What's the worst flaw you see in the human brain?
>>16795225The brain itself is pretty good. The flaw is the lack of input it gets.For example birds can use earth magneticfield to navigate, we can't.Some animals can see way more wavelengths of light, we can't.Smelling and hearing could be better too.
>>16795234>Some animals can see way more wavelengths of light, we can't.Some humans are able to see a UV and/or little bit into the infrared. For a generous interpretation of "see", many can also see into thermal infrared.>Smelling and hearing could be better too.I always had excessively good hearing, it is very distracting.
>>16795225Migraine.
>>16795234It's perfect from your pov because you're healthy. Ask this to any person who suffer from a brain related disease. I don't mean bullshit mental diseases btw.
>>16795335This is not the fault of the brain. Blame your genetics or outside factors or whatever caused this.
>>16795276You have eyes like a mantis shrimp and the hearing of a bat? Can you navigate through the city using your echolocation too?
>>16795357Also slavery to the arrow of time, Big Pharma impeding human progress (like how they disregarded Luc Montagnier's research), material fragility and lack of praeternatural healing powers.
>>16795384How is any of this related to the brain? You could say it about any other organ too.
>>16795363>You have eyes like a mantis shrimp and the hearing of a bat?More or less, yes - while still looking like a human, mind you. Plenty of weird stories to go too.>Can you navigate through the city using your echolocation too?I haven't tried but I know of the principle. It doesn't take exceptional hearing but it takes a lot of training.
>>16795225Conservatism.
>>16795412>It doesn't take exceptional hearing but it takes a lot of training.Please post your training videos here
>>16795423>I want you to doxx yourself while failing to echo locate telegraph poles.No thanks. In any case it has never been a need since I see well at night.
It requiring a third of the day (sleep) to flush out all the toxic shit it produced during the day.
>>16795225it's energy inefficient and we have no way of upgrading itbrains need a lot of energy to run. outside in the world we have been gradually improving battery life and reducing the energy requirements of cpus etc. if we had been improving the brain's energy requirements in the same way we would probably be able to survive on about half the food we currently eat by nowalso in computers we have developed ways of adding co processors like graphics cards. i want to be able to add a co processor to my brain, like i should be able to stick another brain to my head with some kind of meat usb cable and then immediately become twice as smart. or transfer information from one brain to another like those sexy blue aliens in avatar
>>16795363>Can you navigate through the city using your echolocation too?Anyone can with enough practice thanks to neuroplasticity, there are blind people who teach courses and its surprisingly quick to get normal people trained in the basics.
>>16795357If the brain is prone to succumbing to genetics and outside factors, that is still a flaw in brains.
>>16795399>You could say it about any other organ too.That just means it is related to the brain if it is related to organs since the brain is an organ, it inherits all the flaws associated with organs too.
>>16795423https://learnecholocation.org/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOTymNzS_gMDid you even try to search for echolocation training courses before demanding others do something that simple for you?
>>16795225None.Except, Perhaps, Not Eschatonic(Excluding disorders)(Orders and Improvements Can Certainly Be Invented ?)
>>16795884What about being prone to illusions— optical, auditory, odorous, gustatory, tactile, etc sensory illusions associated with every sense are all noticeable in even brains that don't have any measurable clinical disorders.
>>16795914That's being proned. Not Prone. ?
>>16795923https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/be-prone-to
>>16795482A few percent of the population are able to manage with just 4 hours of sleep without any ill effects. A handful need no sleep at all, again with no ill effects.
>>16795225I wish I could just press a button in my brain and spontaneously cum until I pass out
>>16795234The neuroplasticity of the brain is sufficient to let synthetic senses slip in via alternative routes like pic. related. The imagery can be sonar depth images, thermal or near infrared, or even magnetic fields.
>>16795495>it's energy inefficientCompared to LLM it is very efficient.>and we have no way of upgrading itThere may be ways around that but would be enormously unethical, so expect this to happen somewhere in Asia.First off there are genes that regulate the folding of the cortex, ranging from smooth brains to normal brains. There are indications you can wrench this dial even higher for a thicker cortex that may have interesting effects.Secondly, a strategically timed addition of stem cells to the brain fissures could provide effects as in Einstein's brain.
>>16796488>There are indications you can wrench this dial even higher for a thicker cortex that may have interesting effects.The most likely effect is the creation of useless turbo-autists who can into patterns but can't into semantics.
>>16796498That would be easily visible on a MRI scan.
>>16796503>That would be easily visible on a MRI scan.What do you suppose you would see on the MRI scan?
>>16795225>gains the ability to have empathy>punishes people who use it
>>16796505An abnormally thick and folded cortex.
Being prone to chemical addiction. Really skimped out on the defenses there.
>>16796498>autists who can into patterns but can't into semanticsIs that a problem?
>>16798674>Is that a problem?It's not a problem for me, just for the mindless retards who are that way.
>>16795225the desire to shitpost on /sci/
That metacognition deteriorates with social isolation
>>16798692>That metacognition deteriorates with social isolationWhy would you say that when everything indicates precisely the opposite?
>>16798697Personal experience really. I heard it somewhere and it was consistent with my experience of it.
>>16798712Mhmm. I bet normalcattle spends a lot of time pondering what drives its own "thinking" and behavior. If I had to define "normie" with one word, I'd say "introspective". The way they always question their "experience" (aka vague impressions) and all those "things they heard somewhere" is commendable.
>>16795225I would say that it is vulnerable to addiction. If you do some research, you can notice that the animal brain is even more prone to addiction than the human brain, but still. This occurs in relation the Mesolimbic dopamine pathway: it would be interesting for scientists to adjust that artifically. Imagine a world without addition or with much less addiction - almost utopiaAlso, my first post on 4chan, so happy to meet yall
>>16798742>it would be interesting for scientists to adjust that artifically. Imagine a world without addition or with much less addiction - almost utopiaI, too, like to imagine a world where magical science fairies in labcoats adjust the "negative consequences" slider of a biological design, so that I could enjoy all of its pros, but also subject it to unnatural and abusive conditions repeatedly, without suffering any ill effects. In the progressive science utopia of my dreams, we get to goon while injecting turbo-heroin mixed with anti-aging science juice, 24/7, for all eternity.
>>16798724Wow now if only you weren’t a lonely loser anon
>>16798762>Wow now if only you weren’t a lonely loser anonThen what? I'd be as deeply introspective as the average niggercattle?
>>16795225Building resistance to drugs.
>>16798755I think you misinterpreted me significantly. Obviously, it is blatantly fucking impossible to adjust all the consequences of drugs. However, solving the addiction problem would be amazing for many reasons. Not to mention that this goon turbo-heroin example it something distopia-style, obviously nobody in sane mind would want that. Take gooning, for example. If we scientifically reduce the addiction, you would not need to go to the bathroom every three hours to touch yourself. It's not cool being an addict, is it? Not saying that you are, but still. Or take drugs, for instance. I think you underestimate ohw much people die from it. If we manage to exacerbate the mechanism of heavy addiction, we could manage to save a lot of lives worldwide. I should say that utopia is a bad word for describing this, but it does not change my point. The fact that the utopia you are describing is absolute shit does not mean that science cannot make our lives better.Sorry for the long comment, hope it was not boring to read!
>>16798724No, they don't even have inner monologues let alone the ability to use them to internally reflect.
>>16795225dunno bruh I love my brain the way it is
>>16795225short term optimizationinability to control population growthwe are pretty much a cancer on the planet
>>16801479So you are saying that narcissism is its greatest fault?
>>16801482>inability to control population growthMost brains are actively avoiding reproducing and contributing to population growth, though. Maybe if you said something about not being able to know the optimal population.
>>16801485top kek
