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Deja Vu explained

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-07 7:08

Alright, I will try to explain this theory as best as I can 

My theory is as follows:

If thoughts are electrical impulses in our brains, we can assume that they would travel at the speed of light.

Throughout our daily lives, our planet is intersected by innumerable solar particles like neutrinos traveling at light speed, which pass through solid matter, including our bodies, our brains, and even the neurons that develop the electrical impulses of our thoughts.

So, what if a neutrino has intersected a neuron that is generating an electrical impulse of thought, and that impulse comes into existence in the same area of spacetime as the neutrino. The effect would be like firing a bullet from the front of a speeding train, making the bullet travel doubly fast, or in the case of the impulse, making it take off at the speed of light, within something already moving at the speed of light. Einstein said that time travel would be possible at above light speed, so this impulse would travel through time.

However, when it arrives, our brains may not be in a state that is receptive to a time-traveling outside stimulus. The brain would likely be receptive to this only during times of high imagination and visualization, including REM sleep.

So back in time, the impulse arrives in a REM cycle, and the memory blooms, depending on what the impulse carried. And it is logged in our memory, so that when we go forward in time to reach the point the memory disappeared from, we are instead met with the memory of the impulse arriving during REM sleep.

In this way, it is essentially a form of neuro time travel, where we are sending thoughts, concepts, or images to ourselves before they occur. Were this power recreated and manipulated under controlled circumstances, it could allow for communication across vistas of time

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-07 9:35

Or the Matrix is changing something

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-07 10:00

If thoughts are electrical impulses in our brains, we can assume that they would travel at the speed of light.

ass-u-me we would be wrong.

Name: 4tran 2009-03-07 13:20

Do you really know our thoughts are electrical impulses, and not metastable configurations of various chemicals?

Electrical signals do not travel at the speed of light and neither do neutrinos.

Neutrinos interact extremely weakly with normal matter.  In any case, there's no reason to believe that the neutrino will boost the speed of the signal.

Einstein said that time travel would be possible at above light speed, so this impulse would travel through time.
LIES

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-07 14:19

I see no flaw in OP's reasoning, you could be on to something there

Name: AnOnYmOuS 2U 2009-03-07 16:05

The way I see it, Deja Vu is closely resembled to nostalgia. However, with nostalgia there are two viewpoints, one is reminiscent nostalgia where one person is thinking back on something and the nostalgic emotion occurs or secondly the experience of the present recalls similarities from the past where emotional ties were created to specific perceptions. Deja Vu is closer to a slight form of nostalgia where only the feeling comes, but the memory escapes the consciousness at the moment. It is a feeling of similarity between the present and the past. Much like pleasure is a slight form of pain.

otherwise, I would have to agree with >>2.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-07 16:11

C'mon, OP, because our brain is CHEMICALLY electric, those impulses being electrical or whatever can oscillate at VARYING speeds which could account for VARYING perceptions of time without external devices such as clocks. Ever felt like time is taking too long or it just flies by so fast? How many thoughts can you process before you actually take one step with your foot? If I had to guess, the length of time depends upon relative location. We might not be able to pick it up within our own minds, but someone else might be able to pick it up if they are fully aware at the moment. We might be behaving slower today or faster the next and not even realize it because to us it is only a slight change; to others it is a dramatic change in perceivable events.
Does anyone see the logic in this?
Maybe it is just as >>2 said, It's got to be the Matrix.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-07 16:15

Hmm, Oh yeah, when it comes to perceivable time, the slower something is the faster everything else appears to it. So, someone perceiving something happening fast would have a slower oscillation of brain activity as opposed to the person who is moving fast has a faster oscillation of brain activity. This would also account for missing moments in time that we recall later. Which could account possibly for Deja Vu as well.

else=>>2

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-07 18:30

>>6

What you describe is an observation that exists of how you perceive the experience someone else has.  You're a blind man imagining an elephant another blind man describes.

Name: AnOnYmOuS 2U 2009-03-07 22:43

>>9
I admit, it is as you assume to perceive it to be.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-08 0:28

Op: you guise are easy to troll

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-09 18:45

We create an infinite number of undetectable vibrating alternate realities every time we eat, breathe, move, or think, and our mind still has echoes of these realities being created all the time.  This isn't my theory. 

THIS IS WHAT STRING THEORISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-10 20:42

If thoughts are electrical impulses in our brains

This is wrong. There are no electrical impulses in the brain, only a depolarisation wave across a single cell, causing neurohormones to be released, which causes the synapse of the neuronal cell adjacent to the the cell releasing neurohormone to be stimulated. This again causes a wave of depolarisation across the single neuronal cell. There is no transfer of an electrical current between neuronal cells.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-10 23:31

So how do I manipulate neurons using an external device?

Name: AnOnYmOuS 2U 2009-03-11 5:38

>>14
Use your imagination.

Name: AnOnYmOuS 2U 2009-03-11 5:56

>>13
What is the recurring transference across neuronal cells? There must be a motion taking place or there wouldn't be life, amirite?

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-11 10:58

>>14
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), look it up.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-11 11:25

>>16
Rapid depolarisation of an axon causes the depolarisation of axons near it. This sends a signal down the long arms of neuronal cells. Once this depolarisation reaches the axon terminal (the 'end' of a neuronal cell) of the neruonal cell it triggers the secretion of neurotransmitters (neurohormones) across a very small gap (synapse) between the axon terminal of the first neruonal cell and the next neuronal cell. The next neuronal cell has cell surface receptors for neurotransmitters released from the first neruonal cell and when the neurotransmitter binds to these receptors depolarisation of axon terminals in the second neruonal cell continue the signal through the second neuronal cell.

tl;dr: Depolarisation of axons in a neuronal cell tansduce the signal through a single neuronal cell but neurotransmitters cause the continuation of a signal through multiple neuronal cells. There is no electrical impulse passed from one neuronal cell to another.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-11 18:33

This is so stupid. First, if I fire something off of something going the speed of light, It does not go faster. It goes the speed of light. This is well-established in the scientific world. Second, neural messages do not go the speed of light. They are not electrical impulses in the sense of electricity traveling though copper wiring. Ions are alternately pumped out and sucked creating a "message" that moves down the axon. Third, Deja Vu is already pretty well explained. When you overstimulate certain parts of the brain (basically, when you induce a local seizure of sorts in a certain part of the brain) you can produce a number of effects. For example, you can produce a strong feeling that there is another being in the room, that you can only sense with your mind (sometimes explained as a "religious experience" by the subject), or, yes, Deja Vu.

tl;dr Go back to middle school. Don't come out to play until you're done with college.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-12 21:49

>>17

I need something more portable.  How small do you think they can make it?

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-13 5:01

>>20
Depends if you want single pulse or repeated.

A six-pound battery-powered portable transcranial magnetic stimulator

Abstract
Background
Commercial transcranial magnetic stimulators are massive and may be difficult to transport for lecture and teaching purposes

Objective
To design and construct a portable, battery-powered magnetic stimulator of the lowest possible mass for use in demonstrations and simple measurements

Results
The functioning battery-powered single-pulse system is relatively inexpensive, weighs less than 7 pounds, including coil, incorporates external sync capability, and functions well for the intended purposes

Conclusions
The device may useful for teachers, researchers, and clinicians

http://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-861X(08)00004-1/abstract

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-13 11:56

Does he have the only rights to make this like it's patented or could someone sell a smaller version the size of an mp3 player?

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