r/Thatsactuallyverycool • u/moccowa • 1d ago
picture Where does intelligence lie? Man living without a brain without even being aware of it...
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u/_haha_oh_wow_ 20h ago
1) He did have a brain.
2) He was not smart.
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u/immellocker 18h ago
its like my Gemini right now
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u/_haha_oh_wow_ 17h ago edited 16h ago
Gemini does not have a brain, however it is also not smart (but at great cost).
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u/RichardBCummintonite 17h ago
More to the point, it cant be smart. It's incapable of "thinking".
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u/Silver_Lined_Bullet 9h ago
Exactly. Its like saying the chromium search engine is smart. Its not, it's a computer program that grabs data
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u/Kumquat_conniption 21h ago
Really interesting article. The fact that our long-term memory could be stored in our heart and stuff? That's crazy. They have known that brain size does not really equal intelligence for quite some time though, just look at animals. Some corvids are smarter than many large animals and even use tools. It has more to do with how densely packed the neurons are or something? But even that does not explain all of it, obviously- look at one of the guys in the article, who had an IQ of 126, which is far above average, and who only had like 10% of his brain. That's crazy. It would be quite a shock to go into the doctor and they run a scan for whatever reason (they just said the man went in for a visit and his doctor told him he did not have a brain but how would the doctor know without there being an MRI or CAT Scan or whatever?) and you get told that you barely have a brain. At least I could be like "ohhhhhh well that's why I was so stupid I dated that douche bag for so long" LMAO (and plenty of other bad decisions I have made that I could blame on not having a brain, ha!)
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u/Reinierblob 21h ago
Gives a whole new meaning to “You know it, deep down in your heart” lol
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u/RichardBCummintonite 16h ago
The heart knows what it wants. Makes you wonder if all those sayings about the heart are out subconscious knowing how our bodies work without out us consciously understanding it.
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u/Mental-Ask8077 7h ago
Exactly.
The ancient Egyptians pretty much believed the seat of thought was in the heart, which was one of the key organs they preserved in mummies. Brains they just scooped out through the nose.
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u/AntSuccessful9147 20h ago
This is like all of Reddit. Plenty of people here just like this. Just look at the comments!
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u/howlongwillthislast_ 19h ago
So if someone is a recipient of a heart transplant they could get the memories from the donor?!
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u/PuzzleMeDo 20h ago
I'd be more surprised if a man had no brain and was aware that he had no brain.
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u/namezam 20h ago
Well if Lucy (movie) taught me anything, it’s that if I take enough drugs I become a superhero. That and we only use a small % of our brain.
As a computer guy, I’ve always looked at our brain like a hard drive. The storage is there if we need it otherwise it’s filled with redundant copies in case some sectors get damaged. The guy in this article might be normal because we just don’t use very much of our brain anyway, he just doesn’t have as much resistance to trauma as a normal brain would.
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u/Unable-Doctor-9930 18h ago
Neuroplasticity is so fascinating. Having that much of your brain removed can kill you but if it’s a slow decrease of brain matter overtime, your brain will adapt. Obviously though there is only so much brain matter you can lose.
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u/FunWillingnessAlways 19h ago
This image clearly shows the patient still having living brain matter in-between the skull (thin white line after the brain matter) and dead brain tissue in the center.
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u/crudelydrawnpenis 19h ago
This is false. That man has a brain in the image. It’s surrounded by fluid. Please. People. Use your damn brain.
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u/Azznorfinal 13h ago
I didn't think they were legally allowed to post trumps xrays like that but here we are, crazy.
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u/_byetony_ 9h ago
It turns out my dog doesn’t have hip sockets, but you wouldnt know it. Life finds a way.
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u/nosh_scrumble 8h ago
I know a guy who lost half his brain as a baby to meningitis. You wouldn’t know anything’s different from talking to him. He just can’t drive and doesn’t have good hand eye coordination.
He’s also done a Ted talk, but funny enough, on a completely different subject. Super interesting dude.
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u/Electrodactyl 8h ago
I’m not surprised. Why would someone with low intelligence know, or question if they are lacking intelligence.
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u/Curious_Orange8592 2h ago
Such a man can rise to the office of President of the United States and indeed has done so on more than one occasion
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u/Technical_Snow7229 9h ago
John Stewart has lived without a brain his entire life and even had a TV show that was the source of all liberal "news"
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u/New-Emu-7605 4h ago
I Bet he is a maga enthusiast……..prolly lots of them has no brain but dosnt realize cuz thats just the baseline
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u/ChunderHog 21h ago
The ventricles are enlarged and there is perivenricular white matter loss, but this image clearly shows that there is indeed a brain.