How does the brain work? we have some ideas...

[NTB]

Article.

Using the mind to invistigate itself...I realize this may be the only way to do it, but still - it seems to me that this would be very similar to something our teachers all told us not to do when we were growing up: using the word you are defining in it's own definition.

What do you think? Or do you think? *I* think my brain hurts now

Nathan

 

[Pepsi90919]

don't show the fish thing to PETA

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
don't show the fish thing to PETA

Why not? they'd probably be ecstatic about that nasty old fish-eating human getting their just deserts

Nate

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: NTB
it seems to me that this would be very similar to something our teachers all told us not to do when we were growing up: using the word you are defining in it's own definition.

This isn't a sound analogy. There is a physical restriction on the brain reflecting on it's own processes, for the same reason a computer cannot evaluate it's own computation in real-time without using more computation, but then there would be more computation to evaluate and so on. People, mostly foolish people, try and use this as a reason to suggest a brain cannot understand a brain.

We have many ideas. We know how it works in bits and pieces, we just don't yet know how it all fits together.