• Question: why is the brain so complicated

    Asked by waleed to Fiona, Joanna, William on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Fiona Randall

      Fiona Randall answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      It has a lot of important jobs to do, from controlling our movements to our thoughts to our sleep to forming memories. It is probably the most complex thing ever designed and all done by nature. Pretty Amazing!

    • Photo: Joanna Brooks

      Joanna Brooks answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Hello again! I think the brain is so complex because there are so many different systems like memory, language, vision, and movement to name a few. Each system is then divided into lots of different sub-systems – like for memory we can have short-term memory (memory for something that happened a few minutes ago) and long-term memory (memory for things that happened 1 year ago). Each sub-system works in a different way and it takes scientists years and years to fully understand them. Then of course there is the issue of how they all work together!

    • Photo: William Davies

      William Davies answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      because it’s got to carry out incredibly complicated processes, like planning 10 years into the future and remembering what happened 50 years ago

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