I heard on NPR the other day a physics genius being interviewed. I didn’t catch his name.
He said the brain, whether it is human or
whatever, is constantly making calculations.
It has the programs of the formulas built in. Anything physical or mechanical you do you
need a constant running calculator to pull off your goal, whether it is pour a
glass of water or leaping across a crack in the sidewalk or planning a home run…
or evening planning the timing of a punch line.
And even squirrels – they are constantly having to apply
their calculations to figure if they can make the huge leap from one tree to
another, and the target limb, will it hold him/her. Well, it needs to figure that out before hand,
a miscalculation might be fatal.
And brains have a survival program installed too. It watches out for flesh eating monsters and pulls the "run" switch" when needed.
Wow!
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