The Brain and the Story about it.

I have been through this wonderful TV documentary by BBC on the brain and it is aptly called " The Brain Story". It gives you an insight into how one's brain works and it is one of the most brilliant and comprehensive one's I have seen till date.

Seeing is believing , isn't it? But is what we really see, is indeed what we is out there in the real world. Are we really seeing what is really there? A more contraversial view of the sense of visual world is it is just like a dream. We feel , we touch, we see, we also smell odours in our dreams. Then is the world really just like a dream. Is it just what our brain gives us, something that we want. Are we living in a matrix ?

Vision is one of the most complex processes that our brains work on. We receive millions of visual data bits in seconds, and our brain filters out and focuses on what we feel is important. Sight is just a slave to our brain. If we see something moving or something of interest , our brain orders our eyes to move into that area of interest. But to actually interpret what it really is that we are seeing, we need to direct both of our eyes and brain towards it. But then the brain is not just giving us bits to see from the real world, it is also interpolating these visions, it doesn't take in all data, it uses what it has in its memory to give us a whole picture. It adds information. How it does that can be seen from optical illusions like these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aJlX0AEWys . So when you see that one girl is larger than the other, you know that there is an optical trick in it. But your brain doesn't really let you see the reality of the situation. It has read some of that visual scenario from its hard drive and has overwritten the visual data , and there is no way can you escape from the illusion. That is how all the illusions work, that is how magicians use our brains to fool us.

And perceiving something that exists and imagining something are done by two different parts of the brain. The documentary talks about this interesting case of Kevin. He had an accident and it effected parts of his brain in a very peculiar fashion. He can recognise faces but he cannot recognise objects. He can see colours, but he just cannot say what that particular object is. So if you show him a picture of a scrubber, he cannot understand what it is. But if you ask him to draw one, he can draw one from his memory. But after a while, if you show him the picture of what he has drawn he wouldn't be able to recognise it. What is amazing is he can see, there is nothing wrong with his eyes, but his brain cannot perceive. But how does he recognise faces. He can do that becauses recognising faces is a function of a different part of a brain altogether. And there is a case of exactly the opposite of this going wrong after an accident. John can see and recognise objects, but he cannot recognise faces not even his own when he is shown a picture of it. It is really hard for us to figure out how that really happens. Because there is absolutely nothing wrong with his vision. Do all faces look the same for him that he cannot distinguish among them? No, all faces are different for him, but he cannot really match them to his memory. Every face is different and it isn't a face he knows.

That's how amazing our brain is and I would love to write more on it!

Love and Lust

Love and lust are two most intertwinned subjects of great interest. The line of seperation between the two is so blurr it can barely be called a line. Or is it just a perspective? Is there a huge difference between the two, some would vouch for that to be true. Lust is a battlefield of hormones, and Love the medicine for everything in life.

Lust is neccessary for Love to happen. It is the "love at first sight" which is so similar to what we would define as lust. Lust is something that aesthetically pleases you instantly, but love takes everything into account, the mind, the empathy, the mannerism and the personality.

We use different parts of the brain to be in love and to feel lust. Researchers believe that early stage romantic love feelings are located mainly on the right side at the base of the brain, or the ventral midbrain, and in the middle of the brain, the caudate nucleus.Long-term attachment, on the other hand, appears to be centred in the front and base of the brain, or the ventral putamen and the pallidum.Feelings related to lust and sexual arousal occupy different areas, mostly located on the left-hand side of the brain.

But what is love without lust when you are young ? Isn't it right to lust for someone you love? But then the opposite would be a real problem, loving someone for your lust.

Men can go crazy in lust . They don't want to know anything about the women, about what they like, where they are from and about how young or old they are. Romantic lovers are a bit "crazy," since they can experience chemical imbalances within the brain.Mental health experts have linked somewhat similar imbalances to depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. And one thing is for sure, Lust and love can rob a man of his natural strength and defenses. He can become a mere puppet in the hands of a woman.

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