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