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I want to take a psychology course. It's really ****ing interesting.

Yeah, it mostly depends on the levle your taking. Like general psychology is pretty low. If you become a doctor [neurologist] then that is pretty hardcore. also you can go to psychiatry which is psychology and being able to recomend medications for patients.
I think you need 12 years of university for that. Depends where your at.

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Now Zed, how are we able to "play" these recordings? Also when we do why can't we not actually see them.

I'm just a curious child. I am quite educated, but I am learning different things in class. We were studying the structure of the brain and how basic neurons function, and thus I got questions.

Good question. The reason we don't actually appear to see things when we imagine them is probably because the brain naturally moderates these things so that we don't get confused about what is real and what isn't, unless you are schitzophrenic or under the influence of drugs.

I'm not entirely certain how the retrieval process works for playing back long term memories and imagining things. The brain reads back off the chemical trace where the memory is stored, I can only assume that this then directly links to the occipital lobe and stimulates it into producing the images. Some people have this link damaged and that is what causes various levels of amnesia.

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Learned in a psychology course. Like I say, it's a shame most of the intelligent people go for chemistry etc. and psychology ends up with the people who sleep all lesson. It's a really fun and useful subject if you can get your head around it.

Still, 140 IQ and more is a genius.

I think I may be in over my head.

Depends. You can theorize and explain it with science and experimentation.
Unless you're one of the people that assumes you just can and there is no logical explanation for it. That's what I do. Instead of relying on science to prove something, I just prefer to know that I can, I don't need some logical explanation as to how I can imaginate things happening, I just can.

Hallucinations, in my opinion, are either caused by something stimulating the mind, or when in distress, it's a reaction from your brain to try and calm your system.

This is coming from the guy that believes in destiny and fate in life, rather than everyone having a single purpose. It all depends on what you want to believe.

It does not depend on what you believe. It is 100% proven, then all other beliefs are false.

False.
You saying that, is just like saying that people cannot be a part of a religeon because scientists have proven evolution to be correct.

Depends on the religion. If the religion believes that we were all put on the earth by some random magical monkey, and we didn't develop in any way, then that religion is false.

Yo, people. Memories aren't video recordings in your head. They are reconstructions.

The difference is like the difference between a video recording of the screen while playing Halo 3 and the Theatre feature recording certain details and reconstructing the gameplay based on that.

This is why we can imagine things that aren't there: we construct them in our heads based on details.

stoner1: hey man, how do we imagine things...that aren't even there? huh man?
stoner2:woaaahh maan thats intense, you know i dont think we're ever going to know anything about anyone...dude ya know?