Cogito ergo human

What is the difference between the animal brain and the human brain? What is the difference between the intelligent, logical brain and t...

What is the difference between the animal brain and the human brain? What is the difference between the intelligent, logical brain and the unintelligent, unlogical brain?

Before I draw the difference line I must confess, I must be very cautious to draw lines. It is hard to categorize strictly, and I would not like to, in most cases. The difference between the animal and the human brain is not like the difference between a rocket and a bicycle. More like a simpler bicycle and a sophisticated bicycle. As I discussed before how the brain works, you could see, sometimes the difference between a human and animal brain is fuzzy, and we can find most of the brain functions both in the humans' and in the animals' brains. But there must be some specific differences, and I think one most important is the capability of thinking. The difference is that the human brain is capable of thinking.

What is thinking? Thinking is stimulating mind states by will and connecting them which were not connected before based on the same time activity. Connecting brain structure at same time activity is a fundamental brain activity. But stimulating mind states by will is a unique, high-level function of the human brain that I believe the animal brain has not.

As it is discussed in the appropriate post, I call mind state as an information structure in the brain based on connecting neurons which is representing an inner or outer state. The human brain complexity and plasticity makes it capable of finding or creating connections by connecting neurons to different mind-states.

How we are capable of stimulating mind states by will only? I discussed the will before. I described the will as conscious guidance of our desires. But that kind of will is not an answer, a solution to how we think, how we can activate different mind states.

This requires a new kind of brain function: the language.