• Why Your Brain is Really Cool
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What you see now is at a insane resolution of infinity because you can't calculate how much pixels is your eyes. A single frame of what you see can probably surpass a 1GB photo
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;27643569]Wait, so why aren't we putting more money into turning out brains into a network where everyone is connected to it? That would seem like a much better thing to do than make computer chips smaller and smaller, if people could have an "internet" in their brains, regular computers would be useless, except for things such as monitoring power stations, and defense systems. But even then, computers could simply be organic computers that are more efficient.[/QUOTE] The last thing you need is someone creating a virus that causes people to become like Agent Smith, or to go through your memory and get information that leads to identity theft.
[QUOTE=garychencool;27651192]What you see now is at a insane resolution of infinity because you can't calculate how much pixels is your eyes. A single frame of what you see can probably surpass a 1GB photo[/QUOTE] Really? My blurry craptastic sight is worth over 1GB in size per frame? Not very size-quality efficient.
[QUOTE=BlueYoshi;27641112]Coolio, but is the myth that were only using 10% of our brains true? Answer gets a heart![/QUOTE] No. But you're not using all of it all the time either. You use how much you need, when you need it. Don't need to remember math, history, or other random things when watching TV, now do you? But throughout the day, you probably use all of it at some point or another.
Some people brains are cool, because they have one.
[QUOTE=U.S.S.R;27571772]The brain surprisingly resembles a mechanical computer, lucky us. Imagine playing ArmA 2 in your mind.[/QUOTE] And it would still run like shit
[QUOTE=MBGrimm;27667522]And it would still run like shit[/QUOTE] On very low settings with 5 metre view distance.
[QUOTE=garychencool;27651192]What you see now is at a insane resolution of infinity because you can't calculate how much pixels is your eyes. A single frame of what you see can probably surpass a 1GB photo[/QUOTE] I don't think so. We tend to filter out most of what we see and focus on only small portions of it. Also trying to measure the file size in bytes of a component in an analogue system is ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Killuah;27607118]People always forget that the biggest part f the brains "work" is stuff like holding temperature, balance, heartbeat etc. etc. and that are VERY data intensive tasks.[/QUOTE] The brain doesn't do any of that. That's the brain stem. The brain stem handles reflexes an autonomous actions so you don't screw them up. It's also not data intensive. No more so than the process of walking.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27571714]Your brain is a piece of meat that functions using electrical and neural impulses, how is that not impressive? We're walking meat computers, biological machines.[/QUOTE] Actually, your brain consists of 80% fat.
Words cannot describe how bad this article is. We can may be able to hold lots of information, but we can't accurately recall all of it and we can't get it back nearly instantly, plus the part about pathfinding is a total lie. You don't even need a good computer to do decent pathfinding. There are amazing things about the brain but this article is bullshit
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