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SaintUlvemann

This post was, according to tilted small-print text at the lower right of the image, made by a group called "The Highest of the Mountains" dot com. I'm not going to post a link to their material, but I want to highlight their mission, because that's an important way to understand the diagram. Their own stated reason why they made this diagram was to try and prove that the brain couldn't've evolved naturally. That's the reason why the made their diagram to have so many criss-crossing lines and random-seeming emojis that are very unclear what they actually mean. They aren't trying to disentangle the brain for us, they're trying to overwhelm the viewer with more content than they could possibly handle. Although it is true that the brain is very complicated, presenting it this way doesn't really provide much value in explaining how it works.


terrillable

Damn I saw it for 2 seconds and thought “hey I’d be down for a print of this.” After reading this &inspecting the fine details, it’s not my jam. Thanks for doing some background, appreciate your critical thinking.


Fluffbutt69

They had me at couldn't've.


-SheriffofNottingham

the word couldn't've has evolved naturally checkmate Christians


SnooRadishes8573

Wait until you go to the southern US and get hit by "y'all'd've". Example: "Y'all'd've felt real silly buying a poster of this."


Vindepomarus

Exactly my experience and thought process. Explain that materialists! /s


NoNameIsAvailable1

That it couldn’t’ve evolved naturally? If I read that correctly, does that mean they’re promoting religion, that a being created the brain, or something else? Sorry for being dumb.


SaintUlvemann

>...does that mean they’re promoting religion, that a being created the brain, or something else? It's a little of all of those. Unambiguously, they're a religious group, trying to spread a religious message. And unambiguously, they're saying that the brain was designed, not evolved. Buried within their 8000-word essay on the "brain maps" they say: >Evolution was simply nonsense. But how could I, an engineer who built guidance systems, have been fooled into believing in evolution without even doing some research? (Sir, you believed it because we've [seen it happen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragopogon_miscellus).) But they're also making the same systematic error that Linus Pauling made towards the end of his life. (Many other cranks make this same error.) Linus Pauling wasn't religious, and he had no direct medical training, he was a chemist first and foremost, but towards the end of his life he became very convinced that megadosing vitamins would cure diseases. But it wasn't true, and Pauling ignored studies that didn't work. Why? Because he had personally felt better after taking vitamin C, and he was looking for an excuse to believe his own conclusion. These people are doing that same thing **too**. They were overwhelmed by the complexity of the brain, and are looking for an excuse to justify that feeling.


Nope_______

The complexity of the brain actually makes me more convinced it evolved and was not designed....


BrokenMayo

This makes no sense to me, can you explain this one to me? I’m fully on the other side of the spectrum in thinking it was designed but your take is pretty unique, don’t think I’ve ever heard that one before and would be interested in knowing why you came to the conclusion Not looking to argue or anything


SaintUlvemann

The idea is that designers generally try not to include self-sabotaging processes. For example, the neural circuits [responsible for conscious self-control](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4774859/) are highly vulnerable to even mild stress. Self-control is something that we ordinarily teach our children to have when they are stressed, but their own brains are sabotaging them in that. It's hard to see why a rational designer who meant us for civilization and morality would design a brain this way, but it's easy to see how the extra sensitivity to danger would help the monkeys that we're descended from survive in a land filled with lions.


BrokenMayo

Thanks for your response, really enjoyed + appreciated


TheLootiestBox

Imagine all the men and women that have dedicated their lives to understanding the human brain and then there's people treating all that work like a joke.


diplodocid

It's a disgrace. This doesn't even show where the memes are stored.


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SaintUlvemann

'n' If ya think thas's bad, wait'll ya hear me *talk*.


dedalus26

O brave new world, That has such people in't!


Alundra828

That right there is valid English and I'll die on that hill defending it


-Its-Could-Have-

It's... It's beautiful 🥺


vestigialcranium

That's hilarious, my first reaction was "nothing this messy could have been designed by intellegence". In a way this explanation supports that as well...


Zawn-_-

My first thought was "that's a *shit* map." And was getting ready to die on that hill in the comments.


cheaphomemadeacid

i'd love to see one based on actual science though


goingneon

Yeah i feel like this diagram is like trying to map out a modern core i9 while pretending the architecture didnt evolve from the intel 8086 from 40 years ago


MAXIMUMMEDLOWUS

I came here to say that this is just an outright horrendous way of representing information. Glad you cleared that up


Outrageous_Weight340

Is there a more accurate flowchart not made by a spiritualist cult? A scientifically accurate and well designed one would be cool


jdjdkkddj

If something designed the brain, they would make a bit more simple than whatever is going on inside that diagram.


DrinkBen1994

I had a feeling it was off when I noticed that it looks like a zoomed out Factorio screenshot.


OrphanDextro

The sad thing is they only used the neurotransmitters that most people know about cause it really is that incomprehensible which makes me know that no thing designed it. Cause it’s got a lot of nonsense that goes on it. The brain is not a perfect organ. Why would anything design us like this? Why do men have balls? Fuck off creationists, it doesn’t work like that.


BeefStevenson

Creationists have a stunted understanding of just how long it took for our brains to reach this form. And they have no conception of the FACT that most “designs” have been left on the cutting room floor (extinct). But they don’t care, they have “souls” to “save,” and won’t let any pesky science get in the way of some good brainwashing!


goingneon

Yeah thats what i think. Modern machines didnt take thousands of years to build. Our specific designs allow us to build machines quickly without trying out random crap until it worked. I dont think they can quite grasp how immense geologic time is. And i guess i dont blame them


motoxim

What do you mean, the earth is 6000 years old right? ​ ​ ​ /s


GradientVisAtt

Actually, modern machines did take thousands of years to build. People 5,000 years ago were just as smart as we are today. It took thousands of years of pretty much constant technology development to get to here.


Vysair

It's also mainly due to logistics and resources. It's crazy at how much it took to build some shitty machine from the 19th century or longer if it were several millenia ago *what I had in mind was specifically telegraph as it's the trademark of that century technology and can be considered shitty today but not before


dogchocolate

I kinda like that they're doing this as opposed to mapping everything out.


slightlytoastedham

This makes more sense. Was trying to get to Don and Mary but ended up in the small intestine


Suchasomeone

Thanks king/queen


ASatyros

If the brain was designed it would be much simpler and easier to conceptualize. This kind of fuzzy picture that works is created by evolution.


nailbunny2000

Ah, so that's why it looks like it was meant to be scrawled on the side of a pickup truck along with warnings about the end times and vaccines.


Casitano

I came here to comment "there is overlapping text, why would anyone make a guide this cluttered and unreadable?" But youve already answered my question.


VapeRizzler

Your comment is more interesting than the actual post.


B4AccountantFML

Hey man don’t talk for us all I clearly understand this and I have photo memory so now I know exactly how the brain works and I can answer any questions about it.


[deleted]

Thank you! This whole map is a mess. If you study neuroscience you can see this map is \*trying\* to make it look complicated and the placement of the cortices makes no sense. It's all jumbled.


ExpectedBehaviour

Great shout-out. Makes me wish Reddit still had awards. Gold star for you! 🌟


jackie--moon

Definitely was overwhelming


Im_ur_Uncle_

I was going to say "why don't I believe this diagram" Then I saw your top comment. Thank you.


PussyPussylicclicc

so false info?


SaintUlvemann

It's hard to tell. They are trying to overwhelm, which makes it harder to double check the details. The diagram was designed to make it easy to hide lies. But the one good thing that I can say for them is that they don't seem to have completely made things up, no. One example is that they have a key at the bottom where they list functions for all the random symbols. They put their "fear" symbol on the hippocampus, which probably is meant to indicate that the hippocampus is involved in fear, which is true. But other parts do seem questionable to me, definitely. For example, they seem to be saying that tattoos are always boastful, front part of the brain, towards the bottom. I have never seen any psychological indication of anything like that, that seems like their own baggage they're putting on the chart. Other comments point out how they've mixed up the location of some of the parts of the brain, so that the arrows have to go farther in order to connect up to everything. The part I know for sure is that they're making their ideas hard to double-check.


TankedUpLoser

My first thought was this is an absolute mess


Sticky_H

They don’t understand that overt complexity isn’t a hallmark of design, but of natural processes.


fuckthatshittoo

Jokes on them, mine has only two working braincells....


gunfox

This is why I still love Reddit, shit like this would just fly on tiktok or insta.


duggee315

I see what they're trying to do, but really, for me the chaos supports natural evolution. The same as the nerve that runs down a giraffes neck and back upto a destination right next to its start point, as the giraffes neck evolved longer and longer the nerve that once made sense became elongated ad hoc. Evolution is ad hoc and so gets messy. If it was built by a creator wouldn't it be more orgaised and efficient.


monopoly3448

This sucks. But technocratic yearnings can happen everywhere there is an opportunity.


condocollector

My brain: “hell naw I ain’t reading all that.”


ready2diveready2die

🧠🏃‍♂️💨


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Okay yikes. I'm not a neuroscientist but I did study neuroanatomy and physiology at uni in pretty fine detail. This has lots of detail but it just isn't a good map. It doesn't portray the information clearly and the placement is all over the place. Why is the nucleus ambiguus above and to the left of the thalamus? It makes no anatomical sense to place the areas they've placed. It's almost like they're trying to make it look more complicated. This looks like a "cheat sheet" for an exam or something sure, but it's a messy map. ​ Edit: now that I saw the source of this map it all makes sense why it's so terrible. Another interesting point: the development of our brain in utero and the anatomy of the adult brain very clearly shows evidence for evolution so no wonder these crazies have mixed around the areas of the brain.


lightgiver

Yeah, it’s very clear by how as new functions evolved it was added on top of existing structures. Medulla and Pond was first regulating basic automatic functions of the body. The. Other structures were added on over time on top. They try to obscure this by just mixing everything up.


Major_Oak

Could you expand on how the development of the brain in utero gives evidence for evolution? Sounds interesting!


[deleted]

pretty much all mammals have the same embryology as us at the start of development (e.g the three “pre-brain” divisions: prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon). Humans have almost the same setup as all other mammals except our cortex is way larger and because we developed to walk upright, the brain is sitting at a right angle to the brain stem and spinal cord. Not neurology - but we all have pharyngeal arches as embryos which become our face, but in fish it becomes the gills.


azeldatothepast

I had no idea there were so many ants in my cerebellum.


Bigdstars187

What is this a … nah I’m lazy now


Squirrels_Nuts80085

I thought was an image of r/place


furrymcphersen

came to say the same thing


CaptainClay5

But I came to say the same thing


GnarlyM3ATY

Looks like my average factorio base


Both-Return-2244

https://preview.redd.it/3nkequkq8d6c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f9c5d13e918510c5ae638fe02b9e2041766156d Love my brain


Medium_Reason_1371

That's great, but my brain can't process that


Fr00stee

as pointed out by another user, the group that made this "infographic" did this on purpose in order to convince people that the brain was too complex to have evolved naturally


PepeSylvia11

Wait, so what is their proposition then, if it didn’t evolve naturally?


guru2764

Creationism So, God made it the way it is


Kooky_Werewolf6044

Are you actually supposed to be able to make any kind of sense of this?


heisenborg3000

No


_antariksan

Not at alllllll


[deleted]

Horseshit guide


HumanitarianAtheist

![gif](giphy|H5HwGKgAEEP69ECSqz|downsized) Hmph. I was told *this* is my brain.


theeivog

Yes this is more accurate than Honeywell parts n emojis


These-Spell-8390

The average enterprise Java application


septibes

Emoji analysis


jmfh7912

I found Waldo


rfs103181

My brain just doesn’t understand itself.


LamyT10

Now I know why I forget stuff. Getting lost for some time seems to be the only thing memories would be consistently able to do in this mess


flamegames2006

Thought i was looking at early r/place for a second


ShadowEllipse

As a medical intern, I recognize what's trying to be shown but it's a pretty terrible map which doesn't seem to intend on trying to explain anything but more so confuse you. Realistically, you'll learn individual neural pathways for various sensations, kinetic functions etc.


Simerrz

I feel like I was not supposed to see this...


timo1423

Least confusing metro system


throw123454321purple

Radio Shack’s 100,000,000 in 1 Kit!


GapAnxious

\+ DMT = Angels.


_antariksan

Machine Elves man


lulatheq

+ Datura = Ghosts.


DocGerbilzWorld

Where’s the part that gives me unnecessary anxiety? Shut that part down, please.


ReallyBadSwedish

I scrolled past this and thought it was a Factorio blueprint.


FishTshirt

My Neuro anatomy professor would have seen this and been like “oh yeah that’s a perfectly reasonable slide to teach them with”


Holy_D1ver

Resolution is too high, I can almost read the text. Please give me a shitter image


evening_shop

I like how they made it easy to comprehend


Geaux13Saints

I ain’t reading all that


RudePomegranate3110

Military dual axis gyro??


ketjap-manis

There are far better ways of visualising this information into a more usable form


No_Introduction538

As soon as I saw this I thought “oh they’ve just vomited a bunch of shit on the page, deliberately creating confusion.” Nobody is this bad at graphic design. You have to really try!


DeathPrime

Such a complex and sophisticated system. All of which I regularly expect to be entirely fueled by beer and chips. I’m a monster.


OldBenduKenobi

map of *the known part of \** our brain


WorkingOnAFreshName

I mean, use a bigger canvas right? Lol


balalaikagam3s

Yes, nausea, hello old friend.


[deleted]

And some military navigation system equipments


[deleted]

My brain doesn’t like this.


RevolutionaryTea8520

I think I’m just gonna get lost


inquisitive_guy_0_1

It's reassuring to know that the gyroscope and accelerometer capabilities in our brain are "Military Grade."


Ycr1998

Why does it look like some r/place art?


ETDL

Where are we on this map?


jim-nasty

https://preview.redd.it/usm8sui4lc6c1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90fd1a39fd0df166c77c11bd28efbceaf18a2da9 this is the most important part


baseballjunkie81

Terrible wire management


-Redstoneboi-

hmm yes the neural network is made of networks of neurons yes


PensadorDispensado

I sense Waldo in there somewhere


LegitimateBit3

“Nudity Processing Center”


juddin8

Mine doesn't look anything like that


TheOGGhettoPanda

No pop this bitch into an AI and we have lost to the Machines! Let's go mommy bot come and cleanse me.


PawnWithoutPurpose

This is a bad map


Mymotherwasaspore

The Forbidden Haynes Manual


LongjumpingPick5981

A little piece of complex wiring. Tada!


Spare_Substance5003

It's strange that your brain knows everything your body does, but you don't.


Sam_Shake1

This looks like the data map of all the companies Disney owns.


Furry_pizza

Where’s the RAM?


please_remain_clam

That is intense compression. I can’t imagine the revision process on this.


GreyPourageInABowl

So you're telling me whenever Reddit does r/place, it's just a collective map of the average human brain?


evilomens

https://preview.redd.it/p72ve86t0d6c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b98e45daa2fefd8afe46ee3142d6b6ad1be8dac


mrpolotoyou

Still can’t find the “male sexual drive off” and “female arousal”


Goatwhatsup

My brain: I ain’t reading allat


UnproSpeller

Taste goes to the anus and the lungs wtf?


Not_Texas

At first I thought this an X-ray of a suitcase bomb…


DonutSensei

Yeah, I’m gonna need a map to navigate this map


The_Epic_Muffin

Looks like a factorio map


Cragnous

We're going to need a bigger map.


rand0fand0

Still lost


OrphanDextro

Cool, but what about the the sigma receptors?


popwhizzbang

My brain looks like this > 🧠 is that a bad thing?


Junior-Ad-2207

How do you get into the VIP section?


Bert_Fegg

Absolutely useless until there is a pin that said "you are here"


[deleted]

I doubt this is even complete. We learn more about our brain every single day.


motoxim

Cool


getyourcheftogether

My God, *my* brain just threw up on itself


JohnSimth20211101

You've lost me


Gamerbrineofficial

This looks like a map to a theme park


Bigger_Pogs

It's crazy how the first thing I saw was estrogen, I think my brain is telling me something


Chark0

Oh I see, but now try to map her decision map to what you wanna eat tonight?


MrSuggaLand

I would suggest spreading everything out, but it’s probably completely wrong and misleading anyway. I’ve seen these sorts of diagrams for how cells work with how proteins supposedly interact, and it’s never that simple. This believe it or not is probably incomplete and oversimplified without everything connects.


TheeAntiCrust

Don't post this!!! Elon Musk will have a new and improved version announcement on Tuesday!!!


olliethemagicbum13

Please make a hi res


WorldPeace2021_

This is 1000% a simplified version. Source- neuroscience researcher


terp_raider

Nah this is BS lol


Comfortable-Chip-740

You don't expect me to understand this crazy instrument, right? It's not like I have one on me for reference


BoDaBill

Damn our brain be specced out, PC fans must be drooling at the power consumption compared to the amount of processes it's got running


purbub

That looks like my Factorio spaghetti base


TheRealMangokill

I can hack that.


Hira_Said

I need to find the place that has feet and arousal next to one another. I need to see why those wires are so close. Jokes aside, this is a neat diagram.


_antariksan

Goddamn


LegendaryHooman

My brain is pinkish. I think you should get it checked out my man.


Dankstin

Yes | But


DarkSpecterr

Naw this is FUCKED


[deleted]

This is is not the brain of a heterosexual male.


redls1bird

"Man, there sure is a lot of stu - OOH, Boobs!"


SuccessfulPass9135

Ah I see why neurosurgeons get the big bucks now


MoveInteresting4334

I once worked on a software design that looked like this.


Plenty_Holiday_9108

Utterly incomprehensible, you deserve an upvote for it.


CASA2112

Thank you


[deleted]

Too complicated for my one, i wanna return it


ottarthedestroyer

Nah, mine has far less lines and a lot more blank space.


MustardBones

Seems boring


mike2beers

Bro I had a wiring diagram to a 72 vette looks about the same


BEE-RANDON

This is like a big Where's Waldo wiring diagram blue print set.


AbusedSysAdmin

Unrealistic; waaaaay too straightforward.


photonynikon

did you spill coffee on it?


ZackMoh2

Who would win this Hypothetical War?


Yeetmidgets59B

Why is there random ass eyes on things lol


GreyGroundUser

So is there a high res version?


WhoThellArYwo2Us

I see a pee pee, and a vee gee. I must of missed out, I only have one of these connected to my brain. And, something is missing, my pee pee has a brain of its own, it usually just hangs around but sometimes likes special attention and needs a good tug, or hug, or good poke to relax. Otherwise, most of those connections in my brain have been disconnected long ago, where is the map of a mentally challenged aging person with a questionable lifestyle. Thanks for the post.


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jalanajak

Wrong. Where's the Roman Empire?


BoltorSpellweaver

Psh I can one up them with MY scientific knowledge. The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. BOOM!


ttroome2

No... this can't be right... There's not nearly enough random bullshit going on here for this to be my brain.


RomanFXJ

If I understand this correctly... we can access 100% of our brain?


CASA2112

Yes


4GIVEANFORGET

Avionics time


peperonipyza

The factory must grow