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Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers

Posted by jamie on from the uptake dept.

I've never given much credence to the "only use 10% of our brains" urban legend, but this article, Savant for a Day, is making me reconsider. I'd like to see controlled, double-blind studies, but Snyder's machine already sounds very interesting -- hey, anyone can learn to draw, but I want to flip a switch to put my brain into calculator mode. EM-brain experimentation has taken off since Michael Persinger's work and other recent research.

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  1. Re:Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your site sucks and so do you, you stupid fuck.

    Heh heh heh...just had to be done.

  2. Re:Brain Wars by legLess · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Normally, people with invisible friends are segregated from society to protect the sane ones, not placed in charge of making the laws that all the sane people must follow.
    Fucking ... brilliant.
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    This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
  3. Re:Brain Wars by limekiller4 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    TheLink writes:
    "Plenty of hostility around towards people who believe in God. There people who believe it's a great idea to spend tons of money to overclock their CPUs (when they can just buy a faster one). And they don't get as much hostility around here. And why is that?"

    Because people who overclock their CPUs do not, generally, demand that I do too.

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    My .02,
    Limekiller