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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostWhen did we need to stick to facts in general?
I remember a bloke on the telly who'd basically wiped out one hemisphere of his brain in an explosion or shooting or something, and the other side compensated for it. I'm sure they said that our brains were under utilised.
Anyway, does that mean that if you go blind, all that brain that was used for processing visual data could be redeployed?
Also, if intelligence is proportional to the distance between the eyes, that means a cyclops is dumb. But a cyclops has less eye-real estate, therefore it is smart.
this is known as a logical fallacy, or contradiction
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Interesting idea, but I'd have thought pigs with their piggy little eyes are a lot smarter than horses or cows, and weasels are smarter than lemurs. So it doesn't necessarily follow.
Seems more plausible that the Neanderthals were wiped out primarily by diseases caught from homo sapiens, especially as the latter being a bit smarter had larger "monkey spheres" (circles of acquaintances) on average so that diseases and thus better resistance to these would have spread through their communities faster.
Also, I read somewhere that Neanderthals were close quarter hunters, in dense forest for example, and may even have been good enough mimics to draw forest animals towards them by sound. But when the forests disappeared before the last ice age, their stumpy legs and heavy spears were much less suited for open air hunting than fast running modern humans with light throwing spears and bows and arrows.
Added to which, Neanderthals needed to eat more than hom sap anyway, which would have put them at an extra disadvantage when food was scarce, in winter for example.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostFascinating! How close was he to how he was before the incident?
Google man with half a brain - can't find 'my' one, but there's a reasonable selection to pick from.
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article here about hemispherectomy - seems if you whip out half the brain from a child, they develop pretty much as normal. So that would suggest that we're carting round a lot of redundant brainage.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View Postarticle here about hemispherectomy - seems if you whip out half the brain from a child, they develop pretty much as normal. So that would suggest that we're carting round a lot of redundant brainage.Comment
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I remember a bloke on the telly who'd basically wiped out one hemisphere of his brain in an explosion or shooting or somethingbloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostThere was also a chap whose only brain was a thin layer round the inside of his skull but he functioned quite well apparently. He was a civil servant I think.
Apparently, on a quiet night, you could hear it rattle around.
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Did it say cretin a lot?bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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