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Old 09-17-2007, 07:23 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Getting a little drunk. By the Way I agree, however I thin evolution is more subtle then we realize. Are believe we are constantly evolving mentally and perhaps physically too. Look at how much taller this generation is then say your great grandparents. My family for example my grandfather was 5'10" his father was 5'7" My son is 6'4"...Tallest woman any of us have married is 5'5"
I agree that we are evolving mentally but not physically necissarily, it's more of a case to case basis considering i'm 5'9" and the midget in my family cause my grandmother is 6' my mom is 5'10". Therefore in my family the women are getting shorter in each generation, while in your the men are getting taller in each generation.
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Old 09-17-2007, 07:36 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Getting a little drunk. By the Way I agree, however I thin evolution is more subtle then we realize. Are believe we are constantly evolving mentally and perhaps physically too. Look at how much taller this generation is then say your great grandparents. My family for example my grandfather was 5'10" his father was 5'7" My son is 6'4"...Tallest woman any of us have married is 5'5"
I agree that there are subtle physical changes. Mentally I think not. We may profess our importance and understanding of issues, but we are still at the 1/5 of brainpower stage that we have been at for thousands of years. We have made technological advancements beyond our wildest dreams, but we still do not know anymore than we knew then. If we did, then we would not be hellbent on killing ourselves.
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Old 09-17-2007, 07:53 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I agree that there are subtle physical changes. Mentally I think not. We may profess our importance and understanding of issues, but we are still at the 1/5 of brainpower stage that we have been at for thousands of years. We have made technological advancements beyond our wildest dreams, but we still do not know anymore than we knew then. If we did, then we would not be hellbent on killing ourselves.
who says we're hellbent on killing ourselves? Humans are driven by self-interest not self-destruction.
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Old 09-17-2007, 07:55 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Old 09-17-2007, 08:07 PM   #15 (permalink)
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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.
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Old 09-17-2007, 08:42 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Is this the original or someone using his SIGN IN?
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Old 09-17-2007, 08:46 PM   #17 (permalink)
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i think if it was mike he would have said:

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Old 09-17-2007, 09:04 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Pertaining to our only using a small percentage of our brains: it could be, I'm not stating this as a fact or anything just theorizing, that if we were to unlock the rest of our brains it could merely be the equivalent of opening up the floodgates, that our brain would all of a sudden simply be interpreting a hell of a lot more sense data, most of it extraneous. It could also be that it would greatly enhance our analytic processes and that we'd be able to take radical new perspectives on all sorts of problems and make unheard of advancements, who knows. It certainly seems possible, however, that we evolved to only use a small portion of our brain because using the whole thing would be too cumbersome.
The saving grace would be evolutions ability to only take action when it is beneficial for a species to evolve. So if it happens, I think it's highly likely our brains will improve in a way that will not hinder it's current functions.
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Old 09-18-2007, 03:41 AM   #19 (permalink)
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What is all this crap about humans only using a small percentage of our brains? We generally only fire up neurons in certain areas at certain times, but pretty much all parts of the brain get used during the course of the day. Just not all simultaneously. To use all parts of the brain simultaneously would be bad technique and inefficient. The brain would use too much energy, and would overheat. Or you'd go MAAAAAD.
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Old 09-18-2007, 11:50 AM   #20 (permalink)
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like jackhammer said, i think i need to be slightly under some kind of influence for this kind of thread
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