It’s also floating in liquid.
Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.
Submitted 7 months ago by Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Candelestine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yea, I was gonna say, it’s really wet in there too. But at least it’s got a snug blankie membrane of sorts that does all its local feeling for it, since it couldn’t actually detect any of these things for itself with no nerve endings of its own.
Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 7 months ago
For a second there I thought you meant feeling as in emotional and was really confused haha
I just imaged the membrane hugging my brain like "don't worry, I got you, focus on keeping this idiot alive"
moistclump@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It feels everything for us but can’t have feelings of its own. Tragedy. 😔
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Showing your age now!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve come to accept I’m old.
MxM111@kbin.social 7 months ago
It actually is not pitch black. And I recall some part of the brain (some gland) needs this light to set our daily cycle.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t ruin my Zork reference, man.
yanyuan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Your eyes are a part of your brain.
So the only part of your brain that does receive light, is located outside of this dark room. Inside the dark room, there is nothing that senses light or darkness.intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Your eyes are a part of your brain
nope
Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Your eyes are a part of your brain.
Doesn’t seem to match with my understanding. Got any references for that?
yanyuan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think I worded it badly and mixed up things with the visual system and the central nervous system.
So I guess you could say that I was technically wrong and OP was technically right…
Damn! Still our brains don’t register any darkness, except through the optic nerve… and screw you guys! I’m going home! ;)
spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And tubes. One of the tubes delivers glucose and caffeine.
HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Some light does penetrate the skull. So not completely dark. Also the blood brain barrier is semi permeable, so not completely sealed.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Some light penetrates the skull. Geez, I hadn’t thought of this.
MxM111@kbin.social 7 months ago
The eye sockets do not block the light with bone.
Adori@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When you get headaches is cuz the AI is flashing light into your brain to examine how your brain is doing in the simulation
clearleaf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everyone thinks they’re talking about the human skull and nervous system but if someone is sitting in ther bedroom on a PC it’s really not all that different from being a brain in a jar, it’s just a different interface and the brain can leave.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I do wonder if the electrical impulses give off any light
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
no they don’t
qooqie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To explain why, the electrical signals is not like how we know electricity when you see lightning. It’s salt/ion based movements in and out of cells. A lot more boring
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Even if how would the brain detect them?
Decoy321@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s a separate issue. A blind person could still sit in a well lit room.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I think I have mice in the walls chewing on the wires.
INeedMana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
rosymind@leminal.space 7 months ago
It doesn’t seem to mind
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What is in your blood impacts you.
MisterCrisper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Illuminating
foggy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you’re unfamiliar with Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave, you should familiarize yourself.
This shower thought is older than showers!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Plato’s allegory of the cave is not about what this shower thought it about.
foggy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
…
Yes it absolutely is.
I am sorry you are failing to connect these painfully adjacent dots.
HubertManne@kbin.social 7 months ago
yeah I mean I could see not knowing platos cave but boltzman brains are mentioned pretty often in various media including sprinkled regularly in youtube videos. Im surprised someone could avoid it.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why? It is just superstitious nonsense from 2500 years ago.