This brings to mind an odd situation...we pay garbage men extra because its obvious that picking up trash stinks and without good money it wouldn't get done.
In the case of teachers however, there is an understood assumption in our society that teaching is a respectable and honorable profession and that people with the skills should be lining up around the block to help build society. Yet we pay the teachers crap, and as a result have shortages of qualified and knowledgable people willing to teach. I was just ranting with my roommate about whats wrong with teachers' unions, though now I find myself questioning my stance in that discussion...
But various parts of the brain continue to change myelin status through the first 6-7 years at least.
Its generally believed that the average for myelination process to complete is around age 25. An increased rate of myelination in various areas of the brain is strongly correlated with increased rates of learning skills associated with the myelinating region.
The first regions to complete myelination are related to spoken and auditory linguistics, followed by vision processing. Now, given that basic auditory processing and visual processing occur in the temporal lobes, and given that one of the other primary functions of the temporal lobes is interacting with the hippocampus and amygdala to create, process and retrieve memory, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that myelinations of these regions facilitates the first memory formations. Your motor cortex, followed shortly by the rest of the frontal cortex, typically won't finalize myelination until your late teens, which parallels with the end of puberty and the slowing rate of growth. By the time you're in your mid-20s, myelination is completed with your prefrontal cortex (sentience and conscience) coming dead last.
However, the lack of myelin doesn't imply the lack of coherent cerebral activity (although it certainly doesn't help).
Just ask a person with multiple sclerosis whether or not the gradual loss of myelination in their motor cortex implies a lack of coherent cerebral activity in the motor cortex.
If I had just stolen 500,000 military idents with health records, what would I do?
I could...
a) Insert false records and allow the the drives to be "recovered", thus introducing false data to the system and allowing for easier social engineering in the future
b) Search records for personal with preexisting conditions that might make them vulnerable to blackmail (STDs, etc.)
c) Use family information to achieve effects similar to (b)
c) Sell raw SSN in bulk to the highest bidder
d) Deliver the names and addresses of ranking officers in the database to interested parties (so Lt. Jefferson, we here you have a little problem
e) Use credit card # as one shot spending accounts, or just run up some debts to drive the owners batty (assuming cards weren't canceled already)
Can't really think of anything else. Anyone else have ideas?
Re:Something from nothing?
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Information is not inherent to any system, ordered or otherwise. You define all the information in the universe. I define a similar, but definitely not identical set of information in the universe. Ditto every other creature with an appropriately constructed body. All information is an abstract illusion that allows its owning organism to better interact with the Universe.
There is no information inherent to your genome, or mine. If a scientist comes along and maps my genome, he creates information to associate my genes with attributes I display and with attributes displayed by others. If that scientist dies or forgets the information without ever leaving a record of that information, the information is destroyed. If the records are destroyed, and no other copies exist, the information is destroyed. If the records exist, but no other organism is ever able to access or understand them, the information is destroyed.
This all comes back to the tree falling in the forest. It does not make a sound unless you percieve it. It will generate a compression wave in an atmosphere. The compression wave is not sound unless you percieve it. Your genome is not information unless someone maps it.
Researchers don't tread here because they have either (a) come to realize all that I've stated, or more likely than not (b) do not consider defining the consequences of defining a set of facts to be true as important when they are still laboring to prove those facts exist in the first place.
Re:Sigh, not more dialectical things, I hope?
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Businesses want to compete to eliminate competition and thus increase their share of the profits, and those who can use the economic system best to their advantage (see Microsoft vs. World, Beta vs. VHS, etc.) will be the companies that succeed. Competition between rivals over a limited energy supply (in this case represented by abstract currency held by consumers) in order to continue existing is what evolution is all about.
Marxists believe that cooperation is more efficient than competition in the long term and that Darwinistic tendancies like those above lead to more wasted energy and in turn there is less energy in the system to profit from. The Marxists don't question the evidence or case for evolution in the same manner as the religious fanatics. They just don't believe evolution by competition is the better way to achieve goals.
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This brings to mind an odd situation...we pay garbage men extra because its obvious that picking up trash stinks and without good money it wouldn't get done.
In the case of teachers however, there is an understood assumption in our society that teaching is a respectable and honorable profession and that people with the skills should be lining up around the block to help build society. Yet we pay the teachers crap, and as a result have shortages of qualified and knowledgable people willing to teach. I was just ranting with my roommate about whats wrong with teachers' unions, though now I find myself questioning my stance in that discussion...
completely off topic, I know.
But various parts of the brain continue to change myelin status through the first 6-7 years at least.
Its generally believed that the average for myelination process to complete is around age 25. An increased rate of myelination in various areas of the brain is strongly correlated with increased rates of learning skills associated with the myelinating region.
The first regions to complete myelination are related to spoken and auditory linguistics, followed by vision processing. Now, given that basic auditory processing and visual processing occur in the temporal lobes, and given that one of the other primary functions of the temporal lobes is interacting with the hippocampus and amygdala to create, process and retrieve memory, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that myelinations of these regions facilitates the first memory formations. Your motor cortex, followed shortly by the rest of the frontal cortex, typically won't finalize myelination until your late teens, which parallels with the end of puberty and the slowing rate of growth. By the time you're in your mid-20s, myelination is completed with your prefrontal cortex (sentience and conscience) coming dead last.
However, the lack of myelin doesn't imply the lack of coherent cerebral activity (although it certainly doesn't help).
Just ask a person with multiple sclerosis whether or not the gradual loss of myelination in their motor cortex implies a lack of coherent cerebral activity in the motor cortex.
Capo is derived from latin for head. In this case its typically the head of a mafia family in a given region.
I could...
a) Insert false records and allow the the drives to be "recovered", thus introducing false data to the system and allowing for easier social engineering in the future
b) Search records for personal with preexisting conditions that might make them vulnerable to blackmail (STDs, etc.)
c) Use family information to achieve effects similar to (b)
c) Sell raw SSN in bulk to the highest bidder d) Deliver the names and addresses of ranking officers in the database to interested parties (so Lt. Jefferson, we here you have a little problem
e) Use credit card # as one shot spending accounts, or just run up some debts to drive the owners batty (assuming cards weren't canceled already)
Can't really think of anything else. Anyone else have ideas?
There is no information inherent to your genome, or mine. If a scientist comes along and maps my genome, he creates information to associate my genes with attributes I display and with attributes displayed by others. If that scientist dies or forgets the information without ever leaving a record of that information, the information is destroyed. If the records are destroyed, and no other copies exist, the information is destroyed. If the records exist, but no other organism is ever able to access or understand them, the information is destroyed.
This all comes back to the tree falling in the forest. It does not make a sound unless you percieve it. It will generate a compression wave in an atmosphere. The compression wave is not sound unless you percieve it. Your genome is not information unless someone maps it.
Researchers don't tread here because they have either (a) come to realize all that I've stated, or more likely than not (b) do not consider defining the consequences of defining a set of facts to be true as important when they are still laboring to prove those facts exist in the first place.
Marxists believe that cooperation is more efficient than competition in the long term and that Darwinistic tendancies like those above lead to more wasted energy and in turn there is less energy in the system to profit from. The Marxists don't question the evidence or case for evolution in the same manner as the religious fanatics. They just don't believe evolution by competition is the better way to achieve goals.