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By: jmlvu

jmlvu — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:09:10 +0000

Expect lawyers to start requesting this genetic test on all witnesses.

By: eldras

eldras — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:09:11 +0000

I’m uneasy about mental illness-schizophrenia – being catalogued as brain dysfunction when it is not physically identified and it is so widespread by degrees in the population.

So widespread that it must have survival value.

If you think people can be easily influenced because they are told what happens and accept it, try getting money out of them after telling them they have spent all theirs!

The brains more complex still that we have come near mapping, and I doubt exaflop ( 10/\18) computers will be up to modelling anything but a top level description of it.

There are massive survival advantages in being influencable eg as the wisdom of crowds.

Few projects could get built if people couldn’t get behind an idea or leader or wouldn’t all respond to the same, identical stimuli.

Maslow’s pyramid of needs classifies man’s hierarchy of prompts.

Much must be cultural: opera for instance isn’t like by the untrained ear in most cases new to it.

But I’m ‘doing’ altered states of consciousness at present and want to posit the brain is doing divine things.
Still an interesting bash from Cambridge. Thanks.

By: RobinSongs

RobinSongs — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:43:02 +0000

Laurel: “What are you getting so mushy about?”
Hardy: “Well, I’m glad you asked me. I couldn’t keep it from you much longer.”
Laurel: “What?”
Hardy: “Life’s biggest moment. I’m going to be married!”
Laurel (amazed): “You don’t believe me!”
Hardy: “Yes I don’t beli—Whattya mean ‘You don’t believe me?!’ Didn’t I just tell you I was going to be married?”
Laurel: “Who to?”
Hardy: “Why, a woman of course! Did you ever hear of anybody marrying a man?”
Laurel: “Sure.”
Hardy: “Who?”
Laurel: “My sister.”
Hardy: “This is no time for levity!”
- Laurel pauses, looks confused -
Hardy (emotionally): “She’s the sweetest girl you ever saw. Well read, traveled all over the world, loved by everyone. And she’s mine, all mine!” – sighs- “Well, what do you think of her?”
- Laurel pauses -
Laurel: “What does levity mean?”
Hardy (irritated): “Levity is a…uh…synonamum! You know what a synonamum is?”
- Laurel gives a blank look –
Hardy: “Synonamum is uh….cinnamon….”
- Knock on the door. Laurel picks up the phone -
Laurel: “Hello?”
Hardy: “What are you doing?”
Laurel: “Somebody knocking on the phone…”
Hardy (pointing to the phone): “That’s levity!”
- Laurel pauses –
Laurel (speaking into phone): “Hello, Mr. Levity?…”

The above is from Beau Hunks (1931). Actually, it could be part of a Turing test.

By: Ralph Dratman

Ralph Dratman — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:28:53 +0000

My what’s-its-name sulcus must be off sulking, but where, I have no clue. Now, what were we talking about? Oh, my memory is excellent — why?