I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
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The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.
Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.
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