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C4 Diesel · 02-04-2005, 09:38 AM

That's kind of why I automatically eluded to any current "psychic" capability as taking place in the mind... It's the only part of the body that we really know very little about, and it's insanely difficult to gather more information on it. It's this big, glob of stuff with essentially the same mushy pudding found throughout and very few discrepencies, yet it produced every different conscious thought? WHAT!?!? It blows my mind to think that neuron #1305849403 may have 50 functions while nuron #23843298432 might have only one, and neuron #73 might not even get used... ever. And you can't track this stuff. You can't place little nano-electrodes on assloads of individual neurons or groups of neurons and tell somebody to think and read what they all do. I mean, more macro-scale studies have done things similar using CAT scans and the like to get a general idea of what happens where, but the specifics of neural networks are VERY eluding. There's 100 billion of these little things!!!

Last I had heard (a year or so ago) some scientists made a tiny little chip with like 12 electrodes and they inserted it inside a mouse's brain and could make him hungry via remote control. I thought that was pretty impressive.

02-04-2005, 09:38 AM	#15 (permalink)
C4 Diesel Crazy Location: Troy, NY	That's kind of why I automatically eluded to any current "psychic" capability as taking place in the mind... It's the only part of the body that we really know very little about, and it's insanely difficult to gather more information on it. It's this big, glob of stuff with essentially the same mushy pudding found throughout and very few discrepencies, yet it produced every different conscious thought? WHAT!?!? It blows my mind to think that neuron #1305849403 may have 50 functions while nuron #23843298432 might have only one, and neuron #73 might not even get used... ever. And you can't track this stuff. You can't place little nano-electrodes on assloads of individual neurons or groups of neurons and tell somebody to think and read what they all do. I mean, more macro-scale studies have done things similar using CAT scans and the like to get a general idea of what happens where, but the specifics of neural networks are VERY eluding. There's 100 billion of these little things!!! Last I had heard (a year or so ago) some scientists made a tiny little chip with like 12 electrodes and they inserted it inside a mouse's brain and could make him hungry via remote control. I thought that was pretty impressive. __________________ C4 to your door, no beef no more... Last edited by C4 Diesel; 02-04-2005 at 09:40 AM..