Brains are super cool but too many people have been brainwashed by Hollywood to think that brains are computers, people are animals and loose behavior is the norm.

It doesn’t store anything in the brain.

But either way it is still commonly believed that the long-term memory in humans has near limitless capacity.

Also nothing a quick google search won’t clear up

We could also question why a designer would build a huge mansion for just one person to live in. The question doesn’t really have any bearing on whether the house was designed.
As for the vast intellect, one explanation is that perhaps we were meant to live longer. That’s not a scientific answer. But there is no evolutionary explanation for our vast, mostly unused brain power. It contradicts the expectations of darwinian evolution.

I agree, the ’1 billion times’ figure seems like a guess. But it’s universally agreed that we have far more capacity than we need. So far the only explanation evolution offers is the one I alluded to at #3. It doesn’t hold water.

Guess you didn’t get that memo.

You didnt get the memo. ID has nothing to do with Him.

Im still curious about: a billion times that Could you provide a reference ?

Statements in the article like: “every year or so we find they [computers] can do something – like optical character recognition or speech recognition – that we never imagined they would be able to do” gives credit to computers when it should be attributed to persons who developed the software and hardware that make those things possible.

Computers that have been combined with software by persons, do arithmetic, play chess or recognize speech. Computer hardware and software without human involvement can do nothing.

The brain can’t do these things either. Brains don’t think, or see or hear or interpret languages. We may use our brain in the process but that’s light years from saying that the brain is thinking about designing a bridge, classroom curriculum or an F-35 JSF. The fact is, persons do. We need to stop seeing ourselves as “neural equipment.”

A person is an immaterial substance not a property-thing and physical entities are not all there are. Neurons dying every second should be an indication that thoughts (e.g., of memories), desires, sensations, beliefs and volition are states of consciousness, not states of the brain itself. It’s hard to see how a brain (much less a computer) could retain all of my childhood memories and be able to determine which are happy ones and which are painful ones. The molecular particles that make up my brain can’t, but I have no problems doing so. We can remain the same person through time precisely because our personhood is not grounded in the meat that makes up the brain. So I may use my brain but I am not my brain.

Consciousness, as a simple uncomposed substance, is the only way “enormous quantity of data can be handled at the same time” and give us that unified information field and the ability to “extract objects from a visual scene … so rapidly and effortlessly” (vision btw continues to exist even with eyes shut). Otherwise the visual field and all the other input would be so fragmented it would be impossible to do anything, from writing a letter to flying an F-35 JSF at low altitude in the middle of New York.

Could consciousness operate at speeds of C² (the speed of light²) and generate energy?

Seems that way a designer could act freely (say when implementing a design) and create matter using M=E/C², essentially freezing the energy produced into matter during the volition act. Could we be using those energy bursts as signals (as some sort of morse code) in the brain?

What? How is this supported by anything you wrote or quoted?

Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between serious evolutionary psychology and a parody of it, but even using only 0.01% of my brain capacity I was able to recognize your post as parody.

Good post, Cornelius.