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Originally Posted by CraigS
Well .. overall, I found the doco to be a little superficial .. but what could one expect from a one-hour program, I suppose. 'Twould be great if they could've teased it out to say, a six part series !
I'm not all that convinced by the 'brain activation' scanning technique to determine the 'centres' activated within the brain. I know we hear lots about this in many of these documentaries, but I'm always left wondering … just exactly what are we really looking at when we see these fuzzy, coloured pictures (?) We seem to read lots into such scans, but are we looking at the cause centre culminating from undertaking particular functions, (like mathematical reasoning), or the effect ? (Ie: the aggregation point resulting from having undertaken these functions) ? 
I read a book once about the human brain and the author was a brain surgeon. He traced the history of the brain in medical science, and came to the concept of thought perhaps being distributed throughout the body .. not just a product of it being concentrated in the brain.
Anyway, I'd like to see more material about maths coming into mainstream media. The fractal craze and maybe chaos theory, were the last major exposures of it all, that I can remember.
Time to do it again ! Well overdue !
Cheers & thanks to all for this thread - very interesting! |
You may as well say the 'soul' of a car is in the badge or emblem that it carries.
You are the sum total of all your atoms! Your whole nervous system is you sitting on dumb muscles and organs. Really!
All of the parts working together are greater than the sum of all!
Why do you think that in your least lucid moments your brain still protects your a_r_s_e!
I rest my case.
Bert