10 Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain

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skip smyth — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:25:58 GMT

Must 'ape' Socrates on this one. 'All I know is, I know nothing'.

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jlmel — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:55:31 GMT

It's a pitty to read obtuse comments coming from ignorance and intolerance towards other people's point of view.Seems like they have a hate agenda. I think we should all do our research and probably many will find out that they indeed can get out of where they are and maybe never crossed their...mind that they could be in a better place with the right answers. Whenever humanity has united intelligence and religion we have advanced. When we've blended stupidity with power and hate,and obsession for structure and neglect of function, well we've had fascism, racism, wars, insanity and psychiatry. Thank you for the article Dr. Mercola and for being a Lighthouse in this ominous sea of darkness.

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david — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:57:45 GMT

Oh dear....so many seem to have 'lost the plot' on this one!?!

Far better to say "we have no idea", than proffer what others will see as 'off the wall'.........

........ and end up looking silly in fifty years time....as many do now when we look back at what we thought 'we knew'..........:)

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zor — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:11:39 GMT

It Scientifically proven that every cells in our body (including our brain) are replace by the new ones in every two years or less, that means if we think that our memory stores in our brain everything will be erase every 2 years, and we know our memory stays in our entire life...there is more powerful than the physical brain itself and we all have it.

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ypsidixit — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:08:23 GMT

Thank you for the great article. Here are two tidbits about brain function that fascinated me when I learned them:

Can you remember the street address of your childhood home? I can. how about the phone number of that home? No chance, in my case. This suggests that if there's some real-world "anchor" to some otherwise arbitrary bit of information, it's more likely to be remembered.

One glimpse into how your brain files linguistic information is when it makes a mistake. When you say a malapropism, or when you say, "I can't remember the word...but I know it starts with C/has three syllables/sounds like 'surely'" then you are seeing the "filing system" of your brain. Perhaps words beginning with C are lumped together, and/or words with syllabic similarity are lumped together, and/or homonymous words are lumped together. It's fascinating to me. Whenever I say the "wrong word" or find myself saying, "I know it starts with "st---" I try to pay attention and analyze that tiny glimpse into my brain working.

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jsab — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:30:23 GMT

I don't know anything about Dianetics or Scientology, but all the answers to these questions are spelled out in a very simple, clear, lucid, and complete manner in the various profound books written by Dr. David R. Hawkins.

http://veritaspub.com

To summaraize it myself, it's like this: If you can watch the mind and it's thinkingness an emotionalism, then you aren't the mind and it's thinkingness and emotionalism. How many minds do you have? Are you the mind, or are you the observer watching the mind? Only one of them is real. Just like the heart or lungs, the ego/mind is going and going all by itself. In other words, you are not the thinker of thoughts. Take 5 minutes to watch the mind and see for yourself. You can't control it. You can't stop it by controlling it, but you can stop it by watching it non-judgementally and losing interest in it. We are not the body and it's senses. We are not the mind and it's thoughts. We are the shapeless, formless, non-local, infintely silent Awareness that is aware of them. Peace of mind = Silence of mind.

Albert Einstein said "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." In other words, the problems of the mind cannot be solved at the level of the mind. Not all of them anyway. One must go beyond the ego/mind/intellect because silent Awareness is all-knowing, and it's all-knowing because it's formlessly Infinitely Everything. This is exactly why people have sudden epiphanies and moments of profound insight during moments of (inner) quietude. Awareness/Silence = All-Knowing.

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Elton — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:15:00 GMT

The brain has as many neurons as there are stars in the sky. A neuroscientist was brave enough to say on Nova's camera that we can't possibly have evolved from primordial soup because of the brain (essientially that is what he said).

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Kilt — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:09:16 GMT

Most of these unknowns have been known about for the last 50 years with absolute scientific proof. They are all described in Dianetics, the Modern science of mental health. A fascinating read which will change everyones views on the brain and what it dosen't do!

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otgary — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:34:23 GMT

Please, let's shorten the cultural lag...... the world isn't flat. Life is not from some chemical soup. The mind is not the brain. A human being is not an animal. You don't have a soul ...... you are one. You don't have life......... you are life. When the body dies from too much pain (slow or sudden) life leaves the body ..... that's you. You are capable of things you have not dreamed of. Find out who you really are.......... The most effective tools you can use to find out for yourself are in the discoveries about the mind made by L.Ron Hubbard in Dianetics (through the soul) and everything about your spiritual nature ... who you really are; where you can from; what are you here for...... is in the subject called Scientology (the study of truth or wisdom). No beliefs; it's senior to life..... and attacked by those who profit from people's ignorance. "Know yourself and the truth will set you free."

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Magnolia — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:06:15 GMT

What an intriguing article. It does get you thinking about what it is to think. Perhaps reading it will stimulate and inspire some of us to seek further understanding of this incredible tool we have perched on our shoulders. What IS consciousness, anyway? Are we connected to one another below the conscious surface? Is it limited to just the input of our five (known) senses? So many questions...

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CSR — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:09:30 GMT

This is the topic that I research every day. I am a Doctoral student of Cognitive Psychology, specifically studying visual perception. I have chosen to research one of the oldest systems in the brain, and I find that people are generally quite similar to each other. My colleagues who study emotions, decision-making, learning, and other "higher-level" behaviors on the other hand have a much more daunting task because people are clearly not so similar in those domains. I agree with the statement in the article that overall health and the brain have a special relationship--I think it is because people have such different lifestyles (diet, exercise, stress, sleep, etc.) that their "higher-level", more abstract systems vary so much and as a result, complicate their understanding.

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Infidel — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:06:47 GMT

Neurons are way to slow to be the communicators.
It is the Biophotons that communicate at near light speed.

Photons help guide and control electrons = Get lots of SUN!!

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elect1960 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:36:57 GMT

I am awake

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Maj_203 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:18:55 GMT

The article said: 5. What are Emotions?

This is the big one for me. I've heard a lot of people say that emotions are just chemical signals in the brain. I wonder, though... What chemical do we receive from people when they whisper to us that our cat died? Or that we are getting a surprise visit from a long lost friend? What chemical do we get from watching a lover make out with someone else, or seeing two people fight? What chemical is on the fifty dollar bill we find in the street that makes us to happy to receive it?

Science isn't anywhere close to fully understanding the way people work. This was a great article.

:)

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Russ Bianchi — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:58:26 GMT

I think, therefore I 'a' (of infinite numbers of them) Universe?

;-)

Uncle Russ