Your Heart - Your Brain - Your Life ...
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... obviously, the means by which humankind can thrive
and max out this, our one and only *sure* opportunity to
experience all that we know, on this earth, at this time.

Do good, live long, prosper. Love one another, hope for
a continued pleasant existence if you wish (I do) but know
we're all in this together, life is the only certainty, and we're
all headed to the same place, wherever or whatever that
place may be (scientific advances may some day lift the
fog regarding the remaining unknowns explaining what
life is truly all about).

Question and feel free to doubt the belief in perceptions
of existence developed by fearful and pre-scientific
humans, our ancestors. Let's live for today as now is
all we'll ever have.

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Details:

Your heart? See Cut To the Heart:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/

The Whole Brain Atlas
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

Brain Functions and Map
http://www.neuroskills.com/tbi/brain.html

Explore the Brain and Spinal Cord
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html

Mr. Brain Fly Through
http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/medical/brain.mpg

Excerpt from Remote Control Humans:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_375000/375521.stm
"Could computers one day control peoples' brains? ...
Essentially, as long as an achievement is physically
possible then there is no reason why we cannot learn
to do all sorts of things just by thinking about them.
Driving a car, making a cup of coffee and operating
a computer are obvious examples, although anything
that requires movement and can be automated is fair
game - and that means just about everything."

Excerpt from Mind Over Matter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_374000/374377.stm
"Controlling a robot arm by brain power alone sounds
like science fiction, but experiments involving rats' brains
have brought it closer to reality. Dr John Chapin, of the
MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine in
Philadelphia, has shown for the first time that brain cell
activity can be used to control a robotic device."

Excerpt from It's All In the Brain:
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/a/a110.htm
"We can recognize a friend instantly-full-face, in profile,
or even by the back of his head. We can distinguish millions
of shades of color, as well as 10,000 smells. We can feel
a feather as it brushes our skin, hear the faint rustle of a leaf.

It all seems so effortless: we open our eyes or ears and let
the world stream in. Yet anything we see, hear, feel, smell,
or taste requires billions of nerve cells to flash urgent
messages along cross-linked pathways and feedback loops
in our brains, performing intricate calculations that scientists
have only begun to decipher. ..."