Staring at her computer screen, Hilary realized that she had been given an enormous heart but a very, very small brain.
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The communication between the heart and the brain is actually quite complicated and involves an interplay between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. In having this binary system of control, conflicts and errors can arise. There are many ways of dealing with them.
I think I'm a bit off the mark. I know communication is a key topic here... hearts and brains do not go together in any conscious matters. The brainstem handles the heart in some respects, but it has no real control. Cardiac muscle has autorythmictiy. It can continue to contract and pump a bit even if it is fully removed from the body. It is self-driven to forge on. This is easier when you have a brain in your hand to point at. Sheep brains.
The argument that total brain mass or cranial volume are correlated to intelligence has not really been settled to my knowledge. Cranial measurements have become a standard for fossil comparison though, and changes are sometimes associated with observations of presumed social advancements and conscious development of humans as a species.
I am writing personal statements for Ph.D. committees. I am using various political manifestos as models and I think the product is somehow tainted. I can't help worrying that people will be too careful reading between the line, but sometimes I remember that some portion of the audience probably doesn't really give a damn anyways.
conciousness is in the p-branes, it is in the near infinity of connectivity within the brain, and the sub-atomic mysterious of the math. It is the essential paradox.
hilly "if I don't who to love, I love them all, and if I don't who to trust, I trust them all."
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The communication between the heart and the brain is actually quite complicated and involves an interplay between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. In having this binary system of control, conflicts and errors can arise. There are many ways of dealing with them.
I think I'm a bit off the mark. I know communication is a key topic here... hearts and brains do not go together in any conscious matters. The brainstem handles the heart in some respects, but it has no real control. Cardiac muscle has autorythmictiy. It can continue to contract and pump a bit even if it is fully removed from the body. It is self-driven to forge on. This is easier when you have a brain in your hand to point at. Sheep brains.
The argument that total brain mass or cranial volume are correlated to intelligence has not really been settled to my knowledge. Cranial measurements have become a standard for fossil comparison though, and changes are sometimes associated with observations of presumed social advancements and conscious development of humans as a species.
I'm procrastinating.
Mitchell: This made me laugh so hard that I got hurt _internally_.
What are you procrastinating about? I thought that you were all done.
I am writing personal statements for Ph.D. committees. I am using various political manifestos as models and I think the product is somehow tainted. I can't help worrying that people will be too careful reading between the line, but sometimes I remember that some portion of the audience probably doesn't really give a damn anyways.
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conciousness is in the p-branes, it is in the near infinity of connectivity within the brain, and the sub-atomic mysterious of the math.
It is the essential paradox.
hilly "if I don't who to love, I love them all, and if I don't who to trust, I trust them all."
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