CynthiaCypher
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The brain is not a computer.
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Assuming Evolution is True......
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The brain is not a computer.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
No, it's actually much better than a computer. Your point?
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
Well it is pretty much certain that when the brain shrinks cognitive function is reduced.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
Present your evidence.
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
Want me to inundate the thread with information on aging, Alzheimer's and brain shrinkage?
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
If you want, but remember brain shrinkage must be the cause, not the effect.
I personally think the world, eventually, will turn out like the movie "Idiocracy"
The brain can shrink for other reasons.
Cold causes shrinkage.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Eventually has already come and gone.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
So many lines to draw....so little space....
Saw an experiment of some trained chimps doing what we humans cannot do.
They really think differently and have cognitives we do not.
Split into different species?
I thought that was the Garden event of Genesis.
Some Godly intervention in play, of course.
Shall we include the outstanding savant?
Should we consider the highly intelligent, yet remorseless criminal?
Should we include spiritual life such as angels, and assume they know more?
Saw an experiment of some trained chimps doing what we humans cannot do.
They really think differently and have cognitives we do not.
Split into different species?
I thought that was the Garden event of Genesis.
Some Godly intervention in play, of course.
Shall we include the outstanding savant?
Should we consider the highly intelligent, yet remorseless criminal?
Should we include spiritual life such as angels, and assume they know more?
Certainly not! -- we should sit them in front of computer monitors and test their hand-eye co-ordination. If they can't best the chimps, they're out.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Certainly not! -- we should sit them in front of computer monitors and test their hand-eye co-ordination. If they can't best the chimps, they're out.
We could end up in the same boat!
The study I saw placed chimps in front of a monitor.
A random pattern of numbers, one through ten, would be flashed.
The screen was touch sensitive, and by touching the monitor to relate where each item was....in numerical order....they get fed.
For the home audience the same set-up was flashed.
For the viewer at home, there would be no difference.
But the narrator did ask....
'How many numbers can you recall in order and location?'
Your typical human might recall as many as five.
Not likely eight....you would have to be unusual for ten.
I don't think it's come yet, but I know that if it has come, it definitely isn't gone.
Yes, that was the experiment I assumed you were referring to. [youtube]Zz7ShiQqLQg[/youtube]
Chimp Beats Human: Intelligence Test - YouTube
Chimp Beats Human: Intelligence Test - YouTube
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Already in the works. The less intelligent are manipulated to breed faster in order to increase manpower in the mines, while the intellectuals are selective breeders bearing fewer offspring, yet the ability to remain the ruling class is supported quite nicely by the larger population base of the intellectually inferior.
They had it all thunk out at the beginning.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Don't **** off the chimp. He'll rip your face off.
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
And cognitive function decreases in cold.