Michael Merzenich - What Do Brains Do?
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What are the functions of brains? What kinds of activities do brains do? How are the multiple activities of brains integrated, so that animals act in organized manners and pursue integrated goals? Considering the remarkable capacities of brains, they are astoundingly small. Most watermelons weigh more.
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Michael M. Merzenich is a Professor Emeritus Neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Wow. Merzenich makes an incredible point about how the brain works during the last two sections. Great question Michael, and a greater answer.
That was really helpful
Brain's job ultimately is to survive and replicate
did he say details of process or a specific type of process. @ 0:40
When was this first aired?
Makes sense that the brain and things are adaptive when you consider a newt having its lens of its eye surgically removed and it regenerates again but from its dorsal iris instead of how it originally formed.
Mr Michael, I like and love your style.
Trilions of changes......
Could we say that that brain is a self, relational and algorithmic building organ?
It might help a lot to study brain of schizophrenics as compared to normal
There are a bunch of them floating around the comments of this channel.
@@tomjackson7755 Blame it on Robert's hard clever questions but empty answers.
Or would it?
Brain is the tool of mind which only record that information needed by mind for future easyness to work mind flawlessly, rest all working is pre programed by mind & consciousness as per their previous happening or the work you are distinct as per your understanding, which was also minds pre programing by conciousness, yes you xan infulance the show by planning & deciding power
Process rules.
It will be interesting to see how they can explain human irrationality- which seems to be on the increase these days.
What do brains do? Very little, obviously. Mostly they seem to cling to their earliest and crudest assumptions. Crowbars and jaws of life can't pry them apart.
Amazing!
I believe the brain is all quantum bits paving the way for brain wave tunneling that goes through different chambers mechanisms working on different timelines that only open up based on sensitivity coming from anyone of the five senses that or capable of causing change for the mind and body to help with decision-making and change the kind that helps with sensitivity related to controlling the body motions through the nervous system that is branch out through different parts of the body and brain and working in quantum clock motion to accommodate all five senses and the brain while it is floating inside its cerebrospinal fluid to help with body up and down clock quantum motions through the spinal cord and also help put the brain five senses in tune with understanding gravity as the five senses try to keep the brain balance inside the cerebrospinal fluid through the eyes by using their sensitivity to help guide and balance the brain and body through life and understand all motions around the brain and body inside and outside the body.
Things that keeps a person locked inside a coma; would be any small swelling inside the brain Stern which could be caused by stress or brain trauma but for the meaty brain itself can take a lot of beating and can keep generating new brain cells but my point is focus more on the brains stern to help bring a person out of coma because the chances may be caused by swelling in the stern which could be blocking most brain waves from connecting with the body and brain.
This is all true based on the way electrons are orbiting around the nucleus and how they are well balanced and not collapse into the nucleus this is because gravity has shaped a vibrating case around them so their wave functions can work according to the other particles dilation and their wave function. Dark matter is a vibrating transmitter for passing particles and particle waves around and converting magnetic waves into electricity if the waves are spinning fast enough inside a black hole or under a lot of pressure that is being squeeze out from a black hole.
A black hole is full of magnetic forces.
Black hole could be full of particles.
Black hole could be full of anything because they can grow to any size and house anything inside the universe.
The universe is made of quantum bits and works just like the brain and brakes down information similar to the way your brain brakes down information for your mind and wake you up from a good night sleep to face the early morning sun light.
Morphogenetic fields seem to help explain the evolution of the brain and the ability of a flatworm to have its head severed and regrow its head and remember something it learned beforehand. Interesting to consider anyways
Very informative session. Mastery and new skills. Is it evolution governing all this and guiding through this change. Based on same findings/assumptions, if things are projected in the right direction: what is the ultimate goal or reality and what our understanding of consciousness going to gain out of this scientific development.
6:42 one could argue that some of us are a still a blank state
You're both the same thing, consciously you consider yourselves as an individual entities with separate belief structures, mainly because of the ego. Yet we share our knowledge to try to bridge the individualism into a complete understanding, yes there are cultural obstacles over time they will dissipate. It is a function and purpose of the brain, it has probably evolved that way after agriculture and population growth. 7 billion brains are unwittingly one. Thousands of years of cultures combined. Like an evolutionary path. The conversion of knowledge is just like nodes connecting every one or one becoming. Like threads of a tapestry. An unrealised organism. Like flowers and a bee pollinating . We are actually the garden. Except if you imagine the garden is one single living organism. Each flower makes it more realised. The all rest is just folly. It's not very significant. Maybe one day in the future that realised organism will explore the solar systems and reach anothers like it, so on, so on.
@@LifesInsight They are not trying to agree but they are going to realise. In the next 150 years it will happen. Even if they violently disagree first.
@@koonigallery2107they already are in agreement and said organism already has the keys to explore.
Actually listening to the illumatti. You can hear them singing to said organism
@@deathbydeviceable Hopefully they are better at signing than me. I really suck. No rhythm or tone. I'm not being hyper critical either. It's true. I'm a good looker though. I'm like a male posh spice. ( Except I'm very poor ? ) Actually no resemblance at all. Nevermind.
The brain is often “littered” with conscious, as well as unconscious processes that obstruct a third party’s ability to observe reactions to stimuli with willing participants using technologies such as Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, etc… In the interim, not surprisingly, “Hollywood” has inspired with fantasy/science fiction what I hypothesize may be a significant, yet as far as I know, unemployed resource for the study of neural pathways and processes.
The movie is titled “Altered States” , and the plot involves the usage of “Sensory Deprivation Tanks”, among other means, to achieve a fictional physiological state. Coincidentally, these tanks are not fictional, and work by creating an environment where there is absolute darkness, and silence, while the participant is floating nude in a thermally regulated saline solution that provides effortless buoyancy. In current reality, these tanks are privately owned, or sometimes offered in exclusive “Spas” to allow their clients to experience “ultimate relaxation”.
I am aware of scientific studies measuring the effectiveness of these tanks using electroencephalograms, but what if we were to take these studies up a few notches?
Given, it would be impractical to try and combine a machine capable of conducting a “FMRI” study with a “SDT” in a clinic on Earth, but what if we were to replace the saline solution and tank with a “space suit”, and conduct the study in Near Earth Orbit? This would be a condition where stimuli could be selectively and exclusively provided, with all of the unintended, sensory “clutter” removed…
Just a thought…
Now imagine a collaboration between Dr. Michael Merzenich, Dr. Robert Sapolski, and Elon Musk? Maybe somebody should write a screenplay…?
Brain is a machine to help us better connect with ourselves, our fellow man, the space time physical world and the spiritual world. It guides our way to the unity.
We are endowed with the ability to answer questions of HOW. BUT try answering the questions of WHY?⚓
Hi Gordon Wallace, I am minded to ask you what you expect to find if such why questions could be answered, I am satisfied that to some degree rational explanations of how the mind works might be helpful but what differences would knowing why make?.
As it happens I pretty much abandoned why questions sixty years ago because they seemed so intransigent, not that I did not want to know but it appears impossible to get reliable answers. Now after all this time I no longer feel the same degree of curiosity, actually I will go so far as to assert that what I have discovered about the operating systems has made absolutely no difference to how I live! that appears to be regulated by the sum of all the controlling factors and everything that happens in the 'real' world has its effects but what goes on in my head plays no part!.
Cheers, Richard.
To the observer the brain "translate" observations data to a language of conception and reflection, the observer's conclusion goes to the consciousness.
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If the cosmos is conscious, then isn’t the main function of brain to interact with it?
As an athlete brain, I have always felt like there are two kinds of brains. There are the ones that have simpler and more direct mapping out the good and the bad (that their brain will or will not reward them for) and then there are those of us that invest in loosing sift through the nuances and details, the counter fighting boxers, the Kobe Bryant's that don't worry about air balls because they in a 10,000 detail sifting process, the ones that are all about flow over a controlling emphasis.
My brain has always rewarded me for noticing random details, and abstracting potential innovations irregardless of immediate results and the result has been that I have on numerous occasions found ways of out competing individuals by virtue of them basically not noticing the details or the patterns that they are walking into and occasionally wowing people with slightly unexpected abilities... it's like most people learn the 10 details to a technique and perfect it as best they can, where player's like me see 1,000 details in the same technique.
As the last 3 years has shown, most brains don't do much of anything.
I wrote to Joe Biden and asked him what the brain was for. He said its main function is to make hairs grow out of your nose .
He couldn’t ask Trump because he is just full of it
We are all truly unique individuals and shaped both genetically and environmentally. No individual human life is repeatable, and can ever be replicated in exactly the same way.
With infinity, human life will be repeated an infinite number of times.
@@dr_shrinkerNot falsifiable, and since it's unfalsifiable then it won't ever become scientific knowledge.
@@Resmith18SRwho cares if it’s science? It’s logical.
@@dr_shrinker Scientific knowledge and method requires involves both rational and empirical data. Your speculation based on rational and logical thinking is just that, pure speculation. A lot of things we can conceive of are logically possible but the issue is whether they are testable, verifiable as well as rational. Why is your speculation any better or closer to the truth than anyone else's speculation?
@@Resmith18SR actually, it is no better than anyone else’s. I’m just giving a single theory, and one I’m not too married to, at that. This entire channel is rhetorical, as far as I’m concerned. 😅
Everyone’s theory is just as good or bad, depending on how you see it. When you get down to it, nothing is real. We are all deluded. We are just energy manipulating energy, but we call it “surfing a wave” or “eating a steak.”
My delusion is based on my understanding of infinity. Because, to me, infinity is inevitable. Unless you can explain how a universe is bound in “nothing.”
Scientific knowledge is based on previous knowledge, all the way back to Aristotle; the father of the scientific method. The common thread of all scientific study is logic.
Science is a branch of philosophy, philosophy is not a branch of science. What you call “empirical and testable science” is based on philosophical logic and reason. (From any perspective, everything we consider real, is not real at all) But, we can make inferences to cope with the world around us. There is no such thing as truth.
We can infer 100,000 trillion x 240, zillion, even through there’s no way to test that quantity in any meaningful way. Practicality gives way to theoretically, all the time.
Can you falsify the “Planck constants?” Not without using rules of logic.
In the case of infinity……logically, if something is all that exists, there can be no boundary. Because “nothing” cannot contain “something.” If “nothing” contained “something,” it wouldn’t be nothing, but an extension of more something……once you understand that, infinity becomes easy to comprehend. Logically.
So, if the universe/multiverse is infinite and if there are finite particle types, (that’s where faith comes into play) then the logical implication is that all matter will form in all possible arrangements, infinite number of times over eternity. - logically, I cannot say there are limited number of particle types; that part is beyond logic because there could be infinite particle types. Who knows? I just take it on faith. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t care if I am. This is all just a bunch of rhetoric anyway.
It is just as plausible as ANY other theory that exists. IMO more plausible than a single bound universe.
There is NO way to explain how a multiverse/universe can be bound and finite. Try.
I believe Im being much more used by my brain rather than using it. 😂
The main function of the brain is cooling the blood.
The blood supply to the brain is actually cooler than the brain itself, so the brain actually heats it up. There's an article on this on the National Institute of Health site.
@@simonhibbs887
You can quote scientific explanations all you like.
I still believe the brain cools the blood.
Thinking is done by the soul.
@@tedgrant2 OK, but doctors have actually measured these temperatures. What makes a measured temperature 'science' as against just a fact about the world?
@@simonhibbs887
You don't want to believe doctors.
They know nothing about faith in Spinach
Brain is a concept created by mind
The brain burns up a lot of the calories that an individual consumes, partly to transform it into Mind. But its blood-brain barrier is very discriminating, it wants mostly the great stuff: Glucose, Oxygen, Omega 3, Magnesium L-threonate, ………. And in return, it thinks that it’s thinking, and assures us that it’s the seat of consciousness. 😂
So many times, the brain’s ability to rewire has been described as ‘miraculous’ - but we’re scientists, we don’t believe in magic
Tamar Makin
Guys predict brains system keep out How figure out It isnt neurosience. Guys is talking brains system with brains true evidence though Science. Worthless neurosience of course. Bah blah rambling.
Your grammar needs help
Artificial intelligence will help us to integrate it all together
"What Do Brains Do?"
The physical brain plays an important role of shielding our aware immortal souls from the memories of our past spiritual lives in order for us to have the freedom to believe in a loving God without knowing Him for our salvation...
We lost Heaven (our original home) because we lost faith in a loving God, so, only by regaining this faith without knowing our pasts that we can return Home..
Is God good for children? Innocent and vulnerable children are not fools and if you ask them if they want God to exist all of them would answer it is better if God exists because for atheists life lacks an ultimate purpose and death is terrifying. The only question atheists should be interested in and are not interested in is "does God exist?", that means "was the universe created from an eternal entity?". What is the point of debating if Jesus Christ resurrected when atheists don't accept God exists?. Who or what is this God for the moment it doesn't matter. Atheists don't search for God because they believe it doesn't exist. What is the point of searching for something that doesn't exist?. With God anything is possible and without God there is no hope. If the universe was created from an intelligent entity rationally we have to expect an eternal surprise when we die. To discover God exists you have to understand reality is eternal because from nothing can not be created something. Nothing is absence of existence. Nothing is what innocent and vulnerable children understand by nothing. Something minus something is nothing. Nothing is what you receive when you give to ungrateful people. Something always existed. It's a fact never nothing existed. Atheists think they are rational but they are not because logically it is impossible the existence of the creation without the creator. Creation is what has a beginning of existence, like for example you, you didn't exist before you were born. Logically what has a beginning of existence must be created from what is eternal. Logically it is impossible the existence of an infinite number of causes and effects, therefore an eternal first uncaused cause that caused what has a beginning of existence must exist. Therefore God exists as certain as I exist. Why humanity believe in God when God can not not exist? Do you want truth or deception? The truth is atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is the religious idea of the creator of the creation to conclude wrongly no creator exists because a particular idea of God doesn’t exist. I will rephrase the atheist logical fallacy to facilitate the understanding. Atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is "sky daddy" to conclude wrongly no creator exists because "sky daddy" doesn't exist. To end the war and save lives the discovery that atheism is a logical fallacy has to be news. God is a reality of an infinite or eternal nature that created a reality of a finite nature and all is one reality, all is God, all is everything that ever existed, exist and would exist. Time is running out and is eternal. Emergency! Thank you.
'The man you are in the present is the God such a man has or hasn't seen and has or hasn't been touched by.'
Steven Weinberg, a physicist i respect, if I recall, at the end of his journey, states: there is nothing out there, there is no meaning or purpose.
^ this is sad.
How sad that such a renowned intelligent physicist actually believed that. Humans can create their own meanings in their lives even if the Universe is random and meaningless.
Brain works as a Filter .It filters out all higher frequencies from spiritual realm and process only those information that is required to survive in the Time and Space Simulation .
If the brain filters out Spirtual stuff, Then why are most people spirtual/Religious…?
@@jimliu2560 Coz we are eternal spiritual beings going through temporary human experiences.
@@monporoshneog4725
And what is your evidence for the existence of this “Spiritual realm”…
More likely it’s just imagination fantasy…
I think the same way. But there's no proof. It just seems logical.
Can I buy some weed from you??