RE: A question regarding proof
September 9, 2011 at 9:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2011 at 9:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Virtually no brain at all, and no brain, are fantastically different things aren't they? So, what little brain these people had worked for them, fantastic, a brilliant story of succeeding in the face of adversity.
However. Does this negate the larger body of research? No, it does not. One expects to find statistical outliers. People with "normal sized" brains can be clinically retarded. If brain size where the only determining factor in intelligence then sperm whales would be much smarter than ourselves wouldn't they. These articles do not mention whether or not any tests were run to determine if some other organ were functioning as his brain (something had to have been controlling his bodily functions). Case in point it appears that the gentleman with the "nonexistent brain" was severely disabled while the man with the very small brain was functional. Ants have brains which are of course much smaller, even if you were to add the weight of every brain of every ant in the colony it would likely still be smaller than our own. They are nonetheless capable of complex and organized behaviour. What I see here is yet more evidence that the functionality and ability of the brain is not yet completely understood, and that we are capable of operating with much less than we normally possess. Probably plenty more that these sorts of things have to teach us. I don't feel (obviously as a layperson) that this gives us reason to signifacntly alter what we understand to be the mechanisms of the brain (though it obviously speaks volumes about the tolerance for defect), and apparently neither does the field of nueroscience, who remain steadfast in the conviction that the mind is a product of the brain. Now, if you wanted an in depth explanation of any of this, you should probably contact someone who is a specialist in the field.
I could add yet another article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290610,00.html
(and it's from fox news, so you know it isn't any of my liberal atheist bullshit Frodo..lol)
Do I get a star?
However. Does this negate the larger body of research? No, it does not. One expects to find statistical outliers. People with "normal sized" brains can be clinically retarded. If brain size where the only determining factor in intelligence then sperm whales would be much smarter than ourselves wouldn't they. These articles do not mention whether or not any tests were run to determine if some other organ were functioning as his brain (something had to have been controlling his bodily functions). Case in point it appears that the gentleman with the "nonexistent brain" was severely disabled while the man with the very small brain was functional. Ants have brains which are of course much smaller, even if you were to add the weight of every brain of every ant in the colony it would likely still be smaller than our own. They are nonetheless capable of complex and organized behaviour. What I see here is yet more evidence that the functionality and ability of the brain is not yet completely understood, and that we are capable of operating with much less than we normally possess. Probably plenty more that these sorts of things have to teach us. I don't feel (obviously as a layperson) that this gives us reason to signifacntly alter what we understand to be the mechanisms of the brain (though it obviously speaks volumes about the tolerance for defect), and apparently neither does the field of nueroscience, who remain steadfast in the conviction that the mind is a product of the brain. Now, if you wanted an in depth explanation of any of this, you should probably contact someone who is a specialist in the field.
I could add yet another article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290610,00.html
(and it's from fox news, so you know it isn't any of my liberal atheist bullshit Frodo..lol)
Do I get a star?
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