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Brain

Weight: on average, about 1.5 kg (3lb).   Ten billion (10,000,000,001) neurons.    It seems that the potential of the human brain is limitless/infinite.   The human brain remembers by linking and joining facts together.  The United States Senate declared the 1990s the ‘Decade of the Brain’, stating……. 

“Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of The United States of America in Congress assembled, that the decade beginning January 1, 1990, hereby is designated the ‘Decade of the Brain’, and the President of The United States is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon all public officials and the people of The United States to observe such decade with appropriate programs and activities”.    

The human brain is also known as the ‘central eye’ from research done at Bell Telephone Laboratories.   Ivan Petrovich Pavlov 1849-1936, claimed that the purpose of your brain was to couple neurons (nerve cells) of which the human brain contains around 10 billion, through synaptic junctions.   Up until recently the brain for scientists was a mysterious mass of grey and white matter floating like a bowl of custard between the ears and remained a closed book and remained so until in 1970 Sir Bernard Katz won the Nobel prize for medicine with his discovery that the brain actually functioned on electrical impulses.   However, the function of vast sections of your brain remains something of a black hole but the new generation of powerful microscopes, x-ray and ultra-sound scanners has allowed scientists to construct three-dimensional images of ‘thoughts’ hurtling around your brain.   Work has even begun using brain-waves transmitted by radio to control computers.   In the future artillect brains (artificial intellect) will not be restricted by space and life support systems which limit the capacity of the human brain.   Your brain contains billions of neurons - nerve centers with the capacity to control life-support systems and intelligence.   Some areas, such as the decoding mechanism for vision, the language center and vague areas dealing with personality are semi-understood and what happens in the vast silent bulk of the brain, the detailed anatomy of how the cells connect and the chemical messengers involved remain largely a mystery.   There are about 100 billion nerve cells in your brain.  Tens of thousands of them, unable to connect with their neighbours, self-destruct every day, even in unborn foetuses, for reasons unknown.   One brain cell or neuron can be capable of receiving up to 100,000 connections from other cells which, slowed down in brain imaging, look like a series of mysterious knight moves from an endless game of chess.   It is thought that people who remain receptive to new ideas retain a good access to such new pathways until extreme old age.   The main difference between the brain and a computer, is that computers are pre-programmed and human brains have unique sets of connections perpetually modified by experience.   The Brain Trust Charity award the title ‘Brain of the Year’ annually.  

Bill Wall’s Brain Games links

 

 

 

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