Blog Post #3

The first activity I did was called Contrast/Color "Illusions". It showed me that the brain doesn't pick up on light given off by an image. It had an activity where there appeared to be two very contrasting colors at different angles and when you brought the colors together you were able to discovery that they were the same color. It was really cool to see that a dark gray square and a light gray square at two different angles, when at the same angle the brain was able to distiguish that they were the same colors. The second activity I did was called "Competative and Cooperation," this was also very interesting. I was able to play a game called Prisoner's Delemia and it was a game of odds. It was really interesting to find out that even in a game where the outcome is completely unknown until the game is over, our brains still comprehend that there is a plausable way to win the game. Our minds make a strategy even when there are win-win odds.

I was very suprised about how our mind works and trys to figure things out without us even knowing that we are critically anaylizing what we are looking at. It's intersting on how our mind depicts light and colors and how we process what they look like. It's also intersting that our minds try to find the answer to questions that have no answers or we come up with reasons why something happened even though it was chance.

I can apply this to daily life because we see things everyday that puzzle us and cause us to think about what it is. There are many pictures and sites that look different due to the angles or the amount of light given off and if we look at them at different times or angles they look different. The compete or cooperation can be applied to daily life because it allows our minds to think that we have a chance of winning something when the odds aren't there. We try to come up with strategies everyday to get work done or get out of doing something, even though there is only chance it could work.

This changes how I look at object and I'll try and see if they are decieving my mind or eyes. Now I will think about the odds and chances I have on winning or doing something. This opens up about how wide our mind travels and makes me think about how complex our mind is.

I've learned about the brain and its actual compenents and how the neurons in the brain transfer signals. I've learned about how the signals are transferred to different parts of the body and how fast they move in order to keep us alert and moving. The brain transfers signals so fast that it amazes me on how fast we can think and how quickly our reflexes can be just because of tiny little nueron in our bodies that transfer signals. I also learned that your brain is what you see with. You don't actually see things your brain sees it and makes us think about what we are seeing thus giving us the illusion that we are seeing things with our eyes.

I think the video about he man with two brains was extremely interesting. The expirements they did to tell which side of the brain is controling which body function. I thought it was so cool that they were able to show different images or words to one side of the brain and have it register on the opposite of the brain. How one side controls the words that we speak, while the other side control the pictures we draw or the images we think about when we see the word. It was really interesting to see how a normal brain works by bouncing signals off each other causing us to connect what we see on both sides. Where as if you have your brain split and they are unable to communicate that they can control completely different objects. This would be a very intersting study to do expirements on and would be a lot of fun finding out new things on how the brain functions.