Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoYour brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.message-squaremessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1326arrow-down131
arrow-up1295arrow-down1message-squareYour brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 months agoI do wonder if the electrical impulses give off any light
minus-squareqooqie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-211 months agoTo explain why, the electrical signals is not like how we know electricity like when you see lightning. It’s salt/ion based movements in and out of cells. A lot more boring
minus-squarethe post of tom joad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoSo kind of like a battery?
minus-squareNarrrz@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoexactly like a battery. also, thinking skills decline with age for the same reason that batteries lose maximum capacity over time.
minus-squarelazylion_ca@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoA human brain conceived Ohms Law with no realization of it itself was functioning.
minus-squareGumus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoThe brain also named itself (along with everything else)
minus-squareJeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoEven if how would the brain detect them?
minus-squareDecoy321@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·11 months agoThat’s a separate issue. A blind person could still sit in a well lit room.
minus-squareLantech@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agohttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seeing-without-eyes1/
I do wonder if the electrical impulses give off any light
no they don’t
To explain why, the electrical signals is not like how we know electricity like when you see lightning. It’s salt/ion based movements in and out of cells. A lot more boring
So kind of like a battery?
exactly like a battery.
also, thinking skills decline with age for the same reason that batteries lose maximum capacity over time.
It’s a wave of ion movement.
A human brain conceived Ohms Law with no realization of it itself was functioning.
The brain also named itself (along with everything else)
Even if how would the brain detect them?
That’s a separate issue. A blind person could still sit in a well lit room.
Prove it
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seeing-without-eyes1/
Interesting read. Ty!