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First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Re: First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Post by tw04 »

kakacik wrote: post #55
Reflecticon wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry that happened to you. That's so horrible. Wanna make me beat up bullies, man. Got damn bullies.

Their life is shit already, that's why they act as they act, passing aggression on to others in vain effort to get rid of some of that 'evil' in them. I understand this knee-jerk reaction very well, but it just feeds the neverending spiral of aggression. We humans act like storage of both good and bad, it then comes back up in various situations. What I want to say - you just beating up a bully will mean some other k…

>What I want to say - you just beating up a bully will mean some other kid(s) will get beaten up (or beaten up even more) further down the line.

I can tell you first hand this definitely isn't true in all cases.

We had a bully at my school who constantly picked on all sorts of people. Eventually he decided to pick on one of my best friends who got sick of it and took him to the ground and punched him in the face about 15 times.

It was like a light switch - the bully became one of the chillest, nicest kids in our grade after that. He figured out pretty quickly that getting punched in the face isn't much fun and decided it was probably better to stop being a dick to everyone around him because he didn't know who the next person was that would return his shenanigans with violence.

Re: First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Post by Quitschquat »

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #70

But as the person had epilepsy, which happens as a result of "abnormal electrical brain activity", I wonder how general those results are. I'm surprised this hasn't been done on a 'healthy' patient

I usually discard studies with sample sizes of 1

Re: First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Post by gchamonlive »

Tyrannosaur wrote: post #265
gchamonlive wrote: post #245

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I'm not saying you should forget it, but every second you waste thinking about revenge is a second the bully won another time. It's also another second you are not dedicating for the people you love and care.

On the other hand, every effort each of us makes to eliminate bullying from this world is another effort toward making this world a better place. The trick is to have those thoughts, plans, and actions actually lead to results rather than just anxieties about the past.

How do you think that would work? People will just accuse you of interfering with their raising their children and that you shouldn't raise yours to be a snowflake -- not saying this is true but I can already hear their reasoning.

Maybe we should build laws to make parents more accountable, but then it's the other discussion where we are make the state police us even more and putting more power to the state.

I really don't see a way out other than to focus on other things and take care of ourselves.

Re: First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Post by kbelder »

Buttons840 wrote: post #214
aantix wrote: post #145

Are there any software engineers here that believe in the afterlife?

I've been listening to a book: Opening Heaven's Door. The authors sister was dying of cancer. One morning her sister said she had a strange dream about her father. They later realized that their father had unexpectedly died around the time of the dream. Her sister then went on to have some interesting experiences around her own death from cancer. The author began talking to people, as part of her grieving, and realiz…

The guy was obviously non-empathic and impolite, and probably clueless that he was causing distress. The only thing in his favor is that he was correct.

Re: First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Post by JKCalhoun »

zknowledge wrote: post #261
JKCalhoun wrote: post #128

I have been unable to find the article since—I think it must have been Scientific American . Perhaps in the 1980s. In any event, it described training a neural network, perhaps it was number recognition. The author said that when they "destroyed" the network it began to have "flashbacks" that resembled early training sessions. That always stuck with me.

Was it this Geoffrey Hinton paper? It was in Scientific American in 1993. Simulating Brain Damage: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/sciam93.pdf

I don't think so. When I just asked an LLM though, the Hinton paper also came up. So it does look like a strong candidate.

If I am able to find it, I'll comment here.

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Post by Shocka1 »

mikkupikku wrote: post #139
btilly wrote: post #95

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This idea is naively appealing, but is not backed up by research. Closely related, corporal punishment results in kids who are more likely to try to get their way through violence. Though they'll also take care not to be caught doing so. This is one of the big reasons why psychologists argue against using corporal punishment.

Fighting back worked a hell of a lot better than anything the "responsible" adults could ever suggest. School teachers, councilors, my mother, etc, all gave useless advice. My dad told me to fight back. When I finally listened to him, that's when the bullying stopped. I lost that fight, but won the war so to speak. Telling kids not to fight back is a terrible cowardly thing to do, the adults who do that are either ob…

I'm glad your dad told you to fight back. It's good for a child's development to stick up for themselves, using violence as a last resort if needed.

Re: First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Post by thatgerhard »

I once read this thing somewhere, might have been reddit, but the person explained it like this and even if not completely true it makes a lot of sense. When the brain is dying, it searches through past experiences—something it’s never faced before—trying to find a way to survive. That process is what we perceive as life flashbacks.

Re: First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

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Post by Shocka1 »

Buttons840 wrote: post #214
aantix wrote: post #145

Are there any software engineers here that believe in the afterlife?

I've been listening to a book: Opening Heaven's Door. The authors sister was dying of cancer. One morning her sister said she had a strange dream about her father. They later realized that their father had unexpectedly died around the time of the dream. Her sister then went on to have some interesting experiences around her own death from cancer. The author began talking to people, as part of her grieving, and realiz…

A lot of people, especially the tech crowd, have been taught in undergrad the importance of critical thinking and evidence supported conclusions. Also, I think the science/mathematical mind is drawn to this line of thinking as well, which is understandable. I know extremely well how they feel, as I've always operated the same way.

That is why faith in some kind of God or afterlife goes against everything we in the tech crowd are trained to do. The hardest thing about being a Christian or believing in an afterlife IMO is the faith aspect itself.

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Post by Tyrannosaur »

gchamonlive wrote: post #273
Tyrannosaur wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, every effort each of us makes to eliminate bullying from this world is another effort toward making this world a better place. The trick is to have those thoughts, plans, and actions actually lead to results rather than just anxieties about the past.

How do you think that would work? People will just accuse you of interfering with their raising their children and that you shouldn't raise yours to be a snowflake -- not saying this is true but I can already hear their reasoning. Maybe we should build laws to make parents more accountable, but then it's the other discussion where we are make the state police us even more and putting more power to the state. I really…

Start with the simple. Don't be a bystander. "Next time I see somebody berating a retail worker, I will defend them"

Although it usually needs to start more introspectively: "Next time I am about to lose my temper, I will take a deep breath and consider if yelling is the best course of action or rather something less aggressive."

With children, there's something to be said about them learning to stand up for themselves; tattletales aren't something to admire. But at some point it is actually the correct course of action to interfere with children-raising, especially when it affects my children.

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