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From the Marrium webster online dictionary
brain>
1 a : the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that constitutes the organ of thought and neural coordination, includes all the higher nervous centers receiving stimuli from the sense organs and interpreting and correlating them to formulate the motor impulses, is made up of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures, is enclosed within the skull, and is continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum
2 a (1) : INTELLECT, MIND (2) : intellectual endowment : INTELLIGENCE -- often used in plural <plenty of brains in that family
mind>
2 a : the element or complex of elements in an individual that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons b : the conscious mental events and capabilities in an organism c : the organized conscious and unconscious adaptive mental activity of an organism.
This one I have never been able to come to a satisfactory conclusion.
Is the Mind of mankind and the brain the same or is there more to the mind than the physiological workings of the brain?
In his book "In the Beginning" John Gribbin compared neural cells with binary bits as in ASCI code. He said that in this comparison there are enoughs cells in our brains to fill 1500 libraries of 5000 books of an average length of 400 pages. I'm not exactly sure of the exact figures but the scale is right. This seems to be enough computing power to contain our minds and still do all the other physilogical things that it has to do to keep us alive healthy and still be people too. Yet the mind is so capable of such fantastic imagination and creates such awe inspiring beauty. Can a physiological brain really contain and accomplish all that mankind has accomplished.
Comments and thoughts please
brain>
1 a : the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that constitutes the organ of thought and neural coordination, includes all the higher nervous centers receiving stimuli from the sense organs and interpreting and correlating them to formulate the motor impulses, is made up of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures, is enclosed within the skull, and is continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum
2 a (1) : INTELLECT, MIND (2) : intellectual endowment : INTELLIGENCE -- often used in plural <plenty of brains in that family
mind>
2 a : the element or complex of elements in an individual that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons b : the conscious mental events and capabilities in an organism c : the organized conscious and unconscious adaptive mental activity of an organism.
This one I have never been able to come to a satisfactory conclusion.
Is the Mind of mankind and the brain the same or is there more to the mind than the physiological workings of the brain?
In his book "In the Beginning" John Gribbin compared neural cells with binary bits as in ASCI code. He said that in this comparison there are enoughs cells in our brains to fill 1500 libraries of 5000 books of an average length of 400 pages. I'm not exactly sure of the exact figures but the scale is right. This seems to be enough computing power to contain our minds and still do all the other physilogical things that it has to do to keep us alive healthy and still be people too. Yet the mind is so capable of such fantastic imagination and creates such awe inspiring beauty. Can a physiological brain really contain and accomplish all that mankind has accomplished.
Comments and thoughts please