The anatomy of the human being is something unfathomable even by human beings themselves. It is something so complex that a whole life spent in studying it wouldn't be enough to understand it fully.
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Just in the same way, the human brain is something also unfathomable to even the bearer ( humans). Sometimes we don't even understand what goes on in our brains and our psyche. We just do what it bids us to do even without knowing how to.
Some studies say that the brain is the control house of the human body ( although some argue that it's the heart). But in the actual sense of it ,the brain controls every action of the body. This is why every artery or vein is somehow linked back to the brain . This is because every action is reported back to it as it authorizes them.
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Interesting Facts
One interesting fact about the brain is that it boasts as one of the organs with the highest memory capacity. Its memory is over 74 terabytes. This is way much bigger than most computer systems or device if not all. This is why it can store memories of a series of events that happened years and years back.
The most intriguing fact about the brain is that it is the same for every human being at birth. Our brains are all made of the same stuff; gray matter ,memory capacity etc. According to the researchers of National Institutes Of Health (NIH), this is evident in the prefrontal cortex as it shows constant molecular architecture despite our differences in DNA and ethnicity. This simply means that my brain and yours possess the same memory capacity.
The brain at birth has 100 billion neurons which is responsible for transmission of messages to the brain. These neurons each has synapses in between them. The cerebral cortex has at least 125 trillion synapses . 1 synapse is able to store about 4.7 bits of information. All these make up the memory capacity of the human brain.
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All these simply means that we're the same but unique. Our uniqueness in the brain comes in so many factors like our ; family background, temperament, DNA, upbringing, society, ethnicity, life challenges etc. All these affect the brain and how it develops as one grows.
This also goes along way to affect our choices and decisions in life as well as how much we use our brain.
Let's make a little analysis of the productivity two persons (Men maybe) with different behaviours and temperaments when given the same task. Let's assume that one has a non-chalant playful behaviour ( Sanguine maybe) and the other person a serious-minded goal oriented fellow ( Choleric I guess).
The first individual would surely be affected by his temperament in carrying out the task. He will probably carry out the task in more time and with less devotion. The other guy would do the same task in less time with more devotion. Their productivity would also be very very different.
Albert Einstein's Brain
Few hours after the genius Albert Einstein died,his brain was stolen.
For what reason?
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Those who removed it wanted to study the brain of such a genius who walked the earth. This was done to know whether he was actually human or superhuman.
After numerous studies on the brain by various scientists ( Falkes, Harvey etc..),they discovered so many mysteries.
Some said he had extra brain cells(galia cells), others said he used more than 13% of his brain( not the normal 10%) among other findings. But none was precise and certain.
History has recorded other similar incidents of postmortem brain study of humans like Guass(the maths genius), Vladimir Lenin etc. But none of them yielded any new precise pattern different from the existing discoveries.
The Main Gist
Now,the human brain is an endless puzzle that surpasses the human mind(Only God can understand it). The Most Amazing Fact is that we don't even use up to 6% of our brain. It has been scientifically proposed that the highest a human can use is just 10% out of 100.
WHAT PERCENTAGE DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE USED IF YOUR BRAIN IS STUDIED TODAY?
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