Ode to the Brain - melodysheep.mp3

[00:00.50]It's amazing to consider that I'm holding in my hands
[00:05.00]The place where someone once felt, thought, and loved
[00:10.00]For centuries, scientists have been battling to understand
[00:13.00]What this unappealing object is all about
[00:20.00]Here is this mass of jelly
[00:23.00]You can hold in the palm of your hands
[00:26.00]And it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space
[00:31.00]The brain has evolved from the inside out
[00:37.00]It's structure reflects all the stages through which it has passed
[00:40.50]Information in the form of energy Streams in simultaneously
[00:46.00]Through all of our sensory systems
[00:52.00]And then it explodes into this enormous collage
[00:57.00]Of what this present moment looks like
[01:00.50]What it feels like And what it sounds like
[01:03.50]it explodes into this enormous collage
[01:07.50]And in this moment we are perfect
[01:11.00]We are whole and we are beautiful
[01:14.50]【Robert Winston】It appears rather gruesome
[01:17.00]Wrinkled like a walnut, and with the consistency of mushroom
[01:23.50]【Carl Sagan】What we know is encoded in cells called neurons
[01:29.50]And there are something like a hundred trillion neural connections
[01:33.50]This intricate and marvelous network of neurons has been called
[01:39.00]An enchanted loom
[01:45.50]The neurons store sounds too, and snatches of music
[01:50.50]Whole orchestras play inside our heads
[01:56.00]20 million volumes worth of information
[01:59.00]Is inside the heads of every one of us
[02:02.00]The brain is a very big place In a very small space
[02:05.50]【Jill Bolte Taylor】Information in the form of energy Streams in simultaneously
[02:12.00]Through all of our sensory systems
[02:16.00]And then it explodes into this enormous collage
[02:22.00]Of what this present moment looks like
[02:24.50]What it feels like And what it sounds like
[02:29.00]【Carl Sagan】No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain
[02:33.00]We can change ourselves
[02:36.00]Think of the possibilities
[02:38.00]Think of your brain as a newspaper
[02:42.00]Think of all the information it can store
[02:44.00]But it doesn't take up too much room Because it's folded
[02:49.50]We see with the eyes
[02:53.00]But we see with the brain as well
[02:56.00]And seeing with the brain
[02:59.00]Is often called imagination
[03:02.50]
[03:10.50]【Jill Bolte Taylor】And then it explodes into this enormous collage
[03:16.00]And in this moment we are perfect
[03:20.00]We are whole and we are beautiful
[03:26.50]【Robert Winston】It is the most mysterious part of the human body
[03:29.00]And yet it dominates the way we live our adult lives
[03:33.00]It is the brain