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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Re: KingKnowledge's Weekly Random Lectures [Re: shellzenone]
    #22781474 - 01/15/16 08:38 AM (8 years, 15 days ago)

Awesome!  Awaiting more!


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Re: KingKnowledge's Weekly Random Lectures [Re: dhype773]
    #22817088 - 01/23/16 09:53 PM (8 years, 6 days ago)

Sixth Topic: Neuroplasticity and Echo-Location

Neuroscience is arguably the last frontier of modern-day science. Only as recently as 1991 did we first discover tools (the fMRI) to better understand the workings of our brains. Although hundreds of thousands of scientific articles have been published over the past two decades in an attempt to understand how our brains react to everyday information, there are still many questions left to be answered. How did we, a seemingly random species on this diverse planet, develop consciousness? How have we evolved to remember, to feel emotion, to question the very existence of our being?

Some of these questions may never be answered. However, one of the most fascinating revelations that we have arrived at over the past few years is the astounding fact that our brains may not be as rigid as we think. In fact, the very structure and organization of our brains have been found to be malleable. Our brains are, for lack of a better term, plastic.



Neuroplasticity is a recently-coined term that is used to explain how our brains continue to adapt throughout our lives. Scientists used to believe that we underwent certain "critical periods" during childhood, and that after these periods were done, our brains were finished developing! Unchangeable! But today, there is an enormous body of evidence that says otherwise. Now, neuroplasticity is an enormous topic that can explain countless phenomenon, so I just picked one of the most fascinating ideas to share with you today:

Echolocation....in humans

Now, we've all heard about how bats and dolphins can use echolocation to sense their surroundings without actually seeing them. But echolocation in humans? You've got to be crazy.....or maybe you're just smart. Although we've studied human echolocation since the 1950s, we've only recently figured out a way to explain this amazing phenomenon. Here's the quick summary:



Your visual cortex is a part of your brain in the back of your head that is responsible for almost everything that you see. Although a very simplified explanation, the visual cortex takes stimuli from your retinas and maps out this information in a way that allows you to see the world around you! Now, all that is fine and dandy, but what if you are blind? What if, for some reason, the visual cortex can't receive that information from your retinas? Does that part of the brain just not do anything for blind people?



Well, thanks to neuroplasticity, those who suffer from blindness aren't as in the dark as it may seem! MRI studies over the past 5 years have shown that the visual cortex actually can take on new roles when someone turns blind! In terms of human echolocation, scientists have found that the visual cortex goes through a slow but sure transformation when someone becomes blind. Rather than simply taking up space in the brain without processing information, the visual cortex begins to receive input from other stimuli. Now, in a normal brain, the auditory cortex, or the part of the brain that processes sounds, is far away from the visual cortex. But in blind people, the visual cortex can start to process sounds instead of spatial information! Talk about a plastic brain.

Don't believe me? Well, Daniel Kish was born in 1966, and in 1967, he had both of his eyes removed due to retinal cancer. Daniel certainly can't see the way we do, but he is an avid hiker and mountain biker. How the hell can a blind person do that? Well, Kish started off making clicking sounds with his tongue. He would click everywhere he went, and eventually, he started to get a rich, vivid understanding of his surroundings. It's like he could see through sound! Kish eventually started carrying around a cane, tapping it around everywhere so that he could sense the echoes bouncing off nearby objects. If you think he's lying, Kish can even tell the difference between different materials such as wood and metal by the information returned by the echoes. When scientists put Kish in an fMRI machine, they determined that "brain structures that process visual information in sighted people process echo information in blind...experts".



Echo-location is only one of the amazing phenomena that our brains have adapted to learn. Neuroplasticity is a beautiful thing, and it allows us to face challenges in our life with the knowledge that our brains are wired to overcome, no matter how high the obstacle.


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Re: KingKnowledge's Weekly Random Lectures [Re: KingKnowledge]
    #23007100 - 03/14/16 07:33 PM (7 years, 10 months ago)

Aw dude,

you should do Logical Paradoxes. That would be cool.

"Suppose you walk past a barber's shop one day, and see a sign that says

"Do you shave yourself? If not, come in and I'll shave you! I shave anyone who does not shave himself, and noone else."
This seems fair enough, and fairly simple, until, a little later, the following question occurs to you - does the barber shave himself? If he does, then he mustn't, because he doesn't shave men who shave themselves, but then he doesn't, so he must, because he shaves every man who doesn't shave himself... and so on. Both possibilities lead to a contradiction."


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