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Why do we love beautiful faces? Why are we instinctively drawn towards attractive people? Why do we fall in love? Why do we fall out of love? Why do we find babies cute and adorable and treat them as special, protecting them and enabling them to survive?

Why do we need 8 hours of sleep a day? Why do we desire to climb tall mountains at the risk of loosing our limbs and life? Why are we the only animal species that laughs a lot and enjoys sex? Why do react emotionally in certain situations, but act coldly in some other situations?

Why do women love shopping, shiny things and gossip? Why do men have low attention span and think of sex every six seconds?

Continuing scientific research reveals that everything we do, all our likings and dislikings, all our wantings and desirings, all of everything that makes what we are, stems from the composition of the cortexes of our brains.

Now it can be told - 'Its all in the brain'

Our human brain is at the root of a gigantic conspiracy contrived to direct every aspect of our lives into standard, compartmentalized formats to generate an ordered state of human life, enabling us to relate to other people and to make sense of our lives. If not for our brains, we would have been a chaotic mess with each of us shooting off in separate directions unable to find any similarity with our fellow humans, unable to coordinate with each other at any level, doomed to exist in a state of constant conflict, chaos and confusion.

But thanks to our brain, we all behave in more or less similar fashion, enjoy more or less similar things, get attracted to more or less similar type of humans. Scientific research continues to discover different sections of our brain responsible for our specific likes and dislikes.

Now new research has discovered the solution to one enduring mystery that the scientific community was unable to crack despite years of research - Why do we like cute babies? No, not because because they are actually cute. On the contrary, babies are nothing more than little lumps of noisy flesh that leak a lot of shit and slobber frequently and abundantly. But, as the latest research proves, its our brain that tricks us into thinking they are cute in order to prod us into producing more babies to keep the cycle of creation going on forever.

This research was led by Morten Kringelbach and Alan Stein from the University of Oxford and was funded by the Wellcome Trust and TrygFonden Charitable Foundation. The authors showed that a region of the human brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex is highly specifically active within a seventh of a second in response to (unfamiliar) infant faces but not to adult faces.

Without the presence of medial orbitofrontal cortex, we wouldn't have been predisposed to like babies. Quite possibly we would have hated babies for their overall weirdness vis-a-vis grown-up adults. We would have noticed that they are unproductive creatures who cry a lot, shit a lot, spit a lot, demand too much attention and are generally a great nuisance, requiring high maintenance but providing little value in exchange. Noticing all that, we would have refrained from producing babies endangering the continuance of human life on earth.

Now it can be a told - We are all here, living the way we are living, doing the things we are doing, because of a gigantic brain conspiracy.

Next few items on scientists research list - Who's the master-brain behind the brain conspiracy? How was the master-brain created? Is there another conspiracy behind the creation of the master-brain? These questions are expected to keep the scientists engaged for next few thousand years.

Comments (3)

huzefa said:

	i genuinely find babies CUTE !! they way they look, act and play !! i never think tht this is wat m gona have in d future for existence of human race.. and all tht... babies are babies... now dont tell me thrs another brain conspiracy behind this !! one thing for sure wid 0 conspiracy is - SCIENTISTS CANT TRUST ANYTHING !!!
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June 09, 2008
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pinkyshah said:

	scientists shud know... better den us...
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May 24, 2008
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derebail2008 said:

	Some brains are never used so they don t function, the more we strain our brains the more is the stress. But one thing is for sure human brain is capable of processing millions of info in milli second.
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May 13, 2008
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