... No, people with mental illness have fully functioning neurons. The brain is completely healthy as a living thing...
Not true. Most mental illnesses are caused by neurones not working properly. More specifically, chemical transmiters between neurones not being released or not attaching to the receptors on the other neurone.
If you are arguing it's not physical, then what does go wrong in someone with mental illness?
By the way, I also forgot to say that mental problems are generally just physical problems that happen to be in the brain. Mental illness is not some ethereal problem that has nothing to do with the physical world. In stroke victims the person has some damaged neurones. In mental problems the person has some, err..., damaged neurones.
If a person with a stroke can utilise other neurones(with the right help and treatment), then why can't someone with mental problems?
They are not irrelevant. They demonstrate that people can overcome almost any difficulty. The examples I gave happen to be physical. So What!
If a child with mental problems is born into a family that doesn't want them and puts them into care where the carers believe, like you apparently, that mental difficulties are different from physical ones and can't be overcome in the same way then that child is scuppered.
On the other hand, if they are born into a family who cares for them and sees even the slightest task they do by themselves as an achievement, then that child is going to develop in a much more healthy way than in the first scenario. Yes they will fail at things much more than they will succeed, but when they do succeed it will be a tremendous boost to them. This will re-enforce their sense of self and their drive to achieve even small tasks..
If you take even the most severe cases where, say, learning to smile is a mammoth task. In a caring, supportive environment where failure is OK (after all they will probably fail much more than they will succeed), then the child may manage to smile. In an environment where they are seen as a failure in the first place, then they are much less likely to achieve small tasks like smiling.
... How much "tremendous and sustained effort" can a 4 year-old have made?...
You'd be surprised. His father pushed him really hard almost from birth.
But, that's not the point of the article. The artcle. OK, so Mozart had great potential when he was born and his father pushed him. He was almost certain to achieve greatness (although some people in that situation can be pushed to madness).
The article is about overcoming limitations and learning to cope when you fail to achieve something. It is saying that if you are taught that you are only good at one thing and you are never "allowed" to fail then you may grow up never trying.
Take stroke victims. In severe cases they can't walk or speak properly. However they can make a full recovery, not by regenerating the damaged neurones, but by utilising neurones in the brain that are normally used in other mental tasks. Their brains have adapted.
A a boy, my father lived next to a boy who had severe problems walking (can't remember the exact name of the disease). His father forced him to walk even though it was painful for him and in my dad's house they could here him crying and protesting against his father. However, he grew up able to walk and to hold down a job and not just sit about.
Look at the late Jane Tomlinson who managed to run 3 marathons, several triathalons and the Great North run and many other physical achievments despite suffering from terminal cancer.
Or, Crawford Carrick-Anderson who is profoundly deaf but has been 5 time Scottish champion, 2nd in Britain and 9th in the world in Motorbike endurance racing, as well as being in the British Ski-ing team. This is the "proper" championships mind you, not the "special" championships.
Or, Dame Evelyn Glennie who is, arguably, one of the worlds top percussionists despite being profoundly deaf.
Sorry to go on, but these are just 5 of the instances I happen to know about who have overcome great difficulties(disabilities, although I doubt they will call them that) to become top of their field or at least live a "normal" life.
RTFA. It's not about mental ability. It's about how open children are to changing their abilities.
Children with mental disabilities can find ways around it if they have had the sort of upbringing/education that has told them they can. If they have been told that their mental ability/disability is fixed then they won't.
... I would not be surprised if the service automatically encrypts the data during transit on the desktop...
That technique is already used on a site called www.passpack.com. You log in using your account and the site downloads a password protected zip file to your browser. You then type in a second password to unzip the file you can then edit the data/files. when you are finished the file is zipped (password protected) and re-uploaded to the server.
This means the file on the server is protected (128 bit I think) and even if someone hacked the server and found your account on the database they would find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to access your file. Even an insider to the site would have the same problem.
... The two Americas do look much better - and make it obvious it is a planet....
Only to someone from the Americas. Eurasia has a coast too, and a very distinctive one at that. Just look at the west coast. People recognise what they are used to.
To all those that think this would be great for cloning Natalie Portman/Angelina Jolie etc...
You forget that you will have to wait till they grow up by which time you will be an old wrinkly.
The genes used to clone your chosen celebrity will already be 30 years old(or whatever age the star is) when you clone them. Genes degrade over time. They also have various functions switched on and off through time. If a child is born with the genes of a 30 year old, this causes all sorts of physical problems which means the clone rarely develps beyond the foetal stage. This is in-fact the main reason that most clones fail. If I remember correctly, it took 180 attempts to get a live birth of a cloned sheep (Dolly).
The IP addresses in the experiment were randomly created.
This means that their test could have hit some old woman's PC who happened to be dialled up over her phone line at the time, and using the IP address assigned to her by her ISP.
If she doesn't have a firewall, then of course the Oracle port could be open. Is this a security risk? Well if she only uses her computer for email then no.
Was an Oracle DB with customer's credit card details exposed to the world? Absolutely not!
The BBC is NOT owned by the British state. It is an independent trust paid for by the television license(anyone who has a television pays this). This stops it being beholden to the state (or to any private company/interests).
My fault. You are right. I was thinking that it needed a small amount of continuous charge while it was i standby. It doesn't (unless you decide you need yo keep the stand by light on all the time).
They maybe don't draw power when they are off but they draw extra power when they are on to charge the capacitors which power the monitor when it is off.
No power saved overall. Move on, nothing to see here.
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Not true. Most mental illnesses are caused by neurones not working properly. More specifically, chemical transmiters between neurones not being released or not attaching to the receptors on the other neurone.
If you are arguing it's not physical, then what does go wrong in someone with mental illness?
By the way, I also forgot to say that mental problems are generally just physical problems that happen to be in the brain. Mental illness is not some ethereal problem that has nothing to do with the physical world. In stroke victims the person has some damaged neurones. In mental problems the person has some, err..., damaged neurones.
If a person with a stroke can utilise other neurones(with the right help and treatment), then why can't someone with mental problems?
They are not irrelevant. They demonstrate that people can overcome almost any difficulty. The examples I gave happen to be physical. So What!
If a child with mental problems is born into a family that doesn't want them and puts them into care where the carers believe, like you apparently, that mental difficulties are different from physical ones and can't be overcome in the same way then that child is scuppered.
On the other hand, if they are born into a family who cares for them and sees even the slightest task they do by themselves as an achievement, then that child is going to develop in a much more healthy way than in the first scenario. Yes they will fail at things much more than they will succeed, but when they do succeed it will be a tremendous boost to them. This will re-enforce their sense of self and their drive to achieve even small tasks..
If you take even the most severe cases where, say, learning to smile is a mammoth task. In a caring, supportive environment where failure is OK (after all they will probably fail much more than they will succeed), then the child may manage to smile. In an environment where they are seen as a failure in the first place, then they are much less likely to achieve small tasks like smiling.
You'd be surprised. His father pushed him really hard almost from birth.
But, that's not the point of the article. The artcle. OK, so Mozart had great potential when he was born and his father pushed him. He was almost certain to achieve greatness (although some people in that situation can be pushed to madness).
The article is about overcoming limitations and learning to cope when you fail to achieve something. It is saying that if you are taught that you are only good at one thing and you are never "allowed" to fail then you may grow up never trying.
I hate to just plain disagree with you but...
Take stroke victims. In severe cases they can't walk or speak properly. However they can make a full recovery, not by regenerating the damaged neurones, but by utilising neurones in the brain that are normally used in other mental tasks. Their brains have adapted.
A a boy, my father lived next to a boy who had severe problems walking (can't remember the exact name of the disease). His father forced him to walk even though it was painful for him and in my dad's house they could here him crying and protesting against his father. However, he grew up able to walk and to hold down a job and not just sit about.
Look at the late Jane Tomlinson who managed to run 3 marathons, several triathalons and the Great North run and many other physical achievments despite suffering from terminal cancer.
Or, Crawford Carrick-Anderson who is profoundly deaf but has been 5 time Scottish champion, 2nd in Britain and 9th in the world in Motorbike endurance racing, as well as being in the British Ski-ing team. This is the "proper" championships mind you, not the "special" championships.
Or, Dame Evelyn Glennie who is, arguably, one of the worlds top percussionists despite being profoundly deaf.
Sorry to go on, but these are just 5 of the instances I happen to know about who have overcome great difficulties(disabilities, although I doubt they will call them that) to become top of their field or at least live a "normal" life.
RTFA. It's not about mental ability. It's about how open children are to changing their abilities.
Children with mental disabilities can find ways around it if they have had the sort of upbringing/education that has told them they can. If they have been told that their mental ability/disability is fixed then they won't.
That technique is already used on a site called www.passpack.com. You log in using your account and the site downloads a password protected zip file to your browser. You then type in a second password to unzip the file you can then edit the data/files. when you are finished the file is zipped (password protected) and re-uploaded to the server.
This means the file on the server is protected (128 bit I think) and even if someone hacked the server and found your account on the database they would find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to access your file. Even an insider to the site would have the same problem.
Only to someone from the Americas. Eurasia has a coast too, and a very distinctive one at that. Just look at the west coast. People recognise what they are used to.
In Brownian Britain all our citizens just move about randomly bashing into each other.
They only cost less than taxes until someone pays them more and they stop protecting you.
Who is the KISS they mention in the article?
What military code breaking centres? There are none!
LOL! I hadn't thought of that. You may have a point.
To all those that think this would be great for cloning Natalie Portman/Angelina Jolie etc...
You forget that you will have to wait till they grow up by which time you will be an old wrinkly.
The genes used to clone your chosen celebrity will already be 30 years old(or whatever age the star is) when you clone them. Genes degrade over time. They also have various functions switched on and off through time. If a child is born with the genes of a 30 year old, this causes all sorts of physical problems which means the clone rarely develps beyond the foetal stage. This is in-fact the main reason that most clones fail. If I remember correctly, it took 180 attempts to get a live birth of a cloned sheep (Dolly).
The IP addresses in the experiment were randomly created.
This means that their test could have hit some old woman's PC who happened to be dialled up over her phone line at the time, and using the IP address assigned to her by her ISP.
If she doesn't have a firewall, then of course the Oracle port could be open. Is this a security risk? Well if she only uses her computer for email then no.
Was an Oracle DB with customer's credit card details exposed to the world? Absolutely not!
I'm sorry Dave, I Cannot do that. Daisy, Dai...
Am I reading a different wikipedia from you?
The BBC is NOT owned by the British state. It is an independent trust paid for by the television license(anyone who has a television pays this). This stops it being beholden to the state (or to any private company/interests).
My fault. You are right. I was thinking that it needed a small amount of continuous charge while it was i standby. It doesn't (unless you decide you need yo keep the stand by light on all the time).
They maybe don't draw power when they are off but they draw extra power when they are on to charge the capacitors which power the monitor when it is off.
No power saved overall. Move on, nothing to see here.
That's just creationism in another form. We don't understand it so it must be some outside power/influence.
There, fixed that for you. It's run by donations not taxes, so if you don't want to spend your money on it, then don't.
All these vid's are yours, except Europa. Attempt no filmings there.
I for one welcome our black monolithic overlords.
There, fixed that for you! In case you didn't know, Michael Jackson owns all the copyright on the Beatles songs.
And judt how long is it going to take to remember which one you went down last?