Something to ponder

6/01/2009 09:16:00 PM Posted In Edit This 3 Comments »
"News of the woman's hello, in electrical form, races along the neurons of the auditory nerve and enters the man's brain, through the thalamus, to a specialized region of the cerebral cortex for further processing. Eventually, a large fraction of the trillion neurons in the man's brain become involved with computing the visual and auditory data just acquired. Sodium and potassium gates open and close. Electrical currents speed along neuron fibers. Molecules flow from one nerve ending to the next. All of this is known. What is not known is why, after about a minute, the man walks over to the woman and smiles." Alan Lightman

3 comments:

Vicki Holdwick said...

I'm pondering......

xoxo

Leah said...

heehee! what a great quote! wild to think about, isn't it?

peggy gatto said...

or why my husband doesn't know what to say after I show him a new piece of my art!!!