Our mind an abstract complex mysterious thing while the human brain an organ with lots of science! Much brain activity related to coordinating physical movement of the body!
Consider Brain Injuries
Consciousness or the human still a mystery in science. Humans brains are organs, biochemical & electrical with structures & functions & physiology & neurotransmitters that affect mood & choices & brain injuries provide a deep library of information about how brain damage can change someones values & personality & affect the trajectory of their life. Many professional athletes like football players experience brain trauma from high energy collisions with other players during normal gameplay.
Automobile accidents that produce high speed deceleration causing the brain to smack into the skull, displacing the cerebral spinal flood that the brain floating in inside the skull. The brain as soft blood rich organ while the skull a hard bone structure. When the brain smacks the skull, the different in hardness causes soft tissue damage to the brain.
Traumatic brain injury often caused by falling debris at construction sites even though hard hats are worn for safety, again it's the brain colliding with the skull that causes the actual brain injury. Some really complex high velocity twisting of the head can cause tearing of the brain tissue connecting the left & right lobs together. This can happen in high speed motorcycle accidents with such intensity that the rider ends up in a coma & later when recovering from the coma left with sever physical & mental disabilities.
Athletic Brain
Much of what the brain does relates to coordinating movement of the body. Human like to think we are more intellectual, but physical movement a mentally demanding thing. The brain works with all the muscle groups, including lots of nerves to create active feedback loops of sensory input from the feet & legs & inner ear & eyes to create multi-channel balance control since a human an inverted pendulum in physics, try balancing a stick on your hand as an example. It took a lot of complicated engineering to make the Segway & other later derivative self balancing scooters possible to overcome this tricky issue of balancing an inverted pendulum rider.
Walking, jogging, hiking, even just getting out of bed, simple movements actually require a lot of nerve activity control of the muscles & joints with thousands of channels of sensory input moving as high speed nerve data access the brain via the spinal cord & the brain sends signals back to actively tweak & modify your body movements so you can move in a stable way without falling over & hurting yourself with a blunt high energy fall impact into furniture or the floor or ground.
When your reading your brain has to coordinate your hands & eyes & your back & legs to keep you sitting up or laying down it has to control your neck & arms so you can hold the book or e-reader or phone or whatever such that your eyes can read the content or information.
To type this blog I am sitting in a chair typing into a keyboard thats connected to my iMac. Touchscreens are too slow & lack tactile feedback that I like for typing faster to make contact like this happen in the morning before I leave for work or during others times when I am not working or doing something else.
Activity, be that riding a bicycle or motorcycle, playing a sport of game outside, cooking or shopping in first person. Even using your smartphone or tablet requires your brain to coordinate a lot of movement & control signals.
Speaking requires a complex control mechanism where your brain modulates your breathing & vocal cords & tongue & job & lips to form sounds in your language using air pressure created by your diaphragm to induce acoustical vibration or harmonics to the air existing your mouth to encode words as sound fragments that other people hear & interpret as those analog sound waves traveling through the air hit the eats of other people, their ear drum affected by the sound pressure waves incoming a nerve input signal partner sent to the brain for analysis.
When your looking at something your brain does all kinds of amazing calculations to control your focus & what you are looking at, how to cycle your focus & make sense of what you are looking at. The brain a very active athletic organ that must do all sorts of complex information handling to make human movements of all kinds possible.
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