Socrates: How good to see you Alekto, I have been looking forward to this discussion. Alekto: I too have been looking forward to this, it seems difficult for me to wrap my head around this concept. Socrates: Hopefully I will give you some good insight and be able to open your mind up. Emily Dickinson stated that our minds are far greater than the limits of the sky, than our material world in which we live and grow in. Alekto: And how do you view her insights, Socrates? Socrates: I feel that she has a valid argument. Our minds are far wider and greater than anything we can see here on earth. Alekto: So what does that statement mean exactly? Socrates: It means that our minds are able to think outside the box, to create things we have never seen before. We are not limited by our surroundings, by what we see and touch. The …show more content…
Scott and his team used advanced technologies to map brain functions and have found that we in fact use all parts of our brains. Another noted neurologist by the name of John Henley also published his findings stating that in over the course of one day we use 100 percent of our brain. Henley also said that even while we sleep parts of our brain, such as the frontal cortex and the somatosensory areas, are very much active. Alekto: I see. So how might the argument that our minds are bigger than the sky be disproved? Socrates: Some might say that computers are more advanced than we could ever possibly hope to be. And as technology progresses the computer becomes smarter and smarter to the point that it will overtake humans capacity of thinking. I can understand their point because a computer would be able to and will be able to think logically and at record speed without the emotional attachment. However, ultimately any computer is only as smart as the information that is programmed into it by humans. Alekto: If you believe the brain is limitless/bigger than the sky do you believe that one day we will know all there is to