[FeLiZeCaT]

How many can you spare on a good day?

Seriously, some say we use only 10% of our brain, and the rest is left "to be explored".

So, do you believe in hidden powers of the brain? Or is that all hype?

[The Internet]

I will eat you brain

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by FeLiZeCaT

Seriously, some say we use only 10% of our brain, and the rest is left "to be explored".

What movie, again, dispensed this hopeful rubbish?

[Kevin]

I am still running off the 1/4 of one I have left. I had a 1/2 but recently burnt it out.

[FeLiZeCaT]

Originally Posted by Stradlater

What movie, again, dispensed this hopeful rubbish?

I honestly don't know.

I am not totally serious with this thread, but I am still curious about what people think about their own brain, and the beliefs they have about their capabilities.

I am also reading "The Labyrinth Key" of Howard Hendricks. Using Kabbalah, cryptography and quantum computing on a background near-futuristic, he explores the possibility of humanity evolving to a higher status, but requiring the brain, and the body, to be augmented with nano-device. I won't tell you more about the plot, in case you read it.

But I thought it was an idea worth exploring.

[Daveecee]

Originally Posted by Stradlater

What movie, again, dispensed this hopeful rubbish?

Was it Wedding Crashers?

EDIT: Yep, Wedding Crashers.

[Doofy]

[Kevin]

I photoshopped some girls head that I knew onto that pic awhile back.

It even resembled her to begin with.

[FeLiZeCaT]

Back on topic, the writer uses references from Giordano Bruno, a Dominican, who used to be an itinerant teacher. He was also one of the followers of Copernicus. He attempted to bring together the Kabballah and Hermeticism which lead him to firmly believe in an infinity of Earths in an infinite space all inhabited by intelligent beings. He was against the dogma of the Catholic Church. He died at the stake in 1600, after several years in prison, where the Church attempted to reason with him. It is said he spat at the Bible shown to him before being burned.

Another element used in this book the concept of memory palaces, as propagated (apparently) by Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit, in China, and taught to the chinese these techniques to better convert them to Christianism.

"Later memory masters, like Giordano Bruno, went beyond the idea of imagining a particular building and instead created systems in which the universe itself was the complex edifice in which memories were to be stored and from which they were to be retrieved" (p. 413).

This is quite interesting, as it reminds me of the metacognition studies of the last few decades.

Who could have thought that some of the Ancients could have had such knowledge?

[Stradlater]

"Ancients"? Seem closer to coeval than anything else.

Honestly, you've been had. Don't buy into such mumbo-jumbo. We use all of our brains (some better than others), but obviously have enough glial cells and neurons that a few wouldn't be missed in the fray of day-to-day.

[turtle777]

Sure, my dick takes control, and I'm back to normal

-t

[FeLiZeCaT]

Originally Posted by Stradlater

"Ancients"? Seem closer to coeval than anything else.

Honestly, you've been had. Don't buy into such mumbo-jumbo. We use all of our brains (some better than others), but obviously have enough glial cells and neurons that a few wouldn't be missed in the fray of day-to-day.

I have not been had.

I know very well that our brain is used close to 100%. As mentionned in the OP, "some said". I am still interested in people's opinion over their brains.

And I used the term "Ancient" metaphorically.

By the way, "memory palaces" were techniques used to better memorize. No mumbo-jumbo.

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by FeLiZeCaT

I have not been had.

I know very well that our brain is used close to 100%. As mentionned in the OP, "some said". I am still interested in people's opinion over their brains.

And I used the term "Ancient" metaphorically.

I apologize, but I rarely can deal with pseudoscience, which is usually what Kabbalic incorporations like the one you mentioned earlier in the thread involve.

By the way, "memory palaces" were techniques used to better memorize. No mumbo-jumbo.

I.e. sorting?

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by FeLiZeCaT

How many can you spare on a good day?

Seriously, some say we use only 10% of our brain

That is an urban legend, we use most of our brian.

[FeLiZeCaT]

Originally Posted by Stradlater

I apologize, but I rarely can deal with pseudoscience, which is usually what Kabbalic incorporations like the one you mentioned earlier in the thread involve.

I.e. sorting?

What do you know about metacognition?

Nothing so far, apparently.

Metacognition

Metacognition: The term metacognition refers to the act of thinking about thinking, or the cognition of cognition. It is the ability for you to control your own thoughts. Confused? Although it is a complex construct, the definition is not complex. It really is the knowledge and regulation of cognitive phenomena which means, you can control your own thoughts. Metacognition includes the ability for you to control, 1) person variables (knowledge about one's self, and others' thinking), 2) task variables (knowledge that different types of tasks exert different types of cognitive demands), and; 3) strategy variables (knowledge about cognitive and metacognitive strategies for enhancing learning and performance).

Here are a few books on the topic of "metacognition".

Unless you believe there is no science in psychology, this could prove you wrong.

There is no "esoteric philosophy" involved. But then, re-reading Newton's Principia Mathematica might connect you to the alchemical fundations of gravity...

The fact is that Sciences, at the turn of the dark ages used vocabulary and symbolisms that were appropriate in the context of their times for all knowledges.

My point is that the fact that people developped techniques to improve mnemonic performances in the 1600's is quite impressive.

But maybe you are to blasé to even look further than "Kabbalah" to appreciate.

[Rumor]

Too much information...brain falling into to "sleep" mode..

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by FeLiZeCaT

What do you know about metacognition?

Nothing so far, apparently.

Metacognition

Here are a few books on the topic of "metacognition".

Your point here being? I figured what it meant by dissecting the word...and even after confirming it with your definition, I'm still at: so?

Unless you believe there is no science in psychology, this could prove you wrong.

I guess I'll skim this a bit later to see if it clarifies things. As far as psychology goes, depends on the specific issue at hand—psychology is full of holes and grey areas (some interesting, some nauseous, and I hope this article falls in the former).

There is no "esoteric philosophy" involved. But then, re-reading Newton's Principia Mathematica might connect you to the alchemical fundations of gravity...

The fact is that Sciences, at the turn of the dark ages used vocabulary and symbolisms that were appropriate in the context of their times for all knowledges.

My point is that the fact that people developped techniques to improve mnemonic performances in the 1600's is quite impressive.

I mean, I just think it's an underestimation to find it too impressive—if the impression is slight, as when an observer verbalizes an "Oh, imagine that," then I apologize. I just don't think humanity is that much more advanced today than it was a few centuries ago.

But maybe you are to blasé to even look further than "Kabbalah" to appreciate.

Sarcasm is fine; I'm full of it. I'm also a skeptic and cynic, but willing to hear anything out and make up my own mind about it.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

That is an urban legend, we use most of our brian.

Brian must be gay.

[The Internet]

Thread ruined.

[FeLiZeCaT]

Originally Posted by Stradlater

Your point here being? I figured what it meant by dissecting the word...and even after confirming it with your definition, I'm still at: so?

My point being it's not "mumbo-jumbo", but a field of research, which, in those terms, is far more accurate than "blah!"..

I guess I'll skim this a bit later to see if it clarifies things. As far as psychology goes, depends on the specific issue at hand—psychology is full of holes and grey areas (some interesting, some nauseous, and I hope this article falls in the former).

It is a field of study, not a science in itself. And yes, there is crap in popular psychology, and this is not. although it could still be crappy, yet I thought it was an interesting topic. But it is not "pseudo-science"; it is a topic.

I mean, I just think it's an underestimation to find it too impressive—if the impression is slight, as when an observer verbalizes an "Oh, imagine that," then I apologize. I just don't think humanity is that much more advanced today than it was a few centuries ago.

It obviously is not. My point is that 500 years ago, a man used the knowledges he had at the time to discover a few tricks about memory, and how to better use it. For me, the surprise is that 20 years ago, my teacher explained some "new theory" about memory, called "metacognition", and how that field of study could allow a better understanding of the human mind, because it allows one self to look upon itself's way of thinking. I think it is great that a Dominican priest thought of that in 1560 something.

Sarcasm is fine; I'm full of it. I'm also a skeptic and cynic, but willing to hear anything out and make up my own mind about it.

Of course you can make your own mind about it.

Now if you could only have a look at how you make your own mind about it...

The treatement of depression has changed because of new techniques of interventions that call for that simple process of "watching your own thoughts", and think of something more constructive.

Had Giordano Bruno not been burned at the stake of the Inquisition, would that have changed the world? Probably not. But the thought is just another cliffhanger, similar to Galileo Galilei's ideas that were so close to relativity (the demonstration using the movement of waves and the boatman).