A neuron (also known as a neurone or nerve cell) is an excitable cell in the nervous system that processes and transmits information by electrochemical signalling. Neurons are the core components of the brain, the vertebrate spinal cord, the invertebrate ventral nerve cord, and the peripheral nerves. A number of specialized types of neurons exist: sensory neurons respond to touch, sound, light and numerous other stimuli affecting cells of the sensory organs that then send signals to the spinal cord and brain. Motor neurons receive signals from the brain and spinal cord and cause muscle contractions and affect glands. Interneurons connect neurons to other neurons within the brain and spinal cord. Neurons respond to stimuli, and communicate the presence of stimuli to the central nervous system, which processes that information and sends responses to other parts of the body for action. Neurons do not go through mitosis, and usually cannot be replaced after being destroyed,[dubious – discuss] although astrocytes have been observed to turn into neurons as they are sometimes pluripotent.
I felt that necessary for my point. There is constant motion and workings within the brain. Psychology also having many branches, one being Cognitive psychology, a “branch of psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as: problem solving, memory, and language.”
We are capable of thinking about thinking; thinking while we think. We have a vast storage of information we have accumulated and processed over the years. Our short term memory [that which is capable of recalling long term memory] varies from person-to-person, however, has a capacity. We can only recall/think of so much information at any given moment, but we have the ability to store so much more.
So, to say that the possibility of seeing the rich, boundless depth of a person’s life over the span of 24 hours is not only possible, but it can be shown and written. The way in which we think, scattered as some notions or perceptions may feel at times, still has a strict system which can be described with words, as difficult as it may be.
Perhaps we won’t be able to see every element of someone’s past in vivid detail. No encyclopedia exists equipped with grueling detail and vibrant pictures to describe any one person’s thoughts every day of their life. Biographies are available, but they can only describe so many thoughts and what major events took place.
Yet, when one delves into the consciousness of a human, so much more can be seen. How every day moments change them, if only for a single moment. We constantly recall past experiences, if not directly, thinking of some distant event that happened long ago, then there are others. Such as the memory of life’s complications and their effects. We carry them: ideas, intentions, presuppositions; how we filter as well. We see things by how we have changed. We speak according to what we have seen and done. We speak how we already know to. We take in information about the world around us mad work them into memories and knowledge we had prior to their intake. Even if we are learning for the first time, experience or by idea, we could have already had knowledge of some sort that was affiliated to it prior.
It is beyond possible to see the complexity of a human’s life in one day. We do it every single waking moment on our own. Perhaps we will not live out the excitement of our very best moments in a single day, or many days, but we have memory. Because of our constant cognition we thrive and can be condensed into any waking moment in which we continue to be aware that we exist.
Cogito ergo sum.
~I think, therefore I am.
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