Cosmos Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory Part 5 of 6

The brain is the focus of this fascinating portion of our journey as Dr. Sagan examines another of the intelligent creatures with whom we share the planet Earth — whales.

Then we wind through the maze of the human brain to witness the architecture of thought. We see how genes, brains and books store the information necessary for human survival.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Sagan
• Cosmos
• Persistence
• Memory
• Episode

[jalgjalg]

Quote of the day:

"the trick is to know which books to read"

C.S.

[GeniusSloth]

;-D

Wow, everyone slow the #%!^ down and remember the impetus that led to our times. An achievement that for most of us defeats the purpose of itself.

There are still sadistic insular minded individuals enslaving the masses; facilitating entropy via our former reptilian brains that we've reached an unprecedented independence from.

Wake up and remember the ancients' strive for true freedom! Freedom from consumption. Remember a time when payment wasn't bad but rather the reward itself!!!

[NowhereMan8521]

He didn't pay the cab driver...

[Pulchism]

this series is a work of art

[dgibbs24]

We've got a new communal memory. It's on a computer, it's full of pictures of cats with funny subtitles and "so i herd u liek mudkipz?" passes for a witty statement there.

We might've been better off with libraries, come to think of it.

[Phelan666]

The warehouse of that a memory is called the [internet].

Fixed.

[lokomeng]

theres more than meets the eye...we dared to break that tradition, and we break the ones we continually create (analysis and synthesis)

[Kenzofeis]

"The dumbest animal on earth must be the humans, the only ones who 'need to learn a new' what they already know from natures own provisions; the simplest most obvious things." Kenzo feis