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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did anyone else check three times to see if one was spelt "Brian"?

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think your brian might be malfunctioning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

At least Biggus Dickus seems to be working fine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I automatically read Brain as Brian

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, me too.. I was wondering why Obama was being called Brian twice.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would absolutely not vote brain. That thing is the cause of 99% of my suffering.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Same

Get that thing out of there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what the direction of causality between these two sentences is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It hurt my brain to consider what you are implying.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think brain has an unfair advantage.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That’s just brain guilt talking

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

instead of urethra if there was penis results would have been a lot different

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. It also controls language. There's a theory that that's why the words for the left hand (and left in general) are usually associated with evil ("sinister" in Latin means "left", for example), while words for the right are associated with good ("dextrous" comes from the Latin "dexter", meaning "right side"). The left side of the brain might be literally disparaging the side of the body it doesn't control, while praising the one it does.

Anyway, I vote for sphincter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone knows their ancient Latin proverbs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Brain still gotta poop.

[–] prole 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't that left brain/right brain stuff pseudoscience?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes and no: different parts of the brain DO have different functionality and the language center IS in the left half, but you'd need your whole brain to demonize body parts since a lot more than just language would be involved in the reasoning, the decision, the planning and the execution..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Minor correction. Features like the language center are shared between both hemispheres, it's just that typically the left side is more developed.

Though, with the plasticity of the brain, it isn't necessarily always the case. Brains are very capable of rewiring themselves. If it's easier to (re)develop language on the right side, due to left side trauma, that's entirely possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In general the left brain does language. It's been proven by observing people who had their hemispheres separated. The whole story about the left brain calling the left side of the body names is pretty speculative though.

It's also true that we tend to exaggerate the whole left/right brain thing in popular culture. The idea of left or right-brained personalities is one example of a pretty inaccurate characterization of how the brain works. But there are very real differences between the hemispheres.

All of that is just based mostly on recent interviews with brain scientists I've listened to, I'm not an expert!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Forget left and right brain.

You're either all brain or no brain.

For me, no brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The left hemisphere features the Broca's and Wernicke's areas, which are mainly responsible for finding words (Wernicke) and stringing them together to form a sentence (Broca). That's why they are 2 general types of aphasia if the brain gets damaged.

Patients with Wernicke or receptive aphasia speak gibberish because they cannot find the correct words or make up new ones. Expressive or Broca aphasia patients present with what sounds like a severe stutter.

Depending on the damage and the location, it is possible that either of the patients has little to no trouble understanding language. It's not known, how exactly language is processed in the brain, as far as I know. We just know where the hotspots are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A sphincter is not an organ. Muscle is tissue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Then why does mine sound like an organ sometimes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I voted with my heart.

My heart voted "Brain".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My brain votes spleen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's a few who thought the urethra is the best.

Gotta hand it to them. Guess they went through something... making them feel like this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

An old Emo Philips joke.. At least that's the first place I heard it back in the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Losing most of them would kill me

Losing my brain would keep me from knowing

Heart that would suck quick and be over

Skin would be slow and painful....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My brain read that as Brian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Idk, I prefer B3 with Leslie