I was looking for the topic of my speech at the local Toastmasters club when I came across the TED presentation "The real reason for brains" by Daniel Wolpert.
His argument that the brain is not an organ to think, but one for controlling complicated movements of body was gripping. It was also relevant for my assignment at that speech, effective use of body language.
I constructed my speech around the episode he introduced in the presentation, that the chess computer Deep Blue beat the human grandmaster, Mr Kasparov in 1997, but the computer would be no match for a five-year-old kid in physically moving chess pieces.
In the opening of my own speech, I challenged the audience if man is really a thinking reed. In the end of it, I concluded that man is more like a dancing straw as the brain is a controller of complicated movements. Fortunately, I managed to make it interesting enough and received good feedback.
I included the following question in my speech, "Is it actually easier said than done, if a brain is not to think but to control complicated actions?" I mean by "said", all the details required to reproduce the exact actions involved are explicitly expressed.
I found that it is rather easier done than said, as I am writing about what I had done in my speech ;-)
Ray
