Also, there is no way to measure what the "perfect" human brain could hold. "Experts" claim we use, what....I think the last I heard was one tenth of one percent of our brains? And yet we have some SMART humans from just that minor fraction of brain usage.
This is a myth. http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percent.asp
Another interesting concept to think about is that it has been often said that we could never learn all there was to know about God...but nothing was ever said about our inability to continue learning. Therefore, the capacity to store information in a perfect brain could potentially be virtually limitless.
Says who? What is this mythical 'perfect brain' exactly? Your brain is already a marvelous machine with billions of neurons and trillions of connections.
Even still, there are a finite number of neurons in our brain - as there would be with any sized brain. The brain evolved with only the capacity required to function, survive, and reproduce within our lifespans. Capabilities and storage beyond that would never be utilized, and therefore a waste (and just as evolution would predict.. that is a prefect description of our mental capabilities).
Only so many neurons can fit within a physical space, and that translates to a finite capacity for storing information. The human brain is currently estimated to have storage capacity somewhere in the terabytes. This used to sound like an impossibly large amount of storage - but not so much in 2010. I currently own two 1 terabyte hard drives. In 20 years, no doubt I will own a couple petabyte hard drives (that's 1000 terrabytes each). Even if your brain were only working at 10%, the human-developed magnetic hard drive will likely surpass the mythical 'perfect' brain in capacity by a factor of almost 100 within 20 years.
That is hardly 'limitless'. The website Wikipedia requires about 5 terabytes of space uncompressed, yet somehow I doubt you would find it easy to memorize even 0.001% of that with your '10% capacity' brain.
Think back to 31 minutes, 24 seconds into the movie The Dark Knight... or any movie for that matter. Odds are, you cannot recall exactly what was being said or going on at that precise time. Multiply these two numbers in your head: 7022852 x 4493283 within 1 second. You can't. A neural network is great at doing some things, and absolutely horrible at doing others. By design, a neural network 'simplifies' input for storage. It 'compresses' information using a form of 'lossy compression'. When it doesn't do that correctly (which occationally happens in mentally handicapped individuals) undesirable performance results. It is a pattern matching engine, and as such is not and cannot be suited for all tasks.
The point is - the brain, no matter how 'perfect' or how big - will always be limited. It is by the organization of multiple individuals, scientific reasoning, and accumulated human knowledge through which humans have become gods. By standing on the sholders of technology we can dispense ourselves of the knowledge of 4000 years worth of bushcraft survival skills and instead put our minds toward information suitable to our current environment.
That is what makes us gods - our ability collectively to grow in knowlege and create framework systems by which to support ourselves for greater technical achievements - not the limited capabilities of our human brains.
Also, just to argue some semantics....Jesus wasn't actually a "normal" human. Neither was Adam. Their direct source was supposedly God. Yes, there had to be human for human sacrifice, but when you think of the paternity of both humans, it was from a heavenly, supernatural source. Jesus was born by a woman, which qualified him as human for the ransom, but the seed was from God himself - as was Adam's "seed" or birth source.
By that reasoning, if I were to create a half-man, half-mouse creature... that thing would be a mouse - and all other mice could be measured in performance against it.
Absolutely not. As soon as something is 'super-human' in power or abilities - it is by definition not human anymore.
I can see where the shock and confusion would come from, though. It's easy to get caught up in the questioning of certain details to the point of maybe not realizing others.
It can also be confusing trying to employ logical thinking in conjunction with bible apologetics.
- Lime
