Introducing the brain: general (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 12, 2022, 18:21 (987 days ago) @ dhw

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DAVID: Broca's area is not frontal lobe.

dhw:See numerous websites, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_area
"Broca's area, or the Broca area (/ˈbroʊkə/,[1][2][3] also UK: /ˈbrɒkə/, US: /ˈbroʊkɑː/[4]), is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the brain[5] with functions linked to speech production.

My sloppiness. I was thinking of the prefrontal higher conceptualizing region. Broca's is in a back lower area of the whole frontal region.

Memory formation

DAVID: We've agreed the early cells don't just sit there with nothing to do, waiting for their expected future job.

dhw: Yes, it took a while to get you to agree to that. Now tell us who or what “expects” their future job. Is it not possible that having come into existence to meet a particular requirement, the cells then complexify (or expand their number) to meet new requirements in an ongoing process of RESPONSE as opposed to anticipation?

Did our current uses occur 315,000 years ago? The neurons then anticipated the use today in eh sn ese they easily handle them now..

DAVID: ID believes God designed the special sapiens brain, from teh less specialized Erectus brain.

dhw: You have just agreed that new cells respond to current requirements (they don’t just sit there with nothing to do), so do please tell me how your ID-ers explain why their God designed special areas of the brain millions of years in advance of their “intended” function.

It is what a designer obviously does.

Rebooting after deep anesthesia

The sting is in the tail:

QUOTE: How the brain recovers from states of unconsciousness is important clinically but also gives us insight into the neural basis of consciousness itself," said anesthesiologist George Mashour, from the University of Michigan."

dhw: One up for materialism versus dualism. But we needn’t reopen that discussion!

I've already laughed at it.