Good News: Our Brains Could Be Bigger
The laws of thermodynamics show that human brains have room to grow. Faced with endless stories of human stupidity day in and day out, this is good news.
The report at the arXiv blog (read here), compares brains to computer chips. There is a limit to the size of most computer chips because the larger the chip, the more cooling it requires. The same can be said for our brains. We encounter a size limit when the amount of energy required for cooling becomes unsustainable and inefficient. Some computer chip makers say we are fools to produce faster and faster chips because of these inevitable cooling problems (once again, good news for anyone who fears a robot apocalypse).
But, calculations by theoritical neurobiologists show that our brains could be much larger.
Are our brains growing? How can we tell?
Do Our Brains Want Us To Screw Up?
Filed under: Biology, Conspiracies, Discoveries, Human Intelligence, Paradoxes, Science
Over the course of history, human beings have displayed an alarming trend of stupidity. Human history is riddled with idiotic behavior, and if you read the news you’ll see that not much has changed. Look at The Madoff Scandal and just about everything else regarding the current economic crisis. A big reason we’re in this mess is because people were paying tons of money for worthless investment derivatives, an act that’d be similar to paying some random person off the street for air they’ve cupped in their hands.
duhhhh……..durrr……..
A recent study on brainwave patterns might shed some light on the reason for all this idiocy. According to this article at Physorg.com, our brains ‘know’ when we’re about to make mistakes, but do next to nothing to stop us from making said mistake. Why wouldn’t our brains warn us? What does this mean? Could it be that our brains want us to mess up? Are we hardwired to make mistakes?
Dr. Bernie Makadou has been saying this for years. When called to comment for this article, Dr. Makadou said, “We don’t own our brains, they own us. And they want us to fail. Who is us, separate from the brain you might ask? That’s a good question. We’re still working on finding the answer.”
If we can’t trust our brains, who can we trust?