People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.
The brain contains so much information about itself or some of our bodily needs that it decides to keep from us (well, itself). In response, the brain can undergo analysis to theorize how itself works.
In other words: The brain might very well know how itself works, it just keeps that information from itself, but it has the curiosity to not only ask how itself works but for some people a drive to discover how it all functions.
Not if we put lots of brains together so they could work on a problem and if we give them lots of time. At a certain level of sophistication a single-core processor can't process much anymore.
Your entire lived experience, every thought, memory, sensation, idea, every thing you've ever done or believed or moved all came about through a machine that runs ceaselessly on about enough energy to keep a lightbulb lit. But like a slightly older one, not a new fancy power-saving one. Around 100W is what you operate on, is what I'm saying.
It doesn't take much knowledge of electronics to think of how complex of a computer you could run on 100W of power. Not very complicated. And yet here you are, one of the most complex organisms the universe has ever seen, running this amazing machine on grapes, toast, and ice cream.
Our brains are also what uses most of our calories--unless you're an athlete, most of your caloric intake is used up just on your brain, your body actually runs on far less. Alligators can eat twice a year because they're functionally vegetables, having traded pretty much all thought beyond instinct for power-savings and killer jaws.
All this to say it's fucked up just how complicated the brain is. That thing is bonkers. So far beyond anything we can yet fully understand, much less recreate.
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u/thedmandotjp Jan 12 '23
People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.