The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by youdontknowtho on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:39PM (#20847677)

This is going to be used by woo woo types for years. Did you know that our brains operate in 11 dimensions? Or, how can we get our brains to operate in all the dimensions it's capable of? Or, brains operate in 11 dimensions...and the soul makes up the other seven. Seven? That's a spiritual number. Etc...

That guy who looks like David Spade with a brain tumor on Ancient Aliens will be all over this.

The article is super interesting. I'm just enjoying imagining how someone will tie this to the great pyramid of Giza.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by stallmanite on Saturday August 31, 2019 @02:34PM (#20848027)

I wonder what is the underlying urge behind the woo purveyors. There is more than a lifetime’s worth of weird trippy stuff that is 100% legit. There’s no need to muddy the waters; mystery abounds in the real world.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by tux1968 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:11PM (#20848233)

It's hard to be an expert in Legit. You're instantly the sole authority on woo you invent.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by ben_w on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:07PM (#20848208)

I was briefly interested in woo as a teenager — Wicca, telekinesis, shapeshifting, that sort of thing.

One of the fascinating oddities I learned from that period is that several different founding mothers of Wicca — Valiente and Farrar come to mind — met people who thought the rituals they has created around and soon after WW2 were actually thousands of years old.

I can’t put the connection into words, but it feels like this is related to “Joy in the Merely Real”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...

Plus a dash of the way a beginner can totally misunderstand words of art and invent their own totally inaccurate understanding of what’s going on.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by dumbfoundded on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:43PM (#20847700)

lol, M-theory has 11 dimensions

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by friendcrunch on Saturday August 31, 2019 @02:16PM (#20847921)

Come on, it's more like the old Audi 5 ad, spoken with a Germanic accent, 4 cylinders is not enuf and 6 cylinders is too many… FIVE cylinders!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by ravenstine on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:42PM (#20847694)

It will be the next "neuroplasticity".

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by whymauri on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:51PM (#20847750)

But neuroplasticity is actually a thing.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by ravenstine on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:21PM (#20849936)

You're right, it is, but there's a lot of woo surrounding it and a lot of videos floating around with wild eyed people exaggerating the power of neuroplasticity.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by inimino on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:07PM (#20848515)

But so is this (presumably).

[ Parent | on HN ]