Post by princessfuzzball on Dec 3, 2006 20:53:35 GMT -5
I'd like to point out two fallacies- the first being about people who say "we only use 10% of our brain"
The whole brain is used, it all works. You see, we only use about 10% of our brain for conscious thought, and memory. The rest is busy busy busy processing signals that are coming in from all of out senses (see above post for more on that), and running the rest of our body so that we may maintain a state of homeostasis. If we only used 10% of our brain, we would be in a pile of trouble, we wouldn't know that we were hungry, so we would not eat, and we certinally would not be able to comprehend the world around us in any congruent and sensible fashion. Did you know that the brain also uses 1/3 of the whole body's energy? That's a lot, but when it comes down to it, all those neural connections firing uses more energy than any other singular process in the body. (I love neuroscience)
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If you are light, then it means that are a very very small thing (called a photon, you can have millions of these make up light, one alone is very small but still bright in it's own way), and would not have space for the photoreceptors. We see things just because light bounces off of things, about 95% of it is reflected in the different anatomical portions of our eye or is scattered, I used to know how much and where by heart, but I am in need of a refresher. So a lot of it never even makes it to our retina, and we make a picture from what we can "see", that 5% of the light. Can you please define dark? There are more wavelenghts aside from visible light, are these excluded in your light, or not? Finally, light, or lots of those photons, moves in 360 degrees from it's origin, but travels in wavelengths. Each photon moves off in a STRAIGHT wavelength from it's origin. So is your light a bunch of photons or just one?
I think if I had money, I'd send you a good neuroscience book, and a nice modern physics book for you to study so you understand this better, because once you do, you will really be like, "WOWZORS!" but then I do that a lot when I'm learning new things, just cause it makes me excited.
The whole brain is used, it all works. You see, we only use about 10% of our brain for conscious thought, and memory. The rest is busy busy busy processing signals that are coming in from all of out senses (see above post for more on that), and running the rest of our body so that we may maintain a state of homeostasis. If we only used 10% of our brain, we would be in a pile of trouble, we wouldn't know that we were hungry, so we would not eat, and we certinally would not be able to comprehend the world around us in any congruent and sensible fashion. Did you know that the brain also uses 1/3 of the whole body's energy? That's a lot, but when it comes down to it, all those neural connections firing uses more energy than any other singular process in the body. (I love neuroscience)
NEXT-
If you are light, then it means that are a very very small thing (called a photon, you can have millions of these make up light, one alone is very small but still bright in it's own way), and would not have space for the photoreceptors. We see things just because light bounces off of things, about 95% of it is reflected in the different anatomical portions of our eye or is scattered, I used to know how much and where by heart, but I am in need of a refresher. So a lot of it never even makes it to our retina, and we make a picture from what we can "see", that 5% of the light. Can you please define dark? There are more wavelenghts aside from visible light, are these excluded in your light, or not? Finally, light, or lots of those photons, moves in 360 degrees from it's origin, but travels in wavelengths. Each photon moves off in a STRAIGHT wavelength from it's origin. So is your light a bunch of photons or just one?
I think if I had money, I'd send you a good neuroscience book, and a nice modern physics book for you to study so you understand this better, because once you do, you will really be like, "WOWZORS!" but then I do that a lot when I'm learning new things, just cause it makes me excited.