Beautiful Think # 212: The Brain

  Beautiful Thing #212 demonstrates the important lesson that not all things that are beautiful, look beautiful.  In fact it’s a little nasty.  Wrinkly, grey, slimy, ugly.  That’s how it looks.  And yet, when you’re looking at a gross brain, or closing your eyes at a Halloween party and feeling a bowl of cold spaghetti that is purported to be ”Ogre Brains”, it is your own wonderful, marvelous brain that is interpreting those signals for you.

  Not to get to hoity-toity and philosophical, but when we brain about Descartes’ quote “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am) and we combine that with our knowledge that thinking is done in the brain, we see that the brain is perhaps our most preciously beautiful possession.  It is the house in which our consciousness and memory resides.  I don’t know about you but I brain that is pretty freakin’ sweet.

   If you want a bit of a brain blow, check out this link to a National Geographic article about Memory.

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