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Question

Why is it that our brain cant predict what we will think of.

Example: how is it that a long time ago, people would never imagined a car. A car would not be on record in their brains, meaning no picture or example or explanation of what it is. but yet eventually, people invented the car. I mean there is something probably 80 years from now that will be avaliable, but we dont know what it is, but how do we get from not knowing anything about it, to creating it.

Answer 1

If you can get your hands on it, there was a documentary called Connections (James Burke). There was also a companion book.

The car was one of the things he traced out.

As some others have hinted, it wasn't that the car was invented whole cloth, one day, by one guy.

There were a lot of pieces parts that had to be understood and invented to make such a complex thing.

Some of the "connections" -- if fact, a lot of them -- that Burke traced out in that show were quite quirky.

(An example that springs to mind is how early computers used an idea from the textile industry -- punch cards.)

With cars, one piece is the spark plug. That came about from people studying "bad air" which used to be blamed for malaria (which means 'bad air'). There was fetid air above peat bogs, and someone created a device to capture air and test it for goodness.

(A sort of glass gun-looking thing, with a widget to make a spark.)

Although Leonardo Da Vinci envisioned the helicopter centuries before we had the technology t actually build one, usually it's not until the parts are there that someone comes along and realizes how they can be used -- often for a completely different pupose than the original purpose.

Dunno if PBS will sell it (they didn't last time I looked for it), or if Netflix has it, but it was REALLY interesting.

Answer 2

Not everybody is capable of creating or inventing. It takes an inquisitive mind to invent things. You assume that a long time ago before the invention of a car that nobody had it in his or her mind to create such a thing then whammy… someone did. I would imagine that many people with inquisitive minds were asking questions like how can we get from one place to another faster, hence the horse and carriage. One question led to another and with each question came answers; answers that led to something better and faster than the last. We eventually went from the wheel to the vehicle. This could not have happened if it weren’t for people with inquisitive minds.

Answer 3

Actually, all of this has happened really slow through the years. I mean, when we road the horse & buggy, of course Volkswagons weren't in the back of our minds. It's something that man has envented along the way. Like starting fires with rocks & sticks. We learn as we go along, evolution. I figure long after I'm dead, there will probably come a time when all a person has to do to travel from Los Angelos to Italy, is stick their finger in a slot that states that is where they want to go, and Poof! Just like that, they'll be there! I just wonder how many people will be floating out in space before they have that procedure perfected!

Answer 4

People are naturally curious and we have imaginations and some people like Thomas Jefferson, Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, they were the doers also. There are people born daily that have the capacity to do great and amazing things. Most of the successful ones or the inventors of our times past were not the wealthy or the up standing citizens but were probably considered odd or different but they had the desire and the curiosity to do what they did and the drive and the smarts. so, I don't know but I sure am glad they were born. Aren't you?

Answer 5

A person most likely(such as the Ford dude) thought of it when he came along. People who became before him would not have as complex minds of him, or maybe they did have it in their mind but didn't have the smarts, or courage to say it. A person may think people will laugh at their ideas. Walt Disney, people laughed t Mickey Mouse, now look, Mickey Mouse is huge. I bet a person right now is thinking of how we can live on mars, floating cars, and how to make them, but is afraid to make them, or broadcast his or her idea because of laughter toward them. A person self-esteem can me very odd, week, strong, etc. We don't know what goes in a person's mind, so no one will now if other people are thinking of how to make cars when they were not in existence, or the people who are thinking of floating cars this present day. Or people would be working on it right this moment, and not telling anyone. Or are ordered NOT to tell.

Answer 6

By finding out new facts and/or putting together old facts in new ways.

Start simpler. Think about how alcoholic drinks are invented:

Planning: My cousin likes sweet drinks and wants something new. This is sweet, and that is sweet, and nobody put them together that I know of. I'll go buy them. (Then if it works, it stays around.)

Improvising: Well, this is all I have, but it seems like it could work to put them together. (Circumstances are partly why I thought of it.)

Random Brain Spasms: *gets random impulse to put these weird things together out of nowhere*

Chance: Oops, I screwed up and used the wrong bottle! But hey, this is good!

Answer 7

properly, technologies has a tendency to bootstrap itself alongside----one progression pushes yet another. using your vehicle analogy....this is no longer that significant a bounce: imagine someone wishing for "a small locomotive prepare that would want to flow on the roads, rather of rails". once you come back right down to it, this is only a fancy replace of a difficulty-free wagon. yet questioning way, way, some time previous----it is recommendations-boggling----the position the heck did some truly primitive layout engineer arise with the **wheel and axle**? Or the concept of the lever? large question you requested.

Answer 8

it is simple, in order for a new technology to come into being, there must be progress in other fields of science. we just have not had the ability to put all of it together in one persons mind. there are and always will be an endless amount of posibilities. the human mind will never run fast enough to get all of these posibilities thought through to the fullest extent.

Answer 9

You know, i'm not sure. All I can offer, is that with thorough research investigating inventions, and the inventors that fostered them, you'll find that in majority, they were concieved by accident. Not by some brilliant moment of clarity.

Answer 10

That is what makes the human brain so complicated and amaising. I hope you can find a solid answer.