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[Scoops Novel]

That's a question philosophers have been trying to answer for millenia. I don't think you're gonna find answers here.

Put it like this, a guy who fulfills his potential is a wizard - he can do what you didn't know was possible. What does that make the brain?

[None]

I dunno, human? I don't think we'd ask if a whale or a ferret is fulfilling its potential.

[martinuzz]

more like underpowered but fairly good at overestimating itself

Flawed, underpowered, and incomplete.

[Egan_BW]

How can a machine not produced by any intent be incomplete or complete? It is what it is, for now.

[martinuzz]

The brain is incomplete in that it will never be able to fully comprehend itself. Liberal interpretation of Gödel there.

[dragdeler]

I insist, the hardware is undewhelmed, the software bombed with bloatware... You should know Martinuzz

[Kagus]

The hardware is a bowl of pudding that hallucinates meaning in the universe

[EuchreJack]

I've lately been lamenting that our brains and bodies were designed for simpler lives of hunting and gathering, yet are forced into an almost alien existence where paper and computer leads to food and shelter.

[Egan_BW]

The brain is incomplete in that it will never be able to fully comprehend itself. Liberal interpretation of Gödel there.

Not unless we get Kos, or some say Kosm, to plant eyes inside our skulls.

[Yellow Pixel]

The brain is the body regulator, the conveyor of pulses, the emotional center, and the interpreter of the nervous influx coming from the senses. It's firstly a functional device, but it also gives access to a near-infinite imagination and I think it can allow us to understand the world as it truly is, even if that understanding is originally subjective and strongly subject to error (sometimes hallucinations).

[Il Palazzo]

Q: I was away. Why was there the most online people ever in May this year?

[delphonso]

Either Bay12 got skimmed by several bots at the same time, or something related to the steam release, maybe?

There's a post on the day after, the 20th in the Steam thread, but here's the earliest before that, which I do remember getting some attention online. 4400 people, though...that's uniquely high.

[Scoops Novel]

What counters intelligence other then dumbness? Oh, fun.

[EuchreJack]

Other intelligence, obviously.

[hector13]

I would put that ignorance rather than dumbness counters intelligence.