Thread: How Amazing are our Brains?

I had this lucid dream last night where I was hooked up to equipment that allowed me to create dreams in real time. Redundant, I know.

The dream I was creating was about a spaceship flying into a field of millions and millions of missiles, trying to dodge through them. Each missile was a different color, to keep track of which bounty hunter shot the missile.

Here's what amazes me. I could actually see each and every one of these missiles. They were all moving like a swarm of bees, and I could focus on thousands of them at a time. They were all different shapes, different sizes, and different colors. I remember thinking at the time, "How the hell am I even able to watch all these flying around at once, let alone be generating it all realtime and aware that I am doing it?"

Sitting here now, I can barely even visualize five different shaped, different colored objects at one time. I can barely hold them in my minds eye while they are not moving. There is no way I could imagine millions of them all on different paths, all moving fast, all at once. Its not like this is something I see everyday, so I can just recall the memory somehow. I actually had to generate it with my conscious willpower in the dream.

How brilliant are our god damn brains?

Pretty damn brilliant...

Our brains are incredible, they process information so fast, a super computer would be jealous...very jealous

speaking of computers, wouldn't this be a cool invention:

You plug a wire into a USB port, and the other end to your brain, and with your brain you process information FOR the processor eliminating slow load times....would this be even feasible?

Originally Posted by guerilla

You plug a wire into a USB port, and the other end to your brain, and with your brain you process information FOR the processor eliminating slow load times....would this be even feasible?

Could you make one for my Wii so Super Smash Brothers will quit with the slowdown?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Could you make one for my Wii so Super Smash Brothers will quit with the slowdown?

LOL, but seriously, were always trying to make faster processors, meanwhile our own damn brains are the holy fucking grail of computing power...why not use it?

or maybe, why not Design a computer after the human brain?

submarines borrowed ideas from whales
planes borrowed ideas from birds
...etc

Originally Posted by guerilla

or maybe, why not Design a computer after the human brain?
...etc

You're obviously not a fan of The Terminator movies. Robot takeovers and all.

But I agree. I'm no computer scientist, but from my limited understanding, computer processing right now is just a huge bloated mess. Needs a rebuilding from the ground up. I remember in college hearing about chiral molecules being developed to create a new binary system. That would be a ton faster and more reliable than silicon chips.

I think if we had the capacity to understand our thought processes well enough to recreate them in a synthetic way, we would be beyond learning from them. In other words, we would need technology more powerful than our brains to be able to fully analyze and understand our brains in the first place.

I'm just surprised there is not more money and research being poured into figuring these things out.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Could you make one for my Wii so Super Smash Brothers will quit with the slowdown?

lol, qft.

Actually, though, that would probably be a bad idea. Our brains process information A LOT slower than electronic computers... they just have the ability to process a whole lot of information at the same time.