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
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  • @spk_eze
    @spk_eze2 жыл бұрын

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  • @voiceofreason1829

    @voiceofreason1829

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @teeniequeenie8369

    @teeniequeenie8369

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe this channel but not site.

  • @spk_eze

    @spk_eze

    Жыл бұрын

    @@teeniequeenie8369 good tip! Will stick to the channel

  • @ultimatesunrise
    @ultimatesunrise2 жыл бұрын

    This episode is truly special.. the human brain is a spectacular yet mysterious machine.

  • @joshkeeling82

    @joshkeeling82

    2 жыл бұрын

    Without a brain, we are literally nothing. Such a weird structure of the universe. I'm glad brains exists

  • @richg2881

    @richg2881

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's not a machine.

  • @___Truth___

    @___Truth___

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@richg2881 thank you

  • @ultimatesunrise

    @ultimatesunrise

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@richg2881 how is it not??

  • @David.C.Velasquez
    @David.C.Velasquez2 жыл бұрын

    It was nice to see Dr. Kuhn back home, so to speak. You could see the nostalgia on his face.

  • @francesco5581
    @francesco55812 жыл бұрын

    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

    @BugRib

    2 жыл бұрын

    This makes sense to me. I think the hand really is sentient.

  • @edwardconnolly331
    @edwardconnolly3312 жыл бұрын

    Closer To Truth is fantastic, always. But this particular program is satisfying in a different way...autobiographical and touching

  • @Trp44

    @Trp44

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done

  • @tunahelpa5433
    @tunahelpa54332 жыл бұрын

    This is a cerebral talk about brains and their contents!

  • @thertcll
    @thertcll2 жыл бұрын

    Are these the videos from a few years ago that just keep getting re-uploaded?

  • @ronremillard776
    @ronremillard7762 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the work to do on closer to truth. I have learned so much from the interviews.

  • @laylaa738
    @laylaa7382 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos so much

  • @Flypidge
    @Flypidge2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ultimatereasoning7056
    @ultimatereasoning70562 жыл бұрын

    I learn from you in a precise and net- shell fashon. Thank you for affording this apportunity to me and others.

  • @robertschriek1353
    @robertschriek13532 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!

  • @tinamaps1605
    @tinamaps16052 жыл бұрын

    Music is the machine language for the brain 🧠..🤞🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽

  • @daniel-zh4qc
    @daniel-zh4qc2 жыл бұрын

    11:00 was so deeply poetic

  • @unclebirdman
    @unclebirdman2 жыл бұрын

    Good one

  • @hamburgerlord9552
    @hamburgerlord95522 жыл бұрын

    Love it! 🔥

  • @jammin8300
    @jammin83002 жыл бұрын

    outstanding tour and explanation of experience. i really enjoy these journeys down the rabbit hole of deep thought . thank you

  • @adammobile7149
    @adammobile71492 жыл бұрын

    Lovely episode 👌 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

  • @lisac.9393
    @lisac.93932 жыл бұрын

    Terrific channel!

  • @BenBombadil
    @BenBombadil2 жыл бұрын

    Wow. This was perfect.

  • @johnaugsburger6192
    @johnaugsburger61922 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @Robinson8491
    @Robinson84912 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @glennsmith64
    @glennsmith642 жыл бұрын

    " 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.

  • @mother3crazy
    @mother3crazy2 жыл бұрын

    The opening song in this episode is actually Detonation from The World Ends with You, a NintendoDS game. LMAO

  • @kallianpublico7517
    @kallianpublico75172 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @nyworker
    @nyworker2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mismass7859
    @mismass78592 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @laylaa738
    @laylaa7382 жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @kylebowles9820
    @kylebowles98202 жыл бұрын

    I could listen to that first guy talk for a long time

  • @philochristos
    @philochristos2 жыл бұрын

    It just shows to go you that zombies have good taste.

  • @User-xyxklyntrw
    @User-xyxklyntrw2 жыл бұрын

    How about brain & central nervous hip-ct imaging, and how about human brain connectome progress ?

  • @alphyfrancis8912
    @alphyfrancis89122 жыл бұрын

    👍👍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.

  • @NeverTalkToCops1
    @NeverTalkToCops12 жыл бұрын

    Assembly Theory, this may describe stuff better!

  • @kadhiemayob43
    @kadhiemayob432 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын

    Could be mathematical perception in and probabilistic sense out?

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын

    How does oxygen interact with the brain from blood vessel circulation?

  • @wisedupearly3998
    @wisedupearly39982 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын

    Does plasticity of brain happen in neurons?

  • @kadhiemayob43
    @kadhiemayob432 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @S3RAVA3LM
    @S3RAVA3LM2 жыл бұрын

    Does a light bulb say I am the bulb, or recognize I am the energy? Am I the brain, or am I consciousness?

  • @caricue

    @caricue

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are a solid physical organism, not a spirit inside a body.

  • @mikes62soupcan

    @mikes62soupcan

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow , you’ve figured it all out, congratulations!

  • @caricue

    @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

    @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

    @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?

  • @patrickkillabrew6207
    @patrickkillabrew62072 жыл бұрын

    “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.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын

    Is brain plasticity happening through neuron connections?

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes65372 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын

    What happens to oxygen in the brain? How do neurons use oxygen, if they use oxygen?

  • @holgerjrgensen2166
    @holgerjrgensen21662 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @GabrielGarcia-jf2uc
    @GabrielGarcia-jf2uc2 жыл бұрын

    "I have a brain" -the brain.

  • @BugRib

    @BugRib

    2 жыл бұрын

    True.

  • @richardedward123
    @richardedward1232 жыл бұрын

    Grad student at age 19? Dang.

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes65372 жыл бұрын

    probably the first two have more to say, the rest ! those have nothing are the dominant, on which basis ! no one can really answer,

  • @alexanderbell7746
    @alexanderbell77462 жыл бұрын

    the same of stomach

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg10752 жыл бұрын

    Brains BRAINS! Why do you eat brains? To stop the pain Pain from what? Being DEAD!

  • @ibinfo-tube5063
    @ibinfo-tube50632 жыл бұрын

    👉📣 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 😊

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Why does the brain focus on Reality? Is there a special structure in the brain for Reality?

  • @Bassotronics
    @Bassotronics2 жыл бұрын

    There is no bigger irony than the brain trying to comprehend it’s own ways of comprehending itself.

  • @ZenTradeGame

    @ZenTradeGame

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s like a knife trying to cut itself lol

  • @markfischer3626
    @markfischer36262 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ghostgate82
    @ghostgate822 жыл бұрын

    As above, so below. Our brain is a miniature version of the universe. Every component below has an analogue above.

  • @mr.spinoza

    @mr.spinoza

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mystical hogwash. What bases your claim?

  • @ghostgate82

    @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

    @GeorgieKiely

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hogwash

  • @ghostgate82

    @ghostgate82

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GeorgieKiely You won’t get a dignified response either, because you already know, apparently.

  • @GeorgieKiely

    @GeorgieKiely

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ghostgate82 You would likely give me more hogwash as a reply any way.

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes65372 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @zoka9260
    @zoka92602 жыл бұрын

    go to Carl Jung's , Nikola Tesla's works to be creative and face your shadow kids

  • @troncat8007
    @troncat80072 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6lo1JuRirO7grg.html What the heck is a melted cheese sandwich!?

  • @grijzekijker

    @grijzekijker

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hmmm, let me masticate on this.. kzread.infohSaKbCi6pBk What's the melting point of your local cheese?

  • @Bassotronics
    @Bassotronics2 жыл бұрын

    12:07 = Alternate Harrison Ford.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    The brain expectation to sense has a time element, the future? Brain processing deals with the future?

  • @ricksteves1973
    @ricksteves19732 жыл бұрын

    i'll take 3 lbs, shaved, please. thanks sir

  • @jeremycrofutt7322
    @jeremycrofutt73222 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @costinradu8840
    @costinradu88402 жыл бұрын

    27 minutes of nothing. Just general information beautifully packed for clickbait

  • @jeremycrofutt7322
    @jeremycrofutt73222 жыл бұрын

    You can be coherent to God's word or not be coherent to his word.