Michio Kaku: Could We Learn Skills 'Matrix'-Style?

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[briansmobile]

EMOTION is a key concept to learning things quickly and remembering them long term. Your brain remembers best when marinated in the juices of fear, disgust, elation, and anger. That's why you can remember things that were awesome and especially things that you really didn't like. The emotion facilitated you remembering that long term.

[bedeo]

Rest in piece my dreams of becoming a karate master

[MorpheousXO]

I will say that in the Matrix films, it seems that they only really learn how to use these skills while in the Matrix itself. When Neo gets into a fight outside the matrix, in the real world, he doesn't use martial arts (even non-flashy non-super acrobatic martial arts), so I think it's more something only usable within the matrix (or another space similar to the matrix like the construct).

[nfcoard]

Lucid dreaming is amazing. Your awareness is so heightened while your dreaming, and because you know your just having a dream while you're dreaming it gives removes any fear and gives you to starting point in being able to control the dream instead of merely witnessing it. If you don't want to change the dream you at least have an excitement and understanding you didn't before you 'woke up' in the dream. I used to lucid dream every night as a child for years but now I've lost that ability.

[IsaacDeanMusic]

I love how he barely ever says things are impossible. He has so much faith in science. Amazing person.

[RysioACF]

Michio Kaku is a great teacher!! I love his videos. Great clarity within his words

[Southpawwarrior]

I understand your point. Just because you know how to do the move, doesn't mean your body will instictively be able to do that move on command.
But mostly of this is in fact related to the brain.
So the only credit I can give, is that knowing the limits and strengt of your own body is something you can only do trough training.
What techniques are you most comfortable with?
How fast can you move?
Are you strong enough to do a takedown?
These can only be answered with traning and real experience.

[rattlesnake-qhre]

Even if you could become a karate master your brain will know it but your body won't it will still need to adjust to flexibility and that's never gonna happen if you'd don't start learning splits..just like someone who studies karate and it's philosophy but never trains his body and gets in to a fight with black belt ( who trains his body to fight ) then the guy who studied it tries to do a flash kick or a simpler round house. He's undoubtably going to hurt himself before any attacks are connected

[duhsoldia]

By far the coolest and most useful videos ive watched this week

[MartinSmithInterfaces]

I respectfully disagree. The brain is indeed a learning machine. But it does this by encoding information biologically, that is, by making new neural connections. With the correct hardware and appropriate advances in science and technology, I think that sending a digital signal, converted to a bio signal the brain can interpret, it may be possible to make the brain make those connections at an accelerated rate, there by teaching us a subject.

[Ben]

i like the stargate take on memory interface, your given the information through an insanely rapid sequence of lights/images and while that is happening certain parts of your brain are made more active

[the-real-zpero]

Yeah it's probably gonna take less time to just sign up for karate for now :P

[nfcoard]

Part of love is feeling good about helping others feel good. There are people who help others even when they don't see anything in it for themselves. The ultimate example of this is a person who sacrifices their life to save another. Even people who doubt that there is an afterlife will do this. People who harm others against their will do not feel deeply fulfilled. They feel satisfaction on the surface but at a deeper level they feel empty, devoid of real happiness and lasting fulfillment.

[thedoctor]

My brain runs on Window Vista. OW MY EARS!

[nfcoard]

Yes we feel satisfaction when we teach another. We feel good when we love. We feel good when we help others in anyway. We don't feel genuinely happy and deeply fulfilled when we harm others. So I feel good when I help you to feel good. If you want to consider that selfish, then yes love is selfish. But you see with the highest level of love, there is no other. There is only you. There is no separation only unity/oneness. So when you give to the other it feels like you are giving to yourself.

[EXHellfire]

Even if it was possible to do that, the body wouldn't have the conditioning necessary to pull it off anyways

[orpheus]

He explains things so simply, it's refreshing.

[jomossino]

You can slow down time in your mind to experience the learning curve that the brain needs to develop the neurological plasticity it needs.

[Southpawwarrior]

He still holds a valid point. The beautiful thing about fighting, is that you can fight in different ways. Making things as height, weight, strenght, reach, speed, and so on, into something as less important traits. Though, by same principal, these traits can also become even more crucial for your art.
And the martial art in question was now Karate.
A martial art that in my opinion resolve a lot (if not even entirely) on being "big & tough".

[MegakeepWorks]

Brains learn, computers execute. A short example is when you click on a button in a software interface expecting a predictable action to occur but your computer gives an error. You try clicking again but the computer responds exactly the same, without learning of the mistake and trying to resolve it, because the code implemented doesn't include that error catch exception.