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Drawing of the cerebral cortex. Wikimedia Commons, Wellcome Images

Drawing of the cerebral cortex. Wikimedia Commons, Wellcome Images

1 posted on 09/26/2015 10:28:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Always took for granted falling asleep and waking up fine eight hours later, not having pain, not forgetting words etc. until a head injury.

Now I realize how incredibly complex and delicate in balance the brain is!!

It is a masterful creation and I dont know enough about evolution or science to make any meaningful statement, but to think that no intelligence was involved in creating it seems flawed.

For one example, i have pulsatile tinnitus in my right ear. Hear my heart beat day and night until i die. I deal with it. No biggie.

But we take for granted that the ear ignores all of the internal noises the body makes that would drive us insane.

Weird thing is, my hearing aid increases the pulsing sound. Strange.

Seems to me a million years from now people who dont know our history may think computers evolved on their own.

But I could be totally off base. Has happened before :)


4 posted on 09/26/2015 10:37:51 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: SunkenCiv

Nonsense. A “hint” is not even close to proof. Is the research reproducible, and “provable” through experimentation?


5 posted on 09/26/2015 10:57:54 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SunkenCiv

Abstraction.


6 posted on 09/26/2015 11:01:10 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: SunkenCiv
"...the cortex has expanded as much as 1,000-fold, but how this occurred is still a mystery to scientists. "

Unless you consider that this system was designed, not random. Scientists must make lousy Program Managers.

10 posted on 09/27/2015 2:50:58 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"The cerebral cortex is so different in humans than in mice," Kriegstein said. "If you're interested in how our brains evolved or in diseases of the cerebral cortex, this is a really exciting discovery." Emphasis mine.

Huh? What? This statement posits the extreme difference, and then asserts that extrapolation of data from one onto the other is just dandy? There's something being lost in translation here.

11 posted on 09/27/2015 5:05:14 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Children playing with tinker toys pretending they are God...


12 posted on 09/27/2015 5:21:03 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: SunkenCiv
Of course! Why, the human brain is some sort of computer that just "happened", and human morality, the soul, and even the mind itself are just illusions!

The origins of the human brain and mind, on the contrary, are of the Divine, and one day, these 'scientists' will learn that firsthand, when they meet their Maker.

14 posted on 09/27/2015 1:21:30 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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