Scientists Prove Your Brain Knows Things You Don't

[PartyMonkey]

Yeah I am sick of my brain keeping things from me...like the answer to why I'm apparantly a dick.

I am starting to feel like it is everyone around me.

 

[Random Argument Man]

It really is quite frustrating that I still, after having played Super Metroid through several times, can´t remember where all those thrice-damned secret rooms were. Seems like I have to have a little...chat with my hippocampus. I bet he´s snickering behind my back (or brain) even as we speak.

I've done nothing man ! (past reference to dual personality).

Enough with your futile deceptions! Now hold still, so that I may beat the crap out of you, unless you tell me where the missing energy tank is.

You hurt me...You hurt yourself!!!

Hey, that´s right. So I have to hurt myself in order to get you. It worked in Fight Club, why wouldn´t it work now.

...Do you also get the feeling that we are somehow, I don´t know, derailing this thread?

We always do.

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

...Do you also get the feeling that we are somehow, I don´t know, derailing this thread?

We always do.

And we do it good.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Hmm, interesting.

I wish I had more to say about this but I don't.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Great. Now I know I'm going to end up shouting "DAMN YOU, HIPPOCAMPUS!" when I forget something.

Unless my hippocampus decides to withhold my memory of this thread.

 

[Mad Gab]

mabye its got something to do with deja vu as well

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Sounds like the impending death of a gaming genre to me.

 

[ThreeWords]

I've long suspected this.

My memory is, at the same time, atrocious and amazing. I will forget where I was last week, what I promised and to whom, and who else was there. But I can also recall a witty phrase someone said, the colour towel my friend had, and the type of tree we were sitting under. It is bizzare.

If my brain knows more than it lest me know, then it would explain a lot of things

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Our brains our the really villains! Fight back people!

*Bangs his head repeatedly against a wall*

 

[theultimateend]

That puts a bit more credence to those bizarre memory improvement courses.

They go by the presumption that you don't actually forget anything to begin with (a faulty premise, insofar as I understand the science), and that the inability to recall it at will basically amounts to having a bad filing system...

Claims made about these courses include having perfect recall of the conversations of people around you that you weren't even paying attention to...

I can't decide if that's BS, or if it's actually plausible though.
This particular bit of information suggests it might actually be somewhat true.

Most courses are based on sound science but manipulated for profit.

Which is sort of how most faith based systems works (which is what those are).

 

[funksobeefy]

can I use this as an excuse to forgot to do my homework?

 

[iblis666]

wow if it worked id never need internet porn again id just replay the 80 TB of porn in my head

 

[DarkRyter]

I knew that fucker was holding out on me.

Well I know how to fix that problem...

 

[MajoraPersona]

Theres something like this in an episode of House, he cant exactly remember something, or think of a diagnosis, but his subsoncsious sort of hints at it.

"What's my necklace made of?"

"Resin. Now tell me what I'm supposed to remember!"

"You do remember it."

It was a strange episode.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Oh yeah my brain does that to me all the time. My brain's favourite hobby is depositing a line from a movie or TV show or song into my conscious mind, but withholding where it's from, so I end up spending the rest of the day trying to remember where this line came from.

 

[WayOutThere]

The experiment is interesting but the whole "next step in our evolution" thing I don't buy into.

After learning the should-have-been-obvious truth that we use more than 10% of our brains I weary of this sort of thing.

 

[quiet_samurai]

And how is this information new? Maybe I'm mistaken but wouldn't this just be another form of the subconsious?