Recent content by Salbris

a) When you say that memory is everywhere in the brain, do you mean to say that the cortex's serve as a place holders for perceived data? I had long thought this was the case, but for some reason I never thought to find out. Am I right in saying the hippocampus is the focal point of memory and...

Okay, so I've taken some time to think a bit before I posted again. I've worked out some pretty specific things which I am at no means capable of answering without at least some guidance. I will be infinitely grateful to anyone who can help me in answering these questions. How is memory...

This is very obvious when you consider the reaction times of insects. Fly's can decide where to move, turn, etc. much much fast then us. Prey Mantis are the same thing. Part of it also might be due to the fact that they make decisions very quickly (very little/no thought put into it).

Ahh, Terminal Velocity. Now that makes sense. :) Thanks for pointing that out.

I've been racking my brain to figure this one out, I really don't understand it. If you fill a balloon with air from your lungs, just manually blow it up, it should be carbon dioxide, no? Density of Carbon Dioxide at Sea Level: 1.977 g/L Density of Air at Sea Level: 1.2 g/L So it's...

This I know all to well. I too am a believer of determinism, especial in the brain. I'm more interested in how the general neural network is designed in the brain. Being deterministic it is ultimately replicate-able and the prospects of a truly artificial mind are incredible. I'm not really...

Thank you, when I get some free time I'll take a nice long look. I'm sorry to hear you've suffered. But thank you for sharing. Indeed, knowing how the brain functions, not only in the normal state, but in the extreme state of injury helps us understand how it works. I hope one day scientists...

I've been trying to find some very specific information about the workings of the Human Brain. I've tried going through Wikipedia reading about each part, but many of the terms are confusing (I'm obviously not an expert) and they aren't organized in any way which is helpful to me. I've...

Thanks for the info, but I'm not really sure that answered my question. I mean, how do scientists know the big bang was the creation of space-time as we know it? Couldn't space-time have already existed?

Okay, but how do scientists know this? As far I know they have never discovered things that create space-time, why does it make sense to think the Universe didn't exist before the big bang?

Thank you, that helps puts things into perspective! I'm just wondering then, if scientists detect red-shift and therefore they believe the universe is expanding and also believe that all matter and energy was once contained in at one point, then where was that point? Don't we even know where...

Oh, so it's a generally accepted fact the Universe is more like the surface of a balloon but in 3D? I guess the next question is, how do they know that then? Are you also then saying that galaxies don't "move" but the space around them expands? I always thought the universe was like the...

I've always wondered, have scientists been able to find the center of the Universe? I don't mean of just the observable universe. Since scientists says the universe is expanding doesn't that mean they must have found at least the direction the center could be? Pretty straight forward I...

Slower time equals more time... Oh right sorry, I didn't read that correctly. :) I'm still trying to get a handle on this. But I'd appreciate more input on this matter.

But when the other returns, they get confirmation that, yes indeed he was aging slower, no?