Not long ago, I believed, that the brain is the seat of our ability to think, we feel with the heart and we are conscious because of our soul.There are three aspects, the mind, the body and the soul... so said the wise Teachers. I believed in this implicitly, till I watched the lecture videos of Michio Kaku and started reading about his articles. Michio Kaku is a Professor of Physics at the City University of New York and famous for being the co-founder of the string field theory (the first time I heard that was Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory mentions it) Boy! this man (I meant, Michio Kaku and not Sheldon) is amazing!. I have become one of his numerous fans. I remember, when I was a kid, enjoying watching the famous TV serial, 'Cosmos', presented by Carl Sagan. It was Sagan, who probably pioneered, during our times, the art of presenting science to common people in a simple manner, that one, with hardly a scientific bent of mind albeit curious, like myself, could understand and enjoy. Michio Kaku, goes one step ahead - he can not only explain it well, he can bring similes that you would relate to in day- to -day life. He gives examples of movies (when does he get time to watch these movies beats me) to get the concept through. His latest book ' The future of the mind' is a best seller and just reading it, broke disappointingly, some of my long held beliefs. The mysteries of why one could have a split- Dr Jekyll and Hyde personality, or the fact that emotions reside in the brain and not the heart, the different functions of the brain, are some of those covered in the book. Who you are, could probably, is because of your frontal cortex is and not because of your soul. Not that my belief in the existence of Soul has evaporated, but my curiosity has definitely been aroused. If we had more people like him teaching science in schools, probably we would have more scientists being nurtured in our countries. Till such time, one has to satiate one's quest of knowledge with books and YouTube!.
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