Wrap your mind around this one

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Originally Posted by 40oz

Einstien himself refused to accept anything in quantum theory.

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Interesting to note also that Einstein developed the wave-particle duality theory, and was awarded the Nobel prize for discovering the photoelectric effect.

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Originally Posted by 40oz

Think of the brain as a computer.

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This model can't be farther from the reality of what the mind is, it is an outdated paradigm.

True.I can understand what your saying.

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Originally Posted by McLeodGanja

This model can't be farther from the reality of what the mind is, it is an outdated paradigm.

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Well can you enlighten me with a better comparison?

I find no comparison to the human brain. This guy was shot in the face, at close range, blowing out half of his brain, and, he's still alive.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

I find no comparison to the human brain. This guy was shot in the face, at close range, blowing out half of his brain, and, he's still alive.

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Well remeber that your brain and your mind are different things. Your brain is physical and can be blown to pieces, your mind can't be touched. Your mind is you, its what makes you human.

This is why I want to hear McLeodGanja's comparison because he said my comparison of the brain being like a computer is wrong because the mind is nothing like that.

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Originally Posted by jimmy8778

frank sinatra told us to smoke weed, he said do be do be do be do, and if you smash it it says, doobie doobie doobie, he wants us to smoke joints, bowls, whatever we can.

and if you can belive this, i wasnt high before, but now i am.

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actually it says doobie doobie doobie DO. :D Yeah I know i'm nit picking bah! :D

Frank Sinatra Rocks

Hoooolllllyyy shiiittt! Wow, okay I'm duped. I'm offically a believer

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Originally Posted by 40oz

This is why I want to hear McLeodGanja's comparison because he said my comparison of the brain being like a computer is wrong because the mind is nothing like that.

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Here I dug this up for you, it might help explain what I mean.

Cornell News: New mind model

""For decades, the cognitive and neural sciences have treated mental processes as though they involved passing discrete packets of information in a strictly feed-forward fashion from one cognitive module to the next or in a string of individuated binary symbols -- like a digital computer," said Spivey. "More recently, however, a growing number of studies, such as ours, support dynamical-systems approaches to the mind. In this model, perception and cognition are mathematically described as a continuous trajectory through a high-dimensional mental space; the neural activation patterns flow back and forth to produce nonlinear, self-organized, emergent properties -- like a biological organism.""

Contemporary theories of consciousness and life, such as this, begin from a holistic approach, as opposed to fragmentary ones which have consistently given rise to inadequate models for explaining biological organisms.

Hope this helps.

I wikipedia'd "holistic science" and found this rather comprehensive description. Hope this helps.

Holism in science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Holism in science, or Holistic science, is an approach to research that emphasizes the study of complex systems. This practice is in contrast to a purely analytic tradition (sometimes called reductionism) which purports to understand systems by dividing them into their smallest possible or discernible elements and understanding their elemental properties alone. The holism/reductionism dichotomy is often evident in conflicting interpretations of experimental findings and in setting priorities for future research."

"Cognitive science
The field of cognitive science, or the study of mind and intelligence has some examples for holistic approaches. These include Unified Theory of Cognition (Allen Newell, e.g. Soar, ACT-R as models) and many others, many of which rely on the concept of emergence, i.e. the interplay of many entities make up a functioning whole. Another example is psychological nativism, the study of the innate structure of the mind. Non-holistic functionalist approaches within cognitive science include e.g. the modularity of mind paradigm.
Cognitive science need not concern only human cognition. Biologist Marc Bekoff has done holistic, interdisciplinary scientific research in animal cognition and has published a book about it (see below)."