Quote from: sjefen on May 24, 2008, 11:04:27 AM
This is going to be a little bit of topic, but I just want to say I once saw a documentary about the brain. It was interesting and all, but there was this one thing really got me worried. They said that the brain is not really aware of it's own existence. What the hell does that mean?
The brain is just a bunch of connected neurons and neurons certainly aren't aware of anything. The human mind is some emergent phenomenon that miraculously appears when you put enough neurons into a skull. I guess they meant that.
Something interesting and off-topic too. The brain makes final decisions long before the point when we think we're making the decision.
The brain can easily be fooled. The less clear a perception is, the more does the brain fill it with assumptions, patterns and random information. This is what enables us to recognize stuff in situations like this:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Emergence.jpgand it is what makes it hard to avoid mistakes in working with formal systems like programming languages and mathematics in general - where assumptions quickly lead to errors.
I don't believe in ghosts and if they exist, there's a logical explanation for them.
I also think, this world that we're living in is already wonderfully miraculous as is.