How are Brains Structured? | Episode 105 | Closer To Truth
As far as we know, brains are the most highly organized matter in the universe. How they make their magic is just astonishing. Featuring interviews with Arnold Scheibel, Carmine Clemente, John Schlag, Christof Koch, Mike Merzenich, and Rodolfo Llinas.
Season 1, Episode 5 - #CloserToTruth
Archive episode. First aired in 2008.
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@voiceofreason1829
2 жыл бұрын
Pfff wrongg
@teeniequeenie8369
Жыл бұрын
Maybe this channel but not site.
@spk_eze
Жыл бұрын
@@teeniequeenie8369 good tip! Will stick to the channel
This episode is truly special.. the human brain is a spectacular yet mysterious machine.
@joshkeeling82
2 жыл бұрын
Without a brain, we are literally nothing. Such a weird structure of the universe. I'm glad brains exists
@richg2881
2 жыл бұрын
It's not a machine.
@___Truth___
2 жыл бұрын
@@richg2881 thank you
@ultimatesunrise
2 жыл бұрын
@@richg2881 how is it not??
It was nice to see Dr. Kuhn back home, so to speak. You could see the nostalgia on his face.
imagine to study an hand without seeing the rest of the body: "must be the nails that control that thing !!" "there are millions of nerve connections !!" "why one finger is smaller and one bigger ? I think the answer is there ..." "is the middle finger that is raised when the patience of the hand is over !!" " i think is the fast rotation of the wrist that make the hand to be sentient !!"
@BugRib
2 жыл бұрын
This makes sense to me. I think the hand really is sentient.
Closer To Truth is fantastic, always. But this particular program is satisfying in a different way...autobiographical and touching
@Trp44
2 жыл бұрын
Nicely done
This is a cerebral talk about brains and their contents!
Are these the videos from a few years ago that just keep getting re-uploaded?
Thank you for the work to do on closer to truth. I have learned so much from the interviews.
I love your videos so much
I watch a lot of these videos but this utterly blows me away, so many questions to ask and answer in a life time. The brain intrigues me more than space, I feel the brain holds more answers than the universe.
I learn from you in a precise and net- shell fashon. Thank you for affording this apportunity to me and others.
Brilliant!
Music is the machine language for the brain 🧠..🤞🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽
11:00 was so deeply poetic
Good one
Love it! 🔥
outstanding tour and explanation of experience. i really enjoy these journeys down the rabbit hole of deep thought . thank you
Lovely episode 👌 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Terrific channel!
Wow. This was perfect.
Thanks
Amazing
" It's the journey not the destination, " I'd rather be a pilgrim than the yogi atop the mountain. Anyone that tells you that they " know" this or that has closed themselves from the richness of possibility and potential. Hell , we don't even know what we dont know yet. I think Sec. D. Rumsfeld nailed it:" Known unknowns and unknown unkowns." ( I'm just a termite , chewing on the branches , choking on the splinters. ) Beck.
The opening song in this episode is actually Detonation from The World Ends with You, a NintendoDS game. LMAO
Astounding! We are so used to hearing about particle physicists getting closer to some new particle of matter. As if the Higgs boson will give us access to the nature of reality itself. Here is not a particle of matter but a dull clump, and yet through it (it is esteemed) all our endeavor is conducted. Are there other, similarly shaped clumps in the universe that are conductors of other endeavors? Endeavors more in tune with the nature of reality itself? Less ignorant of the Higgs Boson or more ignorant of it? Synchronizing time and light more coherently or more willfully?
The thalamocortical loop structure is theorized by some that the actual conscious experience is generated. As the professor pointed out there is one loop for the visual and a secondary for the other senses.
Everything is made of something, physical chairs are made of atoms that in turn are made of subatomic particles that perhaps are vibrations or fluctuations in a field, and the natural laws are made of math that in turn are made of rules that no one really know where they come from. We have fields and we have rules, but what is consciousness made of, and what else in the universe is made of the same thing?
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I could listen to that first guy talk for a long time
It just shows to go you that zombies have good taste.
How about brain & central nervous hip-ct imaging, and how about human brain connectome progress ?
👍👍Why did nature select such a highly complex & rich of connection in human brain is so curious? Compared to other beings that they are all unique and marvel , what is the cause for such a highly processing human brain which evolved in the short span of evolutionary history?... Predators?Fears?survival??? In evolution, every beings are selected by the nature and are connected.
Assembly Theory, this may describe stuff better!
If a TV manufacturer decided all the low level components for assembly but instead of employing a skilled assembly team he decided to employ millions of people at random to assemble at random. What are chances of a working TV coming out? and what are chances of wrong box coming out? If he additionally asked for multiple attempts then what are chances of success? Just a thought. I am puzzled.
@nickhowatson4745
2 жыл бұрын
well with enough time it would eventually end up to be 50/50 because there is only 2 states, correct TV or incorrect TV. Understand? its like a coin flip.
@kadhiemayob43
2 жыл бұрын
@@nickhowatson4745 state doesn't make sense here. There will be millions of non working units to observe. Where are those wrong copies of evolution?
@nickhowatson4745
2 жыл бұрын
@@kadhiemayob43 doesn't matter there's really only 2 possible states theres only working or not working. it will eventually turn up 50/50. theres an equal chance for a tv and non tv to be built.
Could be mathematical perception in and probabilistic sense out?
How does oxygen interact with the brain from blood vessel circulation?
Cognition consists of forming mental representations from both real world experiences and internal associations. Each representation is an emergent pattern (self regenerating) created on a particular set of neural structures.
Does plasticity of brain happen in neurons?
The science of biology is massive but is mostly terminology and description of what is already there... Electronic engineers who are experienced in reverse engineering will tell you that we may never know how the brain works. To reverse engineer a simple small unknown chip is a big task and requires advanced tools to arrive at details at some lower level of say transistors. Human brain cannot be like computers as the speed of transmission of signals in that watery medium is too slow.
@caricue
2 жыл бұрын
That is a good point about reverse engineering, especially since the brain is orders of magnitude more complex and dense than anything made by man. Not to mention that evolution is not limited to the relatively large sizes and magnitudes that humans are able to access. Maybe worse of all, we have only our feeble simian intellects to work with in our investigations. It seems quite daunting.
Does a light bulb say I am the bulb, or recognize I am the energy? Am I the brain, or am I consciousness?
@caricue
2 жыл бұрын
You are a solid physical organism, not a spirit inside a body.
@mikes62soupcan
2 жыл бұрын
Wow , you’ve figured it all out, congratulations!
@caricue
2 жыл бұрын
@@mikes62soupcan The different conclusions come from whether you look at yourself from the inside or the outside. If you meditate and contemplate your existence from inside your head, you can come to many different ideas about identity and existence. If you look at yourself from the outside you see a large smelly mammal. No need to figure anything out.
@S3RAVA3LM
2 жыл бұрын
@@caricue know what, texts clearly say that all men have souls and not all souls aquire Spirit. What you say is true as we only project what's within us. I dont care what you believe or think and you're not the authority concerning this.
@caricue
2 жыл бұрын
@@S3RAVA3LM Haha, would I be more of an authority if my name was Mark or John? Otherwise, why would you believe anyone who started talking about souls and spirits? I'm not saying that it isn't true, just that there's no way they could know any more than me or you. What qualifies one as a supernatural Authority anyway?
“Forty-three years ago I was a nineteen year old…” Hmmmm. I guess this was filmed in 2006. Wiki says RLK is now 78 years old.
Is brain plasticity happening through neuron connections?
14:00 his wondering is in the right place not like his strange theories! The brain-stem, cerebellum, thalamus, …. (The center of the brain) is ……. The thieves have to fill the dots.
What happens to oxygen in the brain? How do neurons use oxygen, if they use oxygen?
The Rainbow mirrors the Eternal Basic Structure of Body and Consciousness. All and any Life-Unit's is the same Eternal Race, So, 'Brains' is also Living Beings, do also have the same Eternal Body- and Consciousness-structure, - Memory, > (( - Instinct, - Gravity, - Feeling, - Intelligence, - Intuition, - Memory, -)) > Instinct, - The Basic-Structure is mirrored in our Body, at Organ-Level, and expose a Developing-Circuit, from 'Low to High'. We are a level above, at Organism-Developing-Circuit, Gravity-Beings, about to be Feeling-Beings. Brains are Intelligence-Beings, highly developed, but in a lower Developing-Circuit. Plants are Instinct-Beings, here Intelligence is at its minimum, for Brains it is opposite, the Instinct is at its minimum.
"I have a brain" -the brain.
@BugRib
2 жыл бұрын
True.
Grad student at age 19? Dang.
probably the first two have more to say, the rest ! those have nothing are the dominant, on which basis ! no one can really answer,
the same of stomach
Brains BRAINS! Why do you eat brains? To stop the pain Pain from what? Being DEAD!
👉📣 WOW the brain function it self is a kind of mind boggling mechanism where trillions of neurons signals participating in great harmony, seems one thing for sure that accidentally occurrences of revolutionary developments couldn't go so far, is CLOSER to TRUTH 😊
Why does the brain focus on Reality? Is there a special structure in the brain for Reality?
There is no bigger irony than the brain trying to comprehend it’s own ways of comprehending itself.
@ZenTradeGame
2 жыл бұрын
It’s like a knife trying to cut itself lol
Knowing how something is structured doesn't mean you understand how it works. We can now map a human brain and the brains of other animals down to the last atom. We understand how the chemical reactions work and their analogy to electrical signals although they are not the same process as electricity we are familiar with. What we don't understand is how a brain becomes a mind. We could reverse engineer the most advanced aircraft and still not understand what makes it able to fly. The structure is built and evolves around the function, not the other way around.
As above, so below. Our brain is a miniature version of the universe. Every component below has an analogue above.
@mr.spinoza
2 жыл бұрын
Mystical hogwash. What bases your claim?
@ghostgate82
2 жыл бұрын
@@mr.spinoza Observation (something you apparently lack the ability to do). Starting a response with “hogwash” disqualifies you from a dignified response.
@GeorgieKiely
2 жыл бұрын
Hogwash
@ghostgate82
2 жыл бұрын
@@GeorgieKiely You won’t get a dignified response either, because you already know, apparently.
@GeorgieKiely
2 жыл бұрын
@@ghostgate82 You would likely give me more hogwash as a reply any way.
by the way: 14:00 there is something very important, funny in terms of it confirms the extent of the intellectual and mental degeneration of human biengs, but no way to talk about that because of the irrational sick thieves.
go to Carl Jung's , Nikola Tesla's works to be creative and face your shadow kids
kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6lo1JuRirO7grg.html What the heck is a melted cheese sandwich!?
@grijzekijker
2 жыл бұрын
Hmmm, let me masticate on this.. kzread.infohSaKbCi6pBk What's the melting point of your local cheese?
12:07 = Alternate Harrison Ford.
The brain expectation to sense has a time element, the future? Brain processing deals with the future?
i'll take 3 lbs, shaved, please. thanks sir
It can revise from God's word or revise towards God's word. It can revise to actual truth or it can revise to your own made up truth, which then is a falsehood.
27 minutes of nothing. Just general information beautifully packed for clickbait
You can be coherent to God's word or not be coherent to his word.