The Wonderings of Wolf_Pup

[Wolf_Pup]

I've always wondered why we're a death denying culture. That people always have to live, and when we die we mourn them. Some cultures celebrate death. And that we never talk about death in the schools. I mean, there was even a case where a teacher in New York, I believe it was, talked to his students about death and dying. About a few weeks later, one of his students killed himself. What do you think they did? They sued the teacher for talking about death and putting the thoughts into the kid's head. Sadly, I can't tell you the outcome of the case, my Psychology teacher never told us cause she never did find out what it was! x.x


I also wonder about the colors we see everyday. Are they the true colors? I don't think so. Considering that on the light scale, we only see a small amount of the light. We don't see Ultraviolet lights, X-Rays, and others. I mean, when we look at a yellow flower, we see it as a yellow flower. A bee can look at the same color and see it blue!! It makes me wonder then what other animals see when they look at the world, and where on the light scale do the "True" colors fall onto. Cause I think that if you look again back at that yellow flower, it's not really yellow. I think it's True Color is something different, but because we can't pick up where on the light scale it is, we see it just as yellow.


And I've also wondered how is it that everything we see is really all in our brain. Not in our eyes like thought. This is something that's really long and hard to explain, but yes...We don't need our eyes to see! They help us, but we don't need them. A blind person can wear glasses with little cameras attached to the ends of each side. The cameras then get pluged into the back of their head (something like the matrix) and then they can see. Granted it won't be clear as how we see. It might be a little blurry, and not many colors. Maybe just black and white, but they can see even when they have no eyes, or their eyes are no longer working anymore.


Another thing, why do we humans think that we only us 10% of our brain? I mean, if they were true, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing today! Our brain does more than what we think. Feeling, Touch, Hearing (Thoguhts also), and Vision all go on in the head. You think that your fingers are touching the keys on your computer, but really, it's your brain feeling it. And all the other thing our brain does. Makes our heart beat, makes us breath, helps us think and learn new things. So, why do some people say, and still believe, that humans only use 10% of their brain?

[Lore]

I've always wondered why we're a death denying culture. That people always have to live, and when we die we mourn them. Some cultures celebrate death. And that we never talk about death in the schools. I mean, there was even a case where a teacher in New York, I believe it was, talked to his students about death and dying. About a few weeks later, one of his students killed himself. What do you think they did? They sued the teacher for talking about death and putting the thoughts into the kid's head. Sadly, I can't tell you the outcome of the case, my Psychology teacher never told us cause she never did find out what it was! x.x

I think humans find it hard to accept their own mortality. I think some humans fear death because we cannot be sure it anything happens next, an afterlife etc.

[Gilenea]

I also wonder about the colors we see everyday. Are they the true colors? I don't think so. Considering that on the light scale, we only see a small amount of the light. We don't see Ultraviolet lights, X-Rays, and others. I mean, when we look at a yellow flower, we see it as a yellow flower. A bee can look at the same color and see it blue!! It makes me wonder then what other animals see when they look at the world, and where on the light scale do the "True" colors fall onto. Cause I think that if you look again back at that yellow flower, it's not really yellow. I think it's True Color is something different, but because we can't pick up where on the light scale it is, we see it just as yellow.

How do you know the color "yellow" is the same color as the person next to you is seeing? They might see yellow as what you call green and not know any better!!

Another thing, why do we humans think that we only us 10% of our brain? I mean, if they were true, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing today! Our brain does more than what we think. Feeling, Touch, Hearing (Thoguhts also), and Vision all go on in the head. You think that your fingers are touching the keys on your computer, but really, it's your brain feeling it. And all the other thing our brain does. Makes our heart beat, makes us breath, helps us think and learn new things. So, why do some people say, and still believe, that humans only use 10% of their brain?

What if the 10% actually only includes all those things? Like, the daily functions of our brains (i.e.: regulating heart beat, breathing, organs, the senses, etc.) was really only 10%? Imagine what we could do and feel if we used 50%. That would be awesome.

Gil

[DarkWolf]

This did not fit into the Ever Wonder thread which was about how things were named.

Your post had none of this and was about random things, but does make a good post with opportunity for discussion of its own, I split it into its own thread. If you don't like the title please let me know and I will change it.

Another thing, why do we humans think that we only us 10% of our brain? I mean, if they were true, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing today! Our brain does more than what we think. Feeling, Touch, Hearing (Thoguhts also), and Vision all go on in the head. You think that your fingers are touching the keys on your computer, but really, it's your brain feeling it. And all the other thing our brain does. Makes our heart beat, makes us breath, helps us think and learn new things. So, why do some people say, and still believe, that humans only use 10% of their brain?
It's a proven scientific fact that we use all of our brains - not all at once, no, but we do use all of it. How many of the brain is actively used depends on greatly on what you are doing. Many functions of your body and habits of life use or rely on different parts of the brain.

For more information about this myth try visiting: http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm

[Wolf_Pup]

This did not fit into the Ever Wonder thread which was about how things were named.

Your post had none of this and was about random things, but does make a good post with opportunity for discussion of its own, I split it into its own thread. If you don't like the title please let me know and I will change it.


It's a proven scientific fact that we use all of our brains - not all at once, no, but we do use all of it. How many of the brain is actively used depends on greatly on what you are doing. Many functions of your body and habits of life use or rely on different parts of the brain.

For more information about this myth try visiting: http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm

*falls over* x.x Ok, I think I may have worded it wrong, sorry. I'm just saying that there's people out there who still think that humans only use 10% of their brain, when we don't. I just don't understand how they can think that. (Example: Most of my family, and some of my friends still think that!) Sorry, if something didn't make sense! x.x I wrote it when I had just woken up and I suppose I wasn't thinking to clearly myself.

*hides* Don't pick on me! :(

EDIT: Oh, I didn't read/see that you broke this off into a diffent thread! XD Ok! That's fine, I guess. As long as no one flames me to death for these little thoughts and such I have. I've just been thinking about of alot of weird (normal? O.o) things that I just would maybe liked answered!

[Wolf_Pup]

How do you know the color "yellow" is the same color as the person next to you is seeing? They might see yellow as what you call green and not know any better!!

What's what I was trying to say!! Sorry, again, didn't word it correctly. But, how do we know what a "true" color for something really is? Please who are color blind say they see different colors than we do. And why should we call them color blind? Just because they don't see the same color as the rest of the people? That's kinda dumb considering everyone sees everything differntly!!

[Gilenea]

*Shoots the Pup with a tranquilizer*

Gil

[Binkx]

What's what I was trying to say!! Sorry, again, didn't word it correctly. But, how do we know what a "true" color for something really is? Please who are color blind say they see different colors than we do. And why should we call them color blind? Just because they don't see the same color as the rest of the people? That's kinda dumb considering everyone sees everything differntly!!

I personally think it's cause we as human want to organize and catagorize everything. To make things work with eachother. But then again, my opinion is worth about as much as a torn up pair of socks that just came off a bum who hasn't had a shower in 30 years.

[blueeyes]

People who are colorblind see gray and black and white when other people see colors... sort of.
Most can also see every color. It's an interesting duality, but when you're told a color you see as black is red, then you start to call everything that shade of black as red. There's no difference to you between reality and what you observe. Call it a Schrödinger's cat. The sign is both red and black until someone else observes it.

The real proof is seeing two diferent colors the same, which can be quite a problem, sometimes. That's why there are those huge books with dot-speckled pictures of numbers at some eye doctors. Many people, many adults and children, never notice that they're colorblind until it's proven to them.

Does everybody see everything differently? It's almost certain in the case of size and magnitude, since even the incredibly small variations in eyeball size humans exhibit is more than enough to alter the way of viewing things. Does everyone see color differently? Maybe. It's certainly possible, given how many areas there are for changes. What about the neurons making value choices? Or the rods and cones, or the nerves tying them to the brain? If even one of those varies, they whole system is altered. A cool thought, although one with relatively little pratical application but to explain why two people will never be able to give the same color to a blue purple object.

[Buddha Monkey]

People who are colorblind see gray and black and white when other people see colors... sort of.
Most can also see every color.


Wow, so I'm not colorblind, legally ;) . I see some range of the spectrum, but not enough to saftly do some jobs (such as defuse a bomb), without putting myself and others at risk.

And, from what I understood when I had my last check up, it's not black grey and white, but something like the primary colors that are seen. It's the lack of shade's that make someone color blind. Someone seeing only those three color's can not make the differnce in a dark red, and a dark blue, the shade's of grey are so close it's not funny (a friend of mine only see's in those colors.)

When your color blind, it's the shade's of the same color. Dark red and red look the same to me, same as a dark blue and blue look the same.

It's odd, but it's something

[Faerie_flame]

I sometimes wonder all of those things, appart from the one about everyone not talking about death, because in our Religous Studdies lessons, that's the main focus.Is that just my school, or britian in general? hmmmm...

[Cuttail]

Just because I know that one day I will,die doesn,t mean that I won't fight it with tooth and nail,kicking and sceaming all the way. :p

[Waelfwulf]

And, from what I understood when I had my last check up, it's not black grey and white, but something like the primary colors that are seen. It's the lack of shade's that make someone color blind. Someone seeing only those three color's can not make the differnce in a dark red, and a dark blue, the shade's of grey are so close it's not funny (a friend of mine only see's in those colors.)

When your color blind, it's the shade's of the same color. Dark red and red look the same to me, same as a dark blue and blue look the same.

It's odd, but it's something

There is truth to everything that has been mentioned, I friend of mine who was in my physics class and in his senior year(12) and me (10) Was 100% colour blind, like, as before stated, black grey and white. He knew that orange to be a certain shade of grey, (it made no difference to him). On top of that, he could see excelent in the dark.

I have some retared thing with my eyes, witch is someplace in between, uh, think about it like when you turn the colour down on the TV, it's pale. There are less cones (or witch ever cell that intereperates colour in the eye) and more of the ones that see shadow. There is a wide range of colour blindness, its common for men to have less red/green colour vison.

[forestwolf]

Another thing, why do we humans think that we only us 10% of our brain? I mean, if they were true, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing today! Our brain does more than what we think. Feeling, Touch, Hearing (Thoguhts also), and Vision all go on in the head. You think that your fingers are touching the keys on your computer, but really, it's your brain feeling it. And all the other thing our brain does. Makes our heart beat, makes us breath, helps us think and learn new things. So, why do some people say, and still believe, that humans only use 10% of their brain?

that is with all thouse things put togeather. humans have a very large untaapped resoure, their own minds. if we acompished all of these things in the world with only 10%, just imagion the possibilitys of say 50% or more.

[DarkWolf]

Forest that myth was already scientifically proven to be false. If we used too much of our brain at once it causes errors and brain damage.