Submitted by The_Sauce106 t3_zysbje in Showerthoughts
philmo69 t1_j27u9p9 wrote
Reply to comment by The_Sauce106 in The brain has a frame rate by The_Sauce106
Yeah you're to focus on individual electrons moving short distances... Nothing is accomplished on that scale in the brain. That's like counting the actual monitor frame rate as frames per billionsths of a second instead of how many frames per second. If you counted it as frames per billionsths of a second then almost every billionth of a second you wouldn't be able to draw a frame or do anything on a computers scale. We use the larger scale of how many frames we can draw on screen per second because its more meaningful as we usually only draw 30 to 120 frames every second. In our brains it takes hundreds of thousands of plank lengths or more spread out over thousands of connections to accomplish any given process so it's just a poor scale by which to measure things. Our brains processing flows more than frames. Theres never a given moment that can be interrupted as stillness and referenced as a frame at the scales that are meaningful to our minds. We don't ever exist within a frame and can only view our mind as its current state and never as a fully drawn and complete frame of reference.
The_Sauce106 OP t1_j27ugz8 wrote
Just because the number may contain hundreds of 0s doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist tho? I don’t mean there is a large limit, just that there is a limit. Humans and computers are pretty limited in the terms of the universe imo
By that I mean the universe exists before humans, on a scale that isn’t understandable by humans, implying humans are much too slow, or in this case live to short of a life span, to have continuous uninterrupted understanding at even the smallest possible physical point. The existence of knowing and not knowing implies the existence of pre-knowing that leads to knowing, even if that knowledge is not known at the time, does it not?
bragov4ik t1_j289tew wrote
I wouldn't call it a framerate though. A notion of frames (at least as it is in computer graphics) means that each picture is prepared with multiple procedures/processes and is fed to the output one-by-one. It's not what happens in the brain, is it? The stuff there is not divided in the same way
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