According to the article "How Your Brain Works?" published online on How stuff works by CRAIG FREUDENRICH, PH.D. & ROBYNNE BOYD § Every animal you can think of -- mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians -- has a brain.
The brain performs an incredible number of tasks including the following: It gives us the power to speak, imagine and problem solve. It controls body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing. It accepts a flood of information about the world around you from your various senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, balancing, timing, thinking, etc). It handles physical movement when walking, talking, standing or sitting. It lets you think, dream, reason and experience emotions. All of these tasks are coordinated, controlled and regulated by an organ that is about the size of a small head of cauliflower.
Your brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves make up a complex, integrated information-processing and control system known as the central nervous system. In tandem, they regulate all the conscious and unconscious facets of life. The scientific study of the brain and nervous system is called neuroscience or neurobiology.
Information and the Brain:
Just like the names of our primitive ancestors, they were actually borrowed from animals, clouds, rocks, water, fire and everything else within their reach. Names were more descriptive during those days. They were no firstname nor lastname . They were just adjectives. They appeared as title adjectives and over time transform to proper nouns. Everything is nothing but labels or tags that serve as simply identifiers .
Even to these days, in the Land of the Indians, we still see this transformation or transliteration of adjectives to nouns . Examples: the descriptive (falling Rain) eventually becomes Huyana, Algoma for (Valley of Flowers), Honiahaka (Little wolf), Ituha (white stone), Keezheekoni (burning fire), Kenda (magical powers), Litonya (darting hummingbird), misae(white sun) and makkitotosimew(she has large breasts).
In other countries, they still use labels to distinguish one person from another person. In a community where the are so many Johns; one John can be distinguished from another by attaching a label like "John, the son of a carpenter" or "John, the wife of a fisherman" or "John, the tax collector".
At the time of Abraham, the messiah of the jews was called " The Lord of Salvation". In Hebrew, the words "YH or Yah" means "lord" and, "Sh or shua" means "salvation". So the equivalent title of "the lord is my salvation" is "Yah'shua". But, the literal word was distorted when the hebrew scripture was added to the greek new testament and the label became the proper name: Iesous which sounds similar to the greek deity Zeus. When the bible was translated to Latin the name Iesus was formed. And when the letter "I" in Iesus was introduced to the english letter "J", the name became "Jesus". That's why, in the original bible (the Torah), the name Jesus Christ (which is not a firstname and a lastname) was never even ever identified and mentioned anywhere in the Old Testament because names don't exist yet during those days.
From all these examples, we can deduce that the origin of information is critical in studying how our brains work. However, information is just a part of the whole picture. There are other parameters that we need to take in consideration before we can get a comprehensive understanding of the brain system like our biological sensors. But before we go to the physical and abstract functionalities of the brain, let me first introduce some basic principles about information based on the study called Originemology.
1. Early information comes from Nature (Caveman in the box).
2. Information travels from the outside world to the inside of the brain (Scription Jump).
3. Man can't think of something without associating it with a physical object ( Codexation Dilemma).
4. Something is real if it pass the SCQRE test: Sensory, Codexation, Quality, Reason, Equipment.
5. Information can only be acquired in two ways: by Choice or by Chance.
6. The Law of Second Option - the option of this or that, the flowchart effect.
7. The Zizo Effect - what zips in must zip out.
8. Information Materialization to Intelligence and Consciousness (IM therefore IC)
I.C. therefore I.M.
"Cogito, Ergo Sum", translated into latin as "I think, therefore I am", is a dictum coined by René Descartes which means " If I am able to think, therefore I exist". Does this philosophical proof existence applicable to silver species? If a Robot is programmed to think, does this mean the robot knows that he exists? Probably No! Or, maybe Yes! If No, what is it that will make a robot think that he exists? Intelligence? If Yes, what is that important ingredient that makes a robot think that he exists? A Soul, Consciousness, or a Programmer?
In the first question, it is not sufficient that intelligence is the key factor that makes someone think that he exists. However, if he was programmed to think that he exists, does it mean he exists? In the second question, it seems that consciousness plays an important role in someone existence. If intelligence and Consciousness are the basic ingredients that make a robot thinks that he exists, what about the soul or the programmer, where do they come in? Is it all in the mind?
On another note, Consciousness is defined medically as wakefulness and awareness (Plum & Posner 1983). Its opposite is called Comatose. When a person is in a COMA, it means that he is not awake and aware of himself nor his environment. Thus this means the person is no longer conscious? What about a person in a vegetative state? When a person is awake but unresponsive with no awareness of himself or the environment, is the person still conscious? Other factors like motor impairment, facial paralysis, incontinence, verbalization, olfactory, vigilance and pain contribute to the presence/absence of consciousness. To complement these behavioral diagnoses, neuroimaging techniques are implemented such as PET (positron emission tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and EEG (electroenceohalography)
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