Is your brain really in charge of you?
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some time your brain is in charge of you but some time your body tends to take over because of the feelings you get.
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You must have read something old.  Modern science, with eeg's, CT scans, MRI's, show that all parts of the brain are used.  Not all parts are active at the highest level, all of the time.  Humans use all of their brain capacity,
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Your mind is within yr body! \nThat's one thing. \nBut mind controls yr thoughts, yr memory, movements of yr body parts(locomotor function), controls sensory perceptions, sectrets substances that will allow hormones to be released-that's another way to control metabolism of cells and lots more.....\nBut still you can not separate Mind and Body !
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Your brain isn't firing randomly. Its a heuristic system, just like evolution.
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The brain is convoluted. As are we all?
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Absolutely not! If your brain really has a chemical imbalance then you're only correcting the problem, and that is not being crazy! It's really being smart!
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That 10% story has fallen to Urban Myth status.  New medical imaging techniques can now show which parts of the brain are in use during particular functions, such as speaking, reading, listening to music, etc.  Turns out that your brain uses many differnt parts to do most functions, but certiain functions TEND to concentrate in particular areas.\n\nWhat remains of the myth, though, may actually help understand what I said in the last paragraph.  Many people who have hade severe brain damage and loss of many functions, can sometimes regain at least some ot those functions when the brain learns to use other, undamaged parts to do what the damaged parts used to.\n\nYeah, a vital organ.  An artificial heart can keep a person going, but with no brain, even a beating heart runs in an empty shell.
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In a way yes.  Your body has its own pathways and interworkings and sometimes when your body is off it confuses your mind.
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it's really a deep question and a good 1 too....you can control your brain according to your: behaviors,thoughts,beliefs but the most important thing is your HEART..your brain is really connected to your heart in some way, this connection is really very strong, do you know why?because all of our thoughts or behaviors could be sharing with other people(we could have the same beliefs that others have),but your heart is your own, nobody can know what is in your heart and nobody can change it too,so i am telling you that the right way to control your brain is by listening to your heart, your heart tells you what to do,it is your own and nobody can share it with you..always hear what your heart says and you would never feel sorry for that,trust me, your heart knows you like nobody does so it guides you to do the right thing always.....always....\ni hope it helped you..God bless you..
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Yes, it's called a brain.
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You think that you are in control.  You think that you are making the choices.  You can do something and finish or you can stop.......
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A chemical reaction in your brain.
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yes but you can control it naturally
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What middle are you talking about? The back of the brain controls the "middle!"
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IN YOUR MIND IS WHERE IT IS AT. YOUR IMAGINATION OR BELIEFS CONTROL WHERE IT IS.
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Interesting puzzle:\nfMRI studies have shown that neurons in the brain associated with a task begin to fire about 800 milliseconds before the person is even aware that they want to perform an action.\n\nIs this God? Do we have no free will? Is this our soul?\n\n\n                     Med Hypotheses. 2001 Mar;56(3):364-6. \n    If there were no free will: Fisher CM.\n\n\n    Electrophysiological findings in humans who are performing voluntary acts, indicate that the intention to act, follows brain activity rather than preceding it. This has implications for voluntary behavior and the doctrine of free will. This essay reviews the fields of human behavior, including medicine, in which this new thesis might have far-reaching significance. Copyright 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.\n\nAn extract:\n\n...it should be pointed out\nthat somewhat the same conclusion may be reached on\nthe basis of rather elementary observation. Every thought,\nfeeling, inclination, intention, desire, every mental\nimpression no matter how brief or faint, must be created\nby nervous system activity. How else could they arise? Ideas would have to arise without a physical basis.\nNervous system activity must always precede. Every\nnuance of thought and feeling arises in and must be preceded\nby its own specific electrical configuration in the\nbrain. If one has the experience of ‘willing’ the nervous\nsystem to do something, the impression of ‘willing’ must\nhave been preceded by nervous system activity.\nOtherwise there would be no source and we are in the\nrealm of the supernatural. Before I think of anything, it\nmust first have taken form in my nervous system.\n\nAh yes, the nervous system... some may just call this the soul...\n\n\nEdit: in reference to the below answer, I've pulled out a (scientific) study that does not suggest that there is no soul.\n\n Hist Philos Life Sci. 2004;26(3-4):377-94. \n\n    'Show me your original face before you were born': the convergence of public fetuses and sacred DNA.\n\n    Gilbert SF, Howes-Mischel R.\n\n    Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA.\n\n    Embryology is an intensely visual field, and it has provided the public with images of human embryos and fetuses. The responses to these images can be extremely powerful and personal, and the images (as well as our reactions to them) are conditioned by social and political agendas. The image of the 'autonomous fetus' abstracts the fetus from the mother, the womb, and from all social contexts, thereby emphasizing 'individuality'. The image of 'sacred DNA' emphasizes DNA as the unmoved mover, the eidos, the soul of the human being. Since fertilization involves the forming of a new constellation of DNA in the zygote, the act of fertilization is being perceived as the secular and technical equivalent of ensoulment. This privileges fertilization above the other possible scientifically valued times when 'human life' begins.
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Yeah, well you're consciously doing that with your body.  If you don't believe that you are actually controling those movements, there are only two posibilities:  1.  You have a serious neurological disorder that may have physiological causes and you should seek help immediately.  This is very, very unlikely.  2.  You have a dissociative pyschological disorder, some sort of schizophrenia.  You should seek help immediately.