I just started thinking about the countless amounts of memories my brain has saved almost my whole like and that lead me wondering how the brain is so advanced it can save that much data? I swear our brain can be compared to a computer. A biological super computer that has an immense amount of memory whether it be visual memories, or educational information from academics. Or even remembering numbers. And I've also read neuron receptors and the transferring of information between them is basically a biological form of technology. Which is just astounding. Anyone have any thoughts on the subject? Post below!
What's even more astounding is the fact that our brains are able to accomplish all of this on only about 20-30 watts of power. Absolutely mind boggling.
I think it's all managed by cells. Something about how they position themselves in a group somehow saves information. A couple of people won a Nobel prize for making a discovery in this field recently. Just like the face and the body the human brain is different person to person. Every brain works differently, you can't find two human beings throughout history who share the identical strengths, weaknesses and gjkrweögn
I think there is also more advanced programming. I think the brain is able to create memories on the fly by only remembering certain details, and filling in the rest (similar to how we know our eyes work) Our brains can use this technique to process vast ammounts of information in an instant while aa compute would have to compute the entire code. -yuri
My psychology professor compared the brains memory to a computer and a lot of the terms used in a computer I.E. storage and memory are also used in the human brain. But the crazy thing is the brain is able to multi-task. A computer can't learn and remember two things at once, although remarkably fast at doing it. In a way our brains are more advanced than a computer...which I think is pretty cool. There was something else that talked about how the brain is more advanced but I can't recall.
Lets not get too full of ourselves. Computers are pretty specialized. For example. Who would be able to solve a complicated math problem.first? A human or a calculator? Maybe this is part of why computers seem so inferior. Maybe solving calculations isn't what thinking is aboit. -yuri
I think another interesting question is what happens to all that stored information when you die. Some scientists theorize that when a rat learns something in one country, a newborn rat can radically be born with that same knowledge in another. Almost like when a person feels as if they are old souls. Do we pass down our knowledge to the a newborn via consciousness? Is there some sort of galactic 'cloud' that we upload store learned data on, and thus a newborn can pick and download that data and choose it's own fate before the veil is cast over it's memory?
Have you seen all the cases where young children claim to have lived past lives, quoting details about places and families that they shouldn't know anything about? Pretty trippy stuff. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
No it's growing until sometime in your mid twenties. It's more like a constantly self re-arranging hard drive
One has to wonder precisely how much our brain does indeed remember. Electric shocks to certain parts of the brain can send impulses that bring memories long forgotten surging back, which implies theyre not really forgotten, just inaccessible. Imagine when we can mimic this technology. It will allow us to build brains and genetically modify our future selfs.....custom building humans, inserting memories or skills into babies, etc. It could literally lead to an end to death, as when the body dies we could program those memories into a new bilogical entity and keep the brain backed up. Dont like your body one life? want to be a different sex next life? No problem Sci fi stuff. ~ poke
Or just maybe we could continue to evolve biologically with the help of our tech in a way that we eventually ascend beyond and shed physical bodies as we know it. Composed of higher frequency vibrations beyond space and time. When you speak, light comes out and shows exactly what you mean to others instead of sound words. I've seen this realm in my mind's eye and in dreams. The mind's eye evolved before your other eyes and you can see light and things in your mind through it without needing to be in a lit room, so who's to say it's not possible or real? I agree with you that you never actually forget anything . It's up there somewhere, just gotta access it. "The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe." Computers we build are always prepackaged with certain known limitations by the maker. With your brain there are always new doors to open. The brain is way more advanced than any computer. When I see the 2 compared it hurts a little bit, even though there are a lot of similarities.
I remember hearing a side fact that the human brain could only store 140 years worth of life memories when someone was talking about what would happen if we were immortal.. of course I am sure we could find a way to digitally store our memories. But it raises the question, are you your memories or your body as a whole? Imagine if we have the technology to recreate a person atom by atom synthetically yet naturally.. and some crazy dude steals it and sneaks into your room while you're sleeping. He scans your entire body in full detail.. even the memories stored in your brain. Makes a perfect clone of you while you sleep.. then murders you, leaving your clone in your place. It would wake up as you.. with your memories and experiences, your emotions.. it is essentially you and will continue the life that the old, real you can't.. because you're dead. Being a perfect clone in every detail, it would go on to live the exact same life you would of if you were never murdered and swapped out.. Thing is, would you really be dead? Would that clone really be you? Or just a fake? Could it still be a fake if the real you is no longer?
Indeed. This can definitely go into the subject of star children, rainbow children, indigo, so on.. They say these children are here to observe and communicate what they find with a higher source. A sort of extended study of what's going down here in the third dimension. All interesting stuff, and I tell you after a few mushroom trips I've had, it's all probable.
This reminds me of that arnold movie the 6th day. Lots of good questions. I used to write scifi novels for fun. Many were mind bending. I really should finish them one day. Im sure theres a market for stories such as what we are all imagining here together This is the type of conversation i miss having while stoned. Its been many years since ive been stoned and surrounded by thinkers in real life. If anyone hasnt read "abduction" by dr robin cook i highly recommend you do so. Mind fuckery to the fullest extent.
Yeah, it is crazy to think about. The whole "perfect clone" thing is something that pops in my head a good bit when thinking about what it means to be you. Like if it were possible and someone did it to you while you were asleep.. the you that wakes up will still be you, but a clone of you at the same time. It'd go on living thinking it was the real you too, knowing no different.. provided that you don't believe there is more to the mind (soul) than your physical brain. It's just weird to think about cause if it were possible, I don't know how I'd feel about it.. on one hand, I would be dead.. but on the other, I wouldn't as my clone would go on living as me in every aspect.. which would still be me. How could I have been murdered if I am still alive? My sister is slowly working on a zombie book and I've been helping her work out some logistics of it all and kind of makes me want to sit down and write a story myself.. but I haven't had the focus or motivation to actually write since school. I do have a unique twist on zombies that I have yet to see done, at least properly, and the few I've shared it with are like "that's insane and scary..". Zombies are played out though.