TossedSaladsandScrambledEggs
176934
2016
81
I used to think the brain was the most interesting thing in the world but then I thought ... look who's telling me that
Dec 5, 2021 4:16 AM
TossedSaladsandScrambledEggs
176934
2016
81
I used to think the brain was the most interesting thing in the world but then I thought ... look who's telling me that
hatingfakelove
I read Brain as Brian... idk what to say to my favor here
mikeatike
All of this is wrong or unknown conjecture.
JustAnotherCynicToo
Get a computer that has to do math the long way, not instantaneously, and I believe the 20 watts.
MoopsyLD
this is highly misleading as it would use way more the higher it functions so our brains are always set to energy saving mode.
StaggerRhythms
Because chemical reactions, not electrical
IllegalDuckling
Batteries are interesting
ThisIsGerbilReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
It named itself as well
knowallknownothing
The only thing that ever has.
Margleblargle
Really knows how to pay its own back
tzahtman
It insists upon itself.
ThisIsGerbilReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Just like The Godfather?
NewNordicWarfare
with precision and accuracy you expect from that input. Brains are lumps of wet bacon that try to output what’s expected and they guess alot
PerpetuityPhoto
I mean, that's a wonderful thought, but if someone built a computer like that, it wouldn't "Forget" things like our brains do.
DrKonrad
"Human brain is the most complex thing in the Universe" -says the human brain
PineappleLoopsBrOether
The brain named itself, the audacity
TedFromTEDtalks
Met this guy once, he's a total asshat. Never meet your heroes
Imapancakenom
What did he say that was asshattish
IlioHae
*who’s - love the irony of that. You might only be Pulling 19watts
TossedSaladsandScrambledEggs
Ouch
IlioHae
Didn’t intend that to sound as mean as it did. Sorry
TossedSaladsandScrambledEggs
It's all good
nothebees
It's afraid!
ninty9notout
The brain decided the brain is the most important organ in the body.
MisterLemons
And yet my brain can't spontaneously calculate numerical values or orbital dynamics, or run crysis...
dabard
dabard
Fugaku (world's fastest computer) uses about 30 Megawatts of power. An average Nuclear Power Plat uses 1000 Megawatts. So 3% needed.
SMarkt
michio kaku, one of my heros.
MadamPuddifoot
Look who's* @op
TossedSaladsandScrambledEggs
Thanks
industrialdamage
Have you seen how ineffective the brains of most people are?
WhenIGrowUpIWannaBeAnAardvark
Their brains are VERY effective- how much mental energy and gymnastics does it take to deny the reality around you and create your own?
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Amazing how many will their own reality.
Justtakealookatthis
Most people have the capacity to use their brain. They just choose not to.
SixFeetShort
Brain is hard. Maybe not brain today.
LordOfTheFattys
That eno Phillips joke really made me smile, @op
TossedSaladsandScrambledEggs
Someone who gets it
Ivalicenyan
Kinda less impressive when there are like nearly 8 billion of them tho
Goldensands
Eh that’s a lot for one planet. Consider it on a cosmic scale instead.
darkestkale
... and the fact that almost any one, when acting with one other, can make a third
NeverEnoughFoxes
Michio, context is an important component of language.
WhaaatDa
The brain has another distinction: It's the only organ that named itself.
astrangehop
What about the spleen?
Hashbrown123
Oh no, it is the Crawling Spleen. Don't let it eat, your brain?
TacoPoweredHelicopter
How the fuck did you steal my idea before I posted it, expanded to reply this exact sentence and there you are. Get out of my brain!
astrangehop
There's dozens of organs, that's the one that springs to mind.
Quylein
So said a brain
BevanWalling
laughs in quantum computers
theMonkeyTrap
there are folks who suspect brain uses quantum mechanisms for some cognitive tasks at low level, so dont rule it out yet.
hakunamatatamotherfucker
Doubt it's just low level. Look up empathy and human non verbal interconnection.
MrZev
From my understandings of quantum processing it matches up more with how we view things. We don't look at things in a binary sense we look
MrZev
At them on a scale. Do you trust this person, you do t have a number, but it's not a 1 or a 0 it's like a qbit where it's a vector .
MrZev
We take a bunch of data , all the vectors and we just come up with a conclusion that just makes the most sense.
DurendaI
asanaustralianwhyareyourpostsupsidedown
That said, every modern computer will beat every brain at chess using only the power and rules those brains gave it.
lildude52ca
HoldUp.meme
QuindecimT
Hmm that’s a bad comparison. A computer will use specific algorithms built into it to determine a perfect win. It barely thinks. Humans >>
QuindecimT
think a thousand things at once, decide various decisions that lead to more decisions and are not trained since birth to win chess. >>
QuindecimT
Computers are only dedicated rule-followers while a brain can think and therefore is more complex and intelligent. 3/3
QuindecimT
Because we think and think, deduce and analyze, have opinions and a sense of priority assignment, our brains can be both weak and strong.
IamNotAshamed
This isn't fully true anymore. Neural nets and deep learning have changed how machines can make decisions massively.
ScarySpider
Yeah, but creating a neural net the complexity of the human brain would take a very large computer.
ThereAreCrocodiles
The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!
PhloydPhan
20 watts powering 3 lbs of fat, water, and salt - basically a wad of soggy bacon.
lildude52ca
Ohhhh keep talking,.. i love it when you talk dirty to me !
baals
TASTY BACON
WrongDonkey
*soggy thinky bacon.
IllegalDuckling
More like bacon shredded and pressed in the form of imitation crab meat. And eating it might give you a horrible, incurable disease
schmau
*depressed soggy bacon
PimpinKen
Hasn't been smoked, it's just salt back
Ghlargh
Smokers are now called "bacon brains", check!
Sansdurlannite
soggy bacon > lightning in rock
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
For now...
Justtakealookatthis
It's essentially bone marrow.
JeanLucPicard
Electric bacon
DreamWeavr
Thinking meat, how's that even possible
Courier098
It named itself
GuyFromDeathValley
soggy bacon, basically hallucinating fantastic things all the time like taxes, or suffering.
vindik8or
You're telling me it's meat. That thinks.
kennelbreach
They're made of meat?!
NeverEverWrong
InfinitusEquitas
They flap their meat at each other.
Elsoyyo
It's not a compliment.
SoMuchPooPooSon
It's also something I haven't heard be used as an insult for 30+ years.
StoopKidAfraidToLeaveHisStoop
Someone said a thing at me? Brain shuts down into safe mode.
StenYngve
As a nerd, this is something you'd say to the bully at school, cause like mom said so, when you got a verbal insult and then get beat up.
Sensiblyinteresting
The brain is the most complex object we know in the universe, according to the brain.
HandoB4Javert
[smiles in LED power consumption levels]
LyraTheLycan
Who doesn't use low energy bulbs these days. 20w is three of my lights at 80% power
HandoB4Javert
AbeFromanSausageKingOfChicago
MEME SAYS COMPLIMENT. MEMES ARE TRUTH.
youknowthatoneguymagoogoo
KNOWTHELAW
Mxlespxles
TASTETHERAINBOW
mountiedan
TOUCHTHEBUTT
kahooki
LICKTHELAWN
Yourfavoritebandsucks1974
I can't really take it as a compliment if I'm honest with myself.
HamshanksCPS
I've never heard someone say this before
DoctorPitt
Look at this guy, pribably needs 30 watts
CarpoolTunnelSyndrome
Everyone who I've called dim, please ignore this meme. It is not accurate.
3wattbulb
I'll take it.
HumanCats
It is now.
Elsoyyo
That's what a dim bulb would say.
CarpoolTunnelSyndrome
He's not the brightest knife in the pond.
fattmoley3D
Chess move. Well played.
TheGhostMinx
TheEmeraldProphylactic
Method Man says they used to use 10w in the hood! Shit is dim!
MisterRichard
If Michio Kaku isn't talking about astrophysics there is a strong chance he's just running his mouth.
spartanliam115
Ye, I see him as an entertainer but we really need people like him to get more people interested in science.
Tychodin
"we scientists believe "
AtsaMattaForMe
Teabagchampion
Physicists are more or less automatically "genius declared" in the eyes of the public, so they can talk about whatever field, no prob
Barkinsons
Same for Degrasse Tyson, his bit on zombie physiology was already wrong on the most basic level
NerdNerdburger
As an astrophysicist, he's usually just running his mouth even when he is talking about astrophysics. The guy's a crackpot.
Hashbrown123
Meh, I'll take him over NDT any day.
NerdNerdburger
At least NDT doesn't fantasize out loud and treat that acid-tripping brain puke as a legitimate line of inquiry. Kaku's a nut
FrogBotherer
Yeah, but he's interesting to listen to at least. He has a fun voice.
LooseyGooseyBrett
Right, because us scientist can only know about one thing
salunatics
GeForcen
"One day we will be able to teleport, if we can just find a rock or material that is able to teleport us." - any of his future predictions.
GrumpyOldMillennial
I know nothing of this man beyond memes. Is he an asshole? Are we required to hate him? Please advise.
NerdNerdburger
Nice guy, but a lot of his ideas are asspulling borderline fantasy.
secularink
He's not a asshole, but he makes a lot of wild claims. Someone could argue that those claims borderline pseudoscience's.
NERDRAGEohacat
I haven't heard anything bad about him, but in the past few years he's been acting more as a "science communicator", which requires him 1/2
NERDRAGEohacat
to dip into hyperbole and science fiction a bit to engage the audience's imagination. He's a better scientist than science communicator. 2/2
ThisIsAWasteOfMyTime
As a software engineer... Brain has impressive computational power for what it is but claiming that you need a nuclear power plant and a >
ThisIsAWasteOfMyTime
computer the size of a city block is ridiculous. It's hard to estimate equivalents because they are so different and operate in such >
canadiansummerisamyth
As a psychology professor i entirely agree. The brain does a lot of tasks but not as accuratly as a computer. It also adapts better
ThisIsAWasteOfMyTime
different ways. There are a ton of things that humans can do but computers of any size can't, with our current level of comp. science. >
ThisIsAWasteOfMyTime
And increasing the size of a computer to a city block won't help much in those. And there are a ton of things that the computer in your >
ThisIsAWasteOfMyTime
phone can do but you can't. I'd say that for most tasks that both a human and a computer can do, a relatively modest computer beats humans.
Ferrous
He's also running his mouth when talking about astrophysics.
MisterRichard
Not *always*, but yeah
kwyjiboner
Wait, is he against the zeitgeist now? I thought he was respected in his field
MisterRichard
He was more respected before he started pretending that he knew everything about everything, including the ok ngs he clearly doesn't know
gluttonygreedpridewrathslothlustenvy
Brian Greene much the same
StoopKidAfraidToLeaveHisStoop
That’s so uncommon in intellectual fields packed with doctorate holders./s
StoopKidAfraidToLeaveHisStoop
1 downvote by DR. Anonymous
DickMercenary
So like Neil "Black Science Man" deGrasse Tyson
Tychodin
NGT proclaims ignorance about a lot of things he's not an expert in. Michio Kaku will straight up say "we scientists believe in bullshit."
harthram
ok ngs?
JeffGoldblumsLeftNut
ok ngs is astrophysic slang for acceptable or “ok” ranges of newton gravitational suu… ike, im talkin out my ass
MisterRichard
Things. Big hands, autocorrect.
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MisterRichard
More like, a lot of people with hyperspecialized knowledge make this transition to thinking they have deep knowledge about everything.
Tacocatsupreme5
I'm lost, what's this ok ngs thing you're talking about? I can't find anything about it.
FrogBotherer
He is, he's pretty much *the* expert in string theory.
uzerok
About 10 years ago I saw him hypothesize how alien invasions would work out. To me it seemed like he 'sold out' as a serious scientist.
belortik
Clearly your not familiar with how batshit crazy excellent scientists can be. Check out "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field" by Kary Mullis
belortik
This guy got a Nobel Prize for inventing PCR and he also thought he had been abducted by aliens.
darkestkale
So just like NdGT but with less rape accusations?
LordElups
*fewer
darkestkale
Intelligence is knowing the difference between fewer and less. Wisdom is knowing English is a descriptive, not proscriptive language
darkestkale
... and that communication being the entire reason for a language to exist, it's more important that the idea is conveyed than rules adhered
LordElups
Tychodin
lol he was never accused of that. he was accused of harassment.
darkestkale
>Thchiya Amet El Maat’s accusation that Tyson drugged and raped her while the two were grad students at the University of Texas in the ’80s
darkestkale
https://www.thedailybeast.com/neil-degrasse-tysons-accuser-disgusted-by-cosmos-return-says-she-was-a-sexual-object-to-him
darkestkale
Yes he was.