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I recall someone posting that the human brain is essentially "overclocked". I don't recall if that was the phrasing but the gist was that our level of intellige
by JKCalhoun 6mo ago
I recall someone posting that the human brain is essentially "overclocked". I don't recall if that was the phrasing but the gist was that our level of intelligence can only exist by skirting the fringes of sanity. Like some set of dynamic differential equations where, if you bump a coefficient, it spins off into chaos.
Perhaps this Brave New World, as opposed to the more agrarian one our species had been accustomed to, pushes many of us over that threshold.
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 6mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_brain_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_brain_hypothesis
- mday27 6mo agoGiven that this includes rat and mouse studies, it seems like this theory is more around the idea that criticality is a characteristic of how brains work in general, not that human brains hit criticality as a peculiarity of our particularly high intelligence
- jona-f 6mo agoSo that article does not support the "overclocked" thesis, rather that this critical state is needed for optimal performance. I do agree with the original sentiment, that we are not exactly well adapted to our environment. Or our environment to us, cause this is the main point I think that is missing from this discourse about adhd or other modern frequent mental conditions: too high expectations. Cause of our inherent human narcissism we think we are more attentive and logical than we actually are, so naturally those with lower attention become noticeable first. Or whatever other metric we are measuring leading to whatever condition (depression, autism, ...). At least that mechanism seems underreported in the public. Anyone familiar with how this is viewed on in academia?
- Qem 6mo ago> I don't recall if that was the phrasing but the gist was that our level of intelligence can only exist by skirting the fringes of sanity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763424001052 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342...
- tmerc 6mo agoNo science to back this but my first diagnosis was explained similarly. The claim was that the brain consumed all the neurotransmitter chemicals quickly and runs out. Amphetamines speed up production, so you have any instead of none. Idk how correct that is but it seems to work.