Vivian on 23/9/2016 at 16:36
Ok, in that case, you're talking utter bollocks.
Goldmoon Dawn on 23/9/2016 at 16:57
I wouldnt go that far, but I bet it makes more sense if you are stoned.
Renault on 23/9/2016 at 17:00
Quote Posted by Vivian
Leave your bedroom dude.
More likely it's his parent's basement.
hedonicflux~~ on 23/9/2016 at 17:27
Quote Posted by Brethren
More likely it's his parent's basement.
I live independently, renting out a room for $590 a month and pay my own way. Just because your world works a certain way doesn't mean everyone's works the same way.
Vivian on 23/9/2016 at 17:34
You're still talking bollocks. The mind is a physical pattern that exists in a physical substrate of finite size. If you can't accept that you haven't really got much hope of understanding any of the weirder shit about the universe.
Goldmoon Dawn on 23/9/2016 at 17:43
Im pretty sure he is talking about what the mind *taps into*, not the lump of grey flesh in and of itself. I also believe that this theory is where the getting stoned comes into play.
Vivian on 23/9/2016 at 17:47
It physically incapable of storing infinite information. Memory has a physical basis. You'd need an infinitely large head.
Unless you just mean, 'you can imagine an endless process', but that's kinda different to being able to contain the whole universe in your head.
Sulphur on 23/9/2016 at 17:48
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Easy, you just define "information" as "something the brain can hold an infinite amount of".
To be fair, cognitive dissonance qualifies as information in this particular scenario.
hedonicflux~~ on 23/9/2016 at 17:52
Quote Posted by Vivian
It physically incapable of storing infinite information. Memory has a physical basis. You'd need an infinitely large head.
You're just wrong. You're not understanding the concept here. The brain doesn't need to store every piece of infomation. I didn't say it has infinite information already stored. I said it has the
potential to "store" infinite information, in whatever obscure or compressed way. Goldmoon Dawn is right. There is nothing we aren't capable of knowing, no computation we aren't capable of computing. If the brain decides a piece of information is no longer of much value, it will suppress it, condense it to almost nothing, and even use that piece of information to abstractly refer to other things, as a matter of adaptation. All you need is a loop.
Sulphur on 23/9/2016 at 18:07
Quote Posted by hedonicflux~~
It doesn't need to store the information all at once. It can compress and decompress things, make associations to connect one thought to another so one can be reconstructed without both being explicitely stored. All it is is a loop. You can draw a loop or an infinity symbol on a sheet of paper, so why can't you're brain store infinite information?
Simple. An infinity symbol isn't infinite. It's a set of quantifiable closed loops, inscribed on a quantifiable physical medium. You couldn't actually write an infinite amount of infinity loops on a piece of paper: you'd either run out of ink, or run out of paper. The same with your brain: the neurons in your head are finite, and will not hold everything in an infinite set of experiences; you
will reach a physical limit at some point, even if it seems infinite to you. This is basic logic.
Quote:
Consider that each one of us is capable of perceiving the entire universe, which is infinite.
Citation needed.
Quote:
Once you reach the event horizon the mind adapts to teach itself how to traverse the fourth dimension. Say you're stuck getting sucked into a black hole. There's no "atomization into subatomic particles" that takes place. Nothing takes place beyond the event horizon; that's why it's called what it is. When time is your problem, when you're caught in a cycle of gravitational intensification stretched along the length of your body, you will do anything to escape your predicament, including learning and mastering the fourth dimention--learning how to time travel.
This is a good attempt at emulating the tonality and spiritual aesthetics of new-age woo, but the problem with new-age woo is when it attempts to repurpose established science for its own ends, it ends up violating the rules of said established science by attempting to disappear up its own butthole.
