The Brain And Behavior

I played four activities and one I found interesting. The activity was called "Chance." This game proved to me that chance, in some cases, really isn't chance. Schrodinger believed that order was nothing more than statistical regularities. I think that he is right. I mean chance happens because of order. Our visual system is programmed to look at the order instead of the chance. But if you stop and think about it, without chance, there would not be order. I don't think I will be buying any lottery tickets soon, but it was interesting to know.

I watched the man with two brains and thought that the brain really is very complex. When you see something on the left it goes to your right brain, when you see something on the right it goes to the left side of your brain. The ability to speak resides mostly in the left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere can recognize faces. It is all very interesting. I would like to find out more about the inner workings of the brain.

In this chapter, I learned many things. First, I used to think that depression was caused from stress, or other outside forces. It also can be caused by an undersupply of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. Second, I thought that the nervous system controlled everything. There are many systems within the nervous system that control the certain functions of the body. Thirdly, I thought that our evolutionary brains had evolved, but in the brainstem has automatic survival functions. This whole chapter was pretty enlightening though.