What I read
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I think brains are attractive. They are amazing containing many mysterious secrets waiting to be explored. With countless neuron, they are the source of our thoughts, movement, behaviors, etc. I always wonder and be curious to know how the brain works, how their synapses talk to each other and transfer information.
Like from the article, understanding each brain part's duties would expand our knowledge to help more people both in physical and mental health or to optimize your brain's capability as well. Those researches in the article also showed that everything is from your brain, like when the mice felt like they were tasting some particular flavors, despite they didn't eat anything but were urged by a technique directly to their brain. However, any trials on humans should be considered the safety and there would no severe side effects. This is only one example of what brains can do or what can we do to the brains, and how wonderful they are.
Like from the article, understanding each brain part's duties would expand our knowledge to help more people both in physical and mental health or to optimize your brain's capability as well. Those researches in the article also showed that everything is from your brain, like when the mice felt like they were tasting some particular flavors, despite they didn't eat anything but were urged by a technique directly to their brain. However, any trials on humans should be considered the safety and there would no severe side effects. This is only one example of what brains can do or what can we do to the brains, and how wonderful they are.
Brains could be tricked? This also makes me interested in psychology. I think brain and psychology are related. It is fun to understand how or why a person acts or reacts in different situations and how it mechanism works. After reading the article, it reminds me some videos I used to watch long time ago, it was about making someone who was afraid of spiders, to be able to touch them. So I think if the response to tastes could be changed, so does the responses to the spiders. And another video was about to trick the participants to think that they had done some bad things. They kept telling the participants some stories. It seemed like changing or modifying their memories about themselves. Finally, they really thought that they had committed a crime which the truth was they didn't.
Brains are always amazing for me and it could really make change in our behaviors. Anyways, receiving these kinds of information has to be careful, also check the sources that they can be reliable.
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My question
What brain's stories you've heard?
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Reference
- Makin, S. (2018, May 30). A Matter of Taste: Can a Sweet Tooth Be Switched Off in the Brain? Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-matter-of-taste-can-a-sweet-tooth-be-switched-off-in-the-brain/
I think In is right: our brains make us who and what we are as persons. And as the research she has responded to shows, the more we learn, the clearer it is that the physical and chemical actions occurring in our brains create our thoughts, emotions, and everything else that makes us persons. But perhaps this should not surprise us: we are, after all, the products of evolution from the earliest organisms around four billion years ago, and the only input into our creation was from chemical reactions. There was never anything special added to make humans radically different to other living things, to all of which we are related. And as In's classmates will have seen, our similarities with other animals, and the difficulty in finding a morally relevant reason to justify killing some animals to eat them and not others is important in Stephen Law's essay "Carving the Roast Beast."
ReplyDeleteWould there be any side effects restraining tastes in obese people? I guess it is an effective way to lose weight but I'm not sure whether I would like to try. Eating relaxes me. So if I'm no longer feel good eating food, my life would be miserable.
ReplyDeleteIt is also very interesting to trick an innocent man to believe to has committed a crime. What if some criminal can been through the same procedure to honestly tell the (his) truth that he hadn't done anything bad. I'm sure a lie detector won't work on him, what I'm not sure is that is the evidence are enough for court to decide that he is guilty. Anyway, government or other related organization might have to keep an eye on this issue for it might have some drawbacks.
I like both points that Iew raises: What is it that makes our lives worth living?
DeleteAnd what are the implications for our criminal justice system of brains being so easily tricked into having false beliefs even about our own actions? I've long thought that a confession was never enough by itself to convict anyone of a crime. If the police cannot provide enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that someone committed a crime, then it seems to me morally troubling, if not positively unjust, to convict them and punish them for a crime merely because they admit to having committed that crime. There are many reasons, such as doing a deal for a lighter sentence, for which people can admit to guilt that is not real. Courts should not accept confession as a good enough reason to convict.
But then there is the even more worrying fact that if our brains make us do everything that we have ever done, can it be right to punish people at all? That's like blaming paralysed people for not walking like everyone else when they cannot in fact walk.
For me, I had a chance to read a book about the power of a brain, but I can't remember the exact name of that book. This book states that a brain is the best machine in the world. It composes of more than ้ีืhundred thousand millions of cells which can communicate and interpret data within a second. It is even faster than any computer in this world. A faster and better brain is significantly related to the happiness. The book shows an evidence that if we are happy, our brain will tend to receive much more information and function faster and more accurate than when we aren't in good mood. When you are happy, you will study and remember better. I think, if you want to be clever or you want to work more efficiently, you may have to start with being happy to yourself!
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