• Question: why do u like the brain so much and why?????????????????

    Asked by anon-188651 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 5 Nov 2018.
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      Warren Mansell answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      It is capable of so much and we understand so little, probably because we have been trying to understand it in the wrong way for 100s of years! http://www.pctweb.org/bio/biology.html

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      Alex Reid answered on 5 Nov 2018: last edited 5 Nov 2018 12:23 pm

      Great question. I love the brain because it is simply incredible. The fact that brains even exist is something philosophers and scientists will be wrestling with for a long long time. It even named itself if you think about it, which is pretty weird! Where there is weirdness there is fascinating science.

      I view it as one of the great frontiers of science, many of which are about outward exploration (such as space or the ocean), but this frontier is uniquely within all of us, which makes it particularly mysterious and amazing. We know a lot more about it than we used to, but we also have a long way to go.

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      Nadine Mirza answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      Because the brain is everything we are and everything we will be!!!! Everything about us, our personality, our skills, our memories, our preferences, our languages- all of it is the brain. We’re all just brains sitting in a body really!

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      Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Frankly, I very much disliked throughout school biology and especially neuroscience, how funny is that! I started studying psychology so I can understand what controls us as people. Since then, I was always interested in how we process information in the busy, complex, multisensory environments.
      The more I studied, the more i understood the importance of processes occuring at the level of the brain in supporting our explanations of attention, learning, memory and behaviour in general – that’s when I fell in love with neuroscience!

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