Why I think our brains are so powerful

[b0Ng h!tz 4 mE]

The brain is an incredible thing, I think everybody agrees. The most fascinating part to me is how we are able to do complex tasks 100.0000% correctly in times of sudden danger with absolutely no time to prepare.

I started longboarding just over a year ago. I'm pretty good at it, but I can't do anything crazy. When I'm about to fall, however I can do the craziest shit ever. It's like I wouldn't have thought in my wildest dreams that I could do the things that I do.

Ex. I'm going down carving a hill when my rear wheels slip. So my board is suddenly perpendicular to the way I'm going, and I'm going fast. I actually rode the board standing on it while sliding all the way until I slowed down enough to simply jump off. For the record, I can't even slide my board even a bit normally.

Also, when I fall I coordinate every single part of my body so perfectly that it amazes me. Every time I get out of a fall that could have easily broken bones without even a scratch. I do not know when I could have possibly learned to do this.


Is this simply an example of our brains' huge power? Maybe, but I think there's more to it. First, I strongly believe that our brain is a quantum computer. That would explain our brains' huge power. But let's think bigger. A property of quantum mechanics is that if two particles were once connected, after that if you act on one particle, you act on its pair instantly even if it is across the universe. This would explain telepathy. Maybe when I was about to fall on my board, my brain telepathically communicated with all my friends who longboard, and this allowed me to do stuff I normally wouldn't.

Also, a lot of people have the "start singing a song randomly, turn the radio on and there it is." I think it could easily be telepathy, one of your friends must've been listening to the same station.

dunno about telepathy but we do just have that natural instinct of avoiding danger, like saw survival instinct that old dood with cancer sure kno's his shit :thumbsup:

but yeah we are the most intelligent things known but considering how we're suppose to be so intelligent we still make stupid mistakes.. but i mean, how do you know other things cant communicate? like dogs or sommat lol

but i dont think a dog could build a house or a whole city or nowt lol

but yeah its great having a brain man'g

[dragonrider]

dunno about telepathy but we do just have that natural instinct of avoiding danger, like saw survival instinct that old dood with cancer sure kno's his shit :thumbsup:

but yeah we are the most intelligent things known but considering how we're suppose to be so intelligent we still make stupid mistakes.. but i mean, how do you know other things cant communicate? like dogs or sommat lol

but i dont think a dog could build a house or a whole city or nowt lol

but yeah its great having a brain man'g

I don't know about telepathy, but I can levitate about an inch off the ground using only the power of my mind (and a toe).

[THClord]

I don't know about telepathy, but I can levitate about an inch off the ground using only the power of my mind (and a toe).

Last night I could levitate items in my dream. It was really cool. I just checked, I can't do it now. It would be awesome though.

[hatch]

Last night I could levitate items in my dream. It was really cool. I just checked, I can't do it now. It would be awesome though.

Take a few more Bong-Hit's `~^~` & try it again Gasshopper,,I think you can, I think You can, T think you can,~~^~~,nac ouy kniht I~~~~ May The Force Be With You~~~~~\/\/\/\/\/~~~~:rastasmoke::rasta::stoned::jointsmile::wtf::w tf::smokin:imp:

[dragonrider]

Take a few more Bong-Hit's `~^~` & try it again Gasshopper,,I think you can, I think You can, T think you can,~~^~~,nac ouy kniht I~~~~ May The Force Be With You~~~~~\/\/\/\/\/~~~~:rastasmoke::rasta::stoned::jointsmile::wtf::w tf::smokin:imp:

The Force may help, but not this backward Satan-Speak! BEGONE, DEVIL!!!!

[zero0ne]

THClord, I REALLY recoomend you either watch / listen / read some of Michio Kaku's stuff.

He talks a lot about parallel universes, AI, future civilization, etc etc etc...

basically everything that is right on the cusp of being proven. (string theory, etc)

good read if you are into that kind of thing, and your initial post seems to show that you would really like to read this stuff.


Now with regards to your first post, I don't necessarily agree with you on the thought that the human brain is a quantum computer (at least in our current definition of a quantum computer.) I do feel it is as fast or faster than any quantum computer we will have in the next 20-50 years (Mr kaku thinks that we will have a fully functional quantum computer in 20 years; basically when Moores Law breaks and Silicone cant take us any farther.)

Anyway, I feel that the brain is more of a Nueral network, I kinda visualize it like the internet, tons of different nodes that are all interconnected in some way, BUT the connections can change on the fly, and just like the way google ranks pages, I bet thats how the brain ranks information in your mind. (the more connections to some piece of information, the more important and easier to remember it is)

google does the same thing, the more links to your website on other sites, the higher your pagerank. The higher your pagerank, the easier it is to find and apply that data.


Have fun if you pick up one of his books, he is a really good writer.

[dragonrider]

Last night I could levitate items in my dream. It was really cool. I just checked, I can't do it now. It would be awesome though.

Last week I learned how to do an illusion where I appear to levitate a few inches off the ground. I've used it to freak a few people out. It's not quite as great as actually being able to fly, but it still pretty fun. I will need to go to the Mutant Academy to devlop my superabilities...

Regarding the original question about the brain, I'm with Zero0ne and the others who don't think the brain is a quantum computer. I don't realy have the right vocabulary or technical knowledge to describe this, but as I understand it, quantum computers use the quantum states of particles for their calculations. So instead of having only two states ("binary" --- on/off or one/zero or yes/no) for each piece of the calculation, like you do in our current binary computer technology, you would have many more, because there are more than two quantum states for a particle. I hope I have that right. Anyway, quantum-based computer technology will yield much much more powerful computers.

I don't think the brain is a quantum computer, because I don't think the brain has a way to "read" or "set" the quantum states of particles. But I do not think the brain is a binary device either. It is something we do not fully understand yet. Part of the power of the brain is the extremely high number of complex connections in the neural network. And another part of its power comes from its biochemical nature --- I think each neuron can store more than two states because it is not simply on or off, it has a complex biochemical state.

Once our scientists develop the powerful quantum computer brain, it will have to fight it out for supremacy with our biochemical neural net computer brains in the final climactic battle between man and his abominable machine creations. Judgement Day! May the best brain win!

[40oz]

Last night I could levitate items in my dream. It was really cool. I just checked, I can't do it now. It would be awesome though.

I love dreaming. When you think about it, in some cases dreams are just as real as reality. The only difference is that in your waking life your mind is responding to stimuli in your environment, and in dreams it is forming its own consciousness by using past experiences or memory and imagination (memory and imagination play a major role in our waking life as well. For example the idea of the world existing independent of your mind is a fabrication of the imagination) .

Dreams may make no sense, they may be ridiculous or "impossible", but so what? The emotions you feel in them are just as real as in reality. So really what separates dreams from reality besides the fact that dreams are all in your head? Reality is all just in your head too.

[dragonrider]

Dreams may make no sense, they may be ridiculous or "impossible", but so what? The emotions you feel in them are just as real as in reality. So really what separates dreams from reality besides the fact that dreams are all in your head? Reality is all just in your head too.

You are right. But I spend a lot of effort trying to get reality OUT of my head!

[40oz]

But I spend a lot of effort trying to get reality OUT of my head!

haha, well good luck with that. Reality IS your head, your mind. To think that existence is independent of your mind is completely natural and necessary for the survival of our species, but it is just in your imagination.

For example if you close your eyes you know that your computer is still in front of you even though you can't see it. You know this because throughout the course of your life when you closed your eyes and then opened them again, things remained relatively the same so your imagination lead you to believe that things still exist when you can't sense them. We can't logically come to this conclusion because everything we know about reality is based on what we can actually sense, so there is no logical proof for continued or independent existence. Our imaginations simply automatically make us believe this so we can assign a certain identity to objects and ourselves, so we can make sense of the world.

Its crazy to think about and hard to swallow, i know. I don't know how good a job I do at explaining it, but if I am unclear just let me know so i can try to explain it better.