Do we really have the brain capacity to generate and retain such structures in our heads?
It ignores the way the brain really works: as a high-speed data processor.
As we get closer to understanding how the brain really works, we can use neural networking and programming metaphors to describe what we find.
Your brain is really engaged, and you're picking up all of this information.
Dr Pat Levitt, a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania said the artificial brain had "really significant potential".
"In Washington, she is really considered Obama's brain on so many policies, " said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and writer of the Washington Note blog.
If television produced the global village, the Internet produces the global psyche: everyone keyed in like a neuron, so that to the eyes of a watching Martian we are really part of a single planetary brain.
"These boxes are really like having another compartment in your brain, " says Douglas Medema, an industrial design manager at Bissell, a Grand Rapids, Mich. maker of vacuum cleaners and an Inventables subscriber.
"They want to really characterize the parts list of the brain and map all its circuits to see how they connect and communicate, " said neurobiologist Ed Boyden at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The trouble is that language is so powerful that the left brain easily starts dominating, but really almost all of our critical inputs come from non-verbal signals.
"He goes to the rugby, he goes and has his lunch at Headway (brain injury association), he really is having an independent good quality of life, " added Mrs McCarthy.
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And if you really want to get freaky, consider that the brain, or part of it (and perhaps your mind) is on the list of body parts that can be replaced!
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This new explanation also illustrates two really important and often overlooked facts about the mind and brain.
"When we suffer for something, our brain goes, 'Wow, I really suffered hard for this, I must really want it, ' " he said.
The muscle movements are a direct result of subconscious processes, the part of our brain that is steering us to what we really want and think.
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Together, they might transform medicine and computing, pollution and poverty, and our understandings of the brain and the cosmos--in short, they really could change the world.
" 'Swing change' is really a stupid term, because it's actually just gradual evolution in encoded brain patterns, " Foley said.
Kyle Munkittrick points to a really good article by Sharon Begley, which gives some tips and advice for how to improve your brain.
In the broadest sense, the history of measuring the universe is an emotional as well as a scientific one: It has proceeded only as fast as the human brain can stomach and digest the truth of how infinitesimally small our place in the universe really is.
Using machines that detect brain tumors and strokes to determine whether pink satin underthings will outsell black ones or if people really like pickles on their hamburgers--could this yield practical results?
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