A Probe into the Brain

Scientists have been researching on the brain for centuries but it looks that this three-pound entity is still challenging the brain scientists with its utterly complex and supremely mysterious character. There are some unanswered brain mechanisms that need some serious probe. Though the modern scientific research has not yet been able to measure the depths of the brain, I invite readers’ opinions and ideas regarding some of those unanswered brain mechanisms, which are established facts though without any explanations in most cases or rather varied explanations for the same fact. Your responses to the following questions would be much appreciated:

1.     What is the reality of thoughts and how and why are thoughts created?

2.     Why do the two hemispheres of a single brain have tremendously different characters?

3.     Why do the opposite hemispheres of the brain control the opposite sides of the body i.e. the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body and vice versa?

4.     Why does the brain live in pre-occupation i.e. lives in thinking about the past events or the future dreams and ambitions? Why does it not like to live in the present?

5.     If thoughts are mere virtual, spiritual and mental reality and not physical then: Why do they consume a huge amount of the brain's energy? How do they create realities when they are themselves mere thoughts and ideas?

6.     It is a scientific fact that the image of anything that we see is created upside down on our mental screen. The questions are: Why do not we see all things in the world upside down? How does the brain make us see things upright and why does it do so? OR Do we really see things upright?

7.     When we look at different things like water, stone, oil etc. we know that these things are wet, hard or sticky, even though the brain or we have not touched anything physically? How does the brain know that something is hard, soft, wet, smooth, rough, hot or cold?