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Based on intuition, I think of the universe as a giant cellular automaton. Each state of the universe is a slice of time, which lasts a Planck length of time. E
by human_v2 17y ago
Based on intuition, I think of the universe as a giant cellular automaton. Each state of the universe is a slice of time, which lasts a Planck length of time. Each slice is static, but the loaf of time-bread is dynamic as a hole. The brain is interesting in that it is capable of storing information from previous slices.
The brain, seeing at 13 fps according to TFA, relies on itself to interpolate the things that happen in between frames as well as combining the separate streams into what you perceive as vision.
I think the most interesting point the article made was that your brain operates a different frequencies. While this is not shocking, it does go to show that we can explain the functionality of our brains as a complicated computer system, and our bodies as a mechanical robot that happens to be squishy.
Now that we view ourselves as machines, perhaps we can apply more engineering practices for bodily upgrades. Anyone else want to be a cyborg as bad as I do?
- daeken 17y agoI too want to be a cyborg, but I wonder when it'll come. One of the things I'm personally interested in (outside of the blue-sky stuff I read about in H+) is better interfaces for the already ubiquitous computers we have. I've been sketching up designs for Eyetap hardware that can be put into mass production and the software to back it, but I don't have the skill or money to make it happen, sadly. That such great technology exists but is solely in academia is just disappointing.