The Messy Human Brain
POSTED BY: Cybersnark
UPDATED: Thursday, April 5, 2007 01:59
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Fascinating article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17888475/site/newsweek/
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Let others rhapsodize about the elegant design and astounding complexity of the human brain—the most complicated, most sophisticated entity in the known universe, as they say. David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, doesn't see it that way. To him, the brain is a "cobbled-together mess." Impressive in function, sure. But in its design the brain is "quirky, inefficient and bizarre ... a weird agglomeration of ad hoc solutions that have accumulated throughout millions of years of evolutionary history," he argues in his new book, "The Accidental Mind," from Harvard University Press.
Looks like there's a little bit of Serenity in all of us.
*wh-thunk*
What was that?
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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I have never had to pick up after my brain, so I am quite offended with this man's assertion that my brain is 'messy'. There have been many times where I can hear my brain vacuuming, dusting, and doing it's dishes.........
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Interesting... and it makes sense that if humans learn from experience things may get a little messy over the years!
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