Why can’t we make our brain do some tasks like:
“I need to remove something from my memory”
“Set a reminder to do something later”
Is this something that we can achieve by trying or it is physiologically impossible?
Thanks
Why can’t we make our brain do some tasks like:
“I need to remove something from my memory”
“Set a reminder to do something later”
Is this something that we can achieve by trying or it is physiologically impossible?
Thanks
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You can’t remember to do things?
Your brain isn’t Siri, it’s a big weird blob that we don’t entirely understand. Just write stuff down that you want to remember, if you are afraid you’ll forget.
Principle of least privilege /s
Evolution doesn’t operate on “best”, it operates on “good enough”, so something complicated without an immediate and obvious reproductive need, such as full admin control of your brain, probably won’t develop
Because you’re not driving your brain, your brain is driving you
The “You” that you experience is a whole bunch of different systems working together in your brain (and spine, and gut). There’s a lot of philosophy and science that has been done into what parts are doing what and why, and we’ve barely scratched the surface on most of it.
One of the areas we don’t really understand is how the unified consciousness (“you”) interacts with the parts that are ticking away. We know that you can do some things, like reduce your stress level by forcing yourself to smile, or use tactile sensory techniques to overcome overwhelm (5 things you see, 4 things you touch, 3 things you smell, etc etc), but the fact is we have very little control over what we’re doing inside (and, depending on the theories you’re looking at, very little actual control over the things we do on the outside. Often you do something automatically, then the brain backfills it with an explaination of why you did it and pretends it was intentional all along).
Cognitive behavioral therapy and all its offshoots (dialectical therapy, emdr, biofeedback, etc) are all attempts to get more effective control over the self, and its also a known side effect of meditation and mindfulness training as well.
You can make your brain do a lot of stuff. It just requires effort
You can’t remember stuff if you intend to?
We don’t even really understand how the brain generally works in the first place. You can, however, give him many very specific and difficult commands, like following a sequence of actions that result in activation of a macine etc or remembering a poem word for word. But just like a real computer, brain has its computational limitations. It’s also not actually exactly a computer like a PC. One of most fundamental things brain does is maintain awareness. You unconditionally constantly hear, smell, see and feel things around you. Brain thinks and analyses them all the time, except when you sleep (which is btw why it needs sleeps at all). So you’re thinking about it as a small data center as if its primary goal is to collect and utilise data. Actual brains objective is to maximise chances of survival and manage energy.
No I’m with you on this… like “my hair is long enough now stop growing” or… yes, I see the I jury and it’s being treated, I’m being careful, now stop the pain. Or… I get you wana hoard this fat for a later date just incase, but I promise you, that shop we go to all the time with all the food in… like when in the last 35 years was it not there? Stop holding on to the fat we don’t need it! Stupid dumb brain not doing what I tell it to!
You don’t control your brain. Your brain controls you. Your consciousness only exists because that blob of meat jello needs an interface it can use to interact with other brains in complex ways.
You are but the program being run by your brain; you don’t have the autonomy to tell the brain what to do anymore than an app off the google playstore has the autonomy to access your phone’s password.
Your brain is not a computer meant to have calendars and run aps. It’s evolved to run your body, find you food and a mate. It does that kind of thing really really well…if you don’t believe me look into how complicated it is to make a computer that control a robot to do something simple like catch something it drops.