The Human Brain

If you are planning to read it, I request you to go through it slowly, understanding every part.

I sometimes wonder about the gift given to us by Nature, i.e. The Brrrrain…

Have you ever appreciated the power of your Mind? Let’s get you started by thinking about the things you are capable of doing:

• Your capability to learn things is remarkable. How do you learn to operate a computer without any prior training, Learning of Language, Understanding concepts, cycling, and many many other complicated Tasks without even noticing them, which any machine may/may not do with the help of infinite programmers and infinite complex mathematical equations
• You can recognize someone by face, even if you met that person for a very short interval or saw him long back and mind you, you do all that in a fraction of a second. How do you traverse back in your memory to find that person, his characterstics, and EUREKA!!, You remember everything, how/where/when you met him. Extraordinary isn’t it?
• Apart from that, you can label unseen objects as a table or a chair or anything else, despite of the fact that you never saw such a chair ever in your life. Noone taught you that its a chair, but what you saw was a similar kind of object with 4 legs used for sitting, using this analogy , you predicted that its a chair.
• As I type here I see, that my typing speed has increased considerably over time. How did this happen, Am i learning the position of the keys without deliberately intending to do so? Or maybe its evolution? Like my brain thinks(:O) that this person is often going to use this keyboard so why not learn the positions so that his time is saved(not convinced?), Its in the analogy with evolution. The reason why our neocortex(Area of the Brain responsible for learning, intelligence and other hi-funda things) grew larger and larger over time.
• Lastly something which everyone sees, perceives i.e Dreams, Even when you sleep, The brain stimulates your cells in such a way that it looks like real sometimes. Not exactly!!.. People have done research on sleep, Dreams. I will try to put it in the forthcoming posts. But one thing I would like to share: Dreams don’t have a meaning, so please don’t go looking for something called Meaning of my Dreams(A peek into the future)
• There is an unending list of activities which your brain can do without you even noticing it or telling it to..

Trying to find some answers, such as :

What gives our Brain this power that a super-duper computer can’t even think of doing in its dream?

How is it wired up?

The answer might be hard, but we gotta start looking..

PS: I think that the Brain is a very precious gift bestowed on us  by the nature, so respect it and value it.

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