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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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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.