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- schmidt349, on 08/28/2009, -2/+4The brain is basically a wrinkled bag of skin filled with warm water and thought muscles. Think of it as a modified heart, only with a mind or brain.
- schmidt349, on 08/28/2009, -0/+2Whoosh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdI_MmN-Lp4 - dgendreau, on 08/28/2009, -0/+2Look around you, people! schmidt349 is absolutely correct.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdI_MmN-Lp4 - Mujokan, on 08/28/2009, -0/+1"Little girl... likes... her brain. What's your opinion?"
100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses, and they're analog switches, not digital. Not bad processing power right there. - inactive, on 08/28/2009, -1/+2Oh a satirical post. I shall digg up all your posts I can find immediately.
- Renork, on 08/28/2009, -0/+1I apologize for piggybacking the first comment but for anyone actually interested in the subject matter of the article, they linked to the old edition of the primer.
Primers main page on the Society for Neuroscience site.
http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=brainFacts
Direct link to the 2008 edition.
http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/brainfacts/2008/ ... - lordzadar, on 08/28/2009, -0/+1Summary of article: "We are really really awesome and our brain is so ***** cool. We can do ***** to keep us awesome and we're figuring that out. Humans are really the best, if not top 3."
- brainline, on 08/28/2009, -0/+1It's incredible what the brain is capable of!
- nraphael, on 08/28/2009, -0/+0Primer was a great movie. This article, however, is dull.
- DeadlyAlpaca, on 08/28/2009, -1/+1It's not a whoosh when you reference something comically obscure.
- Khast, on 08/28/2009, -2/+1Did you graduate Grade 2 yet, sonny?
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -2/+1While I appreciate your perspective that the brain and heart are simply a result of physics (non magical) and on the minute scale are simply like automata, I'm feel bad that your knowedge seems to end there. Almost entirely within such circumstances (and near-necessary conditions such as being made of proteins) exist their similarities. For your answer I award neither a digg nor bury.
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