5 Unsolvable Mysteries of Science
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Maybe some pain related illness is in the mind ie if the mind can cure it through the placebo effect perhaps there was no real problem to fix , that would mean just like patients expect medicine / placebo's to work and so they do somehow they must have expected to be in pain and so they are ipso fact we should work out why they expected to be in pain , but that would only work for the people that a placebo worked on .
If you don't think you'd EVER fall for the placebo effect, realize that it take 10-30 minutes for the caffeine in coffee to kick in, and yet many people feel "instantly awake" at the very first sip. Similarly, Tylonal tablets take 30-45 minutes to take effect, yet I've seen many people insist they feel "much better" after about 5 minutes.
Very interesting. I think with coffee specifically it’s partly based on the habit / behaviour. Humans are weird like that, a habit can affect them in huge ways. Whether it be something we do to start something, or a habit that triggers something else. With coffee it’s likely a habit that people’s body’s get used to as “time to wake up” and it gets the body triggers going to really wake up.
What you’re describing isn’t a placebo effect though… Misunderstanding or having a misconception regarding the mechanisms of a particular drug or substance is different than feeling the suggested effect of a drug or substance that is completely inert and wholly ineffective. Placebos are usually sugar pills masquerading as a “new” drug, Tylenol and Caffeine have been studied and there’s no question about the effect they have on the human body. Furthermore, everyone has different metabolic rates, genetic anomalies, allergies, immunities, etc. and there is no “standard” response to a particular drug or substance that is shared by all humans. It may take me 90 MG of OxyContin to feel relief from my chronic pain where it may only take 10 for you or I can be stung by dozens of bees and while I’d be uncomfortable, I’d be fine, another individual could get stung once, have an allergic reaction and not be fine.
Ppl feel « instantly woke » after coffee because of the taste and temperature
@@JudeTavonFenwickand the addiction to caffeine makes their brain instantly "happy" I guess is the best way to put it, even though it hasn't actually started to affect them yet.
Simon's videos are like the universe, constantly expanding and impossible to enumerate.
fr i keep finding more of his channels
@@revoltx1 Someone needs to do a mystery conspiracy video on Simon. Who is he? Is he a slave? Is he ever out? Does he sleep? Why does he never look like someone who works so many hours?
Simon, your videos play a huge part in drowning out my inner monologue that throws relentless obstacles in my way 😂 thank you for your melodious tone and cadence!
You do know that he goes on countless tangents on his other channels, right? They’re not this well paced. Still interesting, but regardless it can get annoying when you just want the story.
@@PeachM0deyes, he can get annoying especially on blaze channel. But he literally said he doesn't care. He said unsub, so I did.
All he really wants is ur money, he said it.
@@PeachM0de yep, and I enjoy every last bit of it!
@@thetvbaby83money? Who needs money when he obviously lives rent free in your head? Why so salty, brotato chip?
@@PeachM0deso go to Wikipedia. You can read all the lifeless, stale text your little heart desires. Simon's greater audience tunes in FOR his tangents and ridiculousness.
1:05 - Chapter 1 - What are dreams
2:40 - Mid roll ads
4:10 - Chapter 2 - What is consciousness
6:10 - Chapter 3 - What's out there
7:45 - Chapter 4 - How do animal migrate
10:00 - Chapter 5 - What is the placebo effect
I had a dream the other night. I went to work one day, and nobody remembered who I was. So I decided to take the day off.
@@kellyharbeson18Lmao!
[Sigmund Freud has joined the chat]
It sounds to me that people don’t appreciate your efforts at work. Perhaps it’s time for you to find a new job.
That dream means something about being sexualy attracted to your mom and/or dad. Also, something about not being able to perform sexually with said parents.
I think Freud was full of shit and had some serious mommy and daddy issues.
@@dereklewis9451 after 100 years, there is plenty of room to criticize Sigmund Freud. At the same time, Sigmund Freud was an unmatched genius whose thinking on the human psyche affects every person on the planet today.
I'm one of those people that feels that their mind is in their brain/head. When I think, I feel it from my brain, when I move, I feel it from my brain, wheni get hurt, sure, I feel it at the point of pain, but I feel it in my brain. As I type this, I feel it being thought in my brain. Ugh. So profound Simon, you're killing me!!
I used to keep a dream diary where I would write down as much as I could remember of the dream and then afterwards analyze it. While there were a few "What the heck was that all about" dreams, for the majority of them I could figure out this came from something that happened a few days ago, that came from something I read, this came from something I saw on TV, etc. So I am of the belief dreams are just our brains sorting through memories.
Have been half-asleep enough times, along with random instances of "lucid dreaming", to be convinced that dreams are the brain continuing to attempt to think even as it has too little energy to do so. It isn't unconsciousness, sleep doesn't turn the brain from "on mode" to an "off mode", it still wants to keep thinking about things even while the body is conserving energy by minimizing function (hence sleep paralysis) during sleep. If you've ever tried to put thoughts together while not fully awake yet, you can see why they'd be so random when fully asleep.
Yeah but have you had one of those "epic dreams" that youll never forget? It felt like i wasnt alone in that one......It was like 20 friends and me were dropped into something that felt like a reality TV show....why are we here? wtf who are you why are we here? etc...ive had the feeling of seperated people talking to me.... in maybe 2% of dreams^^....Also many about switching my reality etc...
@@VaeldargI agree. I have had lucid dreaming instances as well as sleep paralysis on and off throughout my life. Not often but enough to know that my brain is taking in background noise as well as what I see. With sleep paralysis I like to say I’m in the “in-between” because I visually see and hear everything in my bedroom irl but with hallucinations sprinkled in. I can control my thoughts during this time just like lucid dreaming.
@@Seph0rz agreed. I had a dream where I "met god" (yeah, yeah. I know. Shut up. I don't think I actually met god) and it was an absolutely insane how detailed in was. Under the right conditions, I can "read" in my dreams and things like that, but this dream was the first time I can remember being able to smell in my dream, feel the sun on my skin, feel sand between my toes, etc. I've had a few dreams that detailed since then, but that was the first of those "epic dreams" and they are very different than usual dreams.
No dreams have nothing to do with memories. Unless something is triggering it. Most dreams are a complete mess. If you can figure out you're dreaming it's wild. It's an incredible experience.
It’s very comforting to think of areas of knowledge unfathomable to humans, I think
Exactly
I find comfort in the idea that there is a limit to human knowledge. We can never know everything.
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
That sounds retarded when you think about it.
About the placebo: It can actually affect some biological processes. In a randomized trial, balding men began growing their hair back after being treated with a placebo. It's very strange.
O_O
I don’t get why people aren’t impressed with the power of our own minds as a result of placebo. It’s never discussed but it’s so awesome
Wonder if anyone has actually OD's on placebo...
it begs the question though why doesn't the body just automatically do its best before the need of a placebo
@@poohbear4821 I theorize placebo is us sending instructions to our body. So we would have to send it instructions constantly AND believe in the power of our instructions.
I dreamed that I was able to finally watch all of Simon's videos and was caught up.... turned into a nightmare when there were no more Simon videos!
tear off your skin
I had a similar dream but in mine there was no end to them 😁
To quote Douglas Adams "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Whats crazy is the people who say they dont have an inner monologue. How is that possible? How do they read or write if they cant talk in their head?
I can have a voice in my head when imagining a conversation with someone in my head, but I mostly just have thoughts through (to put if for someone that doesnt) pictures, diagrams, and videos in my head
What I dont know is how people think the otherstuff without seeing it without that
Im sure we could talk for hours if not days on these subjects Mr Whistler. I find intellectual stimulation to be the finest wine.
I have questioned my dreams. How I am able to fix a wiring problem on a vehicle , even getting the wire colour correct. This made me think,and hear me out. I would love to believe in parallel universes. Maybe when you dream, your conscience leaves your body and you view yourself in a parallel universe somewhere. Don't know, but it makes me excited going to sleep and escape this messed up world.
Ive talked to seperate people in maybe a few dreams in my life...there are also dreams about walking through a door made of energy into an alternate place....ive had the alternate world dream many times....i think we might all share that one....also empty fairground...everytime i get there its empty.......lol
More likely you noted the information at some random point but not really, and your brain pulled it up during a dream when you needed it in rl. Otherwise a lot of versions of me are dying or are living through apocalypses.
@@ethanlackey8048 Idk i once watched about 10 peoples lifes being lived from theyre point of view while we talked. We all experienced and chased our ambitions and dreams together....it was one seriously weird dream ...1 out of a million
12,000 to be more precise but yeah semantics xD
Placebos are crazy! The fact that they can tell you it's a placebo and it works is weird!
As a massage therapist who specializes in medical massage, I use the placebo effect on the reg, but it's just what I've observed and isn't a medical study or anything like that of course. Introduce a "ritual" of some kind and people change their focus levels so that the body can kinda go on autopilot. The nervous system starts behaving differently when the "mind" isn't getting in the way. I've seen it so often that it's easy to see why some of the crazy "woo woo" "energy worker" type "therapists" come up with all their crazy claims.
I had a dream that legitimately haunts me a couple years after having it. My first born was 3 months old. About a week after starting to let her sleep in the nursery, I had a dream where I awoke in the middle of the night to footsteps and voices. The week before our daughter was born we had an attempted home invasion and so fears were still understandably high about another. Anyways, I looked in the baby monitor and I saw a large male form, I launched out of bed. I did not grab any weapons I just ran as fast as I could. I burst through the door to her nursery and there stood my Best Friend! He had my infant daughter by the throat, dangling in the air and he said "I can't wait to hear your last breath". I jumped on to his back and immediately put all of my weight and energy into a sleeper hold but I couldn't grip hard enough to have and effect so I grabbed him by the chin and around the back of his head, I twisted as hard as I could and when I say I was using all my strength I mean it. Finally I heard the snap and knew instantly what I had done. After all that I was still unable to save my daughter. Thankfully I woke up to see her sleeping soundly in her crib and I was exhausted, every muscle in my body was aching as if what just happened was real. It was not real but I will never forget that dream.
I wonder if placebos would have any effect on paralysis?
The biggest question I have about dreams is why I have no visual imagination or memory when awake but I definitely see all the weird shit that happens in my dreams
But how do u remember what u saw in ur dreams??
@someguy_ facts and vague impressions. For example I've been dreaming about a train station a lot lately and it has the same stairwell that seems to lead to different places I know the stairwell is brick with cement stairs and black railings, but if I try to picture it I can't.
Sounds like aphantasia- no minds eye while awake but in dreams can see images
I’m exactly the same way. I almost never remember specific images from my dreams but I often remember how they made me feel and occasionally a general impression of what they were about.
it's just bad memory recall
you have dreams every single time you go to sleep,and you feel and see them normally.Once you wake up,your brain just deletes those memories because they are "not useful".You can improve that by keeping a dream journal or smth
I think dreams.. our other selves in the multiverse/dimension etc that’s why they are so weird but feel comfortable
If my dreams have any meaning... uh, they don't. My dreams are so bonkers there's no way there's a meaning or value to them.
If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand it, we wouldn't be sufficiently intelligent to understand it.
Fantastic video and subject, Simon! Love your work!
Also, I may have an answer for your question 'What came before the Big Bang?'
Answer:
The Chicken. 🐔
Then *BOOM!*💥The Universe was born!
From an egg. 🥚🧠💥🐔
Only joking of course!
Love your work! ❤
Considering what we know of black holes (that isn't from those whose minds have completely gone off the rails) is that they start as the dense core of a star that has collapsed from its own gravity. That intense gravity pulls even the light that core would produce back toward it, along with everything else nearby. That core doesn't cease to exist just because we can't see it anymore, we're not babies that lack object permanence.
And so, just like stars can collapse and implode, maybe black holes can too after get even more ridiculously massive than the ones we've been able to find. At a point that if that massive of a black hole were to implode, it could send out enough energy/material to produce the universe.
I have a nightmare disorder that stems from childhood PTSD. The vast majority of them involve real life characters and, generally, places I've been or lived. They are extremely vivid and I will remember some for days. Sure, some weird things happen or that are only plausible in dreams - like being chased by people that are zombies. But they are repetitive, over and over, but the places change ever so slightly over time to become a totally distinct place that is only recognizable in my dreams. I don't believe in any weird symbolism.
They're just repressed memories or replays of trauma that my brain is trying to sort out. I can even see spikes in my heart rate taken by my watch. I take Clonidine every night for it (because I can't afford the cost of Prazosin even with insurance). But its half life wears off so fast that I start to have dreams when it wears off. As a result, I can only sleep 3 or 4.5 hours at a time. And then I wake up.
(Yes, I've been professionally diagnosed)
I don’t have any serious childhood trauma but this describes my dreams since childhood. I’m in my 30s now. I can remember my dreams from my very early childhood. I have repeating places in my dreams since childhood. I take ambien nightly because I began to develop a fear of my dreams so much that I wouldn’t sleep. Ambien is supposed to cause vivid dreams but it lessens mine.
So weird how our brains work.
If science ever “figures out” dreams I can’t wait to know what has always been going on in my sleeping brain.
I have never met or heard of anyone else who dreamed like me. I call it my dream world. It's almost as real as my waking life. These places that are based on places I've been or know but only exist as they are in my dreams. My dreams last multiple days sometimes. I don't sleep and wake up in dreams but I am aware multiple days have passed. I'll spend weeks or months returning over and over to the same location, often picking up the same scenario that was going on when I last woke. Like "to be continued" dreams. I've dreamed like this since I was a very young child. I remember dreams vividly I had as young as 5 or 6, and more vaguely from younger than that. Even though I don't have many memories of my *waking life at those ages. Does this nightmare disorder have a name?
@@TheBrianRuby You've just met someone who dreams like you. Sometimes it's one night. I'll have a dream, wake up, go back to sleep, and the dream just picks up where it left off. This might happen 3-4 times. Sometimes it's a dream over the course of several days. Sometimes, it's a dream I have, then weeks or months later, I'll have a dream that's a continuation of the first one. The one thing that's always gotten to me is there are a couple people who regularly show up in my dreams, and I have no idea who they are or what they are related to. Though I will say, I wouldn't call them nightmares. The dreams are rarely scary, and when they are, I wake up, and when the dream continues, the problem is quickly resolved. Sometimes that resolution is equally crazy. A couple days ago, I had a dream in 4 parts that was basically just me and some close friends going out for pizza.
Genetic memory has to exist in some form. It's the only thing that would explain consistent migration across generations.
I remember reading about how a bird species would avoid a specific area while migrating and scientists could understand why. They eventually realized millions of years ago a mountain would've existed in that area and the birds must've been following an ancient instinct to avoid it.
I'm a biomedical researcher for a huge pharmaceutical corporation. I've documented so so so many medical trials. And, I've also designed many more experiments than I will ever remember. I have more first-hand experience with the placebo effect than damn near anyone. What I've observed is that the efficacy of a placebo is so intrinsically linked to the individual, it could never be harnessed and utilized practically.
Dreams are sometimes i think links to parallel universe which has other versions of you. Because it feels so real, and sometimes u even feel dezavu in some scenarios and because most dont remember their dreams. Because for you to remember brain has to experience or have emotion attached to it, but seeing/being in same place might bring dezavu because you probably dreamed of it before, u just sont remember other you being in that same spot soing something.
I've never had a dream I can remember where I was using a cell phone or on social media
My degree is in Cell and Molecular Biology…which is fascinating to me. However I wish I would have studied astrophysics instead. Astronomy is one of the few disciplines that readily acknowledges that the current body of knowledge is incomplete, and it may be totally incorrect. They easily accept new discoveries and the possibility of having to rewrite the entire accepted model of knowledge. It’s a field that is open to change and modification. Many other fields are less open to new ideas and the acceptance of newly discovered evidence that may require a complete overhaul of the current theories. Anthropology is one of the worst when it comes to accepting new discoveries…
I keep coming across the idea that dreams have meaning, that they're symbolic or metaphorical or somesuch. And there are plenty of collections of dream tropes and their associated meanings. But that never really seemed to work for understanding my dreams, or at least the few I could remember. Not that my dreams are particularly bizarre, just that there doesn't seem to be any way in which they're about anything.
Dreams have meaning and are symbolic but I don’t think it’s in the overly deep and dramatic way often portrayed. Certain bizarre scenarios in dreams are experienced in very similar ways by the majority of people at some point. I believe it’s the dream where all your teeth begin falling out that can be “symbolic” of simple higher than usual stress levels. Aside from having deeper meaning, or being symbolic- whatever the reason, dreams definitely have an important purpose. But I think this purpose is a lot more like a defrag on a hard drive. Dreams allow the brain to play out and deal with little bits of information/thoughts on the outskirts of the mind/subconscious and it often will pull them in and incorporate them randomly, and then because dreams are so fleeting and even the most vivid are forgotten shortly after being awake for a time, this subconscious clutter cleared from the hard drive in the form of the dreams played out and almost forgotten.
As far as we currently understand, dreams basically just seem to be one of our brain's methods of processing new information, committing the important bits to long term memory and, as the other commenter said, clearing out the clutter. They also likely allow us to "practice" or utilize skills we've learned in our minds while we sleep to keep the information fresh and neural connections involved good and strong. There may be more(or less) to it than that, but dreams do seem to be useful moreso than symbolic, even if we can't always tell how with our fragmentary memories of them.
@@semaj_5022 Yeah but explain an "epic" dream....something completely profound and larger than yourself....
@@Seph0rz The brain generally arranges dreams into a narrative structure because that is one of the ways we most easily understand, remember and interpret information as a species. Since dreams are formed from a mixture of elements from our own memories and knowledge, particularly those we're most familiar with, sometimes those narratives will take a form we can recognize. Be that genre-like(i.e. horror, fantasy, etc) or something in the narrative structure itself. They'll also be largely built from and influenced by our own worldview and beliefs. This can result in anything from a normal story about driving down a seemingly endless, boring highway, to a horror story where you (and maybe others) are being chased by something or someone, to a love story, or to an epic story that feels huge, beyond understanding and difficult to put into words. A dream and its narrative, by its nature, can't be larger than oneself since it is formed entirely by the self, even if unconsciously. We also often have epiphanies in dreams since our brains utilize them to sort through information and work on problems, which can definitely lead to a sense of profundity.
@@semaj_5022 Yeah actually i get that because the first place where we arrived was a massive library and we were all opening the books and reading narratives....i stll cant explain the others who were with me though ^^
Just say wet dreams are real ^^^^
Are you suggesting that coconuts are migratory?
They are!
Monty python ?
@tiffanybiscuit7587
You are correct sir. I had faith that someone would get it. 👍
What's going on, Simon??? No "your momma" jokes any longer?! That's why I subscribed to your channels. It's okay though, as your videos are quite interesting and I learn something new with every video. Keep up the great reading and personal interjections!
Before I start watching this video, here is my take on this:
We are always dreaming, well almost.
Every conscious experience is a dream.
By day this dream is fed by sensors input from eyes, ears or whatever and by night in your sleep by the brains internal input like memories, feelings and creative associations.
Which begs the question of why we do not dream of our phones but we use them 24 hours a day
Dreams are you seeing your life in an alternate reality. That’s what I think. Mostly. Okay, I just want to. But it’s just as good as anyone else’s idea and more fun. 😂
5:51 the eye of a NEG Blood Type...
loving your work and the level you go to.
The placebo effect works more effectively if a person receives it via injection rather than oral medication. As we perceive injections as more serious.
I often dream that I am tired and sleepy and I really want to finally fall asleep but something always disturbs me and prevents me from sleeping. I also often dream that I need to go to the toilet to pee, but there are always circumstances that prevent me from doing so. The best dreams are those in which I have mastered the techniques of swimming in the air. I can then carefully rise in the air and move high. The most disturbing dreams are those about the death of oneself or loved ones. Several times I dreamed that I was preparing for my impending death. I rarely have nightmares. Usually only when sick. Then I count numbers all night, do calculations. I'm endlessly puzzled over a lot of math problems. I'm working hard towards some goal that I don't even understand.
Loving the Side Projects Simon, keep it up!
Dreams are great; the most special, important, meaningful thing in the world to you. And even your family and best friend couldnt care less about it. Magical.
I am very interested in the possibility that our dreams are windows to other universes aka multiverse theory. That would explain why we cannot recognise ourselves in dreams, because in different universe you would develop differently as person. Looks like you but is not you. It would explain very lot why I dream of things I have never seen in real life or things happening I never have even thought about.
If the medicine is a Pink Pill, an Orange Liquid or Fizzes when dropped in water... it works for me. Seriously! I know this is just an example of the placebo effect but it really does work!... mostly! Obviously when I broke my thigh I just wanted more of that ole laughing giggle gas 🙂
Every time Simon says “placebo,” I think of how he misread his friend’s shirt in his school days
Some people don't remember their dreams when they wake up. They only remember 5-10 mins of nothingness and then it's the morning.
I thought the placebo effect only worked if you didn't know it was a placebo. Like in drug testing. That's interesting if it still works even while knowing
Who am I to disagree?
I traveled the world and the seven seas
Swede reams are made of cheese.
I had no idea how rare it was to hear music during a dream. I had a dream I was at a BBQ party and the song "Simply Irresistible" was playing. I remember it because I was woke up about half way through it and the song was still in my head as I woke up and wanted to sing it. I heard that some people have hearing problems who dream of music but I don't. The funny thing is I have had plenty of songs in my dreams all my life. I remember there was music even if I don't usually remember the songs that played. Oh, and fyi, Idk all the words to that song but somehow it sounded complete in my dream. I'm guessing I must have filled in what words I thought was in the song.
Dreams counteract the harmful side effects of life. It's "insanity" which keeps us sane (or reasonably-so).
The biggest unknowable scientific mystery: what happens to our consciousness after we die?
Weird fact about the placebo, even when made aware that they have the placebo the brain believing there's a chance this is a lie and they may actually infact have a slight chance of having the drug THE EFFECT STILL HAPPENS AT "FULL EFFECT"
The brain doesn’t like loose ends (Gestalt). I’ve always looked at dreams as the brain running through all the input, deciding what is worth keeping and what is not. Like defragging a hard drive.
Weird that monarch butterflies in any other country just flutter round until they die but born in only one specific location will migrate
I didn't know Carabou were such good swimmers.
Fascinating as always!
consciousness might only be one note in the overtone system of the mind- there might be a symphony going on in the mind
Simon your videos on all ur channels are a blessing, you and your team do good work
How do we know these mysteries are unsolvable? They are only unsolved at the moment.
12:34 What’s even weirder is reverse placebo effect, where a person can get a legitimate medicine, but it won’t work because the person strongly believes that it won’t. Just like the regular placebo effect, I’m sure there are limits, but it’s much more relatable or understandable to have a sort of confirmation bias where you tell yourself you’re feeling better, even if it hasn’t improved. I don’t get how taking a legitimate chemical would be rendered inert just out of disbelief.
If the measure of whether a drug is effective is something subjective that can't be directly measured (such as pain experience or mood effects) then I can see how the patients expectations could counteract a chemical effect.
Its more perplexing to me if the patient's expectation has substantial effect (positive or negative) on something objectively measurable such as the size of a tumor or the time it takes a wound to heal. I'm not sure if reports of that sort of thing are placebo effects or cherry picking data points of people who were just lucky.
@@TestTestGo
I guess I was thinking more in line of complete alleviation of pain or even feeling some sort of buzz.
I can see not noticing an improvement in symptoms if it’s not totally resolved.
I’d not heard examples of the latter (placebo effect on healing time).
Really good vid Simon.
Dreaming allows the brain to form more stable neural connections that without dreams, would take far longer to form, leading to greatly increased learning times and far more conscious processing power is needed to perform the action/function, until links in the brain form properly.
The body doesn't like to waste energy on things not being used, for any longer than it will take to begin healing an injury... pretty much instantaneously.
Consider doing a video on Dual Brain Psychology.
We know how sensations are triggered and transported to the brain but what short circuits my brain is what is it doling the "feeling"? If I burn my hand nerves transmit information to my brain that tells me I'm in pain, but what is the thing actually experiencing that pain?
I'm not a smart person or a conspiracy theorist but in my opinion there absolutely has to be more to dreams than us going to sleep and just experiencing them, we spend literally one-third of our lives requiring something that creates these dream and if we don't we die. I have absolutely no idea what it could be or what my theory is but there is definitely SOMETHING going on with dreams otherwise one-third of our entire lives would not be spent there.
Well, the duration is probably set by how much sleep people need. And sleep isn't necessarily the same thing as dreaming.
One theory I just kind of like regarding a biological function of dreaming is that it fights against neurological atrophy. Given that we're going to be inactive for so many hours, our brains and visual systems and so on could theoretically just de-activate. But perhaps they would atrophy a bit under regular prolonged periods without use. So, to avoid that, we keep them active with any possible content.
But no idea if there have been tests relevant to that.
@@not_enough_space have replied to a similar comment about this. Anyone who has tried to put thoughts together while barely awake should understand how low of quality their thoughts might be while the brain is fully asleep, with the body's energy usage minimised to conserve it during sleep. The brain is still trying to think about stuff, it just has very little energy to spend to do so. Sleep paralysis proves just how far the body is going to minimise energy usage during that time.
At least you say "may never be answered" instead of "will never be answered".
I hate it when people speak in absolutes when it comes to science, like "we'll never be able to go see beyond the observable universe". You can't know that. It might be highly unlikely, but we don't know everything, all the theories we have could turn out to be wrong, we could in fact be missing some major puzzle pieces, and there might just be something that enables incredible leaps in capability.
Just like mere months before that flight of the Wright brothers, there were articles in newspapers about how we won't fly even in a million years.
While we probably won't find paradigm-shattering info about space travel this year, I wouldn't be surprised if they had to rethink intergalactic travel within my lifetime.
I submit also the possibility that placebo groups do well or better than the actual test subjects because it is their brain making them feel better and not a chemical and also they don’t suffer negative side effects or interactions from placebo that the test subjects can and often do suffer. 🦋
Ive only had certain parts of dreams stick with me in memory but ive never been able to understand them
It occurs to me that most of these are outside the realm of science (except the animal migration). There's no place for consciousness or free will in naturalistic science, maybe it is just an illusion but it doesn't really matter. The power and triumph of science lies in its limitations, it doesn't waste time and energy on questions that can't be answered, even if they are perfectly valid philosophical questions.
11:47 interesting bonus to this is that the Placebo effect will still work (at least partially) when you tell someone they are taking a placebo. Like bro the fuel is gone why does it still work?
My theory is, the body has already started doing whatever the placebo was going to trick it into doing. It's not gonna stop just cos you told it you lied
A healthy mind is a healthy body and vice versa....exercise for example will improve mental wellbeing....A stress in the mind will cause the body to react in certain ways...maybe sweat or the shakes....blushing etc....the mind and the body are one...and usually if your seriously ill its better for your health to believe that 100% you will be ok...idk
The mind is a very powerfull thing...sometimes we can literally think constantly about something we want to be and it just happens.
If we don't understand what consciousness is, how can we say any living thing has less consciousness (or levels) than humans? That's part of humanities hubris. Douglas Adams described part of it best when humans thought they were doing maze experiments with mice, but it turned out the mice were studying the humans.
Pay attention to the wording: "AS FAR AS WE KNOW"
that means we don't know, but the things that WE use to measure consciousness (creativity, for example) only occurs at the level it does in humans (making art, creating religion, writing fiction, making music for no purpose other than having music, etc.)
Now, without knowing what consciousness is, this is our best guess at shooting in the dark. It's in the dark, but it's still a shot also.
Hence, "as far as we know"
Another banger from posh waluigi
0:21 Did you say Metzen? 😥😥
I miss him writing the warcraft story
Thanks.
My dreams often reflect errors in my past work or ridiculous work situations, big or small. I retired 12 years ago. Why am I dreaming this?
Finally acknowledges the UFO phenomenon as real! 🎉
Anyone with a dog will tell you tbeir dog/s dream. While asleep they mske muffled barks as their legs move. Many animals must dream.
Cats do as well. Can see their paws/mouth twitching while they're fully asleep sometimes.
Wasn't their a placebo effect doscovered a few ywars ago with exercise. If you imagine exercising it can have a similar effect to actually doing the exerciee?
Solved? No Unsolvable? The jury is out.
What goes on in the visual part of the visual cortex when people who have blind from birth dream?
We all have an inner monolog, well most people do. We hear it in our native language. The question is, we're early humans and human ancestors who had not developed language also able to have such a monolog?
Our consciousness is where religion/the supernatural and science/the natural world meet. The brain is part of our physical being. I like to equate our consciousness with our soul, which is fundamentally non-measurable and non-imaginable by mortal human beings. Our soul is what survives death, for those of us who believe in life after death. This is why there's so much debate over abortion, and over "pulling the plug" when someone is braindead. We don't really know when life starts and ends. When the soul enters and exits the body. We can't measure it. Vital signs are just an indicator of the physical being.
Never ever have my dreams made sense. A wise person once told me dreams are mental garbage. No more or less. Yep.
All of our selves are quantum entangled. Dreams are just glimpses into our other selves lives.
Placebos are evidence of the "faith" hypothesis. It's trust in something we cannot see, heard, touch, feel or interact with personally will help heal us. We implicitly must trust in the knowledge of another human being, that it will do something good for us. And then, have we faith enough, its promise is delivered. It's a quirk of human creativity, that we think, therefore we are, therefore what we think must in turn also... be.
"more stars in the [night] sky than grains of sand on Earth" is actually incorrect. The are around 5000 stars visible with the naked eye from earth, if you take night into account that's only about 2500. Whereas there are approximately 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth. This should be phrased "There are more stars in the universe/space than there are grains of sand on earth" - 100-400billion X 2trillion = 200-800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars.
AFAIK I have aphantasia, yet my dreams seem to have much more fully realised imagery than my awake imagination.
The placebo effect is basically the mind over body that happens when a person truly believes in the end result happening. Basically the brain gets told to do a thing and the brain makes it happen. This is the reason why a mother might suddenly flip a car in order to rescue a trapped child without pausing to consider whether or not she can do it. in the area of pain, the brain puts out natural pain suppession chemicals for as long as the expected medicine is supposed to because the patient believes it.
Want to hurt your brain some more? There are more ways that a regular deck of 52 playing cards can be shuffled than there are grains of sand, if every grain of sand was an earth covered in grains of sand that were also earths covered in sand.
I'm in no way religious and find it mostly silly. That said, it's easy why many humans are religious or believe in a higher power. It's much easier for the human brain to say there's a supreme being in control that knows all things, vs just admitting we have no idea and likely will never know these questions.
9:55 the editor cuts Simon off, rude man!
Something that I miss from my binge drinking days is the crazy dreams I would have for a day or two afterwards.
I enjoyed this video but the psychopath point you mentioned was weird. It's obvious how their brains work relative to most people. Their brains have about 50 percent as much emotions and the violence and rewards areas are linked, and experience life slightly differently having brains wired slightly different, but I don't see the mystery
Well done Simon. I read some place that the gut has 40% of all neurons, but only communicates with the brain by 9 connections. That just makes sooooo much sense.
After not sleeping like I used to for the last 3 years few hrs at a time and days on end with none. One finds that you can train yourself to wake upon answers to revaluations to scientific understandings
Back injury ! Pain can be a amazing motivator sometimes
Your parents are at superposition to your moment of conception. You exist where they overlap, and not where they dont. If thats the case, and you create a tool, that tool is within the limits of your existance. How do you hand that tool to that guy standing over there without the idea of that tool transfering to the other persion via superposition?
Just a philosophical thought... What if each human soul is a star. When you go to earth you are manifesting your conciousness into this thing called life. As you go your soul aka star either burns brightly in a supernova or grows darker to where not even light escapes aka black hole.
A Mind-1st Theory of Everything easily answers these questions to varying degrees of logical rigor. Isn't it time to turn the telescope around?