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Brain What exactly is the human brain ?
Griffin, the singer, talk-show host, composer, mogul, philanthropist and puzzle fan who created the long-running hit game shows of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, died Sunday of prostate cancer, the Griffin Group, his namesake production and real-estate empire, confirmed on its Website. He was 82.: Alien talk 11:15, 14 August 2007 (SGT) He never uses computer to overrule his brains as a work horse ( never wanna to learn how to be P-C savory!) Jennings recently told the Associated Press that he's not really doing anything special. Said Jennings: "A lot of it is just God-given memory that I can't take any credit for."
(Singaporeans had hardly any brain or talent, they always insist foreign talent is to enable Singaporeachieve better and climb higher!)
Brain power come from veggie?
- yes, it's true especially when you get old (60 plus) plus fish...2
The Brain "The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance." Aristotle (from De motu animalium, 4th century B.C.)
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2)
The Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the centre of our knowledge, our being, and recorded all of the good and bad deeds of a person's life - that is why they left the heart in the Pharaoh's body as part of the embalming mummification process. The brain was discarded along with other internal organs into Coptic jars stored outside of the burial sarcophagus. After death the heart was weighed against the feather of Maat (goddess of truth and justice). The scales were watched by Anubis (the jackal-headed god of embalming) and the results recorded by Thoth (the ibis-headed god of writing). If a person had led a decent life, the heart balanced with the feather and the person was rendered worthy to live forever in paradise with Osiris.
Knowledge of the brain didn't improve under the ancient Greeks, even Aristotle after extensive investigation he concluded that the centre of sensation and memory was located in the heart. This is not surprising when you consider that when we have taken part in a particularly successful debate the adrenaline will be rushing and we can literally feel out hearts beating in our chests.
It was not until the Renaissance in the late 14th Century when it was finally realised that the centre of consciousness in the head. We now have a better understanding of the brain's major functions thanks to work undertaken in the 20th century, however, in the early part, up to the 1940s, the brain was thought to be a very simple organ. Work post 1950s has improved our understanding of the brain as being far more complex than we ever thought it was, but we are still a long way away from fully knowing what the human brain does and what it is capable of. These developments are so significant that they are already changing the foundations of how we learn, comprehend and remember.
A bee, we might consider, doesn't have the standard of life that we do but when you consider that the average bee only has 10 000 brain cells and we have over 1 000 000 000 000 with those few brain cells a bee is able to build, care for its young, hunt, eat, communicate, count, navigate, dance, identify other bees, fight and defend the community, fly, hear, remember, taste, reproduce and much more. Just imagine what we must be capable of if we only knew how to develop and apply our brains.
Authors like Tony Buzan believe we can exercise our brains just like other muscles of our body. The brain if it is on our side is a powerful ally, but so often negative thoughts take over and our self-confidence and self-esteem can be undermined. Educationally it is estimated that a student receives 9 negative comments before receiving one positive one. We can wallow in our depths of negative thoughts so easily ("I can't do that", "They don't like me", "I'm over weight", "I'm too tall" etc.) and yet we can train ourselves to have a more positive outlook on life - how often have you heard someone say "Think Positively" and yet things still go wrong.
It is a matter of getting the brain to think positively and getting ourselves to believe it!
Tony Buzan quotes the story of an American professional golfer who, on a particular golf course, always drove a water hazard. During the intervening year the golfer had been practicing positive thinking. As he stood on the tee his brain was repeating to himself something like: "this is the tee where you drove into that waterhole last year; I'm not going into that waterhole again" and sure enough, even after a year of positive though, he drove into the waterhole.
That's is what we call a self-fulfilling prophesy. That is why we should not go to grope in to our unknowable future destiny and especially with the aid of a smooth-teller! Or a clever pseudo-pyschologist who may simple say " You are going to be heal within four months! You will have a slight mistfortune, so it will be helpful if ...and so on".
[edit] The wonder of the brains
According to Einstein himself, he discovered his theory of relativity not seated in front of the desk, but whiling on a hill one summer day.
As he looked up with half closed eyes, the sun dappled through his eyelashes, breaking into thousands of tiny sunbeams.
Einstein wondered what it would be like to go go for a ride on one of those sunbeams, and in his imagination took himself on a journey through the universe. His imagination took him to a place where his formal training in Physics told him he should not be. Concerned about this, he went back to his blackboard, believing his imagination to be more correct than his formal training, worked out a new mathematics to explain the truth of what the brain had told him.
Looking back, we can see that he actually using both sides of his brain to an exception degree...
[edit] You have two brains
Did you know that your brain is divided into two halves? And further more, did you know that those two halves are actually two separate brains! As little as two thousand years ago mankind knew virtually nothing about the brain. Before the Greeks, the mind wsa not even considered to be part of the human body but thought to exist as some form of vapour, gas, or disembodied spirit!
Surprisingly, the Greeks did not get us that much further, and even Aritotle, their famous philosopher thinker and the ounder of modern science, concluded after sxtensive investigations that the centre of sensation and memory was located in the heart.
From the time of the Greeks to the Enlightenment (Renaissance). there was virtually any progress in thinking about the brain. During the great spiritual and intelectual awakening, it was finally realized that the centre of thought and consciousness was located in the head, but the brain remained a mystery.
[edit] Your Left and Right brain
For some time it has known that the brain is divided into two halves, left and right. It has been known taht if damage is done to the left side of the breain, the right side of the body tends to become paralysed, and, correspondingly that if the right side of the body tends to become paralysed that is, if damaged is done to the left of the brain. In other words the opposite side of the body are controlled by the two sides of the brain opposite to the body! One will readily notice that in stroke victims <brain damaged by broken vessels or brain hemorage> the patient recovered may loses control of one side of the body afffected by the opposite side damage within the brain cells.
The left hemisphere is important for all forms of communication. We know this because when it is damaged, perhaps as a result of an accident or a stroke, there can be serious problems in speaking (this is known as aphasia). After left-hemisphere damage there can also be difficulties with other complicated movements of the mouth, or of the hands and arms -- demonstrating a pout, or miming how to salute or to hammer a nail, for example. It seems that the left hemisphere specializes in controlling certain movements, including the movements we use to communicate. In people who are born deaf and who communicate using hand movements (manual sign language), damage to the left hemisphere can badly affect their signing ability.
The right hemisphere, by comparison, doesn't appear to be involved much in communication, although it can help us understand words to some extent. Instead, it specializes in receiving and analysing information from the outside world. Therefore, damage to the right hemisphere may result in our being unable to tell the difference between melodies, or having difficulty in identifying a face or in locating an object accurately in space. Some parts of the right hemisphere are mainly concerned with helping us understand what we hear (auditory), while other parts help us make sense of things that we see. The temporal lobe (in the lower part of the hemisphere) analyses much of the auditory input, while the occipital and parietal lobes (in the rear and upper regions) provide information about where objects are. The frontal lobes in each hemisphere seem to be important in planning our actions. This is also the way our right brain focus on love, appreciation, music, harmony, and the finer thngs in life but we seldom allow that to develop because of the lack of the stimulus of our environment in Singapore. see the gift I received for 2006 from a neighbour and taxi friend [[2]]
[edit] Research and findings in modern scientific history
The research of Professor Roger Sperry and Professor Robert Ornstein of the University of California (presently UCLA) has thrown more light on the different activities by each side of the brain.
Starting with the realization that the two halves of the brain are biologically similar and can be realistically be thought of as two identical brains working in harmony, rather than one brain divided into two, Professor Ornstein decided to find out if each of our separate brains handles different intellectual activities in addition to physical activities.
Placing special caps for measuring brain waves on some of his students, he asked them to do different tasks. They were asked to to add lists of numbers, write formal letters and essays, arrange clored blocks, analyse logically, think "daydreamy" thoughts. All these activities were being performed, Professor was measuring the brain waves coming from the two halves of each person's brain.
Professor Anokhin was among the first to realize that it was not the (size) the number of brain cells that determined intelligence but something to do with the little protuberance on the brain cells tentacles. He found that each of the brain protuberances <called brain dentrites> was connected to at least one another, and by means of electrochemical impulses these two could form little paterns with other individuals and groups. As he progress, Anokhin realized by the thousands of protuberances on the many arms of the millions of brain cells.
In his last year of his life, Professor Anokhin calculated the number of connections and pathways that could be made by a normal brain. He emphasized, as a scientist, that his estimate was conservative, and concluded his last public statement by saying he was convinced that no man alive or had ever lived who even approached the FULL use of his brain. The number he calculated is still amazing scientists and teachers alike:
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- 10 MILLION KILOMETRES
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[edit] Your unlimited potential ?
Please goto see mind or Psyche
goto see positive or proactive thinking and moral relativism
- the great expanse
== Fair comments on typical Singaporean's brains ==
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Singaporeans are lazy and without much brains, all the talented where? every year the garmen had to spend so much time scouting for talents among uni dons CEOs PHds even M'sians and Indons.. cowboys and heros from among Westerners CEOs etc, etc, but i only see one exception "the collection of talents so concentrated in the one Great Lee family!" no wonder! even SWW is a poor no talent businessman <poly grad only> who just got lucky with the sounding cards.. once..had a talented Frenchman too, once not too long ago, he said he better go..to another more profitable venture than DBS, S'pore DBS is not exactly his cup of tea..Has anyone been invited to garmen tea party yet? So U see no wonder no talents in S'pore! LOr heheheheh!
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Example of S'porean drain to other Countries: But Taiwan is more supportive of their local<Spore> enterprise. I read in the local papers that Sim Wong Woo and another MP involved in Semi- Conductors were unhappy about the red tape in Singapore.The Foreign MNC were given some much preferential treatment but the local Enterpreneurs faced lots of burecratic red tape. Sim Wong Woo for example based his research Center in Malaysia.
The truth is Garmen are usually giving the end of the stick to locals and <VIP treatment to foreigners> when it comes to talent hunting.. I had so many friends who are already called up for tea but they are usually foreign, few sporeans!
China are looking for local talented businessmen to partner with, besides teachers <language> etc..Sporeans are more than welcome there but in spore their talent need upgrading and they die out slowly under Garmen supervision.. That why i'm here U know me05:42, 1 February 2006 (SGT)? Can't U see my spellings sna gramma is so poor: Alien talk 05:46, 1 February 2006 (SGT)! but I wrote over 1000 pages here at Sgwiki and my dear readers numbering into ten thousands...Use Ur talent at Sgwiki or Ur talent will diminish and die out slowly and painlessly..
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[edit] How long more will Sporeans allow the Lees to do their walkovers?
- until some clever ideas got started or a revolution? I don't know what we all are waiting : a tsunami or earth to quake? Great idea: Let's tame the Garmen by giving AMK GRC a closer fight with only a narrow margin for...in the next snap election!!! That will surely teach them to talk less and listen to the the people, and take them more seriously...
- What is a CPU in a computer?
[edit] How do we first understand about ourselves, our world and all within our time and space?
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The human brain, a 3-pound mass of interwoven nerve cells that controls our activity, is one of the most magnificent--and mysterious--wonders of creation. The seat of human intelligence, interpreter of senses, and controller of movement, this incredible organ continues to intrigue scientists and layman alike. Over the years, our understanding of the brain--how it works, what goes wrong when it is injured or diseased--has increased dramatically. However, we still have much more to learn. The need for continued study of the brain is compelling: millions of Americans are affected each year by disorders of the brain ranging from neurogenetic diseases to degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, as well as stroke, schizophrenia, autism, and impairments of speech, language, and hearing.
Today, these individuals and their families are justifiably hopeful, for a new era of discovery is dawning in brain research. Powerful microscopes, major strides in the study of genetics, and advances in brain imaging devices are giving physicians and scientists ever greater insight into the brain. Neuroscientists are mapping the brain's biochemical circuitry, which may help produce more effective drugs for alleviating the suffering of those who have Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. By studying how the brain's cells and chemicals develop, interact, and communicate with the rest of the body, investigators are also developing improved treatments for people incapacitated by spinal cord injuries, depressive disorders, and epileptic seizures. Breakthroughs in molecular genetics show great promise of yielding methods to treat and prevent Huntington's disease, the muscular dystrophies, and other life-threatening disorders. Research may also prove valuable in our war on drugs, as studies provide greater insight into how people become addicted to drugs and how drugs affect the brain. These studies may also help produce effective treatments for chemical dependency and help us to understand and prevent the harm done to the preborn children of pregnant women who abuse drugs and alcohol. Because there is a connection between the body's nervous and immune systems, studies of the brain may also help enhance our understanding of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Many studies regarding the human brain have been planned and conducted by scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and other Federal research agencies. Augmenting Federal efforts are programs supported by private foundation and industry. The cooperation between these agencies and the multidisciplinary efforts of thousands of scientists and health care professionals provide powerful evidence of our nation's determination to conquer brain disease.
To enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 174, has designated the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the "Decade of the Brain" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion.
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain. I call upon all public officials and the people of the United States to observe that decade with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth.
GEORGE BUSH ** [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:11 p.m., July 18, 1990]
N>B. **GEORGE BUSH senior is the father the President of USA goto see Dubya
