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Author Topic:   A Question of the Heart
Doddy
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Message 14 of 36 (402746)
05-29-2007 7:49 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Faithful Servant
05-28-2007 9:34 PM


Faithful Servant writes:
For all of science's "physical" evidence, they can say absolutely nothing of the one thing that makes us who we are, because it has no "physical" properties to speak of.
Oh. I guess my I can give up studying for my degree in neuroscience then.
Science has certainly touched on consciousness, and you are right in one respect: we don't know exactly what it is, let alone how it occurs. But, we can touch it, we just haven't yet got gloves thin enough to grab it (imagine grabbing a pencil with boxing gloves on).
Faithful Servant writes:
Why can't scientists account for this "unseen" aspect of life that we all know is there?
As yet, we can't monitor the brain in enough detail to work this out (electrodes can measure a few hundred neurons, and fMRI can measure under a cubic centimetre of brain tissue. The human brain contains, by my calculations, an average of 70 million neurons per cubic centimetre, but trillions of synapses). That is why we can't see it - just as before microscopes were around we couldn't see bacteria.
Faithful Servant writes:
But, there was one who lived, who laid out exactly what this "unseen property" of humanity was, how it came about, and what happens to it in the end.
Go on. Maybe I can use his discoveries and publish in Nature Neuroscience.
Edited by Doddy, : fixed quote

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Message 35 of 36 (402981)
05-31-2007 7:37 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by Coragyps
05-30-2007 5:09 PM


Re: No Brainer
Which is odd, because the blood would probably be warmer leaving the brain than entering, wouldn't it? I mean, that brain of yours generates a dozen or so watts of heat, from memory.

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