tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post7141212743485091532..comments2024-02-16T05:17:21.690-05:00Comments on No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Reloaded).: BrainocularsPeter Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06160557746794936786noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-30859579971390379922019-02-01T02:48:14.758-05:002019-02-01T02:48:14.758-05:00Nice content shared, thanks for sharing.
meet and ...Nice content shared, thanks for sharing.<br /><a href="http://www.swiftairportparking.co.uk/meet-and-greet.php" rel="nofollow">meet and greet parking luton</a><br />Jason Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818180435148914350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-54170504781557323912007-05-08T13:08:00.000-04:002007-05-08T13:08:00.000-04:00Random brainfart: maybe this is purpose or one of ...<I>Random brainfart: maybe this is purpose or one of the purposes of the pointy-haired boss - to inhibit rather than react. The harder he works, the less work gets done - and it's a good thing.</I><BR/><BR/>Not so random. I'm fond of refering to that module in the ACG as a gatekeeper that keeps the pointy-haired boss from getting in and messing everything up, but that's just spinning things in Peter Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160557746794936786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-86632233874741370582007-05-08T04:34:00.000-04:002007-05-08T04:34:00.000-04:00Come to think of it, I'm reminded a bit of an inci...Come to think of it, I'm reminded a bit of an incident in Man Plus (Frederick Pohl). A cyborg is given marvellously expanded senses and quickly keels over with a fatal stroke. Pohl was only exaggerating what he'd read about people who'd suffered correctable blindness at a very young age and had their sight restored by surgery after adolescence, when their brains were less flexible. Very often Brett Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01545104833037581797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-34060153428787258522007-05-07T19:54:00.000-04:002007-05-07T19:54:00.000-04:00Random brainfart: maybe this is purpose or one of...Random brainfart: maybe this is purpose or one of the purposes of the pointy-haired boss - to inhibit rather than react. The harder he works, the less work gets done - and it's a good thing.<BR/><BR/>What I mean is, as the the sensory organs become ever more sophisticated and the neural hardware generates more and more reflexes to respond to them, consciousness is, or is affected or produced byBrett Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01545104833037581797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-67736299775455619862007-05-07T11:44:00.000-04:002007-05-07T11:44:00.000-04:00So what if the soldiers are all jumpy stressballs ...So what if the soldiers are all jumpy stressballs with 10-year life expectancies from the associated hypertension?<BR/><BR/>Just grow'em in vats and revoke (don't grant?) their citizenship. They're soldiers, not people...Fraxashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01250589389977400643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-29942112825583348572007-05-07T01:29:00.000-04:002007-05-07T01:29:00.000-04:00This strikes me as something of a bad idea. Even i...This strikes me as something of a bad idea. Even if it lets soldiers spot a sharpshooter they would otherwise have missed every once and again, would there really be a net combat effectiveness gain if there's a false alarm every 5 min?<BR/><BR/>I'd imagine that for every correct, useful identification, there are dozens of activations of the brains hair-trigger pattern recognizers that get ARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09695255436104873832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-88272015651147319492007-05-06T18:54:00.000-04:002007-05-06T18:54:00.000-04:00"The idea is that EEG can spot "neural signatures"..."The idea is that EEG can spot "neural signatures" for target detection before the conscious mind becomes aware of a potential threat or target."<BR/><BR/>"That prefrontal cortex, he explains, allows the brain to pick up patterns quickly, but it also exercises a powerful impulse control, inhibiting false alarms. EEG would essentially allow the binoculars to bypass this inhibitory reaction and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-32896364485476271332007-05-05T19:28:00.000-04:002007-05-05T19:28:00.000-04:00I thought of you (or your writings, rather) when I...I thought of you (or your writings, rather) when I read that too. Is it just me, or is there a kind of... similarity... to pop-culture Buddhism in the implications of this research? Going for "no-mind" and all that?Steven Saushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13554578124205097597noreply@blogger.com