06 November 2006

If you were a brain cell--what kind would you be?

So many many kinds to choose from.

Maybe you would be in the occipital lobe--helping to interpret the data the eyes were sending in.

Maybe you would be on the left frontal lobe--one of the motoric cells in charge of moving the pinky on the right hand.

What if there were only right hemisphere cells? Or only left? How would the body walk?

What if there were no corpus collosum cells, to connect the two sides of the brain? The left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing?

What if there were no cells in the middle brain or brain stem? To maintain core functions?

What if all the brain cells were exactly like me? Or exactly like you?

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