Re: [FairfieldLife] The Brain: More Complex Than We Think.....

[Bhairitu]

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
>  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.





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[FairfieldLife] The Brain: More Complex Than We Think.....

[salyavin808]

We've all heard them, we've all said them. But how much of popular
neuroscience is actually true?FOLK NEUROSCIENCE Popular misconceptions

■ 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.



■ 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.



■ 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.



■ 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.



■ 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