Question by Freezing Temperature: What makes our brain so hard to understood and studied?
Human brain is the least understood of human body and yet we use it everyday, consciously. What makes this particular organ so hard to understand compare to say a human heart? Is it technically possible, in the future, to implant an artificial brain to help someone who has a brain damage? How about a brain transplant?
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Answer by DNAunion
Primarily … complexity. The human brain is by far the most complex organ in the human body. The task of learning the anatomy of the heart is trivial compared to learning the anatomy of the brain, for example.
Also, the brain changes over time more so than the heart. For example, every time a new memory is stored an anatomical change has occurred in the brain.
In addition, I believe there is a difference in usable model organisms for the two. The anatomy of the human heart is relatively similar to the heart of many large mammals, but the anatomy of the human brain is relatively dissimilar to that of most large mammals, except chimpanzees and maybe the other apes, which are endangered or are “very sentient” and so there are ethical issues associated with experimenting on them.
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brain is fully understood and well studied by science. everything is clearly defined. artificial brain is impossible. not in this lifetime at least. if artificial brain can be developed so can all other organs. That way man will never die because he will keep replacing his organs when they get bad. And organ failure is always the cause of death. If man replaces all his organs (if it can do the brain too), then he has made himself into a robot. Think about it. the future would then be transformed from humans to robotic beings.