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- imasuperDOTcom, on 11/18/2008, -5/+25So, I work at home two days a week, and today just happens to be one of those days, and I have to tell you, I'm incredibly bored.
But really, I'm so bored today. Digg has got nothing - the stuff is boring as crap today. It's hard to even find a good, creepy liberal debate to jump into today. The closest I came was on that gun article one where people, no surprise, started fighting about gun rights.
And I know what you're thinking, "why don't you go work instead of leave mind numbing comments on digg"? But I've been working for days, even weeks. Overtime and more overtime... I just can't work right now.
So sometimes I'll start writing some blog article, and then I just totally lose motivation right in the middle of it. Like I just don't want to finish it, or that fire I had when I started is just gone.
So then I go and check my google adsense account - You know becuase I like to see if one of my websites has made me rich yet - oh look at that, I've made $0.89 in ads today, and 4.20 in the last week. How the hell can I get over 80,000 hits a month and only make 5 bucks a week? So then I think "Well, I'm tired of doing my little projects anyway. no more websites" so then I consider going downstairs and watching something on my DVR I recorded last week - but then I think, "No, I have to do at least some work - I can't just go watch TV"....
oh hell, I don't know what to do. I guess I'll just read some more crappy articles, and leave weird comments, potentially completely offtopic. - inactive, on 11/18/2008, -2/+14If the brain was simple enough to understand, we still wouldn't be able to understand it.
- Anathapendika, on 11/18/2008, -0/+12Boredom is simply lack of creativity
- Birdoftruth, on 11/18/2008, -2/+14and in reality we don't even really have a gist of what goes on in the brain.
- toasterweasel, on 11/18/2008, -0/+10When in doubt....masturbate!
- imasuperDOTcom, on 11/18/2008, -1/+9Either that, or total lack of motivation.
I'm having a spat of both. Suggestions? - GeorgeStone2, on 11/18/2008, -1/+8The brain's so complex, not even it can figure out how it works.
- derek20cali, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7Agreed. Adsense sucks.
- smokinAZ, on 11/18/2008, -1/+5Find pot.
- aptanalogy, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4Your brain is an extension of your spinal cord, but the much of the more interesting, and complex, "learning and remembering" part is done in the more evolutionarily recent areas like the neocortex. Emotional processing, such as fear learning in the amydgala, or the encoding of declarative memories in the hippocampus, is "learning" as well (and we share many aspects of these less complex circuits with simpler animals). My main beef with this article is that is doesn't clearly delineate "tasks that other living things can not even dream of" in humans. The article refers to mechanisms of learning, but long term potentiation is conserved across evolutionary time. Furthermore, I take issue with the aritcle's failure to distinguish motor learning from more complex associative learning.
- toasterweasel, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4This is a very sensible suggestion.
- theOster, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4i think thats the last thing someone like this needs
- KingGorilla, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3Kill owner
- Anathapendika, on 11/18/2008, -1/+4Hopefully in the next few years we will start to learn more about collective consciousness
- embryodb, on 11/18/2008, -1/+4i wholeheartedly agree with this. self knowledge can only go so far...
- Kohaxx, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3You should go get a go-kart, and paint some flames on it. You'll feel much better, trust me.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3That makes sense. My father had a lot of varied experiences in his life and I found (accidentally) that many things he lived through were "forgotten" until the memory was triggered by asking certain questions within certain contexts. Under some circumstances when a friend would ask a question of my father that I would not have asked I learned new things about him and his earlier life experiences that I had never heard in the decades before.
- Roogen, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3smoke weed.
- embryodb, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoglossy
just for future readers... - theOster, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2"if you're bored then you're boring..."
- Wiini, on 11/18/2008, -1/+3I hear you on Adsense, online advertising can be really hit or miss. If your blog is http://imasuper.com (i'm assuming because of your username) then I think I see your problem. Your content isn't bad (although not very focused, but that's not always a bad thing) but your site lay out definitely doesn't make ads the focus. There are a lot of onilne consulting companies that will design an ad-centric site that will generate $$$ without driving away traffic or pissing people off.
or maybe you could have a HS student try to make it more ad-focused for free, or cheap. - vertigo32, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2I do believe the brain can do a number of amazingly improbable things. I've seen savants who can do a number of amazing tricks of memory and computation.
Speaking a foreign language perfectly with absolutely no exposure to that language is not one of them. Picking up a new language incredibly quickly? Subconsciously picking up parts of another language that doesn't manifest until after some trauma? That's much more probable to me.
When the first section of the Wiki article ties everything to the Tower of Babel, that's going to make me just a bit more skeptical. I read Snow Crash and thought it was an interesting book, but that still doesn't make it real. - smokinAZ, on 11/18/2008, -1/+2When you mind is running so fast that you need to write a paragraph on digg about your boredom, you need pot.
- Fusi0n, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1Yeah right...
- JQP123, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1"we're gonna be able to do almost anything seen in sci-fi."
Ah yes, the blind faith of a young mind, rooted in nothing more substantial than the fantasy of Hollywood and video game culture.
Just because someone imagined it doesn't mean it is possible. Hollywood says you can travel faster than the speed of light. Physicists say you cannot. Maybe Hollywood is right and physics is wrong ... but I certainly wouldn't bet on it. - JQP123, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1"... and in reality we don't even really have a gist of what goes on in the brain."
Who needs a "gist"? If we just keep making processors faster and memory chips bigger; one day by some mysterious process known only to Hollywood, bingo! --- a self aware brain will magically spring forth out of the silicon, binary logic and electrical energy.
I know it's possible, I saw it in a movie. - azhura, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1That's why it's so cool and exciting when they make major breakthroughs! I just hope that we eventually learn how to do many of the things that we only hear and see in Sci-Fi.
- inajeep, on 11/18/2008, -1/+2Hmmm, my dog always dreams of chasing and barking so I guess we got dog dreams taken care of. Next, cat dreams.
- chemam, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1...and pop an adderall. That's the real combo to get creative work done FAST.
- ennio, on 11/18/2008, -1/+2Such phenomena like xenoglossy will be the learning processes of the not too distant future.
- lichirichi, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1Yuo have to give up to your job. Stop working. Go outdoors. Get a life. Go to another country. Learn a foreign language. Get involve with some good social causes. Become a father. Stay away of internet. Information is a way of masturbation. You need some arte, pure air, friendship, music, dancing. Become a homeless. For God sake, do not kill yourself in that way. Come to Latinoamerica. Here we are joyfull and have always something to celebrate!
Seize the day, CARPE DIEM - embryodb, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1we're gonna be able to do almost anything seen in sci-fi. most fiction is rooted in possible extensions of existing technology as it is. gets kinda boring after a while...
- rogue780, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1dupe of http://digg.com/general_sciences/Forgotten_but_not ...
- snockhockster, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1I can't help but wonder if someone were to block vision for both eyes at separate times, would the new synapses be useful as one got older (or somehow else) or not. Also, what is the upper limit to the number of new synapses possible.
- embryodb, on 11/18/2008, -1/+1you dont know what they dream of. do their dreams contain music? language?
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http://www.celebxray.com - imasuperDOTcom, on 11/18/2008, -1/+1wow.. that's interesting. But it's a little dangerous/contradictory - I can't become a father if I quite my job, that'd be bad news. But, I am a father. I know a foreign language, I've been to latin America. But you're right, I can't stay away from the internet, I've never been homeless and I hate the outdoors..
hmm.... - wexmajor, on 11/18/2008, -2/+1You think animals can't learn and remember? Buried for stupid *****.
- embryodb, on 11/18/2008, -2/+1other living things can dream of the things humans can do, but pre-existing limiting factors hamper both their efficiency/speed in processing data and their physical dexterity/force application and therefore, from an anthropomorphic standpoint, humans were destined to rule the earth, just by virtue of self creation via evolution.
and there is no lineation inside the human brain. it is decentralized and asynchronous, the epitome of symmetrical chaos. - inactive, on 11/18/2008, -3/+2Quit your bitchin-spams. And go see a therapist.
- FFXIfrohike, on 11/18/2008, -2/+1School of the Blindingly Obvious still appears to be in session.
- FFXIfrohike, on 11/18/2008, -2/+1Allow me to elaborate. Muscle memory is a fact. Accelerated learning of previously rehearsed activities is a fact. I'm sure there are many (equally blindingly obvious) studies on the subject.
How ELSE are these facts possible, other than the obvious explanation that neural pathways aren't destroyed once something is learned. Magic?
My main problem with the article is that it spends 90% of its text on explaining things about the brain that anyone with a high school education already knows, then throws in a frankly boring "discovery" in the last paragraph... all without describing the damned study! At all. Not one detail about how the experiments were performed, who the subjects were, etc etc.
Buried as lame. Bury me if you want, the article still sucks. - embryodb, on 11/18/2008, -3/+1ummmm yeah i already took care of that.
- eco57, on 11/18/2008, -4/+2Actually, I was just thinking why you don't kill yourself.
- archer104, on 11/18/2008, -4/+2"consciousness is a result of electricity"
buried - embryodb, on 11/18/2008, -7/+3yes we do. each cell contains a multitude of quantum computers, and that computational power is magnified by the macro level electrochemical signals bouncing around in there. consciousness is a result of electricity, emotions the result of chemistry, and sapience the result of the quantum computational/observational power of the brain.
also, where does your brain stop? what about your spinal chord and all your nerves? what about the environment affecting your sensation? what about other universes and forces?
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