The brain is an expensive item in nature; They
require a long period to mature and acquire knowledge, and they
demand blood that might otherwise go to muscle.
if you were capable of making new neurons these new cells would
have no memory or skill; primogenitor cells may become neurons
when exposed to "growth stimulating hormone"
Brain size has been stable in human primates for 100,000 years.
It probably is limited by the female pelvis size. The brain is
25% of it's full size (1350 ml) at birth, (about 27% of adult
weight) whereas the body is only 5% of full size. Women have a
physically smaller brain but have 11% more neurons. Perhaps 50%
of the available neurons die before the baby is born.
The Manhattan-atomic bomb project is described as :
Nagel = Equal Treatment and Compensatory Discriminations
= Phil & Pub Affs 348, 362 (1973) fbb at 357.
Franklin D. Roosevelt described Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin
Franklin and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, 1752-1814) as the
three geniuses in early colonial America.
fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius
Genius may almost be defined to be the faculty of acquiring
poverty -
The proof that there is no self which can be identified as you
or
but is rather activity spread all over the cortex, is that
damage
to the cortex, through accident or disease, often results in a
permanent change to the person we once believed ourselves to be.
When the brain dies, so too dies the self, along with the
"personality" and memories.
chance favors the prepared mind -
fear gives intelligence, even to fools.
nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
and
conscientious stupidity -
rascality has limits - stupidity has not -
strange as it may seem, no amount of learning will cure
stupidity; and formal education positively fortifies it.
one great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to
believe that the world is as stupid as it is -
Thus using money to educate ones-self in law, rather than paying
a lawyer is using a 'stick'(money) to get a 'longer stick'
(knowledge) to get a banana (win) is the intelligence choice.
[there are] . . qualities which are incapable of objective
measurement, but which make for a greatness in law school. Such
qualities, to name but a few, include reputation of the faculty,
experience of the administration, position and influence of the
alumni, standing in the community, traditions and prestige.
DeFunis v Odegaard, 416 US 312, (1974)
AFTER SUCCESS
DANGER OF SUCCESS
INGREDIENT of SUCCESS
THE PARTNER OF SUCCESS - FAILURE
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps: for he is the only
animal that is struck with the difference between what things
are
and what they ought to be - On wit and Humor - Wm Hazlitt -
English Essayist -
Humor holds up a mirror to society to reflect it's foibles and
failings - Aristotle
good mental health is a flexible humor-filled attitude " quote
attributed to several noted Psychiatrists"
The purpose of therapy is to end the purpose of therapy.
Five joke types are:
In our society, to admit inferiority is to be a fool, and to
admit superiority is to be an outcast. Those who are really
superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only
if
they pretend they are not.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man -
The eyes process an energy source called photons. The human
primate cannot realize the existence of photons except by the
eyes. (organs which process an energy source called photons).
There are fish which do not process photons. Most animals only
process black and white shades. Color is not processed without
processors. A blind person does not recognize photons at
all.
The human is acutely conscious of the signs and symbols of other
people, which leads the human to believe that he is "conscious
of
everything".
The child's brain uses increased glucose
until
age 5, then reduces the glucose needs due to an event called
neural pruning which results in circuit reduction. Overpruning
may result in high intelligence, frequently associated w/
creativity & hyperpruning may result in psychopathology
(madness).
Problem Solving, A systematic Approach, (1978) Robertshaw,
Mecca,
Rerick.
There is a high level of ambition and
arrogance among academics, which CD called the Oxford disease.
Colin Dexter, Oxford writer famed for crime novels. Oxford
England has the greatest concentration of historic buildings in
England.
Wash DC
Architectural historian Pamela Scott.
" There was no way to progress except to rely on a group of
geniuses and adjust to their needs, demands, and extravagant
behavior." These scientists intentionally gave away the secret
of fission and fusion to Stalin, which power escalated into the
Cold War era, and
major nuclear pollution, still endangering the ecosystem in the
old USSR.
The greatest injustice in this society is neither racial nor
sexual, but intellectual. I do not mean that some people are
more
intelligent than others. Nor do I mean that society rewards
people differently simply on the basis of their intelligence
Usually it does not. Nevertheless, it
provides on the average much larger rewards for tasks that
require superior intelligence than for those that do not. This
is
simply the way things work out in a technologically advanced
society with a market economy. It does not reflect a social
judgment that smart people deserve the opportunity to make more
money than the dumb people. They may deserve richer educational
opportunities, but they do not therefore deserve the material
wealth that goes with it. Similar things could be said about
society's differential reward for achievements facilitated by
other talents or gifts, like beauty,
athletic ability, musicality, etc.
Isaac D'Israeli
Edwin Wipple
You, your sorrows, your memories, and your ambitions, your sense
of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the
behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells.
The Astonishing
Hypothesis, the Scientific Search for the Soul - Francis Crick,
62 Nobel & Cristof Koch - California Institute of Technology.
inspiration may not come to you - go half-way to meet it.
unknown
Louis Pasteur
If you let your business get in the hands of a attorney, you'll
go broke - Sylvan Goldman,( . . . . . -1984), inventor of the
shopping
cart - Forbes 11 Sept 1995 p. 192
Martin Luther King
Napoleon
Stephen Vizinczey
Madam de
Tencin
using a stick to get a banana is not intelligence
using a stick to get a longer stick to get a banana is
intelligence.
Preparation for problem solving is :
SUCCESS
are generally thought to be :
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful
men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb.
Education alone will not;
the world is full of educated
derelicts.
Millionaires are:
There's a fine line between eccentric and geniuses. If you're a
little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric; and if you are a
little too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on
the
head, you're a genius.
Thomas J Watson jr.
Laughter - that which does not match established ways of
thinking
makes us laugh -a surprise connection of two illogical thoughts
causes neural misfiring in the higher (frontal lobes) cortex -
creating a unique reaction in the limbic system resulting in an
intense feeling of enjoyment - pleasure - 180 degree turns in
thoughts make the neuron explosions in the frontal lobe much
crisper - neurons pop crisply, or they have built-up an immunity
and do not pop.
The reward center of the brain is the
nucleas.
Dreams are interactions between neurons, when the brain stem
bombards the cortex (thinking part), the cortex tries to make
sense of it all.
REM sleep refreshes the cortex by clearing
overloaded circuits. New memories are fresher, more accessible,
primed by recent activity. The topics change like someone
changed
channels in the middle of the show. There is low level chaos in
the cortex, random firing; we try to tie it all together in a
meaningful way.
The pontine brainstem (pons) --> FTG (giganto cellular field of
tegmetum) -> sends electrical signals -->
dreams are delusion, clinically insane, wildly hallucinatory.
Sleep deprivation eases depression, but
also spurs mania.
Sleep evolved to conserve energy for several hours each day.
Sleep and hibernation have a common origin.
All victories breed hate and a victory over your "superior" is
foolish or fatal.
Baltasar Gracian
Mary Mannes
George
Bernard
Shaw
The future areas of study which are important are :
The brain operates by two different energy sources. The brain
utilizes both electrical and magnetic energy types, separately.
Suppose the psychic individual has a processor which recognizes
some energy source which the less gifted does not recognize. ?
Memes are ideas. Bits of consciousness,
evolving beliefs. The ability to choose between genes and memes
is what distinguishes the human from other creatures.