A question i have been pondering is about the mind, I pretty much think about how the mind works 27% of the time, give or take. I hear arguments stating that the mind is a able to remember limitless pieces of information and store it so that it will never leave our memory, and as it increase it's mental power it can effectively learn the mysterious that plague humanity, describe in words that everyone no matter who they are can comprhend it. While the other is that the brain power our species uses at the moment is the most we will ever us as human beings. Though anything that involves from humans could be able to do everything suggested as above. Question: Do you believe we will be able to one day comprehend, existance and non-existance? the physical and metaphysical? Time and space? Or will we never be able to surpass our brain power as it is today?
i believe one day a very select amount of people will be able to understand, but I do not think the majority of the world will at one time understand.
Yeah, for me the mind is limitless. There's some hidden potential that needs only to be discovered to unlock an incredible power. A perfect example are the people that can controll the pain and the martial arts masters, that can unlock for a moment an incredible strenght and can break wood, bricks etc.
In understanding, the mind does have its limits. For instance it can only understand what we can interpret (five senses). On information, I don't see why it can't learn infinite amounts of information. Though we will naturally and always forget things as we learn new things.
i actually heard that the old quote saying that only like 10% of your brain being used is actually not true at all. it's actually ALOT more than that. but i don't know the exact number. anyways, the limit, i believe there is a limit to our memory but that limit increases as a person gets older (or so it seems). so yes, there is a limit, but the limit itself has no limits.
We actually have more than 5 senses, closer to about 21 lol But anyway, following the law of entropy all systems increase in chaos (or disorder) over time. This means that things break but don't spontaneously repair, actions waste energy and memories and knowledge is forgotten. This means that a mind (or any storage device for that matter) cannot hold a piece of information forever. Electronical storage devices degrade over time, they can't even hold information forever. Also, as our brains are organic and by computing terms rather crude, I don't see us having limitless potential. The main candidate for this is quantum computing, coupled with molecular computing and the utilisation of light. This being where each and every molecule in the computer is used to carry out the calculations, but can exist in several states at the same time. This means that each molecule can carry out calculations in parallel. There is also much research into replaces cables and wires in computers with light conduits. These have very little data loss and are much faster. I put more stock into electronic computers rather than the human mind for unlimited potential. But I am certain as to which one is better so to speak. The human mind will never be beaten on adaptability (something which computers are extremely poor at), ingenuity, evolution and the ability to think outside the box. Reading this again makes me feel like I havn't answered it properly lol But I ain't changing it now ;D
