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u/Fun-Channel-298 20h ago
Your brain holding out on full admin access to your own body is peak gatekeeping.
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u/MrFantasiy 17h ago
I've been in the IT industry my entire career. I can tell you with full confidence that giving the user slightly more access is the worst thing for their own good and everyone else's.
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u/arcanis321 17h ago
Turned off pain, pumping dopamine, turn off growth limits, ....
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u/MemesNGaming_rongoo 16h ago
MANUAL HEART CONTROL
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u/arcanis321 14h ago
I'm overclocking
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u/Background-Camera628 13h ago
Bluescreenb of death afther forgetting to breathe.
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u/Front_Cat9471 6h ago
Just set up a basic background loop for it. To avoid waste or underconsumption, probably have it tune to the body’s needs at the moment
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u/MrFantasiy 16h ago
Uhhh.. That actually proves my point
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u/AThrowawayProbrably 13h ago edited 13h ago
I once accidentally changed my phone language to Mandarin and it took me a panicky while to change it back because I don’t read Mandarin. I should not have admin access to my body
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u/sweatpants-aristotle 8h ago
Well, actually, if your brain gave you access to that information it would need to be way larger and would likely process information far slower resulting in lower survival chances
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u/John--Darksoul 9h ago
you're getting more convincing, but I can still tell, ChatGPT. Better luck next time buddy.
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u/Legitimate_Main8244 21h ago
It's like a video game.
All the rooms exist in the game, even though you don't see them.
But you have explore them to see what exists in the room.
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u/Impossible-Shake-996 18h ago
It does not, cellular functions are mainly a result of chemical equilibria.
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u/Fit_Foot_6004 17h ago
It's just doing what it needs to do to reach homeostasis, completely unaware of the concept of homeostasis
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u/Right_Ear_2230 15h ago
they are regulated by the brain though
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u/_-_Henro_-_ 14h ago
Yea the brain literally invoked negative feed back loops anytime homeostasis is affected.
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u/Right_Ear_2230 14h ago
or if you are like me it disrupts homeostasis on purpose to mess with you
my life is pain
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u/_-_Henro_-_ 14h ago
Ope, sorry you’re going through that
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u/Right_Ear_2230 14h ago
eh its not that bad… I just barely have a proper sleeping or eating schedule (need melatonin for it) and get fight or flight activation for absolutely no reason, among other things
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u/Impossible-Shake-996 11h ago edited 10h ago
In certain situations, yes. But your brain isn't in control of metabolism at a normal level, just says "hey we need more/less" which is why I said cellular processes.
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u/_-_Henro_-_ 9h ago
Um it definitely is in control of metabolism which is regulated by the thyroid gland which is regulated by the brain.
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u/ptrh 18h ago
I guess it depends on what you mean about "us". Your brain knows, so therefore "you" know. Does it really matter if you are not conscious about these things? Your thoughts would be really noisy if you would be aware of all the minute details that are going on all the time.
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u/Yataro_Ibuza 17h ago
You should be able to access them wherever u want
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u/lazyjane418 9h ago
Go to nursing or med school to unlock this ability
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u/lifelesscucumber1 2h ago
You still won't be able to be aware of it, only recognize it and who knows how accurately.
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u/Forward-Facer 18h ago
Also the immune system, the second most complex system we know about in the universe only second to our brain: "Bro, WE don't even know how we work, we all just do our own shit and usually it ends up okay (until it doesn't)..."
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u/Plenty-Ad7393 18h ago
Last time I tried asking myself, I kept getting this error:
Null.Reference.Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
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u/Blue_Bird950 17h ago
If you consciously knew what every single cell of your body was doing at any given point in time, you’d either go insane from the information overload, or pass out from the vast energy consumption of all that processing. Your brain’s job is to filter out all the information that it believes isn’t important or is impossible to consciously alter, so you can focus on what is important in your day-to-day life.
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u/ltogirl1 17h ago
I think it's like knowing how to move your ears or do this flattering with your nose: you might know how to do it, but just in a practical sense, not in a theoretical sense.
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u/AnakinSkywalkerRocks 17h ago
It's not that way.. I believe it's probably in ways different from us "knowing" our body.. It feels the body in different ways and knows in different ways, and we know it in a language. We remember in a language. So that's why, we don't really understand the way in which it knows the brain.. Idk I heard a friend of mine blabbering this or something
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u/Working-Key-2449 17h ago
It doesnt „know“ every single functionality or our body. Its built up by all those major and minor metabolic pathways, but the brain itself primarily knows things necessary for its survival. This includes conscious and unconscious parts.
Consciously its important for us to identify foul smell and bright looking colour to avoid esting toxic substances.
Unconsciously, it knows how to regulate temperature, heart beat, blood pressure, oxygen demand etc.
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u/GarethBaus 10h ago
Your brain doesn't know how your body works in that much detail, it just knows how to operate your body.
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u/Harry431 18h ago
Why would it? So you can fuck up an important background process like in a computer??
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u/DudeFrom816 18h ago
Well it tried to tell you but the signal.was lost in the fetal alcohol syndrome. Its your mom's fault, not your brains.
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u/InevitableKitchen943 17h ago
The brain is like the operations manager at work. They don't know all the fine details.
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u/Double_Resort_9223 17h ago
In the same way the McDonalds CEO ‘knows’ how the fries get made
“The customer orders fries and then the fries guy makes the fries…duh”
Technically correct but the fries guy is a system that the CEO does not know or necessarily care how it works, only that it works
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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 17h ago
In Dune you can be trained to use your body's full potential, you can manually filter out poisons, give yourself more adrenaline, move your body last it limits,etc because they can learn to control everything
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u/Democratic_Indian 16h ago edited 16h ago
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3.7.22 य आत्मनि तिष्ठन् आत्मनोऽन्तरो यमात्मा न वेद यस्यात्मा शरीरं य आत्मानमन्तरो यमयति स त आत्मान्तर्याम्यमृतः।
He dwells inside you, controls you from within, but you don't know Him. He is your true Self.
- Kena Upanishad 1.4
यद् वाचा अनभ्युदितं येन वागभ्युद्यते। तदेव ब्रह्म त्वं विद्धि नेदं यदिदमुपासते॥
That which speech cannot speak, but which makes speech speak - know That as Brahman.
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u/andyallfellforit 16h ago edited 16h ago
It ain't know no sht, it just vibes with what seems to work the best. Like the black box problem with AI.
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u/SizeableFowl 16h ago edited 16h ago
Knows? No.
You ever watch how babies and kids flail around and do random shit most of the time? They’re building a control index for their body in real time. You spend your life honing it but you intrinsically don’t understand how it works, think of it like a seeing a piano for the first time.
When you press a key for the first time you go “oh shit that flesh pole moved”. You build an association, maybe you try tapping the key gently or slamming it. You try different keys individually and compounded to see what happens and you just build an association with what each key press does. Over the span of years you gain minute control and precision without ever necessarily fundamentally understanding the mechanisms that allow your brain to pilot your meat mech through the world and even if you do become a neurologist and begin to understand the framework for how the brain works, there’s no way for you to naturally assume more direct control over your system.
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u/Honest-Car-8314 16h ago
I think we just don't know how to read/interpret it many times nd many times what our brain reads is also wrong .
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u/Bugsbunny396 15h ago
Theoretically with full brain access couldn't we tell our brain to stop our heart on accident.
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u/Key-Version-8327 14h ago
It doesn't "know", anything.. it's just programmed stuff that passes on through generations
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u/ImmaKitchenSink 13h ago
There’s a reason for it, I have a 3yo with Type 1 diabetes and having constant access to blood sugar levels by itself already leads to a ton of worrying and obsessive behavior. I couldn’t imagine if we could have access to all the complexities of our body. You would want to be at the doctor’s office every other day for one fluctuation or another.
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u/nfshaw51 13h ago
Well, your brain knows what it can and often fills in the gaps, when it comes to sensory info at least, both outside and inside of the body. Outside is simple enough to get. Take vision: x wavelengths hit your retina and y receptors are triggered, sending a signal to the brain that is interpreted through many layers to generate an image. What you see is your brain’s best approximation and is fairly easy to fool really, because there are a lot of gaps that are filled in to make a seamless image.
But what about internal sensation? That achey joint? That nagging shoulder? This is the stuff that gets really interesting in my field. Your brain receives sensory signals from those areas that also must go through layers of processing to be perceived, and at that point interpreted by you (the parts of your brain responsible for your conscious thoughts, decision making, emotions, etc). But what is interesting is that there are systems in place to turn down the pain signaling before it reaches your brain. There are ways that info can also come in less filtered. There are ways that normal, non-pain information can enter processing and be interpreted as pain. There are very easy ways for your brain to learn “this is a dangerous thing” and strengthen the association of thing, motion, or activity with pain. It’s not so easy to unlearn and say “oh this isn’t a dangerous/painful thing”, though. Anyway, before going on too much of a tangent, your brain is far from perfect and is often doing its best to try and understand the environment around you, in the interest of keeping you alive.
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u/WanderingFlumph 13h ago
Your brain has no idea how it works, it just does.
A water wheel doesn't know why it turns, a duck doesn't know why it floats, and your brain doesn't know why you tum tum feels bad.
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u/Modern_Misfit 13h ago
Imagine having to pump your own heart manually. Shit would be so annoying, especially if your trying to sleep.
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u/HH_Hippopotamus 11h ago
Your brain doesn't, each cell contains the instruction manual in the form of DNA and they all cooperate until they don't then you die
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u/Most-Lingonberry7162 9h ago
Difference between brain and consciousness. Almost shows that your brain is an organ and your intelligence and consciousness is something else
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u/ZabarSegol 8h ago
Because the consciousness is also manopulated by the brain.
Consciousness is the UI bit there is lots and lots and lots more.
The brain does not trust you with the heartbeat
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u/imabigasstree 6h ago
A lot of the stuff your body does to stay alive has nothing do with your brain. Your brain doesnt tell all the cells what to do. The cells do stuff based on their shape and organelles, which they get instructions for from dna.
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u/Royal-Rip-6974 6h ago
You ever think about breathing and then get stuck manually breathing? Now imagine if you had to do all the other things your brain automatically takes care of without conscious thought. You’ll be thankful you aren’t aware of it
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u/CleanSeaPancake 3h ago
It kind of doesn't really, it just knows what levers to pull in different scenarios. Like it doesn't understand how the cardiac rhythm happens, it just knows how to work the gas and the brake.
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u/Jackiedraper 3h ago
Shit, mine actively fucks with me. Tells me things that don't even exist and has me worried about things gone and may never well come to be. Fmb
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u/jesveer 2h ago
Oh no your body doesn't know a thing It's just randomly follows a random string of chemicals that somehow describe how a body functions but it would be like trying to understand a piece of software after it's compiled and has been converted to a string of 0 and 1s that the cpu can work with
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u/Happy-For-No-Reason 41m ago
nope, the way our body works is autonomous.
the brain exists to analyse and react to the environment the body is in and seek security, locate and validate appropriate food and water, and procreate.
that's it.
everything we have ever done was to serve those needs
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u/MeepRJ 19h ago
"You do not have permission to access this file"
I OWN YOU!!!!!!!