Monday, May 28, 2012

Revised version of Big question



My Big Question
            Imagine a world in which there was no thought process. Where everyone one acted upon impulse and miraculously knew how to do certain things. Until one realizes how much of an anomaly that our brains act they way they do they then  cam began to respect the complexity of it. However though, have you ever actually wondered though the edge of capabilities our brain has?
        
     We are born with instincts, natural skills or reflexes that develop within the brain in order to survive. Like when a is in the womb the brain develops a sucking reflex. For instance, a baby will suck on anything it puts in its mouth, mainly for feeding from their mothers tit. Which is why people use things such as baby bottles and binkies. To simulate feeding from the mothers breast, because that is the only way they know how to feed. So who's there to say our brains won't make new adaptations or so called mutations to ourselves in order for us to survive in an ever long evolving world.
             For many years there has been a myth going around influenced by media and the unfailing faith people put into it that we only use 10% of our brains. If this were true it would further impact my big question, that if we have yet to harness 90% then there's a huge probability we can and once we do become super human or something else that' is radically an unreasonable statement. In fact though we use all of our brain, just not at the same time. The brain is like your body that uses the necessary muscles it needs in order to accomplish the task at hand. For instance, if I were writing with a pen it would be completely unnecessary for me to jump up and down. It has been proven through experiments and sudden illnesses people inconveniently get, like a stroke that we use all of our brain and we need every part in order to function properly. So what is the importance of knowing this? Well like a muscle the brain can grow stronger. With this understanding the reasoning comes that some areas are stronger then others that appear unnatural.
             People also speculate that it is possible to read another's mind. However, it is impossible to directly read someone's thoughts. Although some think that we can't simply do it because our brains are just to loud, and that through meditation we can achieve a quieter brain that will allow us to hear others thoughts. However, we lack the physical requirements to translate the electromagnetic pulses our brain creates when we think, process information, or when we go through action. Hospitals place electro encephalograms on someone's head to read these pulses in order to diagnose or obtain information from people whom are in a comatose state of mind. Essentially the human brain is like a computer and only another computer can fully read what is going on within the infrastructure of the brain. Currently scientist are trying to test if a human mind can directly tell a computer what to do with his/her thoughts. Even though we cannot directly read someone's mind we are able to interpret what they are feeling through appearances, current situation, and experience. Which in returns allows us to make a great guess on what someone is currently thinking.
            Others believe that it is possible to move things with just your mind, called psychokinesis. This ability is often portrayed through a super hero or villain in a comic book, movie, and/or T.V. show. Such as, Jean Grey or Professor X from Xmen or like Galactus Battles from the Fantastic 4.  However it is possible, Ninel Kulagina , a women whom was apart of the KGB from Russia in 1968, achieved acts of psychokinesis in a controlled, monitored environment. First the KGB tested her abilities on small things such as moving items through a plastic box, but soon moved onto greater things such as affecting living tissue, trying to stop a heart. So they tested her abilities on a frog and turned out to be successful. Of coarse then the KGB scientist went ahead and moved onto an actual human subject. Ninel was able to push the man into cardiac arrest before stopped. But since the whole thing was top secret there is not to much information on the subject in order to completely prove that it is true, but it does leave someone wondering. A lot have theories have been suggested, but like a theory they cannot prove it. Like how everyone has a magnetic field around their bodies and the Ninel's was just unnaturally strong then others.
            Sometimes though it is through inconvenient disorders that the supernatural is born. Mainly through the disorder autism. A lot of reported autistic kids are unbelievably artistic, or math talented. Possibly due to the lack of part of some brain functions so their brain tends to focus on what they do better, allowing them to exceed acts or feats of excellence. Some autistic kids are naturally good at math and are able to solve high math problems they have never seen before. Others can either pick up a musical instrument and just began playing by ear without the knowledge about the instrument. Either way, it is often unheard of among people with out any disorders.   

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