CuriousG wrote:
To give another example, you can't crunch large numbers quickly in your head the way a computer can. Even though your brain has more processing power than any digital CPU on the market, it still can't match even a pocket calculator. No matter how much time and effort you spend trying to make it otherwise, those limits will still exist..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsD2V6ijyQ
Jack wrote:
Under normal circumstances... you know what... nevermind. Ignore everything I and all of the other people here have said, and just go about your business. Just don't try to install unneccessary limits in other people. If you want to live your life with your head up the educational systems ass where you can't see anything: Go for it. It's your life, do with it what you will.
Even if his opinion/evidence contradicts yours, find one that is converse to his, and vice versa to him - and continue to do so until you both halt to agreement on a given possibility.
CuriousG wrote:VeryGnawty wrote:CuriousG wrote:
Even though your brain has more processing power than any digital CPU on the market, it still can't match even a pocket calculator.
This man would disagree.
Nice, but proves no point.
There are some people essentially born with the ability to do mental math pretty well, and they can polish those skills, but there's a reason why NASA needed digital computers to start launching stuff into orbit.
And eventually there'll be a reason for anti-depressants being essential to sustain emotional balance, since there'll be no reason for our brain's employ a mechanism by which it can maintain these imbalances (hence, 'evolution').
SubmissMe wrote:But these dreams are not possible. The man who purchases a lottery ticket may dream of winning the lottery, a quite possible outcome. The man who dreams of being a housecat and thus adds a hypnosis file has an impossible outcome.
Dream all you like, but it is more of a folourn hope. It will not (and nor will it ever) happen.
And all this rubbish about science telling us only so much and nobody has ever proved it impossible to turn into a housecat is all bollocks. Science and experience tells us EVERYTHING and if nobody has experienced changing into a housecat then it is very reasonable to assume that IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
Now I respect every sort of fetish, I even keep it to myself about how annoyed I get that people post stupid files on the voting page. But when people persist in telling me these files are possible, that's where I draw the line.
Since it occurs as a possibility for various species to switch sexes under environmental conditions, we can thus assume that we may feature the genetics responsible for developing the mechanism from which we can further alter the function of our genitals and gonads.
Also note that given an absence of reason for a biological mechanism to be used (e.g. such as not being used enough, and perhaps further repressed into a genome (perhaps even prioritized)), it will eventually disappear in future off-spring. An example of this could be eidetic memory that may occur as an innate ability in chimpanzees, and seldom for humans, repressed due to our increased use of external memory devices which inadvertently diminished its priority; another example would be the secretion of androgens in a human when one consorts to taking supplementary hormones, thus reducing mechanism priority, and eventually increasing dependence upon hormone supplements to sustain hormone balance.
From this, we can perhaps assume that the logic applies to central command which further propagates control over control mechanisms (e.g. conscious experience > subconscious > unconscious mechanisms (from this information, one could impose transitive control over the secretion of various hormones (influence)). In my view, the use of hypnosis to propagate changes (hallucinogenic or physical) would also pose the dilemma of becoming dependent on peers for exerting control; thus, in my view, one would lose their conscious mechanism for change.