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bjones
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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 Posted - 09/03/2001 : 05:30:20
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You may of heard of the great break through that was made with stem cell research. Up until recently this was main stream thought about the brain:
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To sum up so far: in the tradition of scientific self-correction, we must revise the words, so long held as gospel, of the great Spanish neuroscientist Ramon y Cajal in 1913:
‘In adult centres, the nerve paths are fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be rejuvenated.'
Thus in the end, the cells of the brain may not in fact greatly differ from those of the gut or skin, which are continuously renewed and easily rejuvenated.
now that dogma is looking like it about to be overturned. It demonstrates you cannot bank on certainty.
for more information, it is briefly summed up on this webpage on the Australia's ABC's Ockhams Razor
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s355082.htm
Remember: when you die your philosohy dies with you
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