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Does this happen to your brain?

god: Would knowing more, thus theoretically creating more bumps and folds in your brain(giving more storage space), make it take longer to process things because of the larger amount of distance your neurons would have to work through(compared to knowing less and having fewer bumps and folds in your brain)?

Like being an ant trying to crawl across the surface of a nice smooth pillow as compared to a scrunched up blanket.

Laid out flat it'd be the same as crawling across three and a half feet to about 8 feet wouldn't it?

I understand that different people are able to process at different speeds based on neurons and chemicals as well, but why wouldn't distance be a factor in the equation?

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2 years ago

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  • Parasyte
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It's possible, but if so, it would be almost undetectable, because of the fact that it takes only nanoseconds, maybe even less.

  • Moonrise
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  • -  (2 years ago)

electrical impulses (ultimately what they are) travel at such great speeds the difference is literally undetectable.

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  • Moonrise
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One thing to note though (which may help actually bring some legitimacy to the point you're making) is that less knowledge means you have less information to sort through. In essence, what you know can be acted upon almost immediately with less thought because you have less information getting mixed up in the thick of it.

 

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