Yesterday's Yahoo! News headline in a very interesting one. Excerption from the articles, 'Are Big Brain Smarter?';
One thing scientists do agree on: A big brain alone doesn't equate with smarts. If it did, elephants and sperm whales would win all the spelling bees. Rather, scientists look at the brain mass relative to body mass in order to make any speculation about a creature's cognitive abilities.
Brain, of all organ, is one with many mysterious function and capabilities. But it is agreed that brain is the centre of intelligence. In the realm of Psychology, Cordelia Fine, the writer of 'The Mind of It's Own' pointed out that every noticeable behavioural changes in human can be detected by changes in polarity and charges on certain area of the brain (whatever that means), which might be resulted by physical damages like car accidents, something like that. Well, quite an explanation of the many cases of people lost their memories after a nice, hard hit on their head.
Brain capacity and capability can be expanded and developed. The rule is simple; use it. People may have this kind of thinking that it is no good to think too much over something; at a point it is a strength, but most of the time it is unnecessary, beside making you looks like a nerdy. But is it?
Learning how to think efficiently is like learning how to drive. It requires efforts before we can use it without we even knowing it. Our mind is subdivided into two; conscious mind and subconscious mind. But to gain control by the subconscious mind, everything needs to go through the control of conscious mind. During the first several times behind the wheel, we'll need to put some of our focus on the steering, the brake, clutch, gear and at the same time coordinating with the situation of the road. This is the point where our conscious in control. But when we passed this period, we drive swiftly without really putting effort to adjust the timing and balancing between the clutch and accelerator when we are to enter gear two. Now this is the point where our subconscious mind is taking it's toll. Substituting driving with thinking, that's how it works.
People who like animation series of Simpsons knows the exaggerated examples of people using their minds at the minimal, but it definitely got nothing to do with the size of the brain. So don't be deceived by the pictures, because it don't even take a Bart Simpson (or maybe even Homer Simpson) to understand that.
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