Bio-Hazard

If you can think it, it can be done. The downside is, people will stop others from doing it, so you have to get the technology developed yourself.

options: 1. Mix borax with sugar. 2. Make some NI3 and mix it with glucose. either way: 1. it will die from poison. 2. it will explode

Google is mainly composed by people with a Ph.D. Wikipedia is some dude off the block with a high IQ. However, wikipedia is not suppose to be taken as a credible source, but it is an insightful one. I'm a wikipedian, I know of this. Google is a lot better than things I've used in the past, MSN search for example. I still hate yahoo search to this day; Ugly layout. Wikipedia is interesting though, because if someone is famous, popular, or real, you could wikipedia the name of someone from a googled article such as a professor and see if something pulls up on wikipedia as to who that person is, sometimes varifying who they are.

Psychology is where you work out the psychological behavior of a person without using pills. Psychiatry is where you work on the psychobiological (mind and body) behavior of a body by counseling.. and pills. Psychobiology meaning they have a chemical imbalance in their head, and were born with it.. or they had some accident and it happened to change their brain's structure. Of course some psychologysts have a post-med(?) degree and can give out pills. I'd say go to a psychologist and get evaluated by them if you have a chemical imbalance, then if you have one go to a psychiatrist.

So today I got my self out in the blinding, burning sun and went to Barnes and nobles to read some stuff. I read Scientific American and Scientific American Mind today and read up on two interesting articles: One about BC-I another about Smart Drugs What I’m getting at here is the technological and pharmaceutical revolutions that are going to be active within this century. As people become more intelligent, they are going to want to become intelligent at a faster pace. Smart drugs, also known as nootropes, can supposedly bring up the cognitive thinking abilities of people. How well they work... I don't know. In scientific mind they presented some basic drugs such as Ritalin and donepezil that are said to enhance cognitive ability. I remember being on Ritalin: It made me quiet, antisocial, and freaking smart;scary smart. However, is it true that such things as Ritalin really make the patient have greater cognitive ability? What is greater: The ability to stay calm, or the ability to concentrate and absorb information better? I'm guessing that if you can encode information better and retain it that would allow someone to be more intelligent. So now there is nootropric drugs abound in the world that aren't controlled by the FDA and are OTC, people are having a biomedical ethics issue with this. I see no issue, it's called "bettering yourself." Not only will this become a problem but the idea of BC-I. I'm not trying to have a bioethical discussion here; I’m just stating that there will most likely be a revolution. As I'm discovering it, I'm noticing why people are going into biochemistry and not neuroscience. The fields are split and the people have their own views, biochemistry on one hand already has advancement for learning enhancement before BC-I does, so biochemists are taking over the current field of excelled learning. Seemingly we will use drugs before we use computer hardware for controlling excelled learning to an exponential degree. The question I’m posing here is, “What OTC drugs really do work?” There are so many scam artists out there and people who haven’t been approved by certain agencies that no one can tell what a true smart drug is. If these smart drugs really do work, then the government will have to step in to stop people from buying materials. Such has happened with the psuedophedrine market, however that was about illicit drug use that can kill you. However, I’m sure the government would be willing to stop anyone from getting too smart and taking them over. I’m researching many drugs and it seems thing like (Bacopa monnieri) have an ability to enhance cognitive abilities. How much do you know about smart drugs and which ones work? How do they work? Why do they work that way? While I have this thread out there, I'd like to ask another question which will make this more neuroscientific. Why is it that when people have enhanced cognitive ability that they are able to feel more pain? Sure, pain is in the head.. but why do they feel more pain? Are somehow the electrical pathways and currents enhanced thus receptors are weak and more prone to surges? What makes this happen?

It exists. Some people don't have it because they are stupid, some just can't control themselves and sit still and go think about something else and daydream.. Not keeping train of thought no matter how hard you want to = ADD

We should just legalize it all together. However, enforce that any drug that can become addictive be thrown away. Alcohol.. eh.. it's for socializing.. I can't see straight up junkies who have their eyes rolling into the back of their head socializing.. So don't enforce heroine. I think we should ban cigarettes and replace them with weed minus the nicotine.

Me want a t-shirt with me user name and logo on it from SFN. Perhaps me go make my own at cafepress?

It's an elitest system. I've seen it for many years. I understand its benefits.. I also understand it can bring people down negatively. I would be all for it if you were not able to give a person negative points, or else bring them down below 0. Having a negative status is the same as giving someone a warning without ban. I just don't approve of it anymore.

Ah. Yeah, I remember that in Gattaca now. Well about the gene development thing.. Recently I was asking about chromosome 6 and a gene inside of it.. nevermind this.. eh why not.. Supposedly there is a gene inside that has to do with intelligence. I understand the nature vs. nurture debate, however there probably is a biological predisposition that comes to intelligence, just as people who are mentally handicapped have a predisposition. Many people theorize that the human brain has an infinite learning ability and storage capacity.. yet there must be some type of capacity.. i mean.. if electrons have a weight.. and the brain has a weight... well.. you know what I'm getting at.. However, there would probably be a long run problem based on choosing gender such as more men than women.. say there are five men for every 1 woman on earth.. that's goona create problems. It already does, anyways.

I type something in the search box area in google and then I search for something. Afterwards it corrects me on my spelling, and then I try highlighting the text using keyboard commands.. ctrl+shift+left key left key and then the text disappears.. i was able to push control c.. wtf? why is this happening? bug?

Gattaca was more about natural selection... not male vs. female.. but... male vs. female is up for throw if you want to..

I only call something immoral when it is against will. However, it is also immoral when it is irreversible. I think more immoral when it is irreversible. In today's society humans can have a sex change at an older age. Unfortunately, they can't exactly bring back the dead after an abortion...now martin has a hillbilly accent.. good job martin..

I think I understand... and my input on this would be.. Reliability = 99.9% validity (we could always be wrong, though) As long as we can apply it, we have something going for us, we are on the brink.

Umm.. origami? I can fold a piece of paper more than 8 times.. it depends on how you fold it.. hmm. damn i got seven..i'm guessing keeping it rectangular you guys mean.

Only if someone decides to create a robot to take over the world.. I'm still working on my idea of robotic badgers to take over the world with the gastrobotics to eat mushrooms and scout out snakes to put in peoples' beds. Sounds familiar?

However, don't sociopaths tend to steal anothers personality? Somewhat like conforming.. but noticing that the best way to conform is steal another's personality..

Check out the sapir-whorf hypothesis. Culture and language come hand to hand to make our world. I think for those who can see, images would be their language. However, for those who are blind.. telepathy would be an interesting thing.. their communication with visual things wouldn't be so possible and symbols wouldn't be readily usable to an extent, perhaps if they built a cognitive map of something such as brail they could bust out information.. but it would still be an image.. verbal language would probably dominate either way, for a picture says a 1000 words. Well.. natural born telepathics.. but the idea behind telepathy is that you can read minds.. so those who can see mingling with the blind would provide imagery for them.. Images and a mix of words would combine. Since we can not simply present images in our languages, description in discussion is valued.

I understand the situation behind the copycat personality murders, I'm not looking for information on that. Seems we have tons of psychiatric things on google, but this one is a bit complicated to track down. I believe there was also a more severe noticable case in the move Don't Say a Word (2001). -movie spoiler- [hide]in the movie the girl has been in an institution for many years and takes on the drug and cutter personalities of the people around her.[/hide] I'm sure this could be a real psychiatric case in some people. Even some of the most absurd things when people think their body part is malfunctioning when it is perfectly fine can be called a disorder. So there must be some type of name for this disorder.

I don't know the medical psychological term for "copycat personality." From what I understand, copycat personality is when someone basically steals who you are and begins to transform themselves into the way you speak, the way you dress, the way you behave, and a multitude of other things. Does anyone have information on this psychological behavior?

It was in my psychology text for class. I raised an eye and become ultra curious in the validity of their statement about chromosome 6. However, it seems from this thread that it was utter crap and should have been omitted from the book.

a chromosome is DNA which holds genetic information. I kinda questioned this thing myself.. i think it was just a fancy name for something that has to do with genetics.. i don't understand it, that's why I asked about it. -edit- i read more information.. seems that it has more to do with immunology.. but what does it have to do with intelligence?

I was reading some psychological literature when I came across something that was discovered recently: Chromosome 6. Supposedly this chromosome has an influence on a human's intelligence. Do other creatures on Earth have this chromosome? What is the story behind this particular chromosome?

I've thought about this.. Someone could know what I'm thinking at all times.. but if I don't know everything.. that means I won't know what happens when I mix these two random chemicals... Boom! I kill both you and me. It has more good for them than me though. I like to take things to the extreme when they are a problem.. that way they can try and be prevented from reaching that state.