What is a brain?

Cognitive science is a science to explore the mysteries of human mind. In this case, we must first understand what the heart is.

(Tang) Li Bai's poem "I heard that Wang Changling moved to the left and Long Biao sent it here":

After the easy autumn, cuckoo clock, I heard you pass five streams.

My heart is full of sorrow, and the moon is full of sorrow. I will always follow you until Yelangxi.

The poem says that the place where people worry is the heart, not anywhere else. The heart is the place where consciousness lives. In ancient China, our ancestors believed that consciousness existed in the heart. "Sorrow" is a kind of emotion, and it is the sorrow born in the heart.

Li Shangyin's poem "Untitled Stars Last Night and Wind Last Night" (Tang Dynasty) also believes that the mutual understanding and love between two people lies in their inner agreement and induction. The full text of this poem is as follows:

The stars were bright last night, but there was a cool breeze at midnight. Our banquet is on the side of Hualou Temple and the east of the county.

Without Cai Feng's wings, it is impossible to be Qi Fei in fly with me; The heart is like a soul, and the feelings are the same.

Guessing and intrigue, wine warms the heart; This group of people came to the bet of drinking friends, and a win-lose red in candlelight.

It was not until a drum beat, alas, called me to perform my duties that I got on my horse and left like a cut-off aquatic plant.

The heart here is not just a place, but a kind of mind. However, this heart cannot reach the height of the soul. Spirit is the soul, that is, the thought. A heart without thoughts is just an organ, and a heart with thoughts is a mind. Chicken soup for the soul is for our souls. The so-called "spirit" is similar to "god", so idioms have such sayings as restless.

So, what does "God" mean when he is upset?

It turned out that at that time, the ancients thought that the five internal organs, the heart, the spleen, the lungs and the kidneys were all in charge of one god, and each had its own duties. They are busy day and night to maintain the daily operation of the human body. The God of the five zang-organs also has a name: the name of the heart is Dan Yuan, the name of the liver is Long Yan, the name of the spleen is Chang Ai, the name of the lung is Haohua, and the name of the kidney is Xuanming. It is not difficult to find that the names of these gods are quite Taoist, and as for their looks, they are all exotic birds and animals. Similar images seem to be found in ancient books such as Shan Hai Jing.

Uneasy, that is, Dan Yuan is not in place. Perhaps more people have heard of Otolaryngology than brains. In folklore, the immortal attached to an individual's ear is called the ear-reporting god.

Descartes, a philosopher who once said "I think, therefore I am", once said: "As long as I think, I exist. Strictly speaking, I am just a thinking thing, that is, I am just a mind, a soul, a reason or a rational entity. "

In Descartes' view, the soul is thought. But in English, the soul is the soul and the mind is the mind. These are two different concepts. The film "Beautiful Mind" mbt Beautiful Mind; ; Philosophy of mind. Soul and mind are different, so in the Marvel universe, soul and mind should be divided into two gems.

In modern medicine, the strict meaning of heart is heart. Heart disease is a disease with very high mortality. Heart transplantation has now become a mature operation. In modern medicine, the heart can be transplanted, but it cannot be regenerated, but it can be imagined by the ancients. There is a story in the Romance of Gods that Bigan was pulled out of his heart. It is said that when Jiang Ziya left Chao Ge, he went to Xiangfu to say goodbye. Seeing Beagan's gloomy face, he knew that there would be big trouble in the future, so he sent Beagan a spell to turn him into dust in an emergency to keep him safe.

Da ji tried to kill Bigan, so he pretended to vomit blood and became seriously ill. So Hu told me that only the Prime Minister was kinder than the dry heart, and he could borrow a piece to save da ji. Zhou Wang ordered people to call Beagan urgently.

Advance despite difficulties, so he drank the water left by Jiang Ziya in advance. Sure enough, after seeing Zhou Wang, Bigan was dug up without protesting.

After Bi Gan was dug up by Zhou Wang, he covered his robe without saying a word and rode south alone. He knew that he was going south (now Xinxiang, Henan Province), and he would grow a heart. However, when he went to the suburb of Konoha, he suddenly heard a woman selling unintentional vegetables loudly. More curious than Gump, he bridled the reins and asked, "Is there no intention of living?" The woman replied, "Yes." Bigan asked again, "What if people are careless?" The woman replied: "If you don't mean it, you will die!" Beagan shouted, blood gushed out and life whimpered.

The ancients imagined that the heart could regenerate. The brain hole is open enough.

Although modern science has corrected some mistakes of the ancients, such as thinking that consciousness exists in people's brain rather than in their hearts, it is inconclusive whether consciousness and brain exist independently.

So, is the mind a human patent? Thinking about this problem can be traced back to Descartes at the earliest. Descartes raised this question in the17th century: Can we really know what others think? Is it possible for a woman to know how a man feels? What is the baby's experience during childbirth? What is it like for a fetus to have experience in the womb? What about inhuman thinking? What is the horse thinking? Why don't vultures vomit after eating carrion? When a fish's lips are hooked by a hook, does it hurt as much as your lips are hooked? Can spiders think, or are they just small robots, unconsciously weaving their beautiful cobwebs? Are advanced robots conscious? Is there a gap between robots and advanced animals? Will all animals except humans be just automatic machines without hearts? Are we sure everyone has a heart? [ 1]

Obviously, man is only one kind of animal, and all animals have their own joys and sorrows. As for the machine, although there is a key component that we call the "core", this "core" is not another "heart". This is the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence.

refer to

[1][ America] Daniel Dennett's Various Hearts: An Exploration of Consciousness, translated by Luo Jun, Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 20 10.