[sudo-discuss] Hackers unite

[Adam Munich]

>>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 at gmail.com> 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-brain-injury_pageall.html
>
> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>> -- 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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