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Re: How we use our brain

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:59 pm

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Re: How we use our brain

Post by JimC » Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:07 am

I find that a G & T collapses the wave function quite nicely...
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Re: How we use our brain

Post by Svartalf » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:10 am

JimC wrote:
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I find that a G & T collapses the wave function quite nicely...
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Post by Tero » Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:21 am

2014 shared nobel on two types of cells, place cells and grid cells, that make spatial maps of the rat's world. Rats being better at smelling do not need light to tell them that they are in a particular place in their lab habitat. If you move them to a different "maze" they erase the old and make a new map


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Durr!
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Re: How we use our brain

Post by Hermit » Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:45 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:10 am
JimC wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:07 am
I find that a G & T collapses the wave function quite nicely...
You know that surfers are going to hate you, right?
Not at all. The best waves travel for thousands of kilometres across oceans. Surfers ride the last metres in which those waves jack up, then literally collapse against sandy or rocky shores. The best collapses start overhead and envelop you. Occasionally, time slows down and even seems to stop unless things go wrong, which actually happens more often than not. In that case they turn you into a ragdoll.



Disclaimer: I have never ridden waves anywhere near that size, but anything above about 1.5 metres can inflict a thorough mauling on you at quality surf spots. Point breaks are particularly apt to do that.
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Post by Tero » Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:34 pm

With all my brain and neurology books, I've picked up a few of them short psychology books. One of them had a chapter on pleasure and happiness. The lengths our genes go to to get us to carry the genes forward.

Anyway, he made up a phrase "happiness treadmill." The happiness state does not last long, so you seek to extend it. After crappy sleep for 4 hours I had coffee and a breakfast, nothing big. That was the happiness state for 45 minutes. My wife was using McDonalds wifi that time.
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Re: How we use our brain

Post by Tero » Fri Aug 13, 2021 8:52 pm

Childhood memories
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/health/c ... index.html

One of my earliest memories is at that 3.5-4 age where the limit is. Of getting car sick.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Aug 13, 2021 9:09 pm

Tero wrote:With all my brain and neurology books, I've picked up a few of them short psychology books. One of them had a chapter on pleasure and happiness. The lengths our genes go to to get us to carry the genes forward.

Anyway, he made up a phrase "happiness treadmill." The happiness state does not last long, so you seek to extend it. After crappy sleep for 4 hours I had coffee and a breakfast, nothing big. That was the happiness state for 45 minutes. My wife was using McDonalds wifi that time.
Sounds a bit like the hedonist's paradox.
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Re: How we use our brain

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Re: How we use our brain

Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Aug 13, 2021 11:28 pm

Seems fine for me. :dunno:
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Post by Tero » Fri Aug 13, 2021 11:44 pm

OK
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Re: How we use our brain

Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Aug 14, 2021 2:20 pm

My brain uses me. :cry:

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