How powerful is the human mind?

[Equs]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

my claims dont have to be supported by evidence, since when do you get to make the rules? =]
and since ur claiming on holding an INVISIBLE monkey, im sure you are, you have no evidence of it but if you think you are, then you are =]

Well, these are universal rules that apply to everything, including the law which you abide by in real life. Statistical measures are applied all the time in the court room to determine whether or not you can prosecute someone. We can't have people claiming an invisible monkey killed the man and not them...because we can't disprove that. Instead, we can reject the hypothesis in favor of another one based on applying statistics to the data we have.

The fact is, a psi ball COULD exist, but given we have no evidence for it AND lots of counter evidence, it is incredibly unlikely. If your life depended on it, you'd want to go with my hypothesis. Hypothesis testing isn't foolproof and doesn't guarantee that you are wrong, but does provide evidence against your claim.




And lucid dreaming is kind of subjective. I have some pretty interesting dreams. ^^

Or, at least I think I do ;D

[Adamaja456]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

haha, sorry to say this but no, that doesn't help me at all devonin. I say this because wikipedia is the worse site to prove something. Why dont you go back to it and you will see what i mean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics#History

[Equs]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

haha, sorry to say this but no, that doesn't help me at all devonin. I say this because wikipedia is the worse site to prove something. Why dont you go back to it and you will see what i mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_l...namics#History

Since energy can't be created or destroyed, it was always there and remains constant in a system. Powerplants work because they convert energy into a usable form that can be used for work.

It might seem possible that you could somehow make a form of energy between your hands that is like, some sort of dark energy. But uh, I guarantee you you can't do it with just your mind >__>

[GuidoHunter]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

haha, sorry to say this but no, that doesn't help me at all devonin. I say this because wikipedia is the worse site to prove something. Why dont you go back to it and you will see what i mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_l...namics#History

I guarantee that the wiki on the First Law is correct. If you still don't trust it, just google the term and read any of the results.

Bottom line, you're not going to create energy through any normal chemical means. And since I'm pretty sure you don't have antimatter on hand for a matter->energy conversion, you aren't going to do it by those means, either.

EDIT: I can't believe you ****ing vandalized wikipedia to show a point that we all knew already. Just... wow.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[devonin]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

haha, sorry to say this but no, that doesn't help me at all devonin. I say this because wikipedia is the worse site to prove something. Why dont you go back to it and you will see what i mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_l...namics#History

Right...you're clever, you can edit the page. Now the change has been logged, and one of the site mods will see the change, correct it, and probably ban you.

The best part is, I can even go into the history of the page and see exactly when and what you changed, which allows me (awesome isn't it!) to go into the history of -any- page, and see, for example, that many people had your bright idea, and had their vandalism repaired in -one day- and that the previous (and original version) has remained for months and months and months.

Further, being responsable posters that they are, they original work is referenced and footnoted so you can go look it up yourself in an actual book! Isn't that wonderful?

You quoted us websites (changable easily) and linked us to a video (easily faked) and you think we should take you seriously?

[Adamaja456]

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Right...you're clever, you can edit the page. Now the change has been logged, and one of the site mods will see the change, correct it, and probably ban you.

The best part is, I can even go into the history of the page and see exactly when and what you changed, which allows me (awesome isn't it!) to go into the history of -any- page, and see, for example, that many people had your bright idea, and had their vandalism repaired in -one day- and that the previous (and original version) has remained for months and months and months.

Further, being responsable posters that they are, they original work is referenced and footnoted so you can go look it up yourself in an actual book! Isn't that wonderful?

You quoted us websites (changable easily) and linked us to a video (easily faked) and you think we should take you seriously?

yea i know its awesome. the whole point of wikipedia is for everyone to give knowledge. all im tryin to prove is that many sites can easily be faked. I bet if i went ot a random site and typed something intellegent in, people would think its was the truth

no, of course you shouldnt take me serious...have i been sounding serious? lol


better answer to original question: I think the human mind very powerful and we as the human race have yet to fully understand the abilities that we may all have

hows that? is that a little better of an answer?

[devonin]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

better answer to original question: I think the human mind very powerful and we as the human race have yet to fully understand the abilities that we may all have

hows that? is that a little better of an answer?

Well, on the plus side, it isn't full of claims with no evidence or support, but on the downside...it isn't really doing much else beyond being very vague and non-commital.

Opinions with supporting evidence > No opinion at all > Opinions with no evidence or support

[beaner692]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

My mind might be pretty powerful, but I tend to sit around and play ffr, wow, ect.

If someone can teach me how to pick up drinks or whatnot with my mind plz tell, ive been trying

[Adamaja456]

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My mind might be pretty powerful, but I tend to sit around and play ffr, wow, ect.

If someone can teach me how to pick up drinks or whatnot with my mind plz tell, ive been trying

think extra hard =]

[soulofcerberus]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

no, of course you shouldnt take me serious...have i been sounding serious? lol

Then no offense, get out of critical thinking if you're not being serious.

Yes the mind is powerful, and we don't fully understand how it works. Then again, that doesn't mean that we have mental power that defies our current knowledge of physics. If it can ever be proven than our world will drastically change, but until then I, as well as most other people, have to be skeptical and disregard the concept.

[A2_Sauce]

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I think in a universal sense, our minds are relatively weak, we can't even comprehend the universe we live in.

[mmeegghhaann]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

I read a book recently on how humans do have a 6th sense. The proximity sense. You know the feeling when someone is looking at you when your back is turned, then you turn around and of course they are? This is your proximity sense in action. A man was in a concrete room with no windows and one large cement door. The room was sound proof but he said he could tell when someone was outside it. He could also tell when someone was thinking about him too. Pretty hard to comprehend but almost everyone has experienced it.

Another example of just how awesome the brain is, is how capable humans are of understanding: it is said that if a person having never heard the language can figure out the rough meaning of it and the basic structure of the sentences. A man was asked to sit in a room and listen to a 3 minute long tape for 10 hours. The tape was in Thai and the man only spoke english and a bit of spanish. After he was asked what he thought they were saying on the tape and he told them all about the little boy being described on the tape.

Pretty interesting.

[A2_Sauce]

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The brain is so powerful and amazing but with oh so many flaws

[Reach]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

I read a book recently on how humans do have a 6th sense. The proximity sense. You know the feeling when someone is looking at you when your back is turned, then you turn around and of course they are? This is your proximity sense in action. A man was in a concrete room with no windows and one large cement door. The room was sound proof but he said he could tell when someone was outside it. He could also tell when someone was thinking about him too. Pretty hard to comprehend but almost everyone has experienced it.



Pretty interesting.

6th sense? These are just sales gimmicks, much like the pseudopsychology you'll find in most self help books that is true to an extent but conveniently modified to seem truer than it really is XD Yes, the mind is highly tuned to pick up little changes in sensory information. This is evolutionary and as you can imagine pretty necessary if we were to survive back when we didn't have guns to shoot things with.


I know it's easy to talk about how awesome the human brain is, but what about how lousy it is if you look at it from another perspective (a universal one). Again, sure compared to other animals we're smart but the brain has viritually no brute force processing ability. Simple computers can blow us out of the water here. We forget things constantly. It takes us years on end to learn the material necessary to function properly in our world, and then in a few years we forget all of it. We make mistakes all the time. Hell, we can't even seem to stay in our lane, and we're one of the only animals that kills its own. We fight with eachother for no reason at all really, and like to think that we're special and almighty beings in this universe. Basically, we're little incapable beings mentally that were just clever enough to build machines and computers to do pretty much all of the things we're incapable of doing with our minds.

So from the other perspective, the mind isn't so hot or powerful. Pretty feeble if you ask me. Less than a century of nanotechnology has almost surpassed a billion years of evolution. Surely, whether or not the human mind is powerful depends highly on what context you're looking at it in XD

[devonin]

Re: How powerful is the human mind?

So from the other perspective, the mind isn't so hot or powerful. Pretty feeble if you ask me. Less than a century of nanotechnology has almost surpassed a billion years of evolution.

Out of curiosity...just what species' mind came up with nanotechnology? They must have been pretty smart.


Edit: And as for that 6th sense, there is actually a good argument for it. It reads input based on orientation. Even if you are blind, deaf, dumb etc you can tell (as an example) if you are upside down, or if someone is very close to you. I generally argue against this being something that counts as a full-on sense, but it's worth at least considering rather than dismissing outright.