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Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.
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I do wonder if the electrical impulses give off any light
no they don't
To explain why, the electrical signals is not like how we know electricity like when you see lightning. It’s salt/ion based movements in and out of cells. A lot more boring
So kind of like a battery?
exactly like a battery.
also, thinking skills decline with age for the same reason that batteries lose maximum capacity over time.
A human brain conceived Ohms Law with no realization of it itself was functioning.
The brain also named itself (along with everything else)
It’s a wave of ion movement.
Even if how would the brain detect them?
That's a separate issue. A blind person could still sit in a well lit room.
Prove it
Here's photographic evidence for you
How do I know he’s not squatting a millimeter over the chair?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seeing-without-eyes1/
Interesting read. Ty!