/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12620818]

lets say hypothetically youre undestructable and floating through space
how mush would be your brain after a million years? could you still have something what most consider as a thought?

[Anonymous No.12620838]

>>12620818
Depends on the brain. At a certain point you would run out of memory essentially and your conception of time would be so warped as to make it meaningless.

[Anonymous No.12620871]

>>12620838
>Run out of memory
What is with this meme?

[Anonymous No.12620943]

>>12620871
Our brains build composite patterns to store memories and attempt to purge old ones. Eventually those composite memory patterns are going to overwhelm our brains such that we forget things until we can only remember the blank staring void or we run out of space for our brains compression algorithm to fill and simply are unable to aggregate new memories. Some combination of the two is likely to occur. Combine this with the known phenomena of the perception of time increasing in speed as we age due to relative time experienced even if we are somehow able to retain these memories with any fidelity after 10k years our time perception will absolutely fuck us over if we tried to interact with normal people again.

That's not even mentioning that humans need feedback or we start freaking out. It's why solitary confinement does so much brain damage to people.

[Anonymous No.12620975]

>>12620943
Spooky.
But why wouldnt the brain keep functioning in an eternal present like those with short term memory loss? What's the difference between that and the brain "filling up"?

[Anonymous No.12620981]

>>12620818
Is this before or after medical technology that prevents oxidizing damage to the brain?
If before, you will die even with an indestructible body because your cellular metabolism produces waste products and oxidizing agents that will lead to neural cell and eventually brain death.