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Long Time ago when the Greeks had money and dressed in sheets it was thought that thinking came from a kind of internal self
But the Romans later called the homunculus the little man [no]
[one] suspected that thinking happened in the brain it was just so dull
Instead it was a more exciting internal organs like the heart
The liver in the spleen that were marked out as the essential parts of thought
reason and emotion
Complete [nonsense] of course, but progress was slow because for a long time dissection was banned by the church
Eventually however it was noticed that the eyes are
Connected to the dull wobbly part inside our heads and that [in] turn
It was connected [to] the rest of the body [via] [a] stringy network of wiry structures the nervous system
By the 18th century an Italian called Luigi Galvani had discovered that the wiry bits carried electricity which operated muscles
This he endlessly demonstrated by attaching frog's legs to a battery
It was now clear that the brain actually has an important job to do controlling the body with electricity
Gradually physicians started paying more attention to the brain they knows that injuries to specific part of it would affect specific
abilities injuries change the ability to smell hear or speak
accidents revealed a lot about how the brain worked
but well-meaning surgeons showed even more
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Severely Epileptic American was treated by such a surgeon who scooped out part of his brain called the hippocampus
The fit stopped, but so did the patient's ability to form new memories
[the] brain it turned out is responsible for memory
All of a sudden scientists were all over the brain probing it recording electrical activity one of them Wilder Penfield
Who've made a map of the brain by poking about in the brains of conscious patients
He produced the sensory homunculus an image of how the brain senses the body
It was also discovered that her brain is responsible for us being conscious or unconscious and that
[it's] responsible for us being aware of being conscious our
consciousness
It was also found [that] the way the brain works can be altered using drugs, and that is another part of our brain
That's running the show our
Subconscious, and that means that our brain knows what we're going to do before we do
It's almost as though. We're being controlled by another version of ourselves
Traditionally the brain is compared to the most impressive technology available in
The past has been a kind of complicated steam edge another track telephone exchange and a microprocessor
Today the Brain is presented as being a bit like the internet
tomorrow [who] knows
The fact is no one actually knows exactly how the brain works, but at least we now know where to look
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