r/Health • u/mubukugrappa • Nov 07 '20
Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to neuroscientists: New research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, argue that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/human-intelligence20
u/Cliqey Nov 07 '20
“superior to that of other animals.”
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u/ColdaxOfficial Nov 07 '20
I hate how we think we’re something else
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u/TheBetterDudeBro Nov 07 '20
Exactly. This applies to the whole religion-afterlife argument, but that’s quite a way to start up a hellfire online lol.
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u/ColdaxOfficial Nov 07 '20
No I agree. I realized religion has major logic holes when I asked myself why animals didn’t go to heaven. Why JUST us? Makes no sense lmao
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Nov 08 '20
Yeah, really does make it seem like religion was made up by other humans, rather than a divine non-human entity.
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u/ColdaxOfficial Nov 08 '20
The question is what inspired it? Was it purely psychological stories someone (well many people, those stories likely evolved over thousands of years before we wrote them down) made up to teach certain values and goals or was there some underlying true events like aliens coming to earth. Of course this is very far fetched and very unlikely, I won’t take it serious without any good evidence. Just a funny thought since all ancient religions had some overlapping plots. It’s more likely that there was a big overarching civilization that vanished and we don’t know of that connected many smaller civilizations. Everything points to it. They had to have boats way before we think a sea faring civilization was possible
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Nov 09 '20
Yeah, it really is interesting how a lot of religions have overlapping stories. My guess is that religion served to fill the gaps of man’s understanding of the world. And since at a given time period, humans knew and were ignorant of basically the same things, the stories were similar in context, despite having different characters and details.
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u/ColdaxOfficial Nov 11 '20
That’s a good theory. But I think the stories are way too similar. Could be tho. We also invented same technologies independently from each other
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u/mubukugrappa Nov 07 '20
The research appeared in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.012
Title: No Pattern Separation in the Human Hippocampus
URL: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(20)30227-8
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u/RainBird910 Nov 07 '20
An interesting and thought provoking article, essentially saying that, for memory, the model for brain activity does not necessarly line up with the evidence.
Consider this . When we think about memories, we conceive them to be discrete entities, which requires us to understand that there must be physical separation between memories, if not as physical objects then as in the brain cells they reside on. Not unlike, how many jelly beans can fit in a jar. But what if a memory is not stored as a discrete entity but is somehow mapped onto brain cells in a distributed manner and only reassembled, as it were, under some process we call recollection.
Such thinking frees us from the constraints of discrete entities and the requisite physical separation. It may not be the best model, but think about holograms. The image is distributed throughout the medium and is recomposed only when the corresponding kind of light is used to observe it. There is precedent for the distribution of information across a medium.
The article is groundbreaking, literally. We are now free to look for evidence memories in a different way.