This is quite possibly one of the best videos I have ever seen on RUclips. This is confirming many things I have been pondering on for a while and then some more great examples to ponder on too. MIND BLOWN.
Science is the best we have. It is excellent that it continued to correct itself. Would you want less.... We have to be on a constant quest to know more, to better understand, and to seek more and better proved information. It's awesome.
Stephen Suggs Must admit I got a bit excited at the thought of being able to 'see' ultraviolet and infrared. Hope I get to experience that before I'm pushing up daisies
That whole "Maybe what I see as blue, you see as red!" hypothesis is one I had about 4 years ago, stoned out of my mind! EVERY stoner has had this theory, dude...
this guy's fiction short story collection was the first ebook I ever bought and paid for. you can hear readings of two of his stories for free on the "After Life" episode of Radiolab:
Mother Nature just needs a partner to manufacture and market it's new peripheral devices and make them available to all it 's things... sounds like a job for Steve Jobs if only.....
for Gridda who doesn't understand an analogy: the ipod = the brain. for Hows: how about that 90% of the universe called "dark matter" i.e. "we have no idea what or where 90% of the universe is" And for anybody else who thinks science has all the answers, take a look at history. They never have, although they always thought they did and they still don't.
did anyone else notice that guy who was previously blind and had his vision restored was wearing a watch at the time the photo was taken of him and his son? haha
Suppose you lose your lower half. Entirely. Then give your brain a decade to get used to that sudden loss (alternatively suppose you were born with hands but no feet or genitalia and give it just 1-2 years). Consciously you wouldn't know it but you'd be rather a different person. Just as surely as after having lost some brain matter. Because a person really is a whole -- and in fact provably so adaptive that cutting out brain will do measurable stuff to your extremities. No need to know it. ;)
I hear you but do not fully agree. Science is also about 'growing knowledge' not merely shaving away ignorance - but maybe we are talking about the same thing using different wording
If there are 10 billions of neurons and 10,000 connections per neurons, this means that there are 500 trillions of connections, as you need each connection is common to 2 neurons. Don't think if I should trust the rest of the video then.
haha nice, I always said to my friends, how do you know the colors you see is the same as my colors, how do you know that my blue is the same blue of your if they are compared only by name.
@dcjack9 How ironic. Your reasoning is lazy. If you lose a pinkie size piece of your ipod, then that's only a consequence of language. Your ipod is losing a pinkie sized piece of itself. You don't lose capacity. Your ipod loses capacity. And it would have to be a pinkie sized part of your ipod in the right part, not the wrong one. The point is if you lose a pinkie sized part of your brain, you will see differently, smell differently, hear differently, taste differently, etc
The power of the brain never ceases to amaze me. This is a really great lecture! :)
This is quite possibly one of the best videos I have ever seen on RUclips. This is confirming many things I have been pondering on for a while and then some more great examples to ponder on too. MIND BLOWN.
Science is the best we have. It is excellent that it continued to correct itself. Would you want less.... We have to be on a constant quest to know more, to better understand, and to seek more and better proved information. It's awesome.
The idea that I could eventually see the full electromagnetic spectrum excites me in ways I can't explain.
Stephen Suggs Must admit I got a bit excited at the thought of being able to 'see' ultraviolet and infrared. Hope I get to experience that before I'm pushing up daisies
I like to hear this guy .... new fan.
That whole "Maybe what I see as blue, you see as red!" hypothesis is one I had about 4 years ago, stoned out of my mind! EVERY stoner has had this theory, dude...
this guy's fiction short story collection was the first ebook I ever bought and paid for. you can hear readings of two of his stories for free on the "After Life" episode of Radiolab:
incredible stuff
this was mind blowing. it's just like the movie series the MATRIX.
well done for noticing this !!!!
I like how he mixes up stuff like "mother nature" and science. He's bullcorning to make scientific concepts more palatable.
It's because you are comparing it to the background color of youtube, try full screen.
Brilliant.
Hard to listen to with the ringing feedback that I keep expecting to go bonkers. Where was the sound person?
a connection can run from left to right and right to left i suppose?
All the cows on earth are aligned with the magnetic field? That's unbelievable!
Please explain about concious mind
MATRIX!
Amazing
"I hope I've disabused you of the notion that you know what reality is."
You...think that you couldn't feel a watch to feel what time it is?
its like that one book, the feed
Mother Nature just needs a partner to manufacture and market it's new peripheral devices and make them available to all it 's things... sounds like a job for Steve Jobs if only.....
for Gridda who doesn't understand an analogy: the ipod = the brain.
for Hows: how about that 90% of the universe called "dark matter" i.e. "we have no idea what or where 90% of the universe is"
And for anybody else who thinks science has all the answers, take a look at history. They never have, although they always thought they did and they still don't.
did anyone else notice that guy who was previously blind and had his vision restored was wearing a watch at the time the photo was taken of him and his son? haha
It's probably one of those talking watches, my blind grandfather has one.
Suppose you lose your lower half. Entirely. Then give your brain a decade to get used to that sudden loss (alternatively suppose you were born with hands but no feet or genitalia and give it just 1-2 years).
Consciously you wouldn't know it but you'd be rather a different person. Just as surely as after having lost some brain matter. Because a person really is a whole -- and in fact provably so adaptive that cutting out brain will do measurable stuff to your extremities. No need to know it. ;)
so fucking cool. holy fucking shit, mind completely blown away
I hear you but do not fully agree. Science is also about 'growing knowledge' not merely shaving away ignorance - but maybe we are talking about the same thing using different wording
There are special watches for blind people. They can open the glass face and feel the hands.
"Well it turns out... Well it turns out... Well it turns out..."
If there are 10 billions of neurons and 10,000 connections per neurons, this means that there are 500 trillions of connections, as you need each connection is common to 2 neurons. Don't think if I should trust the rest of the video then.
@cheriefranceshanson Wow, dude . . . but how do you know???
What if you get a virus?
I think, therefore I am not...
Well it turns out...
xkcd 644 relates...
sounds like it has a lot of biological and military applications. just plug in night vision or something
So, the Matrix is our future?
@alwaysdeeper You are kidding, right?
i laughed so hard at the meta of this comment
haha nice, I always said to my friends, how do you know the colors you see is the same as my colors, how do you know that my blue is the same blue of your if they are compared only by name.
I remember having this thought at a relative young age but never verbalise it to anyone (in case they thought I was nut case 😊)
I have a crush on you.
@dcjack9 How ironic. Your reasoning is lazy. If you lose a pinkie size piece of your ipod, then that's only a consequence of language. Your ipod is losing a pinkie sized piece of itself. You don't lose capacity. Your ipod loses capacity. And it would have to be a pinkie sized part of your ipod in the right part, not the wrong one. The point is if you lose a pinkie sized part of your brain, you will see differently, smell differently, hear differently, taste differently, etc
If you found this video interesting you will surely enjoy this:
/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I
10% of the female population became 10% of the population. Grrr.