how is brain considered an intellectual organ if so?
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It is the seat of the intellect, not an intellectual organ.  All cognition (thought, logic, creativity, etc) is initiated in the brain.
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It is absolutely true that every single feeling, emotion, belief that we have is a function of the brain. Even the denial of this fact from the other people answering your question is a product of complex neuronal interactions. \n\nReligion is not in itself hardwired into the brain. However, the underlying psychological processes which religion exploits - of learning (in religion's case, largely childhood indoctrination), trust, have given humans during their evolution a survival advantage. \nThere is no "God" gene. Belief in God does not provide a survival advantage. Community cohesiveness does, and religious belief is one mechanism of creating that.  \n\nA lot of the world's problems are due to people's inadequate understanding of science. If science (as a methodology for thinking about the world critically) was taught with the same vigour as the religious indoctrination and blind faith were encouraged then we would all be in a much better place!
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right brain = creativity and intuition (think pictures).  left brain = math and logic (think numbers).  To me both sides have cabability for rational thought.  The logic in the left brain is more mathematically tuned.  \nEasy way to remember: creative is right (both have more letters in the word), while math is left (both have only 4 letters).\nI am ambidextrous, which means both sides of my brain are almost equal in dominance.  I favor the left hand slightly more, and am also an artist.  Most natural artists are left handed which means they use the right side of the brain more with their creativity.
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100%  That 10% saying is bogus.  All of the brain is being used for something, whether it's memory, moving muscles, regulating heartbeat etc.  There is a smaller portion of it used for consciousness.
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yes my dear insects have brain in the form of nerve complexes a network which seem to be like brain and what is the purpose of having a brain that is they are also organism every organism has need to think over its certain life time activities brain help them to coordinate their body with all parts and tell them abt all the physiological functions to be performed at different times
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Human brain - our capability to think, problem solve and communicate.\n\nIf you compare human brain volume with other animals, we have the biggest (and most complex/developed) brain in relation to the body mass.  \n\nIt is our brain that gave us a distinct advantage to survive natural selection.  We have never been the strongest animal, but we're the smartest and most resourceful by far.  If not for our ability to adapt and invent, we’d have been hunt to extinction by other stronger carnivores.
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Intelligence is the mental capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. \n\nArtificial intelligence (abbreviated AI, also some times called Synthetic Intelligence ) is defined as intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity. Such a system is generally assumed to be a computer.
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a brain has a processing capacity of 100 trillion instructions per second...the number of internal thought pathways that your brain is capable of producing is:\n\none followed by 10.5 million kilometers of standard typewritten zero's!\n\nCurrent estimates of brain capacity range from 1 to 1000 terabytes!\n  \n"Robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in\nproteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was\nbetween one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3\nterabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and\nassuming each neuron holds 1 bit. Bear in mind that the brain has\nbetter algorithms for compressing certain types of information than\ncomputers do."\nhttp://www.sizes.com/people/brain.htm
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That's a philosophical question.  In fact, it's probably one of the top-ten fundamental questions of philosophy that people have been pondering for millenia.  \n\nMy take on it is, it's like asking if a story is a physical object.  The media that it is stored on is certainly physical (a book, a cd, a neural network in a storyteller's mind...) but the story ITSELF is an abstract noun; something much less tangible.  \n\nI would say the same of the mind.  The mind certainly exists on a physical media, but the term "mind" also implies the intangible aspects of a set of neural networks... what it represents and means to that person, and to other people.  Mind is to brain as story is to book.
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We have absolutely no idea what the biological mechanism is, where the seat of conciousness is, not what other animals may or may not possess it. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are lying-We don't even understand the biological basis of simple learning and behaviour, and cannot, from a complete three dimensional diagram of a 1000-neuron worm brain, tell you anything about it's behaviour. We are as close to understanding the most profound and complex functions of the brain as a monkey is to learning computer programming. I both teach and research in this area, and I guarantee you that we are still at the most basic level of understanding brain function.
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Most people still think of the brain as being like a computer, but this really isn't true.  Where a computer typically consists of a linear calculating device, doing one thing at a time until it reaches its goal, the brain is a "neural network" where multiple things are all going on at once, and each time a particular pathway is taken thru' the network, that pathway can become "reinforced" so that its use becomes more "automatic".  That's how you get to be good at the violin, or at recalling trivia, or remembering people's names and so on.\n\nGo to amazon and search on brain chemistry and neural self, there are some great books.
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The brain is the organ responsible for thought and other functions.  The mind is the abstract concept that is the culmination of all thoughts, not a physical object.
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They are integrally tied in a unity of the physical and the unexplained.\n\nOur brain is....\nA convoluted, layered lump of micro-neuron pudding.\nFats and proteins forming electrochemical paths and branches.\nThe branches and paths develop loose circuits which react and modify themselves according to incoming sensory stimulus.\n\nSpontaneous interactions within the circuits, creating cascades of intangible formulations. A foundation of learned response and cause and effect experience allows the formulations to shape themselves into what we refer to as "thoughts". Thinking a volume of collective thoughts forges a "mind" or a "sentient consciousness". \n\nIf an individual's central nervous system is rendered defective, is not the mind affected as well? Of course.\n\nIn accompaniment with all this bio-stuff, is what we believe is a spirit or soul. The soul is part of God's realm and interacts with the sceintific brain in a constant struggle. This is the source of the "quiet thoughts". Your "concience"! If you can learn to "listen" to your spirit ALONG with your biological brain, you will acheive harmony.\nYour life will change.\n\nI hope this helps....I'm still working at it!
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Left brain's focused attention combined with the right brain's peripheral attention, in close harmony. Good communication between the brain hemispheres is a pre-requisite for creative thinking and also a sense of wellbeing, where thoughts and feelings are integrated.\n\nRecently researches were carried out in the United States to determine the difference between a left-brain reader and a right-brain reader. A special apparatus was constructed, consisting of a television screen to present the reading material, with a cursor that the subject had to fixate upon. Eye movements were monitored electronically, so the cursor would move when the subject moved his eyes. The equipment could be set up in two modes. In the first mode, material to the left of the cursor would blank out on the screen, if the subject attempted to move his fixation point to the right of the cursor. In the second mode, material to the right of the cursor would blank out, if the subject attempted to move his fixation point to the left of the cursor.\nIn the first (left-brain) mode, when words to the left of the cursor blanked out, preventing the subject from regressing or back-skipping, this duplicated the habitual pattern of a left-brain reader, who always reads one or more words ahead of a particular fixation point. In the second (right-brain) mode, when words to the right of the cursor blanked out, preventing the subject from anticipating by reading one or two words ahead of the fixation point, this duplicated the habitual pattern of a right-brain reader, who tends to re-read the words leading up to a particular fixation point.
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Intelligence is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. In psychology, the study of intelligence is related to the study of personality but is not the same as creativity, personality, character, or wisdom.\n\nAn intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas.involving the faculty of knowing, perceiving, reasoning, reflecting.
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brains. definately brains.
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All that is really known for sure is that there appears to be more electical and chemical activity in each side of the brain when performing certain tasks, but where there is a misconseption is that one side and one side only is responsible for the activity in a given subject area. Most things require many parts of your brain, some more than others.