How the hell do brains work?!

Liquidfox said:
What really did my head in was when my Physics teacher (god knows why he said it) asked us where we see what our eyes see?

That really got us going, it's basically a bunch of light turned into electrical signals that form an image somehow, it's getting me all twisted just thinking about it :p
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through our eyes? ..

i dunno, but interesting nightfly, am getting quite confused to be frank but the brain is an incredible thing that is a fact
 
nuclear92 said:
If it was to evolve it would be by survival of the fittest, it's one of these mutations that would simply occur and since that species in more intelligent it survives and breds. I have literally no idea how it works and would be suprised if we know how it works, but i'm sure it will be worked out eventually.
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I read something on the topic of AI in a NewScientist magazine once, and a professor believed it may be highly likely that our brains just aren't smart enough to understand how our brain works.
 
SiriusB said:
I read something on the topic of AI in a NewScientist magazine once, and a professor believed it may be highly likely that our brains just aren't smart enough to understand how our brain works.
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Probably, that's the reason we use computers to divide problems up in to manageable chunks. I'm sure we will find how the brain works, but not without a huge leap in computational power.
 
AdamDaniels88 said:
Probably, that's the reason we use computers to divide problems up in to manageable chunks. I'm sure we will find how the brain works, but not without a huge leap in computational power.
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Aside from the fact that humans designed them, computers work in binary so they're already a long way behind. Human nervous systems transmit and interpret data seamlessly in comparison, at least from what I understand so far.
 
sr4470 said:
Aside from the fact that humans designed them, computers work in binary so they're already a long way behind. Human nervous systems transmit and interpret data seamlessly in comparison, at least from what I understand so far.
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To better understand the brain I think we'll need biochemical computing. Which ironically I reckon we'd need a fairly good grasp on how a biochemical device (ie. a brain) works before they can be created.
 
Have a read of my notes on Proprioception and Control of Movement. Will post more notes on the various nervous systems and response once I've made them into a JPEG. Should help you out a bit. :)


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SiriusB said:
I read something on the topic of AI in a NewScientist magazine once, and a professor believed it may be highly likely that our brains just aren't smart enough to understand how our brain works.
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I think this is silly. 'understanding' is such a strange concept, we have a story in our heads about how things works, and this story is in itself just a certain array of neurons being excited in a certain way... but these storys or models or whatever are good at approximating how things work, and why should it not be possible a bunch of good comprehensible storys as to how our brains produce consciousness, or vice-versa?

PS big up the Aber massif :)
 
Whilst all of that information is incredibly relevant Azza, they way in which you have presented it makes it quite difficult to digest (considering the target audience is, generally speaking, not overly familiar with the biological sciences and there would be lecturer to 'plug in the gaps' otherwise).

Not that I'm suggesting you annotate all of it naturally, but it is quite an information overload!
 
Nitefly said:
Whilst all of that information is incredibly relevant Azza, they way in which you have presented it makes it quite difficult to digest (considering the target audience is, generally speaking, not overly familiar with the biological sciences and there would be lecturer to 'plug in the gaps' otherwise).

Not that I'm suggesting you annotate all of it naturally, but it is quite an information overload!
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Somewhat easier to understand if you've already done a Biology A-level before ;)
 
lemonkettaz said:
What about that blue gene super computer simulating a cats brain, only 100 or 1000 slower...

Thats mad...

I mean would it actually be "thinking" like a cat or what? Would it be feeling alive?
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No it simply has a comparative number of "neurons" as i understand it.
 
Nobody knows, they know how it functions as a standard but apart from that its impossible to tell, why do we have people that kill, people that sexual abuse children, people who kill themselves, what makes them do it. I mean what makes a husband kill his own wife while he is dreaming.
 
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