Reason & Cognitive Capabilities/Development (also food)
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So I just finished watching PBS (for the first time (for something other than sesame street), and already know I'll miss it if its gone, screw discovery/history). They were talking about how Albert Einstein brain is different than normal people, though they didn't go really far into it, apparently a hospital has his brain and refuse to let anyone see it. But from pictures taken they realize a part of his (I think the) parietal lobe is bigger than normal. From what I understood, this was in part due to his musical back ground.
He was raised learning the violin (fiddle?), and children (and I believe for adults but slower) who learn string instruments develop a larger area of a specific part of the left side of that lobe which effected Einstein ability to think. (Piano has the same effect on the right side.) From Einstein notes, when he conflicted problems he could not solve he would sit down and play, some of his most significant realizations were during these times.
Now my reasons for posting are for more elaborate discussions upon the mind and how to improve its abilities. If its possible I would love to craft my brain in the shape of Einstein or Hawking (if possible). To do so I had taken notes of techniques they taught in the program, learning a finger oriented musical instrument for instance.
They taught one for memory, where the host was given a list of 40 objects he was asked to memorize. He was told to visualize the objects and associate sounds with it. The process has him store the memory of the object in multiple parts of his brain increasing the significance of the items in the brain.
There are certain foods that increase the brains ability. Such as Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, either salmon or mackerel being the best source of omega-3 (which ever one of the 2 was cheaper is the best). There are other foods but I am uncertain of which ones those are, intend to look it up when I come into spending money (I would more than appreciate any suggestions). In the mean time was thinking of asking for other odd foods that may be worth mentioning for good health (heard there was a few).
Crossword puzzles and learning new things are good for the brain, they did not go far into why but that was all I needed to hear. A strange thing I didn't understand when they were mentioning it was that juggling is good, if anyone can explain this to me it would be helpful lol.
They talk about savants as well, but its not something I was born as and am not willing to injure myself to achieve.
The last part discussed stress. How emotions are found in the Lateral Orbitofrontal, while working memory, the memory that reads an equation and computes it in the head, is found in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal. That when over stressed working memory can be effected by this, the way they described it was as if our brain is a pc and when were over stressed that, it is as if were running too many programs at once. They recommended writing about your feelings towards, for 10 mins before doing something you find stressful to help relieve stress. Something I've heard for awhile but after recently applying it for the last month I have to say that this is incredibly effective (and possibly time consuming >_>).
To sum up, does anyone out there know of more techniques I should know of or know of things that I am missing or getting incorrect? Also interesting thing they said, the white strings (I forget the name) that carries the electrical signals back and forth in the brain if stretched out, would reach the moon and back, and then around the planet 6 times. Thinking about this makes me feel that recreating an electronic brain (nexus 6 from blade runner for example) would be incredibly tedious and exhausting. Being the big fan I am of the idea presented in Ghost in the Shell, of electronic artificial brains, I can better understand why science believes that reality is to come about in 2080 (I'll be 90 if I make it), this as well how much we understand the brain is depressing realization for me.
Oh and I'm borrowing your image twitchforanime, please and thank you.
He was raised learning the violin (fiddle?), and children (and I believe for adults but slower) who learn string instruments develop a larger area of a specific part of the left side of that lobe which effected Einstein ability to think. (Piano has the same effect on the right side.) From Einstein notes, when he conflicted problems he could not solve he would sit down and play, some of his most significant realizations were during these times.
Now my reasons for posting are for more elaborate discussions upon the mind and how to improve its abilities. If its possible I would love to craft my brain in the shape of Einstein or Hawking (if possible). To do so I had taken notes of techniques they taught in the program, learning a finger oriented musical instrument for instance.
They taught one for memory, where the host was given a list of 40 objects he was asked to memorize. He was told to visualize the objects and associate sounds with it. The process has him store the memory of the object in multiple parts of his brain increasing the significance of the items in the brain.
There are certain foods that increase the brains ability. Such as Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, either salmon or mackerel being the best source of omega-3 (which ever one of the 2 was cheaper is the best). There are other foods but I am uncertain of which ones those are, intend to look it up when I come into spending money (I would more than appreciate any suggestions). In the mean time was thinking of asking for other odd foods that may be worth mentioning for good health (heard there was a few).
Crossword puzzles and learning new things are good for the brain, they did not go far into why but that was all I needed to hear. A strange thing I didn't understand when they were mentioning it was that juggling is good, if anyone can explain this to me it would be helpful lol.
They talk about savants as well, but its not something I was born as and am not willing to injure myself to achieve.
The last part discussed stress. How emotions are found in the Lateral Orbitofrontal, while working memory, the memory that reads an equation and computes it in the head, is found in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal. That when over stressed working memory can be effected by this, the way they described it was as if our brain is a pc and when were over stressed that, it is as if were running too many programs at once. They recommended writing about your feelings towards, for 10 mins before doing something you find stressful to help relieve stress. Something I've heard for awhile but after recently applying it for the last month I have to say that this is incredibly effective (and possibly time consuming >_>).
To sum up, does anyone out there know of more techniques I should know of or know of things that I am missing or getting incorrect? Also interesting thing they said, the white strings (I forget the name) that carries the electrical signals back and forth in the brain if stretched out, would reach the moon and back, and then around the planet 6 times. Thinking about this makes me feel that recreating an electronic brain (nexus 6 from blade runner for example) would be incredibly tedious and exhausting. Being the big fan I am of the idea presented in Ghost in the Shell, of electronic artificial brains, I can better understand why science believes that reality is to come about in 2080 (I'll be 90 if I make it), this as well how much we understand the brain is depressing realization for me.
Oh and I'm borrowing your image twitchforanime, please and thank you.
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Keep in mind that Einstein and Hawking has several degrees to their name. Einstein had a doctorate before he started work on various theories.
Eating all the brain food, doing crosswords, and playing instruments? All of these "techniques" are secondary to getting a proper education. Maybe they add one or rwo more points worth of IQ, but actual study and hard work in your field yields more than diet (as long, of course, as you are following a proper diet or not malnourished or eating nothing but cheeseburgers or something like that) or puzzles.
So, if you want to exercise your brain, go take up a masteral/doctorate degree in something you are interested in.
Eating all the brain food, doing crosswords, and playing instruments? All of these "techniques" are secondary to getting a proper education. Maybe they add one or rwo more points worth of IQ, but actual study and hard work in your field yields more than diet (as long, of course, as you are following a proper diet or not malnourished or eating nothing but cheeseburgers or something like that) or puzzles.
So, if you want to exercise your brain, go take up a masteral/doctorate degree in something you are interested in.
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fatman wrote...
Keep in mind that Einstein and Hawking has several degrees to their name. Einstein had a doctorate before he started work on various theories.Eating all the brain food, doing crosswords, and playing instruments? All of these "techniques" are secondary to getting a proper education. Maybe they add one or rwo more points worth of IQ, but actual study and hard work in your field yields more than diet (as long, of course, as you are following a proper diet or not malnourished or eating nothing but cheeseburgers or something like that) or puzzles.
So, if you want to exercise your brain, go take up a masteral/doctorate degree in something you are interested in.
"Crossword puzzles and learning new things"
I'm well aware that knowledge does not grow on its own. There are as well a number of articles that state a proper diet can dramatically improve brain activity and capability. This for instant. A random one about how learning music assist with learning by increasing brain activity to "speech sound" which can help when learning languages. If i looked more into these 2 I'm sure I'd find more significance in there but i would have to do a bit of reading and I've been procrastinating studying today. I'll probably do more reading on it later.
My opinion of school is very mixed. I've had plenty of teachers who don't know how to deal with anything outside of a book, unreliable teachers. Some of my best teachers went off curriculum (one was fired for it, though I had learned more about philosophy, religion, politics, law, concepts like "right and wrong", ect from him than I had in all the years of being in the educational system put together). If its not the teachers themselves its the pacing, (not to sound pretentious, I have plenty flaws that comes with this) in most cases curriculum goes too slow for me that I find myself bored (when I'm enthusiastic I can burn hours towards but when I grow bored it's hard to do anything), I failed most of my classes to the point I was tested and they derived this out of me (I was put into special classes because of it >_>). In most cases I just learn at my own pace at home. I have good and bad opinions all over the place, but my biggest draw back is finance. My education, in the school system, will never leave community college, I have no intention of taking up a debt.
I don't know anything about Hawking's education or Einstein's after grade school, but I am aware that Einstein suffered greatly in grade school.
I feel this is a necessity to state, the opportunities the internet presents as a free medium to educational information was not present to Einstein and Hawking during there time in the educational system. That if they had access to the internet where all the information taught in schools can be found on a single screen, that they may have skipped large amounts of the educational system.
In the end, I have very little value towards a degree, I see it as nothing more than proof of the amount of time spent in the given educational field. This opinion is even more enforced when some of my inspirations found success outside of degrees Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs. As well the hackers and software designers who inspire me did so as well (one of the teachers who teaches computer science at my community college happens to be one of those "original super hackers forcibly contracted into government service" he talks about his past and has mentioned how he never went to college). I realize there is in fact knowledge and (certain) resources I can only obtain in college and if given an opportunity would pursue them, but not in the interest of a degree. The only reason I would prioritize a degree would be for a job opportunity.