The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

https://www.quantamagazine.org ^ | August 24, 2021 | Jordana Cepelewicz

[Red Badger]

[4yearlurker]

"I'd like to thank my brain for remembering me."-Art Buchwald.

[EEGator]

The title is incorrect for me, as I have no clue how my brain works.
Especially with regards to my decision making as it pertains to women.

[Mr. K]

I think the brain is 85% operating system.

How else can you explain the ability to preemptively react to any stimulus on any point of your body instantaneously, while controlling all the organs on a background thread.

[LVS1]

Poldrack agreed. “I don’t think any of us would want to tell people: Don’t use the word ‘memory’ anymore,” he said. But to understand the brain, we might need to challenge our intuitions about how it works — “in the same way that quantum mechanics is challenging to comport with our understanding of physical phenomena in the world.”

I suspect the answer is in the bold text. I think our brains have more in common with quantum mechanics than they realize.

[Red Badger]

[Noumenon]

Your brain is not the boss.

[EEGator]

I love that movie.

[AdSimp]

I would like to hear an explanation of how a single fact manifests itself in the brain. When I think of the number 42, what form does that take in the neurons and dendrons and what else?

On a computer chip, I can conceptually point to this switch being on, the next one off, and so on.

[Red Badger]

On a computer chip, I can conceptually point to this switch being on, the next one off, and so on.

You can in a brain as well, except that the neurons are like individual spreadsheets with each cell of the spreadsheet cross connected to every other cell for an almost infinite set of connections. When you said '42' I immediately thought of Elvis Pressley, because he died at '42', so somewhere in my brain the 'concept of '42' is linked to Elvis Pressley....................

[Red Badger]

I do too. But my wife hates it and calls it ‘stupid’.....................

[Alas Babylon!]

Inside a normal person's brain:

Inside the democrat mind:

[Red Badger]

[EEGator]

There’s a reason why every great comedian is a man.
Tell her to go watch a Meredith Baxter Birney movie on Lifetime channel in the other room while you watch good flicks...

[Red Badger]

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31277/3-d-spreadsheet

[Red Badger]

She watches Lifetime everyday.............AKA the ‘Men are Evil Morons’ Channel...........................

[EEGator]

Typical chick.

Every movie is date rape, absent husband emotionally, or abusive husband.

[be-baw]

Excellent article but long. I read just over half of it, and will read the rest later.

You post a lot of interesting stuff, Badger. Thank you.

[BitWielder1]

You think you know how I think how my brain thinks?
I think not.

[pepsi_junkie]

The brain doesn’t think they way we thought it did

Plot twist: the brain they studies was Biden’s. Go figure.