Send me your brain!
Ahnimus
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Hey guys, I've been looking at model brains and they are so expensive. I'd really like to have one for my studies, but I can't afford them.
But I was thinking, a lot of people claim to exist without their brain in all the glory they experience now. So, you can prove you don't need it just by taking it out and then you can send it to me and we will both be happy.
I can use more than one for dissecting. So please lobotomize yourself and send me your brain.
But I was thinking, a lot of people claim to exist without their brain in all the glory they experience now. So, you can prove you don't need it just by taking it out and then you can send it to me and we will both be happy.
I can use more than one for dissecting. So please lobotomize yourself and send me your brain.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
That'd be cool. I'll take all the brain matter I can get.
You could just walk around picking up the all ones that have been abandoned on the floor.
Failing that, you could always take up serial killing as a side hobby.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
it has to be on youtube somewhere
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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dude; i am so glad you realized yours was defective and want a replacement. i'll start looking for you ASAP!
I'm looking. I'm sure there is something on Freedman's "Ice Pick" lobotomy that was performed on over 2500 patients in the area prior to psychiatric drugs. Frontal lobotomy's were quite prevelant, before it was realized the effects of it.
http://wintersteel.homestead.com/Life_Without_Brain.html
http://newsfromrussia.com/society/2003/03/26/45101.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-05-08-brain-surgery_N.htm
want more?
Dude, the first two stories are identical and from in-credible sources. The third one has only to do with removing 1/5th of the brain. The brain that was largely damaged by the internal bleeding. I already know that the brains plasticity can compensate for large lesions in the brain, tumors, or lobotomies. But not a complete removal of the brain. You will find 5 years later when this young man has largely recovered from his deficit that the remaining parts of his brain have taken over function of the parts that are missing. And if you then remove those parts the defecit will return. This type of plasticity comes easier in children than adults. In adults it takes a lot of neurotherapy to get the brain to compensate. I can give you a shitload of information on this.
The first two stories are about rigor mortis and nothing else. Sure the man could run 32 ft after his head was cut-off, but after 32 ft he collapses completely dead and doesn't get up to dance the macarena.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Yea, I want you to record a video of you removing your entire brain and post it online for me to see.
If you honestly believe that it can be done, then do it.
But what does your brain do for you?
You believe in "integral consciousness" so you shouldn't need your brain for anything.
My brain sleeps with every thought that sounds good...you already know that.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Then, why keep it?
Send it to me. I'll bennefit more from it than you will.
Nope. I like it here.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Sounds like you don't really believe what you say.
Sounds like I don't feel the need to convince you.
My brain is telling me it's pointless to try. I figure I'll take her word for it...she's about to be busy anyway....she has a few videos on meditation and the peace movement lined up to have an orgy with this evening.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Do you ever watch anything else?
Of course! I watch stuff I don't agree with often...I come here and read stuff I don't agree with, too. I could just pretend it doesn't exist. Do you watch stuff that I like? Or is it all the stuff you preach about on here?
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
I watch and read a lot of stuff. But I tend to see the same stuff over and over again. The same arguments, the same circumstantial evidence, etc.. etc..
It might be something to do with the music Pearl Jam makes, but most places I post have people with completely different attitudes. For example I started a thread about free-will on tvo.org/theagenda and most of the responses were "That's self-evident" and some ridiculed me for suggesting it was some kind of revelation when it's "blatantly obvious". The same phenomena occurred at skeptic.com. Here on the other hand, I was called "Crazy".
Well, people do surround themselves with like minded folks a lot. I like to evolve ideas more than butt heads constantly, myself. I trust my intuition now more than ever...I guess that's where we differ. I do read your posts instead of simply blocking them out. I just disagree very often. You know it's easier to explain your logical approach than it is for someone whose more inclined to follow their intuition and subjective experience. You focus on proof...facts that have already been discovered by others. I'm still searching for answers to things that I feel haven't quite been answered yet.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
What answers are you looking for?
Why are we here? Why do we have this conscience/love/guilt guiding us? Why are we motivated to care outside of our own self interests? Can we learn to live in peace with one another? What is our true potential? How powerful can our thoughts become? Can we live outside our own ego? How can we heal ourselves? Why does our intuition directly conflict with pure logic so often? What is the purpose then of intuition? Why do people feel they need to overcome theirs or dismiss it? Those kinda things.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Have you given Dan Dennett a read?
I edited more thoughts off the top of my head in the post above.
No, I haven't...got a link to some of his work?
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Dennett is a frequent speaker at TED (Technology Entertainment Design). Every year he's there giving a presentation about something. You can view all of those and more videos by him on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dan+Dennett
More here on Dennett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett#External_links
Thanks. I agree with many of his critiques of the bible. I agreed that you don't have to have faith to have purpose in your life. I liked that in his criticisms he used 'might' and 'possible'...instead the usual arrogant 'either, or' approach. I'd liked that he could still see the good in alternate opinions even if he disagreed with the premise. I liked the vibe of live and let live unless your judgments are causing issues to arise that need to be addressed...he seemed to really grasp the concept of co-existing.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Probably Dennett's greatest quality is that he non-militaristically tries to persuade people to his type of thinking. In strong contrast to say Dawkins or Harris.