Issues in Neuroscience: Are we our brains

[avitalconnection]

 MIND CONTROL WITH SILENT SOUNDS AND SUPER COMPUTERS-CLONING EMOTIONS

[Froggatt]

we are the energy in the brain; the lifeforce

[avitalconnection]

Ignorance is your bliss.

[gezat]

nutter

[licorice9909]

ur appearence confuses me

[zarkoff45]

I'm doing a series on neuroscience:

watch?v=77XBZHJcoK4

[Alexoneil]

@zarkoff45 It's a good one :)

[nervousneuron]

Thanks for linking that, I'm just about to go watch it. It is relevant to my interests :)

[avitalconnection]

@nervousneuron @nervousneuron Not funny! We have a neuro warfare--an invisible war. Silent frequencies--do your homework!

[nervousneuron]

@avitalconnection

Sorry, I don't understand what your comment is in response to. What's not funny? What should I do 'homework' about?

[avitalconnection]

@nervousneuron Yes, please be aware, this is all I ask; you are bright and educated. Google: Synthetic Telepathy, or silent sounds, frequencies Targeted Individuals. I assure you, you may see thing in a differnt light. I respect you. Peace.

[avitalconnection]

@nervousneuron Yes, please be aware, this is all I ask; you are bright and educated. Google: Synthetic Telepathy, or silent sounds, frequencies Targeted Individuals. I assure you, you may see things in a differnt light. I respect you. Peace.

[Catlover263]

What are you thoughts on things like "free will" and "morality" ?

[nervousneuron]

I could blab on about those for ages too...

as you'd see in a video I made about it, it's a video response to this one.

[Catlover263]

I did actually see your video about those just after i posted that. Have seen Tom Cruise rant on about psychiatry being a fraud? he also states that there is no evidence for chemical imbalances. Obviously, Cruise is a nut but how would you refute those things he said.

[warfwar3]

free will is not provable, but it almost certainly exists. I can give you my arguments if you want.

[Catlover263]

We have an awarness of our thoughts and behaviours and have an ability to change them but i would not call this "free wlll". Our brains have a mechanism like that of a computer.

[warfwar3]

Absolute nonsense. Do you know how computers work? A runs a program, which is a series of executable steps, theres nothing more there than fancy wiring. It is as "intelligent" as a light bulb.

Ever since the 60's computer scientists have been telling us that human-level intelligence is only 5 yrs away. Maybe they will do it someday, but as of now, the brain computer analogy is taken too far.

[Catlover263]

Our thoughts/actions are all a result of whats going on inside our brain chemistry, everything that happens in a computer is linked to something, there is no randomness. Nothing happens free of our brains archecture or chemistry. I may not have articulated this well enough here but do you get it? (nervous neuron it would be good if you contributed to the discussion here)

[warfwar3]

no, that is the current paradigm in neuroscience, true, but we have yet to come up with even a basic theory for how brains create minds, so the question is far from being closed. It could be that the brain is like a radio and the mind like the signal, you need the radio to hear the sound, but it doesnt create the information. Just an analogy

[Catlover263]

I thought we did have a basic thoery on how our brains create the illusion of a mind. Different components of our brain interect with each other, like memory conciousness awarness emotions, and gives us that sort of illusion of identity and being.

[Catlover263]

Wait...slow your boat there for a moment....youre saying that our minds are separate from our brains? what a load of bullshit.

[Catlover263]

lmao like your gollum poster

[nervousneuron]

Yes, I have a degree in behavioural neuroscience, so I obviously studied neuroscience, but keep in mind; I made this video two and a half years ago. And yes, it is true, my understanding is basic, especially in regards to muscle movement, I cannot hope to remember everything I learnt nor do I spend my days reading neuroscience papers.

[nervousneuron]

RE: "not a part in the brain responsible for arm movement".

What I mean is that there is not a single discrete area in the brain responsible for movement of the arm (just like how I said there is not a single discrete area involved in fear processing).Which is why I go on to include the role of the basal ganglia, cerebellum and of course the motor cortex, which is again divided into several functional regions. If we were to lesion any one of those areas, arm movement would be impaired.

[nervousneuron]

So, instead, I would love to see a paper which shows that yes, there is a discrete region for arm movement.

Yes, it was once thought that there was a map so detailed that activity in one neuron in the primary motor cortex/ M1 region of the motor cortex would result in the stimulation of a specific motor neuron, but this isnt how it works. Instead a neuron has a preference for movement in a certain direction.

[nervousneuron]

So the point is, its populations of cells that do the work, not single cells or areas which correspond neatly to another area.

The paper:

Georgopoulos AP, Kettner RE, Schwartz AB. (1988) Primate motor cortex and free arm movements to visual targets in three-dimensional space. II. Coding of the direction of movement by a neuronal population. J Neurosci. 8: 2928-2937.

[nervousneuron]

Of course its been a good twenty years from then and I do not study this particular area, I got my information from lectures/textbooks/review articles on the subject so I dont know the current idea. And of course this is my opinion, this is not an academic paper or a presentation at a conference. If it was, I would have to be more careful with my words.

[warfwar3]

Have you read the Brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge?

[Catlover263]

have you studied neuropyshcology?

[nervousneuron]

You asking me?

In that case yes.

[Catlover263]

Yeah. its good shit, im studying it at the minute.

What do you think of Tom cruise going around saying that psychiatry is fraud and that there is no such evidence for chemical imbalances?

[humanist7117]

Recommend the book:"Symphony in the Brain."

[numberonesurvivor75]

In my still very amateur opinion, one of the major issues here is the pragmatic differences between psychology and neuroscience. To put it overly concisely, what psychologists classify as depression could actually have multiple physiological explanations in neuroscience.

[wafflsz]

Nervousneuron, You appear to be a high functioning bipolar (you mentioned your depression). Your knowlege of brain physiology combined with your own experience and that of your mother's can give you a depth of understanding other researchers won't ever have. Good luck as you pursue your field of study.

[cloudmonkeys]

The ability to experience despair, anxiety and so on neednt make us alien to the rest of the world these experiences can also be seen as humanising and as what connects us if the culture that we are in supports this view.

[Merooba]

(Nerd alert) "Opinion based on faith with a little bit of evidence here and there" is the best one can get in answer to the question about identity of mind and brain. That physical causes can affect mental events is equally consistent with a materialist and dualist/functionalist account of mind. Empirical evidence cannot resolve the question. Therefore, the question is metaphysical rather than scientific.

[Alterstateresearcher]

This individual is experiencing something called hyperthought. Hyperthought can be brought on endogenous or threw pyschoactive substances. I personally beleive many young scientists and creative artists are exhibiting various degrees of hyperthought.

[wilmex1]

I hope she read this.

People are acting like her,before they

start DRUGS

This girl is looking for seomting she better

put her interest,about other things.

Drug talk BEFORE doing it.

[nervousneuron]

I don't really understand what you're saying. You saying I should not be interested in neuroscience because it makes you start drugs?

lol.

[frederickfarrell]

excellent. would love to come to one of your lectures!

[frederickfarrell]

Am 3/4 through your video, really enjoying it so far. Congratulations on your depth of knowledge acquired so far. I'm a big fan of Dan Dennett's view on consciousness - I think you might be too. Definitions of disorders interest me also, I believe 'schizophrenia' was classified quite a while ago - these shifting definitions are published in some large reference journal and are basically a checklist of observable behaviours. Going from that, to a specific psychoactive drug is kind of scary.

[GSTFU]

cool video!

[Farodin88]

how can you talk so much ? ^^ i'm from germany, it's not easy for me to understand what you're saying... i've first looked a few minutes...

[FartheadOgre]

Nice nuclear jacket!

[TheMathGuy]

This is the first video of yours I've seen (or listened to, rather--I don't actually watch really long videos usually). Good discussion! Go nerds! :D

[TheMathGuy]

"Does watching a Youtube video change our brains?" -- Oh yes, most definitely!

[TheMathGuy]

Are we our brains? Personally, I think that we are. We probably won't know for sure though until we try to build a copy of someone's brain and see if it is still them (which I suppose we will never know for certain--but if it looks like a duck, and feels like a duck, and quacks like a duck, well...)

[NordicSpirit]

Linguists first had expected another "Kaspar Hauser" in this case, so this was quite a bit of surprise...

Anyway, to cut a long sentence short (don't wanna talk another 36 minutes of your prrrrreeeeecccccciiiooouss [sorry, couldn't help that one ;-)] time.

Regards from Germany

[NordicSpirit]

Just to mention a case you might have heard of over there: when in 2006 an 18 year old Austrian girl managed to escape after 8 years of captivity during which she had no physical contact with the outside world (accept from her captor), people soon recognized her astoundingly elaborated use of the German language, which came about because during captivity she had used to listen to radio broadcasts of cultural content.

[NordicSpirit]

- When you talk about neuroplasticity and language I feel should add that this touches upon the nature vs. nurture-discussion that has been going on in the field of linguistics for quite some decades now.

[NordicSpirit]

Hey there, nice talk! Just wanted to add that:

- you touched upon it but I think its worth to be stressed: talk therapy in fact CAN change the brain's chemical (im)balance. So talk therapy is not necessarily an alternative pipe dream after all and, as you said, the software might affect the hardware.

[iliketheocean]

we're all magic dust, that's what people think. lol. you see...there's some atoms and then they're covered in magic dust which creates the soul.

[jam454]

your funny.

[meantime08]

IMO the cause of chemical imbalance is confluence of

several different things; infection, allergy, stress,

leaky gut might combine to shrink the brain faster.

The latter has replaced chemical imbalance as the

cause of these types of diseases & it might be

right but only the end result of other causes.

You are on the right track in my unqualified opinion.

[dimphil]

The brain cells respond BEFORE the thought is present to move the arm for example. In other words scientists do not understand mind let alone brain. The brain is the hardware the soul is the software in the machine.

[laurens890]

The soul the software? The so called 'soul'is a product of the brain, noob.

[sleepyeyeguy]

Biology and Environment. You can't deny that Environment is an equally important facet to behavior as is biology

[UTubeisfuckingshit]

hyperphrenia.... If you beleived in the soul you would have an answer..which would be a start!! and your brain could begin myelination.

[trick0171]

brilliant!!!!

[danielchr123]

2nd part the volunerability can be in the genitics or in the environement, e.g. social network. thats why i think that the psychological psychotherapy is better than the psychiatry, since latter focuses mainly on the biological component. but thats only my opinion as a psychology stundent :).

greetz

daniel

[danielchr123]

1. part of the comment:

nice statement. but i have to disagree with you when you say that psychology does not say that there are biological reasons for mental diorders. the psychopathological model is a good explaneition for various disorders. the model postulates that there are three important factors to understand an illness. Those would be Vulnerability, triggering conditions and conditions which are keeping the illness up.

[Rybot9000]

Love the video. You mentioned 'noradrenaline' is this the same as 'norepinephrine'?

Love the neuroscience myself. :)

[nervousneuron]

Thanks :)

Yep, they are the same thing, norepinephrine is american and noradrenaline is the british way of saying it (or maybe I've mixed them up), but they mean exactly the same thing.

[Rybot9000]

Ok, I thought maybe something like that. I'm not sure how we say it in Canada. We spell 'colour' and so on. But I'm pretty sure norepinephrine is how the Americans say it. I knew it was basically a type of adrenaline. Thanks :)

[midguardz]

well that sure clears things up. Since I have adrenal exhaustion from constant fighting with my family its no wonder Ive developed add & noradrenaline problems. Also I also had a theory that the suppressed ADHDs become the dreamy ADDs like myself because their natural free expression has been labelled as odd & then suppressed by parents & others as socially imperfect. Thus we become stunted & dream to dissociate from parental triggers. Yes /no?

[mikearnette]

HAHA I found out your special video area! Tis' Mikey Mike from SPSS. I typed in Neuroscience because I was bored, and boom. Since when did you make videos? Can you do a video on Axoplasmic Transportation, That's my fav thing.

[nervousneuron]

Miiiiikkkeee! OMG you have YouTube? Yeah, I know, late comment, but cool. Lol, you'll probably see a video on that in 548948923 years :P I like to take my time.

[Iskendir]

Here in the UK we don't have ads for anything more than paracetamol, ibuprofen and the like. Consumers probably know even less here; people go to the doctor and they say "You have 'whateveritis', take these 'somethingorotherpan' twice a day, they're free".

If you live in England and want a mental illness/chemical inbalance, u can buy bongs, pipes, papers and, until very recently, 'magic mushrooms' on pretty much every city market!

[Iskendir]

Thanks for sharing your views and experience. I think that you try to know too much. Good luck with wherever you're going (if you believe in luck).

Do you really have ADVERTS for anti-depressants in Oz? I think that is weird, like drug dealers advertising in mass media like the 'High Times'.

[blahblahblahman]

Will you marry me nervousneuron?

[philosophydude]

I watched the whole thing! Do I get a certificate?

[psychtruth]

We both agree that ultimately, it's the consumers decision if they are willing to live with the side effects and possible addiction (withdraw syndrome) for whatever degree of symptom suppression they might be able to benefit from. I strongly believe that consumers should understand fully both risks and benefits before making that decision.

[psychtruth]

When a cure isn't possible, suppressing symptoms to lessen suffering is a valid goal. Unfortunately many psychiatric drugs only marginally suppress symptoms and many have horrible side effects and some even create artificial disabilities such as SSRIs causing sexual dysfunction or antipsychotics causing movement disorders and massive weight gain.

[psychtruth]

Cute :) We agree on things more than I think you realize. My problem with bio-psychiatry is as a model it has failed to cure a single individual of any mental illness. If it cured people, I would be all for it. As is, the system makes life long consumers and tons of money for pharmaceutical companies but no cure for anyone.

[matt5413]

I tried watching the whole thing but zoned out at about 9 minutes... keep up the good work though! just try to keep the work under 4 minutes! ;)

[Festerius2]

Looong video... I don't have that long of an attention span to watch it all. :( Very interesting and educational though, the bit I did watch.

Q:"Are we really our brains?"

A: I certainly am MY brain. As I have no soul, all that I am lives in my skull in the gooey pile of cholesterol I call a brain.

[TJ1973]

Hi NN, that was really great. It is good to learn stuff on Youtube! Science didn't understand how such a common medicine as aspirin worked until the 1980s but we got there in the end. I am confident that the mechanism of action of other drugs will be discovered in time - psychiatric or otherwise. If we can put a man on the moon then we can figure just about anything out given the time! Thanks again for the great vid!

[ichbinkeinberliner]

We love you NervousNeuron! Great video! Thanks for the shout out too. I think you are the only person I could watch and listen to for 36 minutes. :) Maybe you could teach at my uni some day! :)