Brain dump

Imagine what you can do with 1.3kg of grey jelly? Some consider it a delicates and eat it under the most enjoying circumstances. Think of a monkey head with the skull cut open like a can.

I am very fascinated of what one can do with the brain and how it works. It is said that people who do "The knowledge" and becomes a taxi driver in London gets a bigger brain. All cells required to store all map data about all places in London makes the brain grow (see: http://sydsvenskan.se/varlden/article215336.ece). It is also said that both Beethoven and Einstein had marks inside their skulls from where the brain had grown in those particular parts used for imagining music and the theory of special and general relativity respectively. If this is true it is a quite exciting example of what the human body is capable of.

The brain can also make a fool of itself. In an HBR article called "Decisions and Desire", Jan 2006, the way we make decisions is discussed. In that article there were several very interested facts, one I will bring up here. A teenager makes decisions on the feeling. Afterwards when you ask why they did a certain thing, they don't know. The reason for this is that the decision centre in the forehead is not ready yet to make any decisions. It is confused with all other signals flowing in from other parts of the brain and body. In the wake of any clear decision making power it gives in for the strongest signal for the moment, usually the thing that you regret the day after. When a person reaches 20s the brain is usually ready for life. Isn't it strange that we require our youth to make such important decisions even if the brian in many cases is not able to make the best choice?