An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 19:44 (3725 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:I agree that organs can't function without some kind of a brain, but that should not be equated with the human brain. I prefer “intelligence”. And I agree that the huge jumps require intelligence and cooperation between all the cell communities in the organism in which the jumps take place.-The intelligence has to be a sophisticated planner which included the planning for cellular functional cooperation. you look at it backwards. Cells and groups of cells alone have no capacity for this planning.-> 
> dhw:Easy when you say it quickly. What does brain plasticity mean?..... and doesn't it suggest that brain cells do not respond to a given programme but somehow make their own decisions?-Einstein's brain had an area in the temporal lobe almost 1/2 inch thicker than normal. It was a conceptual area. We know that we can affect and raise brain IQ by certain techniques. Brain neurons are programmed to respond to intelletual activity, and areas of the brain grow new neurons and connections. The brain changes all through a lifetime, modified by the person's attempts at mental activity. We do not know if Einstein grew the area or was born with it. But what we are learning now suggests he grew it. He said he always saw problems in pictures and diagrams. He was a left-handed dyslectic. Repeat: brain neurons come programmed to increase intellectual capacity.