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More proof of where on the path of a mechanistic explanation of the brain, finding a whole new compartmentalization makes it seem like "not that far." Biology
by lanstin 4y ago
More proof of where on the path of a mechanistic explanation of the brain, finding a whole new compartmentalization makes it seem like "not that far."
Biology always seems like the work of a mad hacker with no code reviews for a billion years.
- bitwize 4y ago> mad hacker You might even say they were "insane in the membrane". Thanks everyone, enjoy the veal!
- gremlinsinc 4y ago[flagged]
- NetOpWibby 4y agoINSANE IN THE BRAIN
- nh23423fefe 4y agoIs this skepticism of the existence of a mechanistic explanation or just commentary on progress?
- lanstin 4y agoCommentary on its progress.
- bregma 4y agoNot sure how a membrane that surrounds the brain is part of a mechanistic explanation of the brain (by which I assume you mean the mind). This seems to serve more of a CSF (cerebro-spinal fluid) filter function.
- jchanimal 4y agoMaybe substitute "physicalistic" (as opposed to computational) for "mechanistic". I think there is something to the idea that physical layout could be tuned to use various waves (electromagnetic, fluid pressure, etc) for signaling. So it may not all be axons and dendrites, it might also work like a big capacitor / resonator, transmitting macro information through every worthwhile sidechannel. Who's to say all those side-channels are known to current science?
- eurasiantiger 4y agoFor all we know, we could have an interited quantum-coherent base pair linking us to all other living entities.
- User23 4y agoOr, if many-worlds is true, our entangled parallel selves!
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoI'm a firm believer in quantum immortality.
- User23 4y agoI assume you've seen this[1] story about quantum immortality, but other readers may not have. [1] https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/ https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
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- canadianfella 4y agoWhat does your first sentence mean?
- lanstin 4y agoIf that was to me, it was subtweeting some of the optimism that we will be anble to fully simulate a human brain, including diffusion of mood affecting molecules, any day now. It is like the people that thought the genome had 100k genes and sequencing it would make it all understandable, only to find out there are just 30k genes and a lot we had no idea about. When your data gathering shows you had massive errors, you are not almost done understanding things.
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- electrondood 4y agoBiology to me seems like the work of a billion years of iterations in an evolutionary neural network. If the human body were a codebase, there's no way in hell it would work so well if it were the product of any other process.
- andsoitis 4y agoEvolution by natural selection.