Human Brain

  I love to dive in the mysteries & I am always fascinated by some of the great unsolved mysteries in science, perhaps because it is personal, it is part of who we are & our role in this cosmos & I can’t help but be curious. One such mystery that has kept me awake at nights is the relationship between brain & consciousness. How is it that this three pound mass of jelly imagine angles, contemplate the meaning of infinity & even question its own place in cosmos. This mystery isn’t new, in 1868 Thomas Huxley wrote “How it is that anything so remarkable has a state of consciousness, comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the jinni when Aladdin rubs his magic lump.” Huxley knew that brain activity & consciousness are co-related but he didn’t know how or why. To the science of his day it was a mystery. Since the time of Huxley, science has learned a lot about human brain but the relationship between brain ac

I n this vast sea of existence, we humans occupy a tiny place, yet equipped with the most complex tool know to men “Human Brain” illuminated by consciousness we are capable of pondering and probing the deepest mysteries of cosmos. From the dawn of civilizations men has always been fascinated by some of the most intriguing questions; like what is the meaning of all this? What is the origin of universe? Where do we come from? What is the purpose of life? etc. Some of these bemusing questions are still mystifying to us. As species we are curious about the world around us, we seek and chose to wonder about our existence. This curiosity is somehow encoded in our DNA. Now in the modern era of understanding and exploration we have solved many mysteries of universe, yet some still remain baffling and bemusing to us. I f you were to summaries two great unsolved problems in all of science today, they would be; Fist from outer space that is the creation of the universe, what happened befo

I am going to share the secret with you by the end of this blog to be smarter, happier and more productive this security depends on a couple of superpowers that we all have and one "kryptonite" that kind of gets in the way. Let's start with Earl and Gloria, for more than half of century they lived the American dream, they were high school sweethearts and Earl volunteered to be a world war II naval pilot, Gloria went off to training camp with him and when they returned he built his own house and a thriving business were they worked together for years while raising their family. But at the age of 67 Earl died of prostate cancer and Gloria was never the same after Earl died. She became fixated on her past with him, and yet her memory was slipping away more and more each day and her personality changed too. She used to be charming and witty and now she became inattentive even mean. Her family and friends tried to understand her dramatic transformation, doctors too. But they