The following is an excerpt from a deposition where a neuropsychologist is describing the intricacies of the human brain (reposted from a court reporting group page), just in case you-all think transcripts are produced with a magic wand or that your court reporter is replaceable: Neuropsychologist: May I give an example of this? Counsel: Sure. Neuropsychologist: Okay. If you look -- and the example is this: Our brains are a miracle. Okay. Theyre a miracle that needs to be protected. And if you look at the court reporter right now, as an example, okay, this is a miracle in progress happening right before your eyes. Let me just explain what she needs to do. I am speaking, so the information has to come in through her ear into her temporal lobe, and it has to go log itself into the language center. She has to be able to comprehend what Im saying. Then it has to get rerouted to the prefrontal cortex where it has to hold -- she has to be able to hold the information, because, you know, I continuously talk so she has to hold it. Right? Then she has to analyze it, integrate it and synthesize it. Then it has to go back to the cerebellum and she has to be able to execute this, and she has to be able to then convert my words into those little squiggly marks. Have you ever seen court reporters have little squiggly language things? So she has to convert it into a different language, and the white matter tracks allows her to reroute all of this information simultaneously without effort. Okay. We take our brains for granted. Shes sitting here. Im probably talking too fast for her, but shes able to do this simultaneously. Seamlessly. Okay. No animal on the planet can do this. All right. Thats why I believe court reporters will never be replaced. Because no technical -- no technology could replace the beauty of that brain and the miracle of that brain. And thats why your brain should always be protected and you should take care of it.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:48:50 +0000