I think I was the only person who
somewhat thought the lecture yesterday was interesting. I have always been interested
in how the brain works and how we process images. It’s crazy to think that a
small, four pound organ can allow us to move, eat, speak, walk, drive, laugh,
think, dance, create and everything else you can think of. It simply allows us
to do everything it can think of , the possibilities are not limited to how big
the head is. It is said that we use only about
15% of the brains full power. Imagine if we could even use 30 or 40? He gave
many examples of which part of the brain does what, and that is where he lost a
lot of people. Once a teacher starts to say big words or parts of the body,
students tend to shy away, because they feel confronted. Maybe he could do
another lecture on that, and use that audience group as examples. 
Another
thing that was interesting was when he talked about how even though we don’t have
eyes on our fingers, they can “see” the things we touch. If you are looking for
something in your pocket, you feel around with your fingers, and they pick up
the feeling of whatever it is you’re touching and you just know what it is. The
brain uses the fingers as a sort of tool to know things that the eyes cannot
see. Even know as I type this paper that rule is in effect. I can feel the
little indentation on F and J keys on my keyboard. I cannot see the actual key,
but I know J and F have the indentation on them, and it must be the keys.
Although
he may have bored many people, in some cases even sleeping, he really knew his
stuff. He seemed a little side tracked with his phone going off, but maybe he
seemed so nonchalant about it because it was not messing him up because he knew
all the information. It is a very hard thing to do, to tell a room full of 18
year olds how the brain does this and how we think of words when we see a
picture, but I think he did a good job of it and people just needed to sit down
and get past the boring-ness of it. 
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