I'm surprised the author didn't comment on our digestive system essentially having a compartmentalised nervous system almost entirely separate from our brains. That, for the record, also produces a decent chunk of our bodies neuro-chemicals.
Something like 90% of your body's serotonin is in the gut's nervous system. The gut's nervous system has as many neurons and is about as well connected to itself as a housecat's brain. That's amazing.
@@ldobehardcore it's one of the reasons diet can have such a massive effect on mood. Having a good diet doesn't cure things like depression obviously, but it certainly helps, and it's also a good habit for building up self-care. It's theorised that eventually, at some point in our evolution, either artificially or naturally, our motor functions could migrate down to our stomach, leaving our main brain on life support functions and information processing. Alternatively, our gut nervous system could eventually, again either naturally or artificially, become a true second brain.
@@Gilhelmi it's not that terrifying really, it makes sense that a place with an extremely large production of neuro-chemicals would have a large concentration of nerves, it's also why the gut tends to function for a few hours after death. It's not like those nerves are proper synapses or anything. But for the record, it's one of the reasons gut wounds hurt so much.
I walked around on a broken foot for 2 weeks and thought it was a mild sprain . There was very little swelling . When i broke my foot it felt like a cramp in my second toe . The doctor asked me I was part caveman then gave me a walking boot since he knew I wouldn't stay off of it .
I didn't realize I broke my scaphoid and didn't realize it until I broke my wrist in half years later. The doctors told me they saw it on the x-ray. I totally forgot about it, and was confused about where it came from.
when I wrecked my street bike, I picked it up and was inspecting the damage when the cop showed up(it was within a mile of the police station, and road/tree work was going on in the area) after the cop and I talked for a moment, he asked if I was going to need a tow, and I was like not if it starts, then he asked if I was going to need a ride to the hospital my pain tolerance (coupled with the adrenaline and such) is/was above noting that my knee was shredded, I proceeded to ride it to the hospital the biggest 'pain' of the day was it was largely pre cell phones, and they were being dicks about letting me call my then wife
Worked manual labor on a slowly fracturing ankle for a week. The then boss forced me to go to the doctor because my limp wasn't going away. Had to take a day off and get an ankle brace for something I thought was just a bad twist. "It only hurts when I bend it" was my excuse to keep working before seeing the doctor and learning it was slightly more serious than I thought.
do you happen to be a red head? as my sister was one. and during hurdles she fell and split the bone in her left arm. got up and started running again. even though you could see the bone physically displaced. no clue if it actualy has anything to do with her being weirdly attracted to pumpkin spice coffee and having red hair, but ya just never know. :)
@@guimts8881 If I could get a newer model suit I just might. Replace most the broken parts but if you could take the brain in a jar and have new cells or go mostly robotic with all the same sensory inputs. Well would you even care to notice the difference? If the outter layer had the same looking skin, the eyes wouldn't see a difference, you'd just feel young again or even stronger.
Wait until they discover "muscle memory". Reacting automatically to threats is one thing; neutralizing them without the intervention of conscious thought would set them on a roll.
I've been recovering from facial paralysis for the last year and have had to not only learn how to activate specific muscles in my face, but also how to combine those movements into basic expressions. It's a pain in the butt.
@@ManuelRodriguez-dr2cn Thanks. It's a slow but gradual improvement sort of thing, so it's difficult to see change in myself because I'm there every day. It was a fairly obscure condition until recently, when Justin Friggin Bieber got a light case of it. Now my friends say I had Bieber Fever. Paralysis of the right side of my face, major hearing loss in my right ear, loss of the right half of my vestibular system, and sweet taste sensation turned into rancid grease taste sensation. Be glad that you can blink - it was a long six months before I could blink my right eye. Also, I really, really miss fruit. Could have been worse, some people get long term to permanent searing pain in their face.
@@jasonpatterson8091 oof, that issue with taste was something I had due to short-term nerve shock from a dental anesthetic injection. Sweets tasted incredibly salty for a month. It wasn’t a big issue with chocolate save for an even more subtle bitter taste normally masked by the saltiness. But with candy everything was salty and I hated it… Still ate sweets though, my sweet tooth is a dangerous and ravenous thing!
Do not remind some humans of the manual function. They will not appreciate having to manually control it until they manage to get it back on automatic.
In a way, walking is like this too, your active brain sets a course but your not focused on what your legs are doing unless you have a problem, see tricky terrain, or have someone point it out and your suddenly distracted into manual mode
not only that, they have this kind of pseudo-brains in the base of each tentacle, thats freaking amazin there was even documented cases where a detached arm tried to feed their missing mouth
Fun fact: We technically have two consciousnesses, this can be observed due to an old medical procedure to stop seizures by severing the connection between both halves of our brain.
Not quite. They stay synchronized but we most certainly _are_ a Dual-Core species. That makes our minds a lot more resilient, but also causes a bit of madness where we don't know ourselves.
@@lupaswolfshead9971 if you include all the extra processing hardware around our digestive system, which does indeed to more than manage digestion, then yes, at least 3. What we comprehend as "us" might be the sum total of our entire nervous system, not just the cluster in our skulls
Honestly it's probably the interaction between these dual systems that enable us to do things like form questions and perform advanced problem solving above what things like octopuses can do with physical objects. And on a side note, octopuses are able to do so well with physical puzzles, in part, because they have secondary brains in all of their limbs, each working on their individual physical tasks while being given a general goal and coordination by their main brain, so multi brain/mind systems are obviously very advantageous. A big demand on high value nutrients and energy, but a game changer that shoots you up to apex predator levels.
Humans are quite literally biological robots background processing(organs) running at 100% at normal and over 500% during emergencies foreground processing(senses and motor functions) running at 60% to 150% normally and over 1000% during emergencies not to mention simulations running during sleep and/or when were awake, imagination and dreams are one of them theres also the ability to guess the future humans are pretty OP if this aspects be accessed i love the story for the algorithm
When you slip on an icy driveway and your arms snap beneath you before you even realize you're falling. Both arms were sore shoulder to elbow for a few days after, but at least I didn't bash the back of my head on the pavement.
I imagine automated reflexes would be really advantageous in a battle scenario, but this was a medical lecture, not a military one, so this line of reasoning didn't really come up except for the part about a human auto-dodging something most aliens would even have time tor recognize as a threat. Honestly, given how much control the aliens have over their biology, I'm amazed that they even recognize humans as sapient.
I remember my comsci prof calling the human brain the most powerful computer system in the universe as we know it right now it has background applications running at 100 percent(organs and such) and foreground processing at over 150%(basically senses and movements) then it can also run simulations while in active state(imagination and daydreaming) its the quantum computer that many scientist overlooks
Nothing to imagine. It's something warriors of every stripe, from soldiers to martial artists, rely on heavily. That's why regular drills and practice are so vital. The more you decentralize your tasks, the quicker and more accurate you become.
@@taitano12 "muscle memory" is a thing after all. It isn't actually your muscles memorizing the movements. It's your brain getting so used to them that it can do them without thinking about it.
There should also be the warning that they shouldn't even pair with a healthy looking human nervous system to give them a clean bill of health as many of us have underlying amounts of pain and discomfort at any given moment. I myself had five vertebrae fused 20 years ago and the joints in my spine above and below have been degrading ever since. Five out of 10 is a normal day to me I only know that I'm in a lot of pain when suddenly a leg gives out or I get nauseous. FTA
Dislocated both knees due to being hit by a car (got lucky AF) had to relearn how to walk, DR's kept insisting I'd be using a cane or a chair the rest of my life. Other than wonky weather, I walk just fine. Mind you I live in level 3 pain so yeah.
Sadly true 🙄 Broken femur (very nasty one) at 20 year old. Now the knee, bassin and other start to go wrong. The worst is when weather play yo-yo between dry and wet. Or when I do a false or sudden move : it's then the pain flare really and I feel it. But I'm probably around a 3 or 4 one 10 all the time.
I had a short story (first contact/doctors without borders) come through my FB feed at one point that also referred to Earth as a death world. I take it this is a thing in that community?
@@Heegaherger Mostly in stories centered around human biology. The more absurd and OP a biology is at surviving, the more unforgiving the envoronment it tends to come from.
@@Heegaherger With everything trying to kill you on Earth from flora/fauna to weather and the planet itself. Different stories have us on a very high deathworld , And some even make us a plague world due to various microorganisms aswell. And the common theme running through it as a sort of joke is that Australia is hardcore mode on Earth. Apart from Canadian Geese. (They are a warcrime in a lot of stories lol) Weapon of mass destruction.
Wait. . . If the Xenos here can precisely identity ANY malady through their Nervous Systems and SOME Xenos can also "Connect" with the NerveSystems of others, considering the "Alien" Concept of 'Pain Tolerance'(Alien to the Xenos obvs), would those Xenos immediately feel the average everyday pain we feel instantly? How would they react to the Oxygen that Combusts within our own blood? Would they be able to feel that too? Or the intensity of light that our Eyes have to filter through and adjust to? Would they be able to detect illusions from those with Schizophrenia or even see/experience our Dreams? Would they get Motion Sickness from looking through the eyes of someone with ADHD? Would they feel the same satisfaction that we do when we crack our knuckles or pop our backs and necks or would they suffer? There's just too much to contemplate!
If they could filter each feel to one doctor. Hmmm. Might take a million of them but that would be interesting. Make a machine that could do that and we'd hook it up as a VR hyper realistic game / combat training. So many pains you forget you live with. Weakness you just hold things a different way till you build strength back up or get used to the new.
I loved this one the most. I didn't even hear much about different xeno biology besides what was mentioned in relation to humans, but hearing reactions to human biology from an outside perspective really makes you think about how weird life on earth really is! 😄
I always thought that it was more likely we’d be similar to any sentient life we find outside of its’ home planet than different; anything that evolves without competition or danger wouldn’t have inborn compulsions for teamwork, self expression, progress and control. A species that can afford to micromanage its’ own body may someday reach the stars, but not before every star has been claimed by a species less restrained.
@@94ncd I recommend you look into 'Grabby Aliens' theory. It has more to do with our real universe and the likelihood of other life in our galaxy, but the projections for rate of expansion are sound enough to debunk the scenario of this story from ever taking place in the real world. Summary; the head start required would pre-date the development of most planets in our galaxy, yet alone life on those planets.
@@krayzoman "the head start required would pre-date the development of most planets in our galaxy, yet alone life on those planets." wasn't there a recent thing on the age we think we know is wrong. The expansion of the universes isn't like we thought so since that was debunked all the ages we gave them would be wrong. Expansion until snap back or heat death of the universe though seem to be thrown out a bit for now. Some satellite saw something so now we have to rethink all we thought we knew. If that makes them far away stars now much much older how does the impossible scenario stand up now?
@@jayeisenhardt1337 I don't know how old the universe would need to be for non-'grabby' aliens to possibly get enough of a foothold not to be overrun by more competitive species, or if that threshold is now possible. However, it is still staggeringly unlikely that we'll interact with non-grabbies in the short span that our territories overlap and our technologies are comparable.
I was severely bullied for years in school which culminated in an (officially) accident during chemistry where some of my bullies thought it would be fun to pour the acid we were working with on my face melting a lot of my facial muscles it took almost 4 years of rehab to first control then automate my chewing and smiling
with respect, fuck that I'd have his ass charged with attempted murder. And guess what, no statute of limitations on that. Additionally, if the school tried to cover it, they can be charged as accomplices.
@@noobrebuilder8260 yes I did funded an entire year of linguistic and motoristic schooling and every single surgery after that our family had like 2k € leftover
@@theconney1512 I am more wishing that those bullies also faced more serious legal consequences because that is way above standard bullying. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if it could be classified as attempted murder.
@@adrianmcbride1666 Yet to this day, bullies and bullying are most often treated as 'normal.' With the targets blamed for everything. I was recently in a play with a schoolteacher. There are four girls in a class she taught last year who habitually filmed other students, then posted those videos on TikTok with nasty comments. The parents were called in, oh no not their precious Amber or Tiffany or Courtney, no no besides people should just stop being so sensitive-- yeah right, those 4 should already be expelled for that. Can't 'name and shame' them, because that would violate laws. As usual, the first to commit illegal and immoral acts are allowed to continue, while those who object are the problem.
How can a entity get things done/survive if it has to manually control everything in its body and do other work. Running from a predator?? Control heart, control legs to run, control arms to swing, then switch leg control to jump over that fallen tree, prepare legs to absorbed/cushion the forces of landing. Control diaphragm chest muscles to get more air, control the blood vessels to pump blood faster, stop digestion it takes energy shut down spinicter muscles so your not shitting and pissing yourself, control you neck muscles to turn head to look for escape route, let's not talk about getting the energy to do all that stuff how do you control that on top of not trying to be eating??
Either that or they didn't have predators. As a species we expect other worlds to be like ours where everything is trying to kill, eat, or escape from you, or is just a plant using what's around it to survive
As Nick said they might not have had predators. In fact they might be at the top of whatever passes for a food chain on their world or have some other gimmick that means that they aren't something that any large predator would go after. In those situations having a much higher ability to control ones body might be much more advantageous for survival from things like disease. Especially if some of this control extends to their immune system.
Wait until they find out that not only do we have basic reflexes, but we can condition ourselves to learn specific responses to stimuli via regular practice as often seen in various sports and martial arts.
Or crazy people doing speedruns in games with frame-perfect button combos, some so fine tuned they can ligit play the whole game blindfolded and just work from sound
I love the topic Most people don’t realize their subconscious and muscle memory basically put their body on autopilot Some organisms are way too secular to move as fluently as extremely electronically advance, more intelligent life
he talked about our reflexes for half a minute. the rest of it had to do with voluntary movement. like typing. you don't need to give mental commands to your muscles telling them which tendon and bones to manipulate in what way so you can type. but the aliens in this story do have to do precisely that.
Just wait till they learn how human sleep works... Turn off everything except the life support that runs barely enough to ride the borderline between alive and clinically dead... Have you ever experienced jolting out of nowhere, especially just before sleep? Apparently, even if you're still awake, you're body relaxes so much that your heart stops beating. Then your brain sends an automatic "ping" on all your muscles to make sure you're alive. Now think about that the next time you jolted... Your heart just stopped beating there... 😬
Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of these entries, when they are written from the perspective of an extra terrestrial, is it things that seem so benign and mundane to them, are entirely alien to us. And quite the same from our perspective.
Humans are many brains stacked on top of eachother. The thinky bit at the top is watching the next thinky bit that does most of the thinking.... (that top bit is metacognition, we don't think about it much....).
I do…but mostly because I think of my brain like some massive control center. That metacognition is the one actually in the drivers seat/command chair, directing the thousands of others sitting at their stations in there towards whatever thought lines I want to concentrate on…of course the fractions of guys watching movies on their terminals, listening to music, or reading at their desks instead of following directions don’t help.
Getting to the heart stuff, I'm thinking "I know I've heard a story about the exact opposite, aliens being amazed at how humans know how to affect their own heart rate and whatnot at will. And I laugh. Man I love these stories. So many drastically different perspectives.
I love when the older, experienced people in the field get a sense of pride over the next generation. Its a sense of "the next group will be alright without me in the future, and thats a good thing" ❤
I remember years ago I had an accident at my job and thought I had just sprained a finger. Kept on working and using it for days until I realized it had gone crooked. Turns out that weight that it had caught on had snapped the damn thing lengthwise and even after a cast it's still crooked to this day. (Workers' Comp doesn't do everything, sadly, but hey, I can still use it and it stopped being "weak" only a year or two after the accident.) These seem like pleasant xenos; though I pity them once they realize our "black boxes" make us exceptionally prone to self-abuse and "hold my beer" moments.
Sounds a bit like when I was 16 and I thought I'd just pulled a tendon before a major ballet exam that would have gotten me into a decent dance company... It turned out to be a hip fracture. Needless to say that I didn't end up dancing professionally, but I passed that exam, and gained some major bragging rights! And I was right back to high level amateur dancing just a couple of years later. Our bodies are insane.
Yeah, I didn't think of that... I mean, if your vital organs are consciously operated, then you can't afford to go unconscious for any reason, or you just die.
The part about being able to ignore fractures is so true, recently fractured my fib in 2 places, walked almost 200m on it before I got to where someone picked me up to take me home, waited till next day to go hospital, was not fun and deffo did more damage to it cos of walking on it
I want to see dr Xen's face when humans correct the error, and explain our heart muscles are just a better version of our skeletal muscle. What do you mean your skeletal muscle is out of your control, Xen will say.
I knew they were going to mention the fact that large chunks of our nervous system can simply ignore system shock in other large chunks of our nervous system. It's a marvelously frugal way to deal with high stress enviroments, I would honestly be shocked if only life on Earth evolved this trait. Even if we assume that other inhabited planets are more tame than ours, evolution favors cheap tricks.
Id love to see on of the beings with the nervous system ability become a combat medic and gets teamed up with a human. They eventually end up in a situation where the human is so badly hurt but needs to stay alive that the combat medic “hooks up to” the nervous system in an attempt to “cut off” parts of the body that are hurting, but come to find out, everything hurts. Every scar, ache, smallest of cancer cells that our white blood cells didn’t kill yet, allergy, to even feeling the after effects of long term use adrenaline to the heart does. This ultimately sends the CM into shock as their own nervous system as a whole gets shut down, rewired, and rebooted.
OMG... @Agro Squirrel Narrates what an amazing story!! I broke my toe 3 years ago, "accidentally" kicking my husband. 😆 😆 He didn't even have a bruise or a mark... 😵💫😵💫😵💫 Then hobbled all the way to the ER... ET student, yes PLUG-IN your nervous system...
There's another story about a human going to an alien doctor just to get a stamp on his medical file, the doctor tries to give him a full checkup and when "interfacing" with him he gets "slapped around" by the amount of pain and nerves etc.
Yep I knew a guy years ago who’s arm started swelling and it was itchy all the time. Dr sent him to hospital for X-rays it turned out he had broken it in 2 places a few weeks earlier. They had to re break it and set it correctly
"[...] they have developed many methods of determining the source of their ailments." And due to it's cost most chose to abandon it. Or blame it on other planets.
about the heart beings smooth muscle ... If i remember smooth muscle and other 2 type whose name IDK in English are more about how the muscle is constructed
just me or did anyone else feel really squirmish during this video? then when I realized I was squirming, I squirmed even more. cause I was like. wow, no thought only movement, how could dis be?
And besides the autonomous nervous system, let's not forget the symbiotic relationship with the bacteria in our guts needed to process the food we eat.
Oh, those students are going to have a hell of a time meeting their first diabetic with low blood sugar who wants to fight everyone and everything near him. You wouldn't believe how strong those fuckers can be. Had a friend pick up a whole goddamn couch and toss it once. Not effortlessly, mind you, but with much more strength than I thought he had.
I once broke one of my metacarpal bones in a bout of human stupidity. ended up doing nothing about it until I went to the GP for an entrely unrelated matter and the doctor asked why the outer edge of my palm was swollen and bruised. not one of my prodest moments 😂
So the aliens run on Gcode... every little motion explicitly called for. Humans then, are..... microsoft excel. Macros and preconfigured formulas to do anything, lots of background processing automated, and in the end all you can really do is plug numbers (thoughts) into boxes (motion systems) and hope for the best. Best not crash, autosave isn't turned on....
I'm surprised it didn't mention the 'fight or flight' response, as that would be something any medical practitioner dealing with humans would have to watch out for...
Or freeze.... Fight, freeze or flight. Freeze is the worst of them, and can most often than not make you killed. Sadly it's also the default one for people who have never be around dander or real violence. The "too civilized" 😢
That whole thing about the xenos being told they should not interface with human nerves directly got me thinking. Is it because it is always active, a cascade of noise, directions, and orders? The human nerves are constantly active, and will act entirely on there own. So interfacing may result in the xeno having something akin to sensory overload, or seizures. Basically, the xeno is a computer, while ours is a screaming engine.
A lot about us is automated. Heart beat, pain sensation, digestion, waste disposal. Breathing is a "learned" repetitive behavior, technically our first habit. The rest of our learned behaviors make up what we recognize as our conscious mind, and that mind is only responsible for the day to day problem solving and is frequently given orders through encouragement by the rest of the mind via processes we don't control. That the aliens lack "instinct" would make them very very alien to us. "So... you things don't get horny or feel hunger pangs? Huh."
I'm surprised the author didn't comment on our digestive system essentially having a compartmentalised nervous system almost entirely separate from our brains. That, for the record, also produces a decent chunk of our bodies neuro-chemicals.
Something like 90% of your body's serotonin is in the gut's nervous system.
The gut's nervous system has as many neurons and is about as well connected to itself as a housecat's brain.
That's amazing.
@@ldobehardcore it's one of the reasons diet can have such a massive effect on mood.
Having a good diet doesn't cure things like depression obviously, but it certainly helps, and it's also a good habit for building up self-care.
It's theorised that eventually, at some point in our evolution, either artificially or naturally, our motor functions could migrate down to our stomach, leaving our main brain on life support functions and information processing.
Alternatively, our gut nervous system could eventually, again either naturally or artificially, become a true second brain.
That information........ that is terrifying.
@@Gilhelmi it's not that terrifying really, it makes sense that a place with an extremely large production of neuro-chemicals would have a large concentration of nerves, it's also why the gut tends to function for a few hours after death.
It's not like those nerves are proper synapses or anything. But for the record, it's one of the reasons gut wounds hurt so much.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 "Oh yeah, their guts will keep working for several hours after their brain dies."
The Xeno students gape in horror.
fun fact: we can learn to operate our bodies manually, but most of us find it easier to train automatic responses
You say "we can" but out of the dozen people who got their automatic pilot destroyed by traumatic brain injury or fever, only one guy has managed it.
@@JoshSweetvale i never said it was easy
Yup, but learning how can be a serious amount of work.
I walked around on a broken foot for 2 weeks and thought it was a mild sprain . There was very little swelling . When i broke my foot it felt like a cramp in my second toe . The doctor asked me I was part caveman then gave me a walking boot since he knew I wouldn't stay off of it .
I didn't realize I broke my scaphoid and didn't realize it until I broke my wrist in half years later. The doctors told me they saw it on the x-ray. I totally forgot about it, and was confused about where it came from.
Yea... i kinda wonder myself considering some of what I have done..
when I wrecked my street bike, I picked it up and was inspecting the damage when the cop showed up(it was within a mile of the police station, and road/tree work was going on in the area)
after the cop and I talked for a moment, he asked if I was going to need a tow, and I was like not if it starts, then he asked if I was going to need a ride to the hospital
my pain tolerance (coupled with the adrenaline and such) is/was above noting that my knee was shredded, I proceeded to ride it to the hospital
the biggest 'pain' of the day was it was largely pre cell phones, and they were being dicks about letting me call my then wife
Worked manual labor on a slowly fracturing ankle for a week. The then boss forced me to go to the doctor because my limp wasn't going away. Had to take a day off and get an ankle brace for something I thought was just a bad twist.
"It only hurts when I bend it" was my excuse to keep working before seeing the doctor and learning it was slightly more serious than I thought.
do you happen to be a red head? as my sister was one. and during hurdles she fell and split the bone in her left arm. got up and started running again. even though you could see the bone physically displaced. no clue if it actualy has anything to do with her being weirdly attracted to pumpkin spice coffee and having red hair, but ya just never know. :)
Human anatomy: A series of efficient automated reactionary systems... often with a idiot in control of the main switches.
That is a good way to put it
ouch
Well, can't really argue with that.... lol
Welp, if it hurts its true i suppose
best discription i ever heard
The human body is basically just a bio-mechanical suit meant to support the squishy brain inside.
Basically flesh and bone mecha for the brain
Basically a meat terminator trying to stay alive as long as possible, at any cost to the best of it's ability
Like a Dalek.
Bruh, don't disrespect all your non-nervous cells like that, they're more than some suit, they are a part of you, they are you.
@@guimts8881 If I could get a newer model suit I just might. Replace most the broken parts but if you could take the brain in a jar and have new cells or go mostly robotic with all the same sensory inputs. Well would you even care to notice the difference? If the outter layer had the same looking skin, the eyes wouldn't see a difference, you'd just feel young again or even stronger.
Wait until they discover "muscle memory".
Reacting automatically to threats is one thing; neutralizing them without the intervention of conscious thought would set them on a roll.
Yup, sensory adaptation can be interesting aswell
ask them to play BeatSaber for an hour. then have a brand new human to BeatSaber play for an hour and just see that in action :)
oh god
And that is not imited to unarmed threat responses...
You can multitasking very easily if you chain together more then one muscle memories together.
I've been recovering from facial paralysis for the last year and have had to not only learn how to activate specific muscles in my face, but also how to combine those movements into basic expressions. It's a pain in the butt.
Bruh, it does sound annoying, best of luck on your recovery
@@ManuelRodriguez-dr2cn Thanks. It's a slow but gradual improvement sort of thing, so it's difficult to see change in myself because I'm there every day.
It was a fairly obscure condition until recently, when Justin Friggin Bieber got a light case of it. Now my friends say I had Bieber Fever. Paralysis of the right side of my face, major hearing loss in my right ear, loss of the right half of my vestibular system, and sweet taste sensation turned into rancid grease taste sensation. Be glad that you can blink - it was a long six months before I could blink my right eye. Also, I really, really miss fruit. Could have been worse, some people get long term to permanent searing pain in their face.
@@jasonpatterson8091 oof, that issue with taste was something I had due to short-term nerve shock from a dental anesthetic injection.
Sweets tasted incredibly salty for a month. It wasn’t a big issue with chocolate save for an even more subtle bitter taste normally masked by the saltiness. But with candy everything was salty and I hated it…
Still ate sweets though, my sweet tooth is a dangerous and ravenous thing!
it can be if you are cute enough
How did facial paralysis hurt your butt though?
Breathing; It's automated and manual. How's that for a mind blow, students?
Do not remind some humans of the manual function. They will not appreciate having to manually control it until they manage to get it back on automatic.
Whats real fun is, sometimes the automatic function blinks and forgets to work. Sleep apnea sucks.
Well now it's not auto lol
@@thunderbird4636 😛
In a way, walking is like this too, your active brain sets a course but your not focused on what your legs are doing unless you have a problem, see tricky terrain, or have someone point it out and your suddenly distracted into manual mode
Imagine how those aliens would react to an Terran octopus' nervous system, where 3/5 of the neurons are located outside the brain! 😆
not only that, they have this kind of pseudo-brains in the base of each tentacle, thats freaking amazin
there was even documented cases where a detached arm tried to feed their missing mouth
What about jelly fish? XD
Hell it is tjeorized that octopi are aliens anyway. Due to the many many differences.
@@ufoe20011there's way too many similarities, if anything mushrooms would be alien.
Fun fact: We technically have two consciousnesses, this can be observed due to an old medical procedure to stop seizures by severing the connection between both halves of our brain.
Not quite.
They stay synchronized but we most certainly _are_ a Dual-Core species. That makes our minds a lot more resilient, but also causes a bit of madness where we don't know ourselves.
3 brains
@@lupaswolfshead9971 if you include all the extra processing hardware around our digestive system, which does indeed to more than manage digestion, then yes, at least 3.
What we comprehend as "us" might be the sum total of our entire nervous system, not just the cluster in our skulls
Honestly it's probably the interaction between these dual systems that enable us to do things like form questions and perform advanced problem solving above what things like octopuses can do with physical objects. And on a side note, octopuses are able to do so well with physical puzzles, in part, because they have secondary brains in all of their limbs, each working on their individual physical tasks while being given a general goal and coordination by their main brain, so multi brain/mind systems are obviously very advantageous. A big demand on high value nutrients and energy, but a game changer that shoots you up to apex predator levels.
@@UNSCPILOT Does this mean I can refer to myself with the 'royal We'?
Humans are quite literally biological robots
background processing(organs) running at 100% at normal and over 500% during emergencies
foreground processing(senses and motor functions) running at 60% to 150% normally and over 1000% during emergencies
not to mention simulations running during sleep and/or when were awake, imagination and dreams are one of them
theres also the ability to guess the future
humans are pretty OP if this aspects be accessed
i love the story
for the algorithm
"You are not your body. You are a sapient blob of electrified, salty, jello, piloting a bone mech, with layers of meat for armor."
Adrenaline: *activates*
Digestive systems: *closes tabs for extra RAM*
Brain: *OVERCLOCK MODE*
Manipulation muscles: release all safety limiters
Brain stem: hits play on the Doom Slayer rip and tear soundtrack.
When you slip on an icy driveway and your arms snap beneath you before you even realize you're falling.
Both arms were sore shoulder to elbow for a few days after, but at least I didn't bash the back of my head on the pavement.
I imagine automated reflexes would be really advantageous in a battle scenario, but this was a medical lecture, not a military one, so this line of reasoning didn't really come up except for the part about a human auto-dodging something most aliens would even have time tor recognize as a threat.
Honestly, given how much control the aliens have over their biology, I'm amazed that they even recognize humans as sapient.
Could easily see them classifying us as "autonomous biological entities" xD
I remember my comsci prof calling the human brain the most powerful computer system in the universe as we know it right now
it has background applications running at 100 percent(organs and such) and foreground processing at over 150%(basically senses and movements) then it can also run simulations while in active state(imagination and daydreaming) its the quantum computer that many scientist overlooks
Nothing to imagine. It's something warriors of every stripe, from soldiers to martial artists, rely on heavily. That's why regular drills and practice are so vital. The more you decentralize your tasks, the quicker and more accurate you become.
@@taitano12 "muscle memory" is a thing after all. It isn't actually your muscles memorizing the movements. It's your brain getting so used to them that it can do them without thinking about it.
hmmmm yes，natural ultra instinct
There should also be the warning that they shouldn't even pair with a healthy looking human nervous system to give them a clean bill of health as many of us have underlying amounts of pain and discomfort at any given moment. I myself had five vertebrae fused 20 years ago and the joints in my spine above and below have been degrading ever since. Five out of 10 is a normal day to me I only know that I'm in a lot of pain when suddenly a leg gives out or I get nauseous. FTA
Dislocated both knees due to being hit by a car (got lucky AF) had to relearn how to walk, DR's kept insisting I'd be using a cane or a chair the rest of my life. Other than wonky weather, I walk just fine. Mind you I live in level 3 pain so yeah.
Chronic pain is a thing, and one it's easy to forget you have, if it's consistent enough
Sadly true 🙄
Broken femur (very nasty one) at 20 year old. Now the knee, bassin and other start to go wrong.
The worst is when weather play yo-yo between dry and wet. Or when I do a false or sudden move : it's then the pain flare really and I feel it.
But I'm probably around a 3 or 4 one 10 all the time.
"a Class 12B death world"
I see someone is a fan of the Jenkinsverse!
I had a short story (first contact/doctors without borders) come through my FB feed at one point that also referred to Earth as a death world. I take it this is a thing in that community?
@@Heegaherger Mostly in stories centered around human biology. The more absurd and OP a biology is at surviving, the more unforgiving the envoronment it tends to come from.
@@Heegaherger With everything trying to kill you on Earth from flora/fauna to weather and the planet itself. Different stories have us on a very high deathworld , And some even make us a plague world due to various microorganisms aswell.
And the common theme running through it as a sort of joke is that Australia is hardcore mode on Earth. Apart from Canadian Geese. (They are a warcrime in a lot of stories lol) Weapon of mass destruction.
I would have loved to see a part 2 where he brought a human doctor onto the stage
Wait. . . If the Xenos here can precisely identity ANY malady through their Nervous Systems and SOME Xenos can also "Connect" with the NerveSystems of others, considering the "Alien" Concept of 'Pain Tolerance'(Alien to the Xenos obvs), would those Xenos immediately feel the average everyday pain we feel instantly? How would they react to the Oxygen that Combusts within our own blood? Would they be able to feel that too? Or the intensity of light that our Eyes have to filter through and adjust to? Would they be able to detect illusions from those with Schizophrenia or even see/experience our Dreams? Would they get Motion Sickness from looking through the eyes of someone with ADHD? Would they feel the same satisfaction that we do when we crack our knuckles or pop our backs and necks or would they suffer? There's just too much to contemplate!
I believe the lecturer warned "don't interface with a human or you'll fry your brain."
something something something "attaching a medical device to a warp core" was the warning he gave. That sound a lot like a massive overload to me.
@@AtomicBurn02 More like a nice and big boom, considering the analogy of plugging the poor device into the core directly! XD
Probably the issue is, they get all of tge above, unfiltered, all at once, probably feels like a tazer
If they could filter each feel to one doctor. Hmmm. Might take a million of them but that would be interesting. Make a machine that could do that and we'd hook it up as a VR hyper realistic game / combat training.
So many pains you forget you live with. Weakness you just hold things a different way till you build strength back up or get used to the new.
Just having that lecture must be incredibly exhausting...."Vocal cords make a "w" noise....vocal cords make a "e" noise..."
I loved this one the most. I didn't even hear much about different xeno biology besides what was mentioned in relation to humans, but hearing reactions to human biology from an outside perspective really makes you think about how weird life on earth really is! 😄
I always thought that it was more likely we’d be similar to any sentient life we find outside of its’ home planet than different; anything that evolves without competition or danger wouldn’t have inborn compulsions for teamwork, self expression, progress and control.
A species that can afford to micromanage its’ own body may someday reach the stars, but not before every star has been claimed by a species less restrained.
@@krayzoman unless said micromanagement species had a massive head start, which is always possible.
@@94ncd I recommend you look into 'Grabby Aliens' theory. It has more to do with our real universe and the likelihood of other life in our galaxy, but the projections for rate of expansion are sound enough to debunk the scenario of this story from ever taking place in the real world. Summary; the head start required would pre-date the development of most planets in our galaxy, yet alone life on those planets.
@@krayzoman "the head start required would pre-date the development of most planets in our galaxy, yet alone life on those planets." wasn't there a recent thing on the age we think we know is wrong. The expansion of the universes isn't like we thought so since that was debunked all the ages we gave them would be wrong. Expansion until snap back or heat death of the universe though seem to be thrown out a bit for now. Some satellite saw something so now we have to rethink all we thought we knew. If that makes them far away stars now much much older how does the impossible scenario stand up now?
@@jayeisenhardt1337 I don't know how old the universe would need to be for non-'grabby' aliens to possibly get enough of a foothold not to be overrun by more competitive species, or if that threshold is now possible.
However, it is still staggeringly unlikely that we'll interact with non-grabbies in the short span that our territories overlap and our technologies are comparable.
The heart isn’t smooth muscle the heart is cardiac muscle Artery’s and veins are smooth muscle
technically it has some of the properties of both smooth and striated muscle, funny enough.
I was severely bullied for years in school which culminated in an (officially) accident during chemistry where some of my bullies thought it would be fun to pour the acid we were working with on my face melting a lot of my facial muscles it took almost 4 years of rehab to first control then automate my chewing and smiling
with respect, fuck that I'd have his ass charged with attempted murder. And guess what, no statute of limitations on that. Additionally, if the school tried to cover it, they can be charged as accomplices.
Holy, did you sue them? Bullies and school too?
@@noobrebuilder8260 yes I did funded an entire year of linguistic and motoristic schooling and every single surgery after that our family had like 2k € leftover
@@theconney1512 I am more wishing that those bullies also faced more serious legal consequences because that is way above standard bullying. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if it could be classified as attempted murder.
@@adrianmcbride1666 Yet to this day, bullies and bullying are most often treated as 'normal.' With the targets blamed for everything. I was recently in a play with a schoolteacher. There are four girls in a class she taught last year who habitually filmed other students, then posted those videos on TikTok with nasty comments. The parents were called in, oh no not their precious Amber or Tiffany or Courtney, no no besides people should just stop being so sensitive-- yeah right, those 4 should already be expelled for that. Can't 'name and shame' them, because that would violate laws. As usual, the first to commit illegal and immoral acts are allowed to continue, while those who object are the problem.
How can a entity get things done/survive if it has to manually control everything in its body and do other work. Running from a predator?? Control heart, control legs to run, control arms to swing, then switch leg control to jump over that fallen tree, prepare legs to absorbed/cushion the forces of landing. Control diaphragm chest muscles to get more air, control the blood vessels to pump blood faster, stop digestion it takes energy shut down spinicter muscles so your not shitting and pissing yourself, control you neck muscles to turn head to look for escape route, let's not talk about getting the energy to do all that stuff how do you control that on top of not trying to be eating??
If the predator is from the same planet, It probably would be under the same constraints. An entire planet of QWOP players.😆
Either that or they didn't have predators. As a species we expect other worlds to be like ours where everything is trying to kill, eat, or escape from you, or is just a plant using what's around it to survive
As Nick said they might not have had predators. In fact they might be at the top of whatever passes for a food chain on their world or have some other gimmick that means that they aren't something that any large predator would go after. In those situations having a much higher ability to control ones body might be much more advantageous for survival from things like disease. Especially if some of this control extends to their immune system.
the fish at 6:30 had ne cracking up 🤣
Wait until they find out that not only do we have basic reflexes, but we can condition ourselves to learn specific responses to stimuli via regular practice as often seen in various sports and martial arts.
Or crazy people doing speedruns in games with frame-perfect button combos, some so fine tuned they can ligit play the whole game blindfolded and just work from sound
I love the topic
Most people don’t realize their subconscious and muscle memory basically put their body on autopilot
Some organisms are way too secular to move as fluently as extremely electronically advance, more intelligent life
Took me almost a third of the video to figure out he was talking about our reflexes.
he talked about our reflexes for half a minute. the rest of it had to do with voluntary movement. like typing. you don't need to give mental commands to your muscles telling them which tendon and bones to manipulate in what way so you can type. but the aliens in this story do have to do precisely that.
I keep getting distracted every time the cute little sucker fish cleans your lense for you. Hehe
Fish jumpscare
.....THE FUKIN WUT!!!!!!)8
Just wait till they learn how human sleep works...
Turn off everything except the life support that runs barely enough to ride the borderline between alive and clinically dead...
Have you ever experienced jolting out of nowhere, especially just before sleep? Apparently, even if you're still awake, you're body relaxes so much that your heart stops beating. Then your brain sends an automatic "ping" on all your muscles to make sure you're alive.
Now think about that the next time you jolted...
Your heart just stopped beating there...
😬
Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of these entries, when they are written from the perspective of an extra terrestrial, is it things that seem so benign and mundane to them, are entirely alien to us. And quite the same from our perspective.
humans "YOU CAN TURN THE PAIN OFF?! GIVE IT TO US!"
Humans are many brains stacked on top of eachother. The thinky bit at the top is watching the next thinky bit that does most of the thinking.... (that top bit is metacognition, we don't think about it much....).
I do…but mostly because I think of my brain like some massive control center. That metacognition is the one actually in the drivers seat/command chair, directing the thousands of others sitting at their stations in there towards whatever thought lines I want to concentrate on…of course the fractions of guys watching movies on their terminals, listening to music, or reading at their desks instead of following directions don’t help.
Getting to the heart stuff, I'm thinking "I know I've heard a story about the exact opposite, aliens being amazed at how humans know how to affect their own heart rate and whatnot at will.
And I laugh. Man I love these stories. So many drastically different perspectives.
I love when the older, experienced people in the field get a sense of pride over the next generation. Its a sense of "the next group will be alright without me in the future, and thats a good thing" ❤
I remember years ago I had an accident at my job and thought I had just sprained a finger. Kept on working and using it for days until I realized it had gone crooked. Turns out that weight that it had caught on had snapped the damn thing lengthwise and even after a cast it's still crooked to this day. (Workers' Comp doesn't do everything, sadly, but hey, I can still use it and it stopped being "weak" only a year or two after the accident.)
These seem like pleasant xenos; though I pity them once they realize our "black boxes" make us exceptionally prone to self-abuse and "hold my beer" moments.
Sounds a bit like when I was 16 and I thought I'd just pulled a tendon before a major ballet exam that would have gotten me into a decent dance company... It turned out to be a hip fracture. Needless to say that I didn't end up dancing professionally, but I passed that exam, and gained some major bragging rights! And I was right back to high level amateur dancing just a couple of years later. Our bodies are insane.
As a Human, I found this fascinating. Professor Xen is a great teacher.
Good teachers are the same everywhere. We love good students with good questions.
"in Layman's terms, how does out nervous system work?"
Ouchie make sparky tubes do brain juice
Not controlling our hearts directly isn't entirely true. Not all of us can do it. But we can be trained to do it.
I thought one of the notes would be about how humans sleep since this story makes me think these aliens cant do that.
Yeah, I didn't think of that... I mean, if your vital organs are consciously operated, then you can't afford to go unconscious for any reason, or you just die.
Or how they brain can still do task while the body is sleeping
I love the idea that humans have, to use the D&D term, Minmaxed ourselves into a niche so specifically powerful that it breaks the game.
The part about being able to ignore fractures is so true, recently fractured my fib in 2 places, walked almost 200m on it before I got to where someone picked me up to take me home, waited till next day to go hospital, was not fun and deffo did more damage to it cos of walking on it
I want to see dr Xen's face when humans correct the error, and explain our heart muscles are just a better version of our skeletal muscle. What do you mean your skeletal muscle is out of your control, Xen will say.
Being able to turn off pain would be nice!
Is nobody talking about 6:28?
I knew they were going to mention the fact that large chunks of our nervous system can simply ignore system shock in other large chunks of our nervous system. It's a marvelously frugal way to deal with high stress enviroments, I would honestly be shocked if only life on Earth evolved this trait.
Even if we assume that other inhabited planets are more tame than ours, evolution favors cheap tricks.
6:28 attack of the killer fishy
hahaha, i completely missed this.
Id love to see on of the beings with the nervous system ability become a combat medic and gets teamed up with a human. They eventually end up in a situation where the human is so badly hurt but needs to stay alive that the combat medic “hooks up to” the nervous system in an attempt to “cut off” parts of the body that are hurting, but come to find out, everything hurts. Every scar, ache, smallest of cancer cells that our white blood cells didn’t kill yet, allergy, to even feeling the after effects of long term use adrenaline to the heart does. This ultimately sends the CM into shock as their own nervous system as a whole gets shut down, rewired, and rebooted.
6:23 fish jumpscare
I peed my pants
OMG... @Agro Squirrel Narrates what an amazing story!! I broke my toe 3 years ago, "accidentally" kicking my husband. 😆 😆 He didn't even have a bruise or a mark... 😵💫😵💫😵💫 Then hobbled all the way to the ER... ET student, yes PLUG-IN your nervous system...
Oof comment right here... Remind me not to meet this one.
There's another story about a human going to an alien doctor just to get a stamp on his medical file, the doctor tries to give him a full checkup and when "interfacing" with him he gets "slapped around" by the amount of pain and nerves etc.
Yep I knew a guy years ago who’s arm started swelling and it was itchy all the time. Dr sent him to hospital for X-rays it turned out he had broken it in 2 places a few weeks earlier. They had to re break it and set it correctly
I love your narrations
glad you enjoy
Yes, we always have a few, or more, exception for pretty much every rules and trends...
I realy like those stories showing aliens baffled by human anatomy :D
Well actshuuuly
Heart muscle is its own thing on the whole, its kinda cool really as it controls its own electrical current and speed
Greetings, Mentlegent!
For the Rhyhtm that is Algo
6:33 Fish says hello!
Humans are Frankeinstein's Monsters, apprently
For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice!
Actually there is a word for the difference
Inverse kinematics
At 6:30 look at the tank.
You can thank me later.
6:29 GIANT FISH lol
FTA! And may we always dodge threats we do not see, gloriously.
"[...] they have developed many methods of determining the source of their ailments."
And due to it's cost most chose to abandon it. Or blame it on other planets.
Nah mate that's just America
This is a cool concept regarding differences between us and alien species
Dang your videos are so Cool i always want more
glad you enjoyed
@@AgroSquerril i didnt just enjoy im addicted now 😭😍
@@Bomber-Trebor I hear that running videos on loop helps with that.... **whistles**
@@AgroSquerril You made way to much For that
about the heart beings smooth muscle ... If i remember smooth muscle and other 2 type whose name IDK in English are more about how the muscle is constructed
The alien didn't get it exactly right
Smooth, skeletal and cardiac, muscle are the three types of muscle
@@jameson1239 ye we have way different names for them in Croatian
we call them smooth, horizontally striped and cardiac/heart muscles
@@PeoplecallmeLucifer interesting though it makes sense as the skeletal muscles are striated
"that they work by themselves" isn't why they're called smooth muscles
Then there's the state of shock, and the 'blackout' feature.
Educational *and* entertaining all at once.
I love that. ^^
Distributive intelligence, octopi being the masters.
Being able to shrug off pain through Adrenaline would scare the shit out of these guys 😂😂
Excellent story !!!!😊
just me or did anyone else feel really squirmish during this video? then when I realized I was squirming, I squirmed even more. cause I was like. wow, no thought only movement, how could dis be?
Yeah me too
And besides the autonomous nervous system, let's not forget the symbiotic relationship with the bacteria in our guts needed to process the food we eat.
What a wholesome instructor!
Oh, those students are going to have a hell of a time meeting their first diabetic with low blood sugar who wants to fight everyone and everything near him. You wouldn't believe how strong those fuckers can be. Had a friend pick up a whole goddamn couch and toss it once. Not effortlessly, mind you, but with much more strength than I thought he had.
an enjoyable and informative lecture professor
The comment section turned ino a biology class x)
I once broke one of my metacarpal bones in a bout of human stupidity. ended up doing nothing about it until I went to the GP for an entrely unrelated matter and the doctor asked why the outer edge of my palm was swollen and bruised.
not one of my prodest moments 😂
This fish interupted me
6:29
That was great, thank you.
Just as i was listening to the part about pain, i grabbed a hot pan without my mits 😅
If I remember correctly, the entire digestion process is actually _exxcruciatingly_ painful. But our body just tells us to ignore it.
So the aliens run on Gcode... every little motion explicitly called for.
Humans then, are..... microsoft excel. Macros and preconfigured formulas to do anything, lots of background processing automated, and in the end all you can really do is plug numbers (thoughts) into boxes (motion systems) and hope for the best. Best not crash, autosave isn't turned on....
Cool one
neat
I'm surprised it didn't mention the 'fight or flight' response, as that would be something any medical practitioner dealing with humans would have to watch out for...
Or freeze....
Fight, freeze or flight. Freeze is the worst of them, and can most often than not make you killed.
Sadly it's also the default one for people who have never be around dander or real violence. The "too civilized" 😢
Very good story. Really enjoyed it. Thanks!
That whole thing about the xenos being told they should not interface with human nerves directly got me thinking. Is it because it is always active, a cascade of noise, directions, and orders? The human nerves are constantly active, and will act entirely on there own. So interfacing may result in the xeno having something akin to sensory overload, or seizures. Basically, the xeno is a computer, while ours is a screaming engine.
If they feel like we feel once connected it's be like watching somebody get kicked in the balls. Times a million.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 fair enough.
5:10 its much more efficient that way you don't have devote brain power to everyday tasks
Fight love teachables, oh a nice fire n whisky doesnt hurt , talking bout….
Bless the Squerril
Bless the Author
I'd like to see these students' reaction to a human gymnastics or martial arts routine.
Good job
6:30 No, fish, don't make out with the camera. I am trying to listen to the lecture.
A lot about us is automated. Heart beat, pain sensation, digestion, waste disposal. Breathing is a "learned" repetitive behavior, technically our first habit. The rest of our learned behaviors make up what we recognize as our conscious mind, and that mind is only responsible for the day to day problem solving and is frequently given orders through encouragement by the rest of the mind via processes we don't control. That the aliens lack "instinct" would make them very very alien to us. "So... you things don't get horny or feel hunger pangs? Huh."
They might have some, simpler instincts, but we get the lions share because... well, we used to get hunted by lions
Part 2: the class learns about a human named David Goggins
Wow, really cool stuff this one!
4:45 what is the orange fish thinks it is doing?
I tough the Premiere was right now. I just wasted hours staying up to catch this just to learn I got the time wrong.
Thank you for the video.
It’s funny to think our bodies are not really us, we are nervous systems, and our bodies are basically life support meant to keep the brain alive