28 May
2015
28 May
'15
7:06 p.m.
Hi all:
I really appreciate this thread.
Living in the Bay Area is a trip. When I first got here I thought, "wow, a
safe space for nerds!" I thought everyone knew about Noisebridge. It seemed
to be very simpatico with the history of SF as I knew it which was, safe
space for hippies, safe space for gays safe space for gender non-
conformists. Then I lived here longer and I saw how many people say "if
you work in tech, SF hates you." This seems very unfair to me.
Best
Sonja
On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Adam Munich <adam(a)aperture.systems> wrote:
>Research
shows that limitat...
I don't believe this. As a diagnosed aspie who had 1 friend in high
school, I've been able to overcome almost all such "ingrained disability"
and have left stellar impressions on hundreds of people. It's very, very
possible not only to moderately change your personality, but to become an
entirely different person altogether over the course of a year.
> As a small child I received a severe
concussion and was unconscious
for some time after the accident... facial
expressions...
As a small child who recovered from getting tossed 6 feet in the air by a
car, completely KO'd, and had to relearn similar things, I can say, the
brain is *really, really freakin' adaptable*. But not if you don't put in
the hard effort to rewire those neurons.
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On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Autonomous <autonomous666(a)gmail.com
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wrote:
Consider the case where cognitive problems arise
from traumatic brain
injury. There's plenty of scientific evidence proving that due to a brain
injury, individuals may lack self-control and awareness, and as a result
may behave inappropriately or impulsively (without thinking it through) in
social situations.
http://www.brainline.org/content/2010/03/cognitive-problems-after-traumatic…
As a small child I received a severe concussion and was unconscious for
some time after the accident. When I look at photos of myself before and
after this accident I can clearly see something had changed with my facial
expressions. So be skeptical if you want but it does not diminish the fact
that many people suffer from "hardware problems."
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com
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Word Edward. I don't know what's
"true" about why we are the way we are
but there is a lot science cannot reducibly test and conclude.
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-- I have very little confidence in this kind of
research. Modern
science denies the existence of spirit, or @ least considers it not a
subject for science, & so ignores it, which usually amounts to denying it.
OTOH, emotional/spiritual experiences do have physical effects, so science,
in its prejudice, concludes that these physical signs are "the cause."
Rupert Sheldrake is the only guy I know of who has figgered this out, w/
the possible exception of Deepak Chopra. The result is a dead end that does
a *lot* of damage. One recent example of progress: British researchers (I
think) found that rat pups inherited conditioned fear: specifically: they
did a "Pavlov's dog" number w/ rose water & electric shocks so that
rats
got scared of the smell of rose water. Then they bred then, and found that
the children were scared of it before they had any training. This torpedoes
a sacred tenet of centuries' standing: acquired characteristics cannot be
inherited. But recent advances in instrumentation have shown that
experiences can generate molecules in the cell that turn off genes, & @
least some of these molecules can stay attached when the sperm or egg cells
split their DNA (instrument technology is just beginning to reveal this).
It's called "epigenetic inheritance."
The article came out in "Lancet" a few months ago, as I recall.
Nil Carborundum Illegitemi,
Ed Rippy
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