until recently, many biologists thought that the brain could not repair itself because they thought it?
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4. is the most likely answer.
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Part of the problem is that we can't fix a severed spinal cord -- and we'd have to sever the spinal cord to transplant just the brain.\n\nSuppose, then, that we transplanted the whole central nervous system?  We'd still have the problem of attaching nerves, and unfortunately they don't regenerate to the extent needed by such a large injury.\n\nWe're not even close to doing such a transplant.  Sorry.
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I am not sure.. but our brains are so complexed. don't give up hope there's always a way to fix things.  My best friend was in  horrible car accident a few years back. She had a major head injury she had to learn how to walk,talk, and all the basic stuff and you'd never know it but looking at her now.  \n\nSo if your willing to go the distant it can be done.\n\n\ni'm looking through articles on webmd and looking what i can find.  this is on neuropltics the first link \n\nsecond link to antiphyschotics.
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Lmao.  It's in our nature.  Since the creation of metaphors/analogs in our language, our brains were capable of thinking of how things  are related to each other.  Even at this particular moment, you are digesting each of these words, and their meaning (in relation).  That is the dividing aspect that makes us a bit more complicated than the rest of the animals out there; and has a great deal with how we survived and how our relatives in the human chain did not.\n\nIt's a complex process of a once operating bicameral mind ie operating right brain and left brain processes with not as complex intergrations.  The theory is once man was more or less instinctual, and that he first heard god's voices from the right side of his brain.\n\nhttp://www.julianjaynes.org/bicameralmind.php\n\nThis is a theory of Julian Jaynes (link ^^^).  He historically documents the change from a bicameral minded individual, to the people we know today, whom assumed a more fully concious level of brain use.  He demonstrates how men behaved in those times, and how they lost the voices of god(s)....roughly around the time they gained a more advanced language systems and brain processes.  \n\nIt's this process that you use today, and it's a paradigm of difference hard for most common people to comphrend.  Perhaps you could think of the days when you didn't understand the bulk of the english language (as a child)...do you recall a lot of thoughts or memories before you had a language to think of it?  That would be close to what I'm discussing.\n\nThe human brain is a complex thing, and still yet to be throughly resolved, but we are curious because we no-longer have many of  the automatic instinct that other creatures do.  We exist and and dominate because of our level conciouness, and perhaps I think that's an instinct in itself.
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I think that thoughts are quantum super positions of space time geometries and the electric circuit model of the brain is way off.\n\nRead Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose for more.
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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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No, this is a myth. A large part of our brain is used as proved by MRI's.
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suggesting that some improvement projects of different kinds are doomed to failure.Some years ago, a group of scientists who had more money than brains set out to convert the proteins and chemicals in a sows ear into a silky purse. They spent a great deal and were educated to the truth of this expression
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No...man loses his wisdom even thinking about it.  As soon as his little head starts to think - this can be many times in a day - all the energy is drained from his big head and is redirected into his little head. This is the point he  loses reason.  It's interesting to note, the recovery process is almost immediate after he leaves the specific area, drained. That's when he remembers he's married...or whatever
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"Let us reason together", sayeth the Lord.\n\nChristians are not saying you shouldn't use your mind. They're just telling you "don't be brainwashed." It would seem to me that your idea of "using your mind" means accepting as fact something that not only hasn't been proven, but in actuality has been DISproven, and is held to with religious fervor by so-called "scientists". I assume you are speaking of the fallacy of evolution, which has been disproven by every major field of science.
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Most all of us have had trauma to the head at one time or another.  Since we are made to be healthy, thankfully, there are no serious consequences.  For some, the trauma is more drastic.  Even so, we recover and carry on.  I had a brain tumor.  That is traumatic.  But I took it in stride and there are no recognizable consequences whatsoever.
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Whoa, you tackled a risky one there and will probably get some interesting answers. \n\nI will say that I am concerned in that modern science has made it possible for many to live in spite of genetic traits that can continue to be passed down to other generations. In days gone by, the less healthy did not usually make it to the age in life to procreate and so there was a natural termination to many of the genetic problems. \nNow  in the modern world, our morals and values have to enter in and whether we could with good conscience do what nature once did is debatable.\nFYI...I would have been one of those that was buried beside the Oregon trail with the epitaph...because of her delicate constitution,she did not make it.\nAntibiotics have saved my life at least 4 times to date.
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This is definitely a myth.  We use all of our brain.  The origin of this myth is that only 10% of our brain is made up of actual neurons in the strictest sense.  That means that only 10% of the cells in our brain are the kind that transmit signals and make us think.  The other 90% are called glia.  These cells provide the structural support and nutrients for the neurons, as well as clear away their waste and excess neurotransmitters.  These cells are "used" just as much as the other 10% though.
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the mind should be tied to the brain, although no one can say for sure, since those who lost their brains obviously cannot communicate to us whether or not they can still think O.o there are also people who believe that the mind is tied to part of the soul, within the 21 grams that gets lost at the time of death.
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Most scientists now believe in intelligent design. Because of the new discoveries on DNA etc. they have rejected the evolution theory.
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The part of the body that are use more often, become more complex, in the same manner, part of the body that are less useful to survival will eventually be select against (It waste energy without generating enough benefit). Therefore mother nature tell us that, (Darwin's natural selection) we only have what we need. If we use this as an argument. We can assume that all animals today would use 100% of the brain, those who had use less than that would have been eliminated through the course of history. Unless it was beneficial to their survival, in that case, their brain will have "de-evolve" to maintain a lower energy consuming. The process of de-evolving would led them to use 100% of their brain...
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it was his brain that got dislocated....