"Do we trivialize a sublime feeling if we appreciate its dependence on the brain? Not in the least. Its significance does not depend on its being a soul state or a brain state...Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant."
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head (cephalization), usually near organs for special senses such as vision, hearing, and olfaction. Being the most specialized organ, it is responsible for receiving information from the sensory nervous system, process
"The brain being indeed a machine, we must not hope to find its artifice through other ways than those which are used to find the artifice of the other machines. It thus remains to do what we would do for any other machine; I mean to dismantle it piece by piece and to consider what these can do separately and together."
Brain"My brain? Its my second favorite organ!"
Brain"By the time a fetus is 6 months old, it is producing electrical signals recognizable as brain waves. And clusters of lab-grown human brain cells known as organoids seem to follow a similar schedule, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Cell Stem Cell. "After these organoids are in that six-to-nine-months range, thats when [the electrical patterns] start to look a lot like what youd see with a preterm infant," says Alysson Muotri, director of the stem cell program at the University of California, San Diego."
Brain"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldnt."
Brain"If we dont have good models to study the human brain, the potential for being able to address so much human suffering, disease, things that are very difficult to model in animals, well never reach."
Brain"Anyone who claims that the brain is a total mystery should be slapped upside the head with the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. All one thousand ninety-six pages of it."
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