Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
^^ Though I agree with both you and StephL, mostly because I think you're both saying the same things but StephL just wanted you to take what you said even farther, I do have to cherry-pick one item:



I'm not sure this is completely the case. Yes, current brain science is pretty advanced, especially in the "watching things light up" department, but from what I've heard, the actual hard knowledge of how it all works together is still pretty sparse (forget about the "why," BTW), and this knowledge is necessary to truly support or disprove the theories. So yes, there's tons of experimental data and fMRI scans that confirm that there is definable and consistent activities in certain areas when we dream (and others when we LD), but it seems that the more neurobiologists learn about the brain, the more they discover that they don't know yet, and also the more they discover they were wrong about in the first place. So brain theory itself is still in a state of pretty elastic flux, and likely will be for years.

That said, I also think that you will be very hard-pressed to find a neurobiologist who believes that dreams are formed outside the brain.
Indeed, I thought steph was largely agreeing with me, but I wasn't sure.

You are very right, the current brain theory has much room for more discoveries. I'm always astounded how often they improve it.
I did use the ambiguous phrase "to such a degree of efficiency" to cover myself in this case. I guess the current theory isn't faultless per ce, but I think you will agree that we have made enough strides in current brain theory to say that were the model shouldn't be too far off from the truth.