The Brain: The Story of You

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Why do we mirror? Does it serve a purpose? To find out, I invited a second group of people to the lab — all of whom had been exposed to the most lethal toxin on the planet. This is the Botulinum toxin, derived from a bacterium, and it’s commonly marketed under the brand name Botox. When injected into facial muscles, it paralyses them and thereby reduces wrinkling.

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Traditionally we examine warfare and killings in the context of history, economics, politics; but for a complete picture, we need also to understand this as a neural phenomenon. It would normally feel unconscionable to murder your neighbour. So what suddenly allows hundreds or thousands of people to do exactly that? What is it about certain situations that short-circuits the normal social functioning of the brain? To understand something like violence or genocide, we need to drill down one step further, to dehumanisation. We think of color as a fundamental quality of the world around us. But in the outside world, color doesn’t actually exist. When electromagnetic radiation hits an object, some of it bounces off and is captured by our eyes. We can distinguish between millions of combinations of wavelengths – but it is only inside our heads that any of this becomes color. Color is an interpretation of wavelengths, one that only exists internally.”

Copiii din aceste centre erau tinuti in patuturi, fara nici o stimulare senzoriala. Ei nu erau tinuti in brate si nimeni nu se juca cu ei. Desi nevoile primare le erau satisfacute (erau hraniti, spalati si imbracati) copiii dadeau semne ca au creierul subdezvoltat: un coeficient de inteligenta intre 60 si 80 (media este 80-120), limbaj insuficient dezvoltat, control slab al impulsurilor. dificultati in mentinerea atentiei. What is Reality? - Once we have decided that the self is transitory, the next big question is the nature of reality; what lies out there. Because there is no way we can see this objectively. Reality to us is what we experience; and with our snowflake-unique brain, each experience is bound to be different.

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David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and he is also the author of the internationally bestselling books Sum and Incognito. He is the writer and presenter of the companion BBC television series The Brain. Bir elmi kitabdan gözləntimiz adətən, onun sıxıcı, çərin oxunan bir kitab olacağı yönündə olur. Amma bu kitab elə deyildi. Yazarın sadə üslubla danışdığı məsələlər, hətta orda bir çox elmi ifadələr olsa belə anlaşılan idi. Ən azından anatomiya və fizika kimi ixtisaslardakı əsas anlayışlardan xəbəriniz varsa oxuyarkən çətinıik çəkməyəcəksiz. So not only was it possible to implant false new memories in the brain, but people embraced and embellished them, unknowingly weaving fantasy into the fabric of their identity.” Stewart Brand "A popularizer of impressive gusto...[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars."When the curtain fell, I took both bears and carried them over to each watching baby. I held them up, indicating to the child to choose one of them to play with. Remarkably, as was found by the Yale researchers, almost all the babies chose the bear that was kind.

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Our brain does a great job of filtering, editing and adapting the sensory input we obtain, so that we get a picture of reality that is censored, based on what we need to know for survival and what the brain already knows.Full of interesting facts spruced throughout the book. “As many as two million new connections, or synapses, are formed every second in an infant’s brain. By age two, a child has over one hundred trillion synapses, double the number an adult has.”