> It's amazing how much our brains depend on the exact chemical
> balance. Actually, I suppose it's amazing that they work at all really :)

It is. A two-part series has just shown here called Phantoms In The
Brain. Some extraordinarily rare conditions that some folk have.
Like the man last night who has temporal lobe epilepsy and is over-
come with joy, to the point of exhausting I-can-see-god overload, at
anything and everything he looks at, people who's neural pathways
between eye and magdyla (the emotional processor) has been injured
or disrupted. Detailed studies of these types of conditions are
extremely useful in developing intellectual, emotional and intuitional
maps of the brain. Useful for both the treatment and understanding
of how the brain works (by forensically examing how it goes wrong,
like we do with circuits that don't work) and useful for the develop-
ment of artificial intelligence paradigms

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