“ We still know next to nothing about the brain, all its purposes, and how it operates.”

If you’d like I can post articles with at least a dozen Doctors of Neuroscience who disagree.

Yea if you would kind enough to drop them I will read them

Well, this is a tricky semantic issue, because it is both true that we know a lot about the brain and that there is a lot we do not yet know. For instance, we still don’t know precisely how memory works. We know a lot about what areas are activated when memories are stored and recalled, and we know a lot of facts about memory, like what causes things to transfer from short term to long term memory, but we can’t diagram the literal process of storing, maintaining, and retrieving memories like we can describe for a computer. There is a ton of complex collaboration between areas of the brain and we can’t “see” how the data is being managed and processed. Does that mean we don’t know what kind of general limits the brain has? I can’t speak to that, but I’d imagine most neuroscientists would agree there are some limits we could reasonably assume about the brain’s capabilities from what we already know, and that would include things like superpowers. In a sense, the way our brains process information is already a superpower compared to where machine learning and AI are currently.

The brain does have potential to access certain abilities as you say. Mostly related to precognition, intuition, and creativity. As far as I know retention of the sexual fluids for long periods of time (months) is the only proven way to get to that point though. I have personal (though limited) experience with this and can vouch for it. Many others say the same if you google the topic. There are books on this specific topic as well.

I thought mememories are stored as electrical patterns in your neurons when you say drink pepsi your brain sent a coded signal with that taste that is remembered and any time you drink pepsi itll refire that old signal again

Not that simple, a memory consists of many parts. Let's go with your pepsi. The taste, the texture, your perception of pepsi being good or bad... are all stored in different parts of your brain. How all those parts are assembled into a complete memory is what we don't know yet.

Can you drop some article or book titles out of genuine curiosity?

Sexual fluids? What u talking about?

The mind doesn’t do “impossible” things. We just have an incomplete grasp of how the brain works.

We would know by now if the brain had a capacity for psychic ability. There is no such thing, as all psychics that have been tested have been exposed as frauds.

There is no reason to suspect we are not already using our brains to their fullest potential.

We may be able to enhance our brains in the future through drugs, implanted chips, or gene editing.

Can I buy you a drink? Perhaps a glass of grain alcohol and rain water?

How about you show scientific articles showing we know “next to nothing about the brain?” You make it sound like it’s fact, how about you back that statement up? There is tons of research in this area and it would take you two seconds to find articles supporting that fact.

More than you can possibly imagine. We don’t accept what we are, so we don’t understand what all we are capable of.

The idea that being unable to hook up gives him extraordinary abilities is the only thing keeping him from incel-land. Leave him be.

I think our minds have extreme potential in the sense that human intelligence has done incredible things and profoundly changed the entire planet.

I also think our minds have extreme potential in the sense that they seem to be much, much more efficient than any modern computer at many tasks, to the point that it seems there must be something about the way brains function which we have yet to grasp well enough to be able to make an artificial analogue.

However, I definitely do not think that our minds have some untapped, out-there potential that we have yet to discover, such as psychic powers, extrasensory perception, etc. And I don't find the concept very interesting beyond fantasy stories. Human minds are amazing enough as-is that they don't need secret superpowers.

brains are like computers. some are used for porn and video games, some are used for advanced research & education, some are used for social media and fake news. it's as powerful as the user programs it to be.

There's some incredible brain functions that some extraordinary people have, like the ability to perform insane calculations or having perfect memory. We don't really know what makes these people special, but the potential for it is there.

Right. And like…pleasure. It’s a series of chemicals sent to our brain telling us that it’s “good” - but how the hell do we actually process and experience it as such!? Both that and things like itches. What is it that makes that difference between understanding something as a signal of “yes this is a good thing” or “an itch” vs actually experiencing the thing and knowing what to do?

I WISH I could simply experience pain or discomfort on an objective level, like a car light going on - but something about it is just too subjective. What is that “thing” on a biological / neurological level beyond the base mechanisms?

Telepathy is real. Its just not talked about out loud.

Is the orchestra living inside the radio?

Is the internet stored on your smartphone?

Is the totality of imagination, psychedelic trips, dreamscapes, daydreams, fantasy, religious vision, every unwritten book etc stored in the brain?

We are receivers and transmitters.

Our daily bandwidth is throttled.

Consume psylocibin and ask to see more.

It’s not essentially a bio compute, and we harness our brains just fine right now

Let me stop you right there. The reason you have to suspect you're not already using your brain to its fullest effects comes in the form of being right handed or left handed.

If you are right handed I'd like you to take a minute and in your head try to think about tracing a word with your left hand in real time. You will find it's a lot easier to imagine yourself writing with your strong hand than it is to imagine yourself writing with your weak hand.

I suggest to you that the parts of your brains that would be wired to your weak hand is nearly completely atrophied as opposed to the parts of your brain that wire themselves to your strong hand.

Furthermore I suggest that some people's brains are wired to their strong hands so well that it might be by way of quantum entanglement in the same way that your Bluetooth headphones work.

It could very well be that if you can get both parts of your brain equally entangled to each of your hemispheres that what we call psychic might just be the basic entangled state that give us our Bluetooth tech which could easily have been marketed as magic to our forefathers.

I have spoken

So ambidextrous people are twice as smart as everyone else? Interesting.

Nope just me

Now that I know my Bluetooth headphones use quantum entanglement I feel a little better about the price.

Pretty sure they do know lol.

Can you show me where you got your pretty sure from? This is actually part of my last semester, and all the sources and books I had to read had this listed as either under debate, unsure or in need of further research.

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I think that we are eventually going to reach a point where we reach the full potential of silicon computers and start developing biological computers.

I mean this with all sincerity, but you might be having a little bit of a manic episode dude. This is not a normal way to talk or treat people.

You definitely sound serious..I'm definitely not normal but I think you're reading disrespect where there is none. I understand consensus is that we are not leaving untapped potential on the table. I rebuke that consensus with nothing but love for the people who purvey it.

This is such an excellent visualization.

Okay but seriously I do have friends that occasionally have issues with manic episodes and lofty ideas and grandiose speech can be huge indicators.

As to untapped brain potential… sure. Probably not in a science fiction psychic powers kinda way though. More in the regular blood pressure control and better nutrition and societal conditions would make it a lot easier for everyone and lead to a lot healthier brains.

So if I have lofty ideas coupled with grandiose speech, that gives you the right to step to me as though I were being disrespectful? One might say THAT is no way to treat people.

Ain't nothing fictional about quantum entanglement, Mate.

Not stepping. Expressing actual concern. Manic episodes can destroy lives. But no worries. Take care of yourself.

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Doctor of neuroscience here. Yea I disagree with this. Although the brain is still pretty complex and we still have A LOT to learn about it.

Phd neuroscience here. Different neurotransmitter systems are used to distinguish these sensations. Sometimes singularly and sometimes in concert with others. For one pleasurable experiences take place via the mesolimbic dopamine system. This system is used in collaboration with other sensory inputs to distinguish X = good.

I've learned from my past mistakes that I'm probably very dumb.

We can generalize and have intuition about tasks or situations, computers can’t really do that very well but will probably be able to soon. They’re just way better than us at solving logic equations.

In other words, we still have to tell computers the questions we want them to solve and then they can solve those questions (and ones structured like them) faster and easier than us. Computers aren’t going to ‘think’ in subjective terms to come to conclusions based on past experiences or do things like come up with questions.

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When I was working with a neurologist to help with my anxiety disorder, she hooked up electrodes to my head and turned on a black and white TV. With enough concentration, I could turn the TV to color mode. That was like magic to me. So I’d say that’s pretty amazing.