Founder of Liberalism Discovered in France
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All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
-Enoch Powell
-Enoch Powell
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
So basically... yeah.
Eh, just as bad.
-Enoch Powell
I could go on about since autists are so conservative in mindset, that's where it started. Haha.
Anyway, it is amazing how easy it is to be taken as "normal" given that you exhibit the right key things outwards. And the brain is a flexible organ. Einstein also had a relatively small brain...
Peace
Dan
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
I think you only use like 10% of your brain anyway.
People put too much emphasis on smarts and not enough on pragmatism.
-Enoch Powell
every once in a while i wonder if some side affects happen because people hear they're supposed to have those side affects with whatever problems they have. kind of like mind over matter, i guess?
~Michael Bolton
I think about that all the time.
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 don't know how stupid this sounds, but sometimes i try to think a headache away instead of taking a couple tylenol. i just keep thinking about the pain fading. so far, i haven't been successful. but that's not to say it won't work sometime in the future.
~Michael Bolton
Funny that you never hear a surgeon say "Fortunately the bullet didn't damage the 10% of the brain the victim actually uses."
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percent.asp
Yeah wtf.
I have seen a TV show where some dude had a knife in his head and he was just chillin. He was aware and hadn't even passed out. Haha, he turned out fine but it was hilarious.
-Enoch Powell
Hmm. Maybe because there are no nerves in the brain tissue. He wouldn't feel the knife in his brain, entire regions of his brain could have been inoperable, but depending on the regions it may not have been apparent.
Many of the language areas cover specific things, such as grammar. So a person can understand words and communicate easily, but when told "A lion murders a zebra. Which animal died?" the patient can't say. The patient can recite the question, describe lions and zebras and so on, but can't connect the dots.
It's hard to say what the knife did, but I'd question the TV shows information.
Doubt can keep it from working sometimes. Once that creeps in it's kinda hard to root it out. But yeah, I do things like that all the time. Ever tried meditation? You can figure so much out that way.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1221-medical-miracles
this one has pictures and xrays...the knife was in there http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_356200328.html
you're right that there's no pain endings in the brain, which is why they do a lot of brain surgeries with patients lightly sedated, they need patients responses to stimuli to be sure they are in teh exact area.
nah, never tried meditation. lol, i don't think i have the patience for it. most of the time when i try the "thinking it away", it's when the wife and kids are either out of the home or sleeping, but i'm awake with a headache.
~Michael Bolton
Geeze, this is really sketchy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hill_(stabbing_survivor)
According to wikipedia, whose only citations are that kidzworld and a Guiness World Record link that's dead, says "Hill survived and within 7 days regained consciousness and all functions, although he experiences occasional headaches and memory problems. " implying that he lost both consciousness and some functions, and has the permanent side-effect of memory loss and headaches.
But I still question if this story is even true. It's awfully hard to corroborate.
Well, this one didn't "Lodge in his brain" as the headline suggests, it rested in the intrahemispherical fissure between the frontal lobes and did no damage to the brain at all.
A famous and well-documented case of brain damage by large objects is Phineas Gage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
The effects on Gage are almost all personality and not explicitly functional. Damage to the frontal lobes will usually affect personality and not function of senses.
The first x-ray looks like it could have been similar to the second one with the exception of damaging the corpus callosum which may or may not have noticable effects.
i think it's interesting that neither link says where it happened, only the date it happened. It def is a little sketchy. And if it happened in 98 you'd think someone would have a link to some news or something.
Yea, it would be really interesting to research if it was possible to do so.
yeah, i checked snopes and they didn't mention it either...who knows.