On 03/03/2013 11:57 AM, salyavin808 wrote: > We've all heard them, we've all said them. But how much of popular > neuroscience is actually true?FOLK NEUROSCIENCE Popular misconceptions > > â– The "left-brain" is rational, the "right-brain" is creative > The hemispheres have different specialisations (the left usually has key > language areas, for example) but there is no clear rational-creative > split and you need both hemispheres to be successful at either. You can > no more do right-brain thinking than you can do rear-brain thinking. > > > > â– Dopamine is a pleasure chemical > Dopamine has many functions in the brain, from supporting concentration > to regulating the production of breast milk. Even in its most closely > associated functioning it is usually considered to be involved in > motivation (wanting) rather than the feeling of pleasure itself. > > > > â– Low serotonin causes depression > A concept almost entirely promoted by pharmaceutical companies in the > 1980s and 90s to sell serotonin-enhancing drugs like Prozac. No > consistent evidence for it. > > > > â– Video games, TV violence, porn or any other social spectre of > the moment "rewires the brain" > Everything "rewires the brain" as the brain works by making and remaking > connections. This is often used in a contradictory fashion to suggest > that the brain is both particularly susceptible to change but once > changed, can't change back. > > > > â– We have no control over our brain but we can control our mind > The mind and the brain are the same thing described in different ways > and they make us who we are. Trying to suggest one causes the other is > like saying wetness causes water. > > The whole article: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/03/brain-not-simple-folk-neur\ > oscience > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/03/brain-not-simple-folk-neu\ > roscience>
I have a really hard time believing how "scientists" believe the way the brain works. Sometimes when ill it shuts down a bit (even when you have a bad cold) one can still have access to thoughts and memories just not so clearly. I hate to sound "woo-woo" but maybe the brain is just a receiver/transmitter to some kind of data stored in the transcendent level. Oh, might that be that vaunted woo-woo thing called the "akashic record?" Maybe so, but mankind might have to evolve a bit more to figure it out. On the other hand maybe were just fractals or just a very complex number that when run against another complex number blossoms out into all the information we have in our brain. That too, might take a while for our "vaunted" scientists to figure out. Imagine a whole movie stored as two complex numbers. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
