There's something similar to this in Daiso, it's a sharpener that's also a cap and it even has a broken lead remover. And you can sharpen the wood carvings without having it fall out as the cap has a rubber lid. Remove the lid and you can dispense the carvings. Pretty nifty and comes in a pack of three (pink, yellow and blue). Only $2.80. 😆
This is my favorite pencil. I added an Apple pencil holder to my Leda sketchbook. The elastic band slides over the front cover and fits perfectly. The Perfect Pencil lives in there -- very handy.
"Perfect" of course includes the fact, that it has also an eraser, so it is a 3-in-one-thingy and all with the volume of one single pencil. Having said that, I have to say that due to my personal way of drawing the eraser was worn out way before the pencil ended, so it didn't really make sense to have it :-) But, as you pointed out - you can still use the cap with another pencil, if you want to go slim and lightweight.
I think these days an eraser at the end of the pencil isn’t really for heavy user. People who use pencils infrequently at school will use it. And another reason is just presenting a more complete image of the pencil for presentation. I think many consumers of pencil just feel uncomfortable without an eraser on the pencil even if they never use it. It’s just the idea that they could. I think a much bigger problem is with mainstream pink eraser tip on pencils is that if they are stored for a long time the eraser hardens and is impossible to use. The only pencil which did not have it happen in my experience was Staedler white tip eraser. I have some of them for over 12 years and the eraser still works as new.
Oh they sell these in Brazil at a lower price point if you convert the currency to dollars. They're more marketed as a pencil extension with a convenient sharpener than a....simple pencil cap :P the blade of this sharpener is more of an emergency supply than a fully functional tool, as the razor tends to get blunt easier than a normal plastic container Faber Castell sharpener (they are VERY good! And quite cheap here in Brazil). My friend has one and I tested it, the blade scraped the wood more than the usual smooth glide of a razor on the wood.
The only interesting thing for me on this set is the cap: you can use it to protect your pencil tips and also as an extender when they become short. I wouldn't use neither the cap sharpener nor the pencil eraser included on this set, as I use proper high quality sharpeners and erasers, despite having to carry more items, volume and weight (in any case not an issue as I use leather pen holders to carry all my stuff around.) I wouldn't use that pencil either once finished, as I use better quality ones (Faber-Castell 9000, etc.)
Thanks for a decent review which was detailed and enthused on; I own one, and it gives me great pleasure. The Perfect Pencil 9000 'Jumbo' is great for taking to the library, its soft but strong 4B lead holds its blackness, great for drawing and writing also. Its graphite lead is exactly the same as Graf von Faber-Castell's hideously expensive cedarwood-cased fluted pencils, though take note, we are getting a bargain in these cheaper 9000 Jumbo pencils. Similarly, Faber-Castell make another version of their Perfect Pencil, this time silver coloured that can be used as an extender to take its brown version pencil, but it is lead is B though nice and black and equally lovely to write with, the pencil is thinner and takes a standard sharpener. Graf von Faber-Castell make their utterly beautiful platinum-plated, or rose gold plated Perfect Pencil known as Magnum, but accepting cedarwood cased, hand-fluted pencils with a unique screw-on cap holding an India rubber white eraser, which, I believe is the same composition as the eraser reviewed in your video. Their most expensive Perfect Pencil costs a fortune, but can be bought cheaper for shopping around like I found, a few years ago and bought many refills for a fraction of the price they are now. It comes beautifully presented in its own brown presentation case, exquisite to touch and own, though being a writer I feel unashamedly arrogant for buying it. GvFC also make Magnum refills. A set of 3 are hideously costly, well over £30 for just 3. Same 4B graphite lead, so note how good value those 9000 pencils really are! The stand-alone Faber-Castell 9000 Jumbo is a pleasure to hold, though its green paint makes the pencil difficult to find if accidentally dropped. I solved that by painting one end with fluorescent yellow. Almost feather-weight, the pencil is longer, available in 16 lead grades ideal for all purposes include writing, drawing, sketching and drafting. These splendid pencils are cheaper for shopping around, c.ult pens being best value for money. Apologies for the ramble, but these Faber-castell pencils are an absolute joy to use, and though shorter (128mm overall length) than the standard 9000, having an India rubber eraser handily on the end is so convenient. All the best, Laura
ha, just was asked if this wouldn't be "a nice little gift" for me. But friendly I answered: "no, not for me, please" (Hoping, he haven't already bought one ;) ) It's just not my thing for several reasons, but because you raised the question if the sharpener's blade is changeable, I've called FC. The blade can not be changed, but one can buy extra sharpeners as a replacement (what is one more reason for my personal no: even more plastic...). Btw, you can also buy extra pencils for this kit. Like the one who comes with the set, those are also shorter than the usual Faber-length but for the some price as the longer ones. Maybe this helps a bit.
I donno if anyone said this in the comments but, the sharpener actually screws on and off into the green top cap and to replace it there are sharpeners available to purchase. It works the same for all models of this product. Great review!
I have this pencil, but the cap looks a lot different than this one. My sharpener doesn't work really well anymore, but I still keep the cap to protect the tip of the pencil, also to use it as an extender for shorter pencils.
Needing nothing extra to keep the lead sharp is actually why I really like clutch pencils-which I usually think are pretty misunderstood! I’ll probably have to add “how to use a clutch pencil” to the ever growing list of videos to do in the future. =>.
I love 9000’s from FC because they draw so smooth. Have you seen the little travel pencil on Jackson’s? It doesn’t have a sharpener but it closes into itself like a travel brush.
Great video as always. For me, that price point is ridiculous, having spent I believe it was USD $3 on a solid, metal sharpener with a plastic container attached. To each their own, but 12 dollars for a glorified cheapo pencil sharpener, let alone 250 dollars for a metal version of the same is just insane.
It’s definitely not for everybody. But you are also paying for Faber Castel brand name and I would say above average quality even for something like a sharpener and a pencil. Some companies can charge more because of their reputation, and they actually have to to maintain their image.
I feel like I'm completely missing the point of this thing? So it's just a cap for your pencil with a gimmicky pencil sharpener in it? And then the metal version of this is what again?! Haha. Honestly, I even rechecked this video to make sure it wasn't posted on April 1st.
From my side of the world it's marketed as a pencil extender with a sharpener and acts as a cap. And the pencil itself is said to be of higher quality than their other pencils but not really sure, tp expensive for my wallet.
I might have seen this pencil before. Not sure. I've seen so many Faber-Castell products. I own their Trio pencil sharpener which sharpens normal, jumbo, and colored pencils. Thanks for sharing this. I might grab one. 😊
Don't WASTE THOSE "Inktense Shavings"...I Keep All My "Water-Soluble" Shavings, and Arrange Them On A Piece Of W.C. Paper (With A Tooth-pic, Or a Stylus, Sometimes A W.C. Pencil) Like For A "Bunch of Flowers", A Bush, OR A Tree, (OR Whatever The Colors Are "Saying" To You)THEN: "Spritz" Them With Your "Spray Bottle" And See What Happens! Sometimes I Pick My Paper Up and "Move" The Water And The Paint Around. (OH YEAH...I Pick Out The "BIG" Shavings BEFORE I "Spray" Water) AFTER It Is COMPLETELY DRY: I "Brush" Off The Rest Of The "Wood Shavings", and IF There Are Any BIG CHUNKS Of Color Left, I EITHER "Save" Them For The "Pallet Wells", Or Move Them and SPRAY THEM AGAIN! You PROBABLY Already Do That....Love Your VIDS!
Hi Teoh! Thank you for another excellent video review. Just today I received a form of this pencil, but I am now wondering about it. The pencil I received was shown on Amazon in basically red cardboard packaging with clear thin seal over it, but when it arrived it was in a celophane wrapper, and nothing else. It is all plastic, without any metal, unlike the one you show, plus the eraser is black. After watching your video just now, I used your link, and the green one like yours looks much nicer. Plus, it is only 45 cents more in cost! This one like yours did not come up when I searched to order mine. Hmm . . . Now I am wondering if mine is a fake copy. It is a hassle for me to return it, so I'll probably keep it, but I dislike when Amazon shows things nicer on their site than what actually arrives when you purchase it. Thanks again, and have a great day!
$11 for a plastic cap and sharpener is not “cheap”. Sounds like simply because it is plastic it is called “cheap”. No. Not all plastic is the same quality. Not all plastic is cheap.
I usually carry a small sharpener it's one of my favorites Idk who makes it though and I carry 2 pencils my very tiny palette my aqua brush and a small sketchpad all in my pocket
i think the design is pretty good since you can also use it as a pencil extender. Would the cap nick your pencils if you do use it as an extender though?
Teoh Yi Chie Hi Teoh, wanted to bring to your attention this video by Lynn Chapmann ua-cam.com/video/o7B60nXLsGI/v-deo.html And how important is lightfastness for urban sketching -- isn't everything done in sketchbook ?? I would like to mention that Inktense may not be lightfast, but they scan well and make excellent prints. Check out videos by Lisa from Lachri fine art., whenever u have some time and interest. Thanks for all your awesome videos !!!
I've not used those pencils before. But this is extender is meant for typical size graphite pencils, not for larger pencils, or some coloured pencils which have larger diameter
You convinced me to keep on buying the plastic sharpener (some are built to handle two different sizes of pencil) for around 50 cents USD. If I lose it or it breaks I’ve lost literally very little. The one you just reviewed is too expensive for my pocket book.
worth the money for a 10 dollar pencil is, in my opinion, debatable. I think the best pricepoint for that pencil would be around 7 dollars, enough to not devalue the company and cheap enough to appeal to poor artists haha. But that expensive 200+ dollar pencil.... *cringes*
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There's something similar to this in Daiso, it's a sharpener that's also a cap and it even has a broken lead remover. And you can sharpen the wood carvings without having it fall out as the cap has a rubber lid. Remove the lid and you can dispense the carvings. Pretty nifty and comes in a pack of three (pink, yellow and blue). Only $2.80. 😆
You have to tell me what its called, I neeeeeed it
don't forget, its also a pencil extender ;)
The comment I was looking for I have been looking all over the internet for
Another very good idea Teoh, I didn't know this product. Thank you, have a good day !
This is my favorite pencil. I added an Apple pencil holder to my Leda sketchbook. The elastic band slides over the front cover and fits perfectly. The Perfect Pencil lives in there -- very handy.
"Perfect" of course includes the fact, that it has also an eraser, so it is a 3-in-one-thingy and all with the volume of one single pencil. Having said that, I have to say that due to my personal way of drawing the eraser was worn out way before the pencil ended, so it didn't really make sense to have it :-) But, as you pointed out - you can still use the cap with another pencil, if you want to go slim and lightweight.
I think these days an eraser at the end of the pencil isn’t really for heavy user. People who use pencils infrequently at school will use it. And another reason is just presenting a more complete image of the pencil for presentation. I think many consumers of pencil just feel uncomfortable without an eraser on the pencil even if they never use it. It’s just the idea that they could.
I think a much bigger problem is with mainstream pink eraser tip on pencils is that if they are stored for a long time the eraser hardens and is impossible to use. The only pencil which did not have it happen in my experience was Staedler white tip eraser. I have some of them for over 12 years and the eraser still works as new.
Oh they sell these in Brazil at a lower price point if you convert the currency to dollars. They're more marketed as a pencil extension with a convenient sharpener than a....simple pencil cap :P the blade of this sharpener is more of an emergency supply than a fully functional tool, as the razor tends to get blunt easier than a normal plastic container Faber Castell sharpener (they are VERY good! And quite cheap here in Brazil). My friend has one and I tested it, the blade scraped the wood more than the usual smooth glide of a razor on the wood.
The only interesting thing for me on this set is the cap: you can use it to protect your pencil tips and also as an extender when they become short.
I wouldn't use neither the cap sharpener nor the pencil eraser included on this set, as I use proper high quality sharpeners and erasers, despite having to carry more items, volume and weight (in any case not an issue as I use leather pen holders to carry all my stuff around.)
I wouldn't use that pencil either once finished, as I use better quality ones (Faber-Castell 9000, etc.)
Thanks for a decent review which was detailed and enthused on; I own one, and it gives me great pleasure. The Perfect Pencil 9000 'Jumbo' is great for taking to the library, its soft but strong 4B lead holds its blackness, great for drawing and writing also. Its graphite lead is exactly the same as Graf von Faber-Castell's hideously expensive cedarwood-cased fluted pencils, though take note, we are getting a bargain in these cheaper 9000 Jumbo pencils. Similarly, Faber-Castell make another version of their Perfect Pencil, this time silver coloured that can be used as an extender to take its brown version pencil, but it is lead is B though nice and black and equally lovely to write with, the pencil is thinner and takes a standard sharpener.
Graf von Faber-Castell make their utterly beautiful platinum-plated, or rose gold plated Perfect Pencil known as Magnum, but accepting cedarwood cased, hand-fluted pencils with a unique screw-on cap holding an India rubber white eraser, which, I believe is the same composition as the eraser reviewed in your video. Their most expensive Perfect Pencil costs a fortune, but can be bought cheaper for shopping around like I found, a few years ago and bought many refills for a fraction of the price they are now. It comes beautifully presented in its own brown presentation case, exquisite to touch and own, though being a writer I feel unashamedly arrogant for buying it. GvFC also make Magnum refills. A set of 3 are hideously costly, well over £30 for just 3. Same 4B graphite lead, so note how good value those 9000 pencils really are!
The stand-alone Faber-Castell 9000 Jumbo is a pleasure to hold, though its green paint makes the pencil difficult to find if accidentally dropped. I solved that by painting one end with fluorescent yellow. Almost feather-weight, the pencil is longer, available in 16 lead grades ideal for all purposes include writing, drawing, sketching and drafting. These splendid pencils are cheaper for shopping around, c.ult pens being best value for money.
Apologies for the ramble, but these Faber-castell pencils are an absolute joy to use, and though shorter (128mm overall length) than the standard 9000, having an India rubber eraser handily on the end is so convenient.
All the best,
Laura
Thanks for sharing 😁
Thorough as always; thanks, Teoh!
They have a simpler version of this that you can buy at the factory store in nuremberg or get on tours. I love the design and the functionality.
ha, just was asked if this wouldn't be "a nice little gift" for me. But friendly I answered: "no, not for me, please" (Hoping, he haven't already bought one ;) ) It's just not my thing for several reasons, but because you raised the question if the sharpener's blade is changeable, I've called FC. The blade can not be changed, but one can buy extra sharpeners as a replacement (what is one more reason for my personal no: even more plastic...).
Btw, you can also buy extra pencils for this kit. Like the one who comes with the set, those are also shorter than the usual Faber-length but for the some price as the longer ones.
Maybe this helps a bit.
Normal size wooden pencils will fit and are more worth the money
sure, you're right. Just wanted mention, that the pencils for this set are shorter. I am wonderung, who buys them.
Great review, as always) Thank you.
And I dont know why, but I expected the cap also to be used as an extension ,when the pencil gets shorter.
I donno if anyone said this in the comments but, the sharpener actually screws on and off into the green top cap and to replace it there are sharpeners available to purchase. It works the same for all models of this product. Great review!
I would probably get a mechanical pencil before I would buy something like this. Thank you for doing the review.
I have this pencil, but the cap looks a lot different than this one. My sharpener doesn't work really well anymore, but I still keep the cap to protect the tip of the pencil, also to use it as an extender for shorter pencils.
Needing nothing extra to keep the lead sharp is actually why I really like clutch pencils-which I usually think are pretty misunderstood! I’ll probably have to add “how to use a clutch pencil” to the ever growing list of videos to do in the future. =>.
Ya.. I don't get this product 😄
I love 9000’s from FC because they draw so smooth. Have you seen the little travel pencil on Jackson’s? It doesn’t have a sharpener but it closes into itself like a travel brush.
I think I will stick with my mechanical and 2mm lead holders 😳
Great video as always. For me, that price point is ridiculous, having spent I believe it was USD $3 on a solid, metal sharpener with a plastic container attached. To each their own, but 12 dollars for a glorified cheapo pencil sharpener, let alone 250 dollars for a metal version of the same is just insane.
While 250 is totally ridiculous it is not the same, it’s much better quality
It’s definitely not for everybody. But you are also paying for Faber Castel brand name and I would say above average quality even for something like a sharpener and a pencil. Some companies can charge more because of their reputation, and they actually have to to maintain their image.
Cheapo? What an ignorant stupid argument
No one's mentioning that if you put the cap on the eraser end, it' doubles as a pencil extender. That alone makes it worth the money in my book.
I feel like I'm completely missing the point of this thing?
So it's just a cap for your pencil with a gimmicky pencil sharpener in it?
And then the metal version of this is what again?! Haha.
Honestly, I even rechecked this video to make sure it wasn't posted on April 1st.
From my side of the world it's marketed as a pencil extender with a sharpener and acts as a cap. And the pencil itself is said to be of higher quality than their other pencils but not really sure, tp expensive for my wallet.
I have just purchased one which comes replete with 3 refills. They cost a fortune online here in Ireland
Hey, can you do a review of blackwing pencils? Hehe 👌
Teoh, Thank you for the review on this product. A pencil cap for lead or graphite pencils is a plus.
I might have seen this pencil before. Not sure. I've seen so many Faber-Castell products. I own their Trio pencil sharpener which sharpens normal, jumbo, and colored pencils. Thanks for sharing this. I might grab one. 😊
Don't WASTE THOSE "Inktense Shavings"...I Keep All My "Water-Soluble" Shavings, and Arrange Them On A Piece Of W.C. Paper (With A Tooth-pic, Or a Stylus, Sometimes A W.C. Pencil) Like For A "Bunch of Flowers", A Bush, OR A Tree, (OR Whatever The Colors Are "Saying" To You)THEN: "Spritz" Them With Your "Spray Bottle" And See What Happens! Sometimes I Pick My Paper Up and "Move" The Water And The Paint Around. (OH YEAH...I Pick Out The "BIG" Shavings BEFORE I "Spray" Water) AFTER It Is COMPLETELY DRY: I "Brush" Off The Rest Of The "Wood Shavings", and IF There Are Any BIG CHUNKS Of Color Left, I EITHER "Save" Them For The "Pallet Wells", Or Move Them and SPRAY THEM AGAIN! You PROBABLY Already Do That....Love Your VIDS!
Have you ever dried the on desk pencil sharper . You turn a handle , I have one and it gives you a nice point to draw with .
Thanks
Hi Teoh! Thank you for another excellent video review. Just today I received a form of this pencil, but I am now wondering about it. The pencil I received was shown on Amazon in basically red cardboard packaging with clear thin seal over it, but when it arrived it was in a celophane wrapper, and nothing else. It is all plastic, without any metal, unlike the one you show, plus the eraser is black. After watching your video just now, I used your link, and the green one like yours looks much nicer. Plus, it is only 45 cents more in cost! This one like yours did not come up when I searched to order mine. Hmm . . . Now I am wondering if mine is a fake copy. It is a hassle for me to return it, so I'll probably keep it, but I dislike when Amazon shows things nicer on their site than what actually arrives when you purchase it. Thanks again, and have a great day!
$11 for a plastic cap and sharpener is not “cheap”. Sounds like simply because it is plastic it is called “cheap”. No. Not all plastic is the same quality. Not all plastic is cheap.
I usually carry a small sharpener it's one of my favorites Idk who makes it though and I carry 2 pencils my very tiny palette my aqua brush and a small sketchpad all in my pocket
You unscrew the old blade assembly and buy replacement from Faber Castell
This may be more realistic than the Graf von Faber-Castell one for me
i think the design is pretty good since you can also use it as a pencil extender. Would the cap nick your pencils if you do use it as an extender though?
Thank you and Nice Day 😊
I will stick with staedtlers!!
I don't know a lot of english but i like your Chanel
(Sorry 😅)
Is that crazy or what??? $295??? What a sham!!!
I looked through your product list for the pen roll you showed, but didn’t see it. Can you say the name or where you got it?
It's a Derwent canvas wrap
Hi Teoh, have you used Inktense in urban sketching ?? Don't remember u doing a video on it.
I seldom use that. Haven't figured out how to use them effectively. Also I'm reluctant to use them because they are not lightfast
Teoh Yi Chie Hi Teoh, wanted to bring to your attention this video by Lynn Chapmann ua-cam.com/video/o7B60nXLsGI/v-deo.html And how important is lightfastness for urban sketching -- isn't everything done in sketchbook ?? I would like to mention that Inktense may not be lightfast, but they scan well and make excellent prints. Check out videos by Lisa from Lachri fine art., whenever u have some time and interest. Thanks for all your awesome videos !!!
Will that extender fit regular staedtler norica, noris and lumograph pencils
I've not used those pencils before. But this is extender is meant for typical size graphite pencils, not for larger pencils, or some coloured pencils which have larger diameter
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I prefer to sharpen my pencil with a cutter
200$ for a pencil....cough cough
If it was made of white gold or sterling silver I'd understand that price point... But "metal" could be anything...
What the....
Does Singapore Faber Castell sell it?
Not sure about that.
Why was that one pencil over 200$?
They sell it as a luxury item
They're also platinum plated, and killer-feature : Inktense pencils fits in it ^^
Can these sharpen charcoal pencils?
Charcoal is fragile. You have to use blade or pen knife to sharpen charcoal.
@@teohyc oh, okay. Thanks for for the reply!
You convinced me to keep on buying the plastic sharpener (some are built to handle two different sizes of pencil) for around 50 cents USD. If I lose it or it breaks I’ve lost literally very little. The one you just reviewed is too expensive for my pocket book.
The KUM long point is the best portable sharpener in my opinion.
I don't think that's worth 200 dollar X'D Thanks for the review tho!
It costs only one dollar in my country haha
worth the money for a 10 dollar pencil is, in my opinion, debatable. I think the best pricepoint for that pencil would be around 7 dollars, enough to not devalue the company and cheap enough to appeal to poor artists haha.
But that expensive 200+ dollar pencil.... *cringes*
Pretty silly.
This is such a dumb product na.. Isn't a mechanical pencil just better in every way 😅
TheSgyro yes if you are using HB - 2B
No if you using graphite type other than it
I mean, where you can find mechanical lead for a charcoal pencil?
@@calyco2381 there are charcoal leads too now.. For those lead holder style mechanical pencils..
Hey! Vsauce! Micheal Here. 🤓 Where are your fingers? 🖑🖐 Seriously. It's a pretty easy question. You should be able to answer it. But how do you know? 🤔 How does anyone know anything? 😯
You might say, well, I know where my fingers are. I'm looking right at them. 😂 Or, I can touch them, I can feel them, they're right here and that's good. 😉 Your senses are a great way to learn things. In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we talk about. 😎 For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception. This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test. 😥 It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms and head and legs in your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things. 😊 We have way more than five senses, we have at least twice as many and then some. But they're not perfect. 😣
There are optical illusions, audio illusions, temperature sensation illusions, even tactile illusions. 😲 Can you turn your tongue upside down? If so, perfect. 😋 Try this. Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue. Your tongue will be able to feel your finger, but in the wrong place. 😨 Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch. So, when you touch the right side of your tongue when it's flipped over to your left side you perceive a sensation on the opposite side, where your tongue usually is but isn't when it's upside down. 😓 It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling, because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses, the only tools we have to get what's out there in here. 😌
The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology. 🙃 Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe and that we have justification for believing. 🤔 those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof, but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true. 😞 Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof, without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone. 🙄 These are things that we know a priori. An example would be the statement "all bachelors are unmarried." I don't have to go survey every bachelor on earth to know that that is true.😀 All bachelors are unmarried because that's how we define the word bachelor. Of course, you have to know what the words bachelor and unmarried mean in the first place. Oh, you do? 😗 Okay. Perfect. That's great. But how do you know? 🤔
This time I mean functionally, how do you know? Where is knowledge biologically in the brain? 😳 What are memories made out of? 🤕 We are a long way from being able to answer that question completely but research has shown that memories don't exist in the brain in single locations. Instead, what we call a memory is likely made up of many different complex relationships all over the brain between lots of brain cells, neurons. 😰 A major cellular mechanism thought to underlie the formation of memories is long-term potentiation or LTP. When one neuron stimulates another neuron repeatedly that signal can be enhanced overtime LTP, wiring them more strongly together and that connection can last a long time, even an entire lifetime. 😱 A collection of different brain cells, neurons that fire together in a particular order over and over again frequently and repeatedly can achieve long-term potentiation, becoming more sensitive to each other and more ready to fire in the exact same way later on in the future. 😖 They're a physical thing in your brain, firing together more easily because you strengthen that pattern of firing. You memorized. This branching forest of firing friends looks messy, but look closer. It could be the memory of your first kiss. 😙 A living souvenir of the event. If I were to go into your brain and cut out those cells, could I make you forget your first kiss or could I make you forget where your fingers are? 😢 Only if I cut out a lot of your brain. Because memories aren't just stored in one relationship, they're stored all over the brain. 😈 The events leading up to your first kiss are stored in one network, the way it felt to the way it smelled in different networks, all added up together making what you call the memory of your first kiss. 💋
How many memories can you fit inside your head? 🤔 What is the storage capacity of the human brain? 😥 The best we can do is a rough estimate, but given the number of neurons in the brain involved with memory and the number of different connections a single neuron can make Paul Reber at Northwestern University estimated that we can store the digital equivalent of about 2.5 petabytes of information. 😭 That's the equivalent of recording a TV channel continuously for 300 years. 😴 That's a lot of information. That is a lot of information about skills you can do and facts and people you've met, things in the real world. The world is real, right? How do you know? 😭
It's a difficult question, but it's not rocket science.🚀 Instead, it is asking whether or not rocket scientists even exist in the first place. 😇 The theory that the Sun moved around the earth worked great. 🖒 It predicted that the Sun would rise every morning and it did. It wasn't until later that we realized what we thought was true might not be. 🙂 So, do we or will we ever know true reality or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true? 🤔 Discovering more and more useful theories every day but never actually reaching true objective actual reality. 😤 Can science or reason ever prove convincingly that your friends and UA-cam videos and your fingers actually exist beyond your mind? That you don't just live in the matrix? 😲
No. Your mind is all that you have, even if you use instruments, like a telescope or particle accelerators. 👾 The final stop for all of that information is ultimately you. You are alone in your own brain, which technically makes it impossible to prove that anything else exists. 😦 It's called the egocentric predicament. Everything you know about the world out there depends on and is created inside your brain. 💡 This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Peirce that he drew a line between reality, the way the universe truly is, and what he called the phaneron, the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get. 😵 If you want to speak with certainty you live in, that is you react to and remember and experience your phaneron, not reality. 😩 The belief that only you exist and everything else, food, the universe, your friends are all figments of your mind is called solipsism. There is no way to convince a solipsist that the outside world is real. 😧 And there is no way to convince someone who doubts that the universe wasn't created just three seconds ago along with all of our memories. 😠 It's a frightening realization that we don't always know how to deal with. There's even The Matrix defense. 💻
In 2002 Tonda Lynn Ansley shot and killed her landlady. 🔫 She argued that she believed she was in the matrix, that her crimes weren't real. 😄 By using the matrix defense, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity, because the opposite view is just way healthier and common. It's called realism. 🤗 Realism is the belief that the outside world exists independently of your own phaneron. Rocks and stars and Thora Birch would continue to exist even if you weren't around to experience them. 😑 But you cannot know realism is true. All you can do is believe. 😆
Martin Gardner, a great source for math magic tricks, explained that he is not a solipsist because realism is just way more convenient and healthy and it works. 🎲 As to whether it bothered him that he could never know realism was true, he wrote, "If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron, my answer is how should I know? 😔 I'm not dismayed by ultimate mysteries, I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph." Humble stuff. 🤑 What strikes me is the cat. 🐺
Cats do not understand keyboards, but they know the keyboards are a fun place to be. 😂 It's a great way to get the attention of a human, they're warm and exciting, surrounded by noises and flashing lights plus cats love to get their scent on whatever they can, a mark of their existence. 🤔 We aren't that much different, except instead of keyboards we have the mysteries of the universe. We will never be able to understand all of them. 👀
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