DailyDirt: Brains Are Like Cracked Eggs On A Hot Skillet?
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
The question of how brains can think is a fascinating field of study -- since the question is largely unanswered still. But there are bits of information here and there that folks are piecing together to try to make sense of it all. Here are just some quick links about how some brains function (or don't function).- Just about everyone suffers from several common cognitive errors... And now you know, and knowing is half the battle. [url]
- Researchers can mess with the memories of rats -- making memories fade faster or last longer. But injecting a memory-enhancing virus into a human brain doesn't sound too appealing. [url]
- Researchers in Germany have found a single "giant" neuron in the brain of locusts that seems to collect all olfactory input -- a discovery that could lead to a better understanding of how biological neural nets work. Mammal brains could possibly have similar neural structures, but there's obviously a big difference between the brains of insects and mammals... [url]
- To discover more interesting articles on the human mind, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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It is a little disconcerting once you really get how much information your brain makes up.
I wonder how many wars are a result of this. Something happens, our brains make up a bunch of shit about it. Others brains make up a bunch of shit about it that is different. We disagree. "It's this", "no, it's that", "It's this" , "no, it's that". War.
Brains work like this...
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn�t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
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http://replay.web.archive.org/20090501142321/http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.da vis/Cmabrigde/
And here's one of the most ambiguous mixed letter sentences in English:
"The sprehas had ponits and patles"
This might come out as...
The sherpas had pitons and plates.
The shapers had points and pleats.
The seraphs had pintos and petals.
The sphaers had pinots and palets.
The sphears had potins and peltas.
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The other half, is finding a four-leaf clover, or a rabbit's foot, or a horseshoe, lighting a candle in a church, or waiting for trickle-down economics to save me.
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