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just recieved this and thought i'd share it here: this is great for any evolution conscious scientists - evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, etc i'd love to go myself, but lack the funds of the caliber this requires, so maybe we could start a donation fund or something? lol, just kiddin'.

tell me you're kiddin'. ?!? you know, clouds, when one stares at them long enough also start to take shape and look like objects, faces, etc. how did you come by with this evidence(pictures) or interpretations is it based on valid scientific evidence, studies, etc or is it of a similar anology of my clouds example? i need dates, times, names, credentials, etc.

what, you mean with with idiocy such as this: yep, it's a problem.

ooh, another person with an interest in paleontology. suddenly i don't feel so alone anymore rofl, interesting. but back to the topic at hand, a Humanzee would most likely be highly unethical.

precisely. it is created, used and propagated by man(kind) for man(kind). no other animal have it or need it.

that's just plain filthy

bleh. it is a negotiable state and open for interpretation. 'love' means nothing on an evolutionary basis as an organisms 'fitness' does not depend or need love. another thing, don't confuse 'love' with 'dependency' oh yeah, Love is Expencive

pretty much. Neurons - Electricity Glia cell - Chemically

i assume that since obviously both people undergone the same test or series of tests - couldn't have been possible otherwise since then the conclusions would have been biased and flawed - but an obese person's body and not just the brain does double or triple the amount of work than that of a 'normal'. but anybody here with further insight into neuropsychology can probably give you a much more detailed explanation.

heh, why not

Our brain is still very much like a pandora's box. There are a lot of things about it that we simply don't know yet. Also, abiding by the codes and restrains of ethics, some of the experiments to probe deeper or further may not be possible, etc. Anyway, that was some general disclaimers, more or less, but now to some of your questions: Q:To make the 10% thing clearer, how much of the brain does the average person use when trying to solve a problem ? Is there a limit as to how much of the brain resources they can devote to one specific concept, and do people reach this limit ? A: the brain doesn't work like that, it's not more or less a solid organ that when stimulated, certain parts will do one thing, while certain other parts will do something else, etc. not like for an example a Heart or Liver where the entire organ is more or less performing the same function. Brain is a vast collection of Neurons, Glia cells, roughly speaking. So as opposed to more or less of a Solid organ(heart) where almost all of it does 1 job, neurons function at individual levels. On top of that, brain is subdivided into several major parts(Frontal, Temporal, Parietal, Occipital lobes, etc, so depending on what is called for, you get activities in various parts of the brain) so when your brain is stimulated, say by you watching a movie, some neurons fire and some don't. Although some may certaintly use more of the brain then others - or a better way of saying this is perhaps: it is possible that the amount of brain activity people have even when grouped together performing the same task or test may vary. Then there are the glia cells that do their function to support and nourish and even communicate to and for neurons. Many of these functions are performed in conjunction to others. Such as when you see an object say a picture, it has to be sent from your eyes to the brain, the picture has to be reversed or focused more or less because when you look at an object, your visual system register the object upside down, etc. Hope this shows you how many things have to work together to accomplish what seems a very simple task. There are certain parts that tend to be active more in some specific areas then others, but for most such as language, learning, long term memory the process is far more complicated than being centered to only 1 specific area. Q:Is there a limit as to how much of the brain resources they can devote to one specific concept, and do people reach this limit ? I'd say the 1st part of this is Undetermined and 2nd part is no. Brain, once again, being extremely sophisticated organ does not seem to have a limit and it has an ability to evolve. A few examples: If someone has a brain damage or lesion on a certain region, with time, patience and training, that person may have his brain somewhat 'reprogrammed' to make up for the thing that he is currently lacking so a function whose performance was mainly or kind of concentrated more in one area is now done by another. Neurons can re-grow - this is where Glia cells help. Another example is they took a frog, and surgically set it's eyes upside down. So naturally the frog was seeing everything upside down and had an extremely hard time with this condition when they reversed the eyes, things went back to normal. They couldn't really take out a persons eyeballs and set them upside down(due to ethics ) so they did the next best thing: they had this person wear eye goggles that does the same thing. and he was wearing it for a week or so(don't remember the exact time) well, at first he had problems adjusting, just like the frog, but as the experiment went on, this condition became 'Norm'. He was able to adjust to have his vision flipped upside down. At the end of the experiment when the took the goggles off, he again had problems because he was now used to seeing things that to your or me would be upside down and after a slightly longer then normal sleep cycle ( I believe he slept for about 16 hours or so), his brain readjusted once again. this time to what it should be to you, me, anybody. See what I mean about the (human)brain being a super sophisticated piece of biological machinery? That's why there's still a tremendous amount of things that are simply not known to us at this time, but psychologists and neurosciences are advancing our knowledge a bit at a time. So for some questions there are no answers yet. Q:As another topic, do you believe that the brain has its limits ? A:No, I don't think there is, assuming that you're working with a 'healthy' brain. Q:In other words, are there certain concepts that we as humans cannot possibly understand due to the physical limitations of the brain ? A:This is harder to answer than your other questions. Perhaps someone can assist me here, but until then, I say 'Maybe'. To better asnwer a question such as "do we really use 10% of our brain....." it is helpful to look at some images or better yet a video (if you can get a hold of one) of the PET scan. but this is how it looks like: it'll all or most appear to be very dark but as the brain is stimulated, more and more neutrons/glia start communicating. colors would start at very cold tones then move to warm and back to cold. hence my earlier analogy: it'll light up like a christmas tree and when the stimulus is removed it goes back to it's darker colors. http://gamma.wustl.edu/pb004pb211.gif http://www.pnl.gov/energyscience/03-01/PET-obesity.jpg

like i said, it's quite archaic. yeah and the only way to get in there is to boot the pc with a boot disk. while i appreciate the computers 101 lessons, it's one i've leaned a decade ago or so. - not trying to be rude or sarcastic my point was, if he is trying to program for a Dos-like system, why not use something more modern such as Linux or Unix - someting that may actually be more beneficial, that is?

rofl, sorry, i misunderstood his inquiry. i though he said ' except for a mac.....

in a nutshell: .ini's are configuration info. there's 2 types. win.ini and sys.ini basically they tell how to interlace hardware with software or vice-versa. these files are only found in win95-me. in nt3.0-xp, registry handles this task and .ini's are useful in dos .dll - dynamic link libriary these work with i/o's and memory management and irq's or interrupts. .sys - system file - aka device driver or dev_conf info .bat - batch files - these provide a convinient little scrypt that does something automatically can i ask you a question, why are you programing in dos? the winNT-XP don't even have one, so what's the purpose of programing on an archaic system?

what were you expecting to hear/read? talking about the whole genome is hard to imagine as we have no idea what most of it is or does. such questions as why is our genome composed almost entirely of junk dna?(about 95% +/- of the genome is junk) or what are all of the functional genes? would be hard to answer as there are no concrete answers yet nor will be for at least a while. but if you had a specific question about the genome then it may be possible. for an example: What is an oncogene?

bleh and i though this was something biological this can also be extended to: only fools use WindowZ

The 'I don't see why not' is not very reassuring Yes you can. I can't readily recall the names of conditions(but names aren't really relevant at this point since we're not trying to diagnose a condition merely establish some 'base' facts), but you can have an offspring with any of the following chromosomal distributions: Let's take the sex chromosomes for example: XX / XY - Normal X_ /Y_ -Abnormal XXX / XXY - Abnormal XXXX/ XXXY / XXYY - Abnormal

yes, i'm very well aware of that. are you aiming this at me, if so, then you're just contradicting yourself from your original reply #2

yep, this will give you a condition what is called mental retardation or a more politically correct version: the Down syndrome but there's a number of others you can get, depending which chromosome or alleles you've got an extra copy of. you get 2 from one parent, plus one more from the other parent............ and no, they won't cancel each other out, you'll just have extra things that you shouldn't, and for a very good reason too. the thing is, there are a handful of such occurances that can happen and the embryo will develop into a fetus, fetus into a child, etc. and this can happen on very few, select chromosomes where you can get more than 1 chromosome. granted, should an embryo fail to abort itself shorty after meosis, he/she will have various physiological or psychological problems. most other such chromosomal mutations or segregation failures are fatal to the zygote and it will self abort.

no but to answer your question with some more precision, i'd say a better question is in order on your part. for example, are you saying that when a person thinks, only certain portions of the brain become active, they and only they are the ones we use? a pet scan shows when brain is stimulated will show a spread of stimuli - or colors, on different portions of the brain. kind of like a christman tree with blinking lights No, sorry, you were misinformed. too long of an article, and i'm too tired(work nights;) ) i'll read it tonight more or less, the thing that causes people to be smarter is how fast the neurons fire and how many are doing it. also i believe that one of the sources is indeed SciAm that recently published an article that a new research(and it is indeed) is underway of the brain as not only Neurons are what makes us smart, etc, but also the Glia cells. it was always thought that glia cells support neurons but are not involved in info-processing abilities and such or communicating with neurons or pass their(neuronal) messages, etc. they are trying to find out/work out the details. neurons (fastest) use lightning-electrical charges in their communications more or less, glia(slower) cells communicate chemically and can spread their message to a wider area. also another factor in works here that plays quite a significant role is what's called 'sheath myelination'(sp? i always forget how to spell that one) it greatly increases the speeds of neuronal communication. because let's say neuron A is in the brain and it wants to talk to neuron B which is in your toe and there is one long cable stretched between the 2 points, if this 'cable' does not have problems with myelination then the electical curent will jump from one segment of the sheath to the next thereby speading up the communication even faster, as opposed to the opposite there there's hardly any sheath or cable has no segments that the current can jump from one to the next but is very smooth(i guess, can't think of a better word at this time) , then it will go very slow kind of like taking a long hose and watching water flow from point A to B and it has to cover the whole distance of the hose. you do. i don't know if this is feasable, but search the internet for a Video clip of a Pet Scan in progress it's not that simple, i'm afraid. but basically, the more active neurons, the faster they fire and the faster, is what's thought to improve long term memories, etc. but i'll wait for your responce

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i would tear down microsoft and make Linux to be the dominant os and microsoft the underdog. - standard previous definition of 'global monopoly' would pale in comparison -i'd also have linus torvalds and kevin nitmik my IT security advisors. then i'd find the reason why we have so much junk dna and what it all does, how and why and then get be a few pet sabretooth tigers

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