Re: Explain this brain paradox.

From: pat (pneleski_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: 1 Oct 2004 14:50:42 -0700

zzbunker@netscape.net (ZZBunker) wrote in message news:<e4a0829b.0410010431.743d01ea@posting.google.com>...
> pneleski@yahoo.com (pat) wrote in message news:<de82f084.0409301656.20aa79d9@posting.google.com>...
> > Is it possible that the brain lacks no real nerves because the signals
> > would interfere with synapses? Consider if your car's sparkplugs were
> > constantly being interfered by the little messages that show up on the
> > dash. Or perhaps the lack of nerves in the brain simply spares people
> > from feeling the electrical shocks that might cause pain in other cell
> > tissue.
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> You that's entirely possible, since just like
> an engine, a brain has no direct need of nerves.
> It's need's a driver, a skull and thick skin
> to process the signals, not generate the signals.
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> It's the skull and not the brain that does the trick,
> since it has optimal nerve centers, rather
> than just nerves.

I guess the brain would be like a trillion cycle engine when you think
about all the little ignitions that go from cell to cell all the
time... Pretty wild, huh? Can you imagine if each cell felt each of
those tiny shocks? The brain might not get a lot of work done.
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> > feedbackdroids@yahoo.com (dan michaels) wrote in message news:<8d8494cf.0409281557.6c98b391@posting.google.com>...
> > > sawal_7432@yahoo.co.uk (Sawal_7432) wrote in message news:<5cd326f1.0409270852.47c9e631@posting.google.com>...
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> > > > 2)For the pain to originate in the areas near the brain,but to be
> > > > actually perceived as if coming from the brain is a little odd.For a
> > > > human,the brain is arguably the most vital organ,and yet a person is
> > > > not even able to sense whether the pain of a headache or the euphoria
> > > > from cocaine is from the brain or from the spinal cord or from the
> > > > tissues surrounding the brain.How is it such an incredibly complex
> > > > organ like the brain can mis-interpret the origin of relatively simple
> > > > sensations?
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> > > You'll have to chalk this one up to evolution. Why would it not be
> > > advantageous to have pain receptors in the brain? [I don't know].

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