Our Brain : By Joey Martin

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Human brain is the least understood of human body and yet we use it everyday, consciously. What makes this particular organ so hard to understand compare to say a human heart? Is it technically possible, in the future, to implant an artificial brain to help someone who has a brain damage? How about a brain transplant?
Primarily ... complexity. The human brain is by far the most complex organ in the human body. The task of learning the anatomy of the heart is trivial compared to learning the anatomy of the brain, for example. Also, the brain changes over time more so than the heart. For example, every time a new memory is stored an anatomical change has occurred in the brain.
In addition, I believe there is a difference in usable model organisms for the two. The anatomy of the human heart is relatively similar to the heart of many large mammals, but the anatomy of the human brain is relatively dissimilar to that of most large mammals, except chimpanzees and maybe the other apes, which are endangered or are "very sentient" and so there are ethical issues associated with experimenting on them.
Brain is fully understood and well studied by science. Everything is clearly defined. Artificial brain is impossible. Not in this lifetime at least. If artificial brain can be developed so can all other organs. That way man will never die because he will keep replacing his organs when they get bad. And organ failure is always the cause of death. If man replaces all his organs (if it can do the brain too), then he has made himself into a robot. Think about it. The future would then be transformed from humans to robotic beings.
Think of how small our brain is. Like compare our brain to the size of the earth and the earth to the size of the sun. Our sun is only one of countless stars. What percent of matter in universe is considered life? How does material brain create non material things like experience? What is the role of LSD in the future?
Any guy could agree..."its not the size that counts". Your brain is amazing because of they WAY IT WORKS. The complex electrical and chemical goings-on are remarkable on a "scale" only comparable to the universe itself. The Earth and Sun are remarkable too, don't get me wrong, but by no means are sentient. And as of yet, we have no evidence that other sentience exists within our universe.
Experience is material - it's stored as chemicals in your brain. As for your last question, I don't see how it holds any relevance to the previous ones. But try to think of it like this: You buy a guitar, and learn how to use it. You get really good at the guitar, and want to try playing a different guitar. Turns out the frets are all in the same order! Similarly, everything in the universe follows the same basic set of rules. So once we understand them, we can understand why the Earth orbits around the sun, why we can't throw a ball into orbit unless we're really exceptionally, impossibly strong, etc. But we can also explain why a galaxy at the other side of the universe behaves in the same way. Our brain may be small, but it is much, much more complex than any lifeless structure in nature. The milky way galaxy consists of about a hundred billion stars. The human brain consists of about a hundred billion neurons. And a single neuron is a lot more complicated than a star. Scientists have the workings of stars pretty much figured out. But the same can't be said for the brain. And they can study the brain up close!
Our brain runs on assumptions and beliefs.. like people before me posted, the universe contains material that repeats itself, and so on. However those same people haven't been to the other side of the galaxy to know whats there, they just assume its all the same.. we could be living in the same life cycle as star wars for all they know. Our little minds aren't meant to be able to understand the universe, we have only been equipped with enough to understand ourselves and the things within our grasp. However just like all the stupidity in this world hasn't stopped me from trying to live a clean slate life, and just becoming a failure to myself like many people around me. Many of these people will not let their little tiny brains limit them in fullfilling their dreams.. I want to be perfect in what I view is the perfect being, and these people want to understand the universe.. both being practically impossible goals, but both fuels for living a life.
The frontal lobe of the brain controls the language, the left side is the logical one, the right side is the emotional one, and the back of the brain is the... I don't remember. If you use this as a base, you can say that because of the differences in the left and right sides of the brain, society has been able to flourish in the arts and science. Right handed people, most of the people, tend to be logical and structured in their thoughts, brain patterns. On the other hand, literally, we have left handed people. The lefty's, as they ere called, think in a different way, since they use the right side of the brain to make of their thoughts. Their brain patterns are less structured and being so more complicated to understand.
The neuro-system or cognitive system is energized by the bodies metabolism. The energy is used by the brain selectively to bring about responses of either aversion/pain or attraction/pleasure toward certain conceived of results. The results exists as options which can be thought of and responded to by the cognitive system. Options are temporal extensions, "what can be done with perceived x". X becomes a impression that can be correlated with known, or existing information in memory, and then is put into an option. The option can then be thought of as possible to actualize by motor movements either with something, towards something, or away from something. The results must turn into behavior patterns, and thusly activate motor neurons. There are degrees of voluntary and involuntary operations, but all are really automations. Voluntary movements are when you think to do something before doing it, and involuntary when it is done without much thought of what is to come.
There is no such thing as "control" . It is a system that works together. It may be that you place more value or responsibility on a particular organ because of what it does but it does not diminish the value of the individual organ or the whole. In addition, when you mention "you" who is that if it is not your brain, your body. We are in control. Only as much control as our soul desires us to be in control. Our brain cannot process things faster than the speed of light because of einstein's equation E=mc^2. Our brain processes information using electric impulses, and these electric impulses are just electrons moving around. E=mc^2 is short for saying that anything that has mass cannot go the speed of light or faster (it would require an infinite amount of energy). Electrons have mass, so you can't process information at the speed of light.
Since the human brain is trapped in the skull and nothing can get into it. It had to evolve seperately and our bodies got attached later. That's why cities got made after our brains got attached to our bodies because we weren't smart enough to think of them yet. So, Did the human brain evolve seperately from the body? The answer is No... skull shape changed along with the shape of the brain (or vice versa, but I highly doubt having a large skull gives you any kind of reproductive advantage). The human brain evolved very slowly. It wasn't like some monkey all-of-a-sudden gave birth to an animal with human intellect. Instead each generation exhibited small changes that, after a long while, accumulated into something like the human brain. Some of these small changes would make the animal more likely to reproduce and survive, while some would make them less likely. At the same time, similar changes were occurring within the rest of the body of the human ancestors. The changes that make survival and reproduction less likely are diluted by the changes that make survival and reproduction more likely, so you end up with a brain and body that has accumulated mostly good traits over hundreds/thousands/millions of generations.