Saturday, February 12, 2011

Science and Philosophy - 7


Thought is defining feature of a human being
Thought takes the help of mind for its activity resulting in ideas
Mind assimilates all the experiences that are in and around a human through consciousness and generates feelings/experiences and imagination.
Feelings, Ideas, Imagination and thoughts mixed up result in human behavior and function through human physiology.


Human physiology is the result of Human adapting to the environment in a better way and thought process/cognition is the parallel activity in evolution that got refined with time which guided the physiology resulting in function and further human behavior


Then what is mind made up of??
Biologically it is brain and its abstract form is mind
Biologically brain is the center to control nervous system and through mind is responsible for thought.


What is this brain made up of??
Brain is made up of cerebrum and cerebellum 
Cerebral cortex is a neural tissue formed from neurons and myelinated axons.
Myelin is a dielectric material that forms sheath over axon around a neuron


Cerebellum which is the controlling part of brain also has neurons in specific arrangement


What is neuron??
Neuron is an electrically excitable nerve cell that processes and transmits information by electrical and chemical signalling.


What is electricity?? What are the chemicals in brain??
Electricity is flow of electric charge and electric charge is a property of subatomic particles which gives rise to and interacts with electro magnetic force.
Charge originates in the atom and the carriers are electron and proton.
Chemicals in the brain are sodium, potassium, chloride and calcium and the difference in concentrations of them gives voltage or rather electrical charge which again sub divided result in electrons and protons.


What is in the electron and proton, but before that what is there inside a neuron??
Inside neuron there is soma which forms nucleus of the cell
Electron is a subatomic particle carrying negative electric charge
Proton is also a sub atomic particle carrying positive electric charge and composed of fundamental particles called quarks
Electrons with atomic nuclei which is made up of protons and neutrons make atoms.


What is nucleus??
Nucleus generally is core of anything and atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons and orbiting electrons and all these electrons, protons, neutrons are composed by quarks.


What is a quark??
Quark is an elementary particle and fundamental constituent of matter.


This is where the research of human stands as of now.


So how do we define thought??
Is it quarks composed to form electron, proton, neutron, neuron and positioned in such a way and their interaction in different proportions to form chemicals, and in turn chemicals interacting to form nervous system and brain, and the electrical and electromagnetic charges due to the difference in concentrations of these transmits signals in the brain which again interacts with external universe which again if split shows the same subatomic particles  - to give rise to "Thought" - Is it so??


Can everything in universe can be explained in the same way as thought??


It means there is no living , non living differentiation. What ever may be the matter it is basic atoms and sub atomic particles in different mathematical proportions and combinations.Is that it??


Further in between these minute basic particles what is the thing lying?? - It is "Space".




To be contd.......

3 comments:

  1. the explanation of brain and its composition made me write this.Nature must have assembled the best possible chemicals and made the brain. perhaps the process of evolution was targeted towards making the proces of thought refined. so, if still this process is under continuation and a better combination of chemicals results in far more superior "brain" then is that the end of our role on earth?

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  2. A good refresher of the school thank you sir. I really would take my time to applause such a good person and such a wonderful memory of yours.

    RK garu this is keerti one of MKR's followers. And a lousy reader. Though I never got opportunity to have such discussion within my friends circle, I now got a chance to do so.. Hope I would continue to do it.

    To start off my comment, I would definitely say yes to MKR's views of life and the science attached to the thoughts, brain etc etc. definitely one can express nature in terms of chemistry, biology, physics and math but it is difficult how "LIFE" is attained to this very delicate and complicated composition.

    Though there are rumors claiming that life form as cellular level has been invented in labs somewhere but there is no definite claim for the same. So as such the "LIFE" to the nature say to humans, animals, plants which make them grow, think, live and die is still a matter of discussion.

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