Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "Veritasium"
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Invalid Opinion Our minds do not exist in reality, our brains do. Minds are a psychoLOGICAL construct manifesting the organization of physical neurons.
It is similar to the difference between the physical structure of a computer network and the logical structure determined by translated information.
Sound, color, taste, smell, texture do not exist in reality. They are all psychological representations of neuronal activation patterns.
Saying that color exists in reality is the same thing as saying a video game avatar exists in reality.
The brain is merely the interface between tangible reality and psychological reality. A physical process stimulates a sensory nerve. That nerve sends an electrical impulse through the Peripheral Nervous System to the Central Nervous System. The patterns of neuronal activations within the brain are translated into psychological representation in a heuristic process to reconcile the massive amounts of information and the ability to make conscious decisions.
Can you imagine processing the information from every cone shaped photo-receptor cells from each eye to determine the frequency of electromagnetic radiation that activates each cell? You would have to process how many of each of three types of cell to determine the relative intensity of those three colors. So, not only do colors not exist, we only perceive three frequencies of light; not the millions that you THINK you do.
To wrap this up, synesthesia is direct evidence that psychological perception of physical sensory information is merely translation of signals in reality to consciously processable representations in the mind. If color exists as a physical reality, then seeing sounds should be impossible. However, if psychological translation of information is a virtual process, then the auditory information meant for your temporal lobe can be translated by the occipital lobe resulting in some people being able to see sounds.
Can you imagine the patterns of compression waves in the air vibrating the different lengths of cilia in your ear sending patterns of electrical impulses to the brain to create a visual representation of what you hear?
Neurobiology aside, the main problem in this thread really comes down to a difference political ideology. This is a problem that confederacy was supposed to address, but federalism has intensified. The problem with psychological diversity in the perception of reality and the physical existence of that abstract existence of the mind is that “entitlement,” “benefit,” and “freedom” are constantly conflated. Freedom within individual minds give rise to conflict within shared realities.
The ability to move to an environment more conducive to your perception of reality or create such environments with like minded individuals was the point of a Democratic Republic and a confederate style nation. The more decisions that are made at the federal level, the fewer decisions that are made locally, leaving even less for the individual. As one party gains power, legislation the other party disapproves of is realized. When the pendulum swings the other way, more legislation is created that the first party disapproves of. Just as in The Pit and the Pendulum, the shift in power is inevitable just as the weight of the pendulum pulls it ever closer to completely severing the body in twain. Regardless of the party in power, the Federal government takes more decisions away from the whole nation.
It doesn’t have to be that way. If this video teaches you anything, it should teach you that being a human is what we have in common, but it is our ideological differences that allow various functions to be fulfilled. What the video doesn’t explain is that every person is responsible for how they interpret reality within their own mind, and legislating how people should interpret reality is a very dangerous path that should be tread lightly.
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Supply and demand.
The internet has, arguably, created an easily accessible and large supply of information, yet college education has skyrocketed since the advent of the internet. Basic economics would suggest that there’s something more to college education. There is. Colleges provide TWO services: dissemination of knowledge AND certification of retention of that knowledge.
Therefore, the supply of knowledge increasing suggests that it is actually the cost of certification that has skyrocketed as the cost of knowledge dropped.
That simple bit of logic seems to elude most self-styled “enlightened” individuals which results in a backwards orientation of discussion topics.
“Who should pay for college?” should be discussed AFTER “Why is college so expensive?” Solving the latter makes the former a much easier conversation to be had and solved.
Unfortunately, the benefit of specializing in a certain subject occludes the myopia that develops. Science is about learning about things, but it is sorely lacking in applying that knowledge in a useful manner for society. You talk about the hope you had for the internet, but you missed or neglected what it should have done to the cost of education.
That EXACT same narrow-minded myopia plagues the “global warming” discussion.
What you don’t understand about knowledge is that it has two main purposes in regards to the cerebral cortex: projection of history through the present to imagine many possible futures; and to develop a path from the present to the best possible future imagined. To be so mired in the effort to “prove the other side wrong,” robs you of the ability to process the second purpose of knowledge: formulating solutions. This results in the lazy act of voting for government to coerce change in society in lieu of society taking the time to create solutions.
The cerebral cortex evolved for the same reason that bifocal vision evolved: depth of perception. Bifocal vision allowed depth of spatial perception, and the cortex allowed for depth of temporal perception. Society has neglected that ability far too long while they reveled in the wonder of the internet.
So, most of what you say is true, but you don’t seem to understand the full implications of everything you said. I don’t either, but it seems I’ve considered further reaching implications than you have.
If I sound arrogant, that’s because I’m using the same tone and language that you are using in your disingenuous narrative implying that people you disagree with are wrong. I don’t have to communicate this way, and I actually prefer not to. However, discussions tend to be like a tennis match, and, more often than not, the ball is returned in the same manner it was served.
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I crunched the numbers for 2014 emission rates and applied it to hemp growth rate and sequestration rate. A hectare of hemp can sequester 22t of C in one crop; a crop takes roughly 100 days; I calculated for 2 crops per year (I don’t see why 3 crops wouldn’t be feasible). To sequester 2014’s amount of combusted CO2 emissions would require a bit over 3 million square miles of land.
That the start of the discussion. Ancillary to that would be used for hemp fiber, and there are plenty of burgeoning technologies along those lines: hemp plastics, hemp wood, hempcrete, among others. Another consideration is moving hemp agriculture underground which could also be applied to other industries. Imagine moving factories, warehouses, and various other large construction to subterranean environs which would allow Nature to begin reclaiming the surface.
As for why aren’t countries not adopting it?
Because people are short-sighted and only care about short explanations, quick fixes, and feeling good aboutbtheir thought processes. People are only bothered to take a discussion as far as they need to to “accept a plausible opinion” without taking the time to fully understanding the problem. If you don’t fully understand the problem, you can’t develop the best solutions. This results in people BELIEVING that there is a problem by acquiescing to authority figures then voting for OTHER people to solve the problem.
EVERYBODY has a brain designed specifically for solving problems, but society has relinquished that ability to emotional rhetoric and personal greed.
Humankind doesn’t need government to solve problems. They have everything they need. The only thing they lack is the drive to dream. That’s the downside of being an adult: you stop dreaming about the important things. Imagining a future is the easy part. Imagining the path to get there is the difficult but exciting part.
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A solution is developed by solving a series of functions:
Problem: Too much CO2 >
What to do?: sequester CO2 >
With what?: hemp >
What do we do with hemp?: manufacture everything possible and store blocks of it for future manufacturing
A large supply of hemp would, necessarily, crash the cost of manufacturing with it dramatically (supply and demand). Even if the supply of hemp fiber is much higher than the demand for manufacturing with it at this point, the large supply would also make research & development of hemp technologies cheaper, accessible, and happen far quicker. Once the technologies and manufacturing demands catch up with the supply, it’s just a matter of slowly replacing current products with ever increasingly advanced hemp-based material products.
In essence, a subterranean hemp agricultural system would be like an artificial lung for Earth.
Extrapolating even further into the future, this would be a precursor to terraforming technologies necessary for space exploration/colonization.
Problems have multiple aspects, consequently, solutions do to. Freeing yourself from the mundane and pointless arguments of common discourse allows your brain to do what it is designed to do: explore possibilities.
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