Is it kinda like our brain will collapse in itself, not literally, but it’s just that everything will seem so… I don’t know how to explain it, everything will be so trivial because we know that if we think that it’s because this in our brain does that. Or maybe the fact that we don’t have the brain capacity to understand our own brain? Kinda like trying to chase your shadow but not.
Well, the argument generally goes that we’ll never be able to make a computer that works like the human brain, because to build something, you have to know how it works and Heisenberg’s uncertainty theory says that you can never completely understand anything. That, of course, over looks a lot of things. Folks didn’t understand combustion very well when they built the first steam engine, yet they managed to pull it off. In truth, we will never understand everything about the brain, simply because it is impossible to understand everything about something, but eventually will understand it well enough that the parts we don’t understand are just fiddling small details.
The world would become a very scary place if we understood EVERYTHING in our brains.
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle says nothing of the kind. It’s about measuring the properties of particles and nothing else.
I guess it’s impossible to know everything about anything, but there’s no reason to think there’s some limitation on our understanding of our brains.
I would think that since it states we can’t measure something without changing it then by implication we can not understand something’s true state.
In anycase, I think zarnia is stating how everything would be trivial if we ever found out that our thoughts are purely chemical reactions in the brain dictated by the laws of physics. This would seem to imply that we are nothing but automotons. I personally think thats a scary thought too, or so the neurotransmitters tell me.
Even if we used the “randomness” that is inherent in quantum physics(uh, I really hope i’m not getting something wrong here…) we would simply be unpredictable automotons. it’s a scary thought. Lack of meaning that is.
Alas, life goes on.