activity; therefore, thought is a product of cortical and subcortical neural activity.
One of the greatest misperceptions of the brain is its association with cortical function only; i.e., a misperception that the cortex constitutes the entirety of brain function. However, the evolution of brain structure suggests that the cortex merely enhances the efficiency of subcortical structure. This is why extensive damage to the cortex does not endanger life as such damage to subcortical structure would cause.
Back to your original question,"How does a thought originate?," to have a thought is to have a mind and to have a mind--as brain evolution suggests--is to have the capacity to integrate multiple sensory information in way that produces behaviors independent of instinct. With a mind, our animal ancestors gain the capacity to behave proactively rather than reactively; i.e., the capacity to think before reacting.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22...stery.html
"Where does the mind reside? It's a question that's occupied the best brains for thousands of years. Now, a patient who is self-aware – despite lacking three regions of the brain thought to be essential for self-awareness – demonstrates that the mind remains as elusive as ever."
And of course even if all the functions usually associated with the mind being located in the brain
Transplanted organs impart memories onto recipients
http://www.naturalnews.com/028537_organ_...ories.html
Mystery on top of mystery.
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