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How the Brain Works (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Some of these lines go on for days and just end up at an emoji 😒

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

for a sec i thought i was in a "data is a warcrime" community

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember seeing this on Reddit way back and apparently it’s from a weird religious organization with little scientific backing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That makes sense. When I zoomed in and saw how they labeled auditory processing I was suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

There's also cocaine in there

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah but is it interoperable with Risc-V ?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe that's how YOUR brain works...

Here's a map of mine:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vape cartridges??? Don't be ridiculous! That would be ABSURD! I feed it with a refillable vape mod

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Good for the environment and wheel lube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Ask Richard Gere

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Do you have a link to the source?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Might be an issue with your instance/client. I mean it's not super sharp but still perfectly readable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Switched to Thunder instead of Sync and it works much better now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Something that I've found with Sync is that I needed to open the post itself first before I open the image. I assumed that Sync doesn't fetch the uncompressed image until you do so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well I'm liking thunder a lot more anyway and it's ad free (or I'm just not noticing the ads which is whatever)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Added to post body

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

The thalamus is made of microplastics, obviously.

We should have that pesky problem removed..

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Your lemmy client may limit the image resolution. Try opening it in the browser.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My brain on the other hand....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is the joke that the image link is broken because your brain is too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not broken, either you have a problem connecting to my instance or your client doesn't support gifs.

It should be this gif here: https://media.tenor.com/AwNOpS9nClEAAAAC/homer-the-simpsons.gif

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

A day later and it works now so IDK

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

From a distance, it looks like a Waffle House menu that’s been scribbled on with crayons. But when you zoom in, you see god.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, the god of flowcharts, maker of the interconnected, he of the inevitable line.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • One person who has no background in neuroscience reckoning of how the brain works.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For what it is worth they did say they read a ton of neuroscience articles, although yes, engineer without a neuroscience background, so take this with a grain of salt. I think it's at least a dude earnestly trying who did try to do his research.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

They did and I'm not against it in principle but it did read a bit like I understand this better than neuroscientists because its just like computer systems and my understanding from neuroscientists is that these sub systems they outline in papers are highly contested and more like how you would model their function rather than actually how they work.

The one thing they seem to say consistently is that the analogy to computer systems work is flawed and the brain works very differently but it's very far from anything I understand so take that with a pinch of salt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

My brain can't comprehend this. Checkmate, science.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Can confirm. That's the simplified version of what inside my mind looks like.