11 April 2008 @ 12:21 am
One Mystery without an Answer...  
How the brain works.

Here's a closeup image of a human brain cell under extreme magnification. The image is legitimate and spectacular. 

I love these images of cellular-level structures. I saw one the other day of a human zygote at conception, the little colored sperm embedded in the egg. Stunning!

Image credit to https://cams.llnl.gov/carbon.php

So let's talk honestly here. We humans are pretty dagblam intelligent creatures. I mean, we invented Ziploc and Skinny Cows, for crying out loud!  

So if our human brains -- all those neurons firing across synapses to create memories and pain and muscle movement and senses and oh so much more complexity -- supposedly evolved through a time-constrained series of random helpful mutations, then why the heck can't we figure our brains out?

Is random chance that much smarter than human intelligence?

If you ask me, macroevolution requires as much faith as belief in an intelligent creator.

If not more.
 
 
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ryan_field[info]ryan_field on April 11th, 2008 06:46 pm (UTC)
I agree with you. I think. But I'm a little slow when it comes to these things :)
mike|ted[info]lost_child2 on April 11th, 2008 10:42 pm (UTC)
> why the heck can't we figure our brains out?

Did you mean this literally? From what i've read, we are able to figure the brain out, we just havent got it quite yet. Meaning the problem is unsolved but not unsolvable. Earth has been around for more than 20,000 times as long as humans. Give us time. ;-)