Neuroscience: A Child's Mind @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays
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In this series we use knowledge from neuroscience to explore aspects of the human brain. We want to understand how the brain processes the vast panoply of sensations, experiences, and behaviors to create our rich reality.
Every adult brain begins first as an infant brain, with its physiology & morphology (functions, structure, and materials) shaped mostly by our DNA. By the time of birth, that DNA has created what we may call a "primordial" brain. It's a fully functioning brain, ready to learn. From birth onward, the brain begins rapidly acquiring experiences and learnings over time, and encoding everything into memories. Every saved memory then changes & adds to the brain's structure & interconnections.
This means the infant brain is much simpler than an adult's. In a sense, an infant brain is the simplest form of a fully-formed human brain. It has not yet been "expanded" by the many memories, learnings, and behaviors we will add over years.
An adult brain can be considered to be just an infant (primordial) brain, plus encoded years of experiences.
A child's brain is easier to understand, because of its simplicity.
It's a great place to start.
Our exploration will focus on differences between the adult brain and that of infants, children, and teens -- the "child's brain" -- so that we can develop a better intuition of the much more complex adult brain.
SUGGESTED VIDEOS (total 11 minutes):
• When does your Brain Stop Developing?
https://youtu.be/_KxRAfXEzIQ [5 minutes]
• Experiences build Brain Architecture
https://youtu.be/VNNsN9IJkws [2 minutes]
• How a child's brain develops through early experiences
https://youtu.be/hMyDFYSkZSU [4 minutes]
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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
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July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant
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Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley
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Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of being a Comprehensivist
Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela
Aug 26: Art Education: Individual & Society with Karen
Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay
Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
Sep 16: Literature and our lives: the Fiction of Relationship
Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant
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