Diving deeper into the book, Clark begins talking in depth about cortexes and inner human organs and muscles. These muscles serving as a basis for many ideas such as human thoughts, communication, and natural processes our bodies experience such as breathing and feeling. Our brain has “grown” as we develop as young children and we begin learning language at a very young age because of image reception and repetition.
Our brain is so powerful to have created “electricity” but at the same time the brain can only access so much of its memory at the same time. Our short-term memory only accesses or “can” access knowledge that is already previously learned. At any instance an image can cause our brain to revisit certain thoughts or memories in our memory. Things such as the pencil and paper we’re created to allow our brain from forgetting information as they allow a constant flow of thought. The human, as they observe a room possibly scan from object to object, stopping briefly to acknowledge certain items such as a bookshelf but are scanning to quickly to realize how many books are on the shelf or what is between the books. It is almost an expectation for a bookshelf to house books but this is what our brain perceives.
Our brains are constantly processing ideas. In the reality of things, people in my vicinity are not in “reality”. Most are oblivious to worlds outside of their own and are unable to acknowledge problems in their world. People on their cell phones while driving are very dangerous because half of their thought is about the conversation and not the road or their surroundings, the percentage of accidents due to cell phone relatedness is higher than most believe.
Our brains created language, which in turn created everything existing in today’s society, besides the chicken and the egg. Communication is traveling in such an expedited fashion that now there are computers with webcams allowing us to operate machinery around the world while sitting at the comfort at our own home, at the desk, with our “desktop” or laptop computer. A few of these examples stated in NBC are: “Sandpit Excavation” “Bird Brains” “Gardeners World” and “Telebotic Tillie”.
Our brains allow us to questionably agree and disagree, which in turn is another learning process; questioning for example our existing technology and governmental laws in turn allows us to tweak and recreate better technology and laws, so to speak.
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