How come our heads don't get any heavier when we learn😂😂😂?

[Azariah]

hmmmmmmmmmm?

 

[Colster]

Because the more we learn, the more we forget. I might be able to understand astrophysics, but watch my trying to find my glasses, keys, or phone that's in my hand.

 

[Finished]

Well they may. Our brains use a ton of oxygen requiring a lot of blood flow. At certain times the blood flow increases make our heads heavier:

https://bebrainfit.com/increase-blood-flow-brain/

 

[Colster]

True fact, taxi drivers do develop a larger hypocampus, and their brains do become heavier. Although the mirror opposite occurs to Ubber drivers.

 

[Finished]

True fact, taxi drivers do develop a larger hypocampus, and their brains do become heavier. Although the mirror opposite occurs to Ubber drivers.

Just think of all the brain loss when everybody is riding in self-driving cars.

 

[CenotaphGirl]

My head is bloody heavy lol oh wait... must be all these hair extensions, it's deffo not knowledge

 

[TheRealCallie]

You aren't putting books into your head, you're putting thoughts, which are kind of like air. It weighs nothing.

 

[user 135671]

You aren't putting books into your head, you're putting thoughts, which are kind of like air. It weighs nothing.

Why doesn't my phone get heavier after I download stuff?

 

[TheRealCallie]

Why doesn't my phone get heavier after I download stuff?

It does, but as you are always lifting it up and down, you're just getting stronger, so you don't notice it.

 

[ewomack]

There is an entire thesis here (no, don't worry, I won't write it) on the materiality or immateriality of knowledge, which would have implications for pneumatology, consciousness, physics, eternalism, and so many other fields to begin to even list. Because if our heads did get heavier when we learned, and we could prove this came from added knowledge, then knowledge must have a material aspect to it and potentially a life outside of the brain. Out goes any hope of Cartesian dualism (though many would argue that it has none anyway). That would be a fun pseudo-thesis to write. But I won't, because I wouldn't want to weigh my head enough to prove the thesis. Data is so inconvenient sometimes.

 

[NoxApex(N/A)]

Because the saying is "heavy is the head who wears the crown," not "heavy is the head who does the thinking for who wears the crown."