Bio-Hazard

google maps is still better.

bwahaha

webadmin@mailnation.net

that's the nice thing about getting to these things early.. i've got web-admin@myway.com too.. bwahahahah

but.. can you use a shell extension for it to upload?

Since I'm learning more and more about neuroscience, a creative idea came into my head. I figured that by studying neuroscience, one could figure out the best way to enhance reading speed.

What studies have been done on the brain that show the best way for someone to enhance their reading speed.

In other words, have there been studies done on the active neural connections that go on in the brain that increase or become stronger as a persons reading and comprehension speed begin to increase?

Did these connections do better during a certain reading enhacement procedure than the other?

I've recently decided to take into consideration using a more durable water bottle made out of metal. Of course I'm too cheap to go out and buy a metal canteen I decided to use a bottle that was filled with Snapple Elements Energy drink, but now water.

What I'm wondering is what type of metal this is made out of.. I don't really know what type of metal or anything. I don't even know how long until it rusts out. I do know however that sugars are acids and that acid eats away at metal and that it most likely has a higher pH level than water which is a neutral 7. So I'm guessing it will last longer with water than it would with sugar, but I'm concerened with the open-close system in which air goes in and out. This system could create problems which will eventually speed up the chemical reaction of air with metal making the bottle rust.

So, anyone got any ideas until how long the inside rusts out?

uhh. Ok. Wrong area.. or is this something you want to discuss?

Well, that's like my answer for "what do you think about immortality?" I'm for it, obviously. But is it feasible?

Yeah, but you're going to p*** off the gov. and the pope if you do it as an underground procedure. But if they don't find out.. and everyone works together....

This is why I'm trying to get into neural science, because I figure somehow we can speed up the learning process, exponentially. Like upgrading fromt pentium I to a pentium II

If I comprehend this correctly, this guy is creating a metaphysical proposal as to how the mind is awakened by environmental factors on a quantum scale.

Suppose that are things are chemical within the brain, certain psychophysics creating energy waves interpreted by the body which make the minds chemical structure change. We are simply not "living" but reacting to a exponential amount of energy fluxuations in nature that have become a biological predispostion.

Which would probably come to an idea of why emotions are created from physiological change.

The idea of physiological change which changes emotion must be prebuilt and wired into our human brains which aided our survival for billions of years. I think environment is going to have a lot to do with this.

I grow my own plants, which I feed to animals and myself, afterwards I capture those fat little squirrels and eat them for dinner.

Bwahaha just kidding. Walmart will be killed by something we have in the Midwest called Woodman's. I think Woodman's will give Walmart deep competition. However, I can't find a way to invest in woodmans since it is employee owned.

I think we should have a system where college educated students w/ or w/o a degree are paid far higher than those without a normal education. Also, those who keep a high school grade average above a B should be paid higher. An egalitarian system in my mind. Or else a work quiz which challenges them.. I think that America's workforce is seriously screwed up, after hearing so many stories of store managers being incompetent of spelling things on a constant basis. I mean, the little things. Being less educated than their workers and being paid more.

With this system, more education = more money. Which will make people in America work harder to become educated. Sadly, the economic side of business goes with educated, poor people. AKA India.

Kinda funny how god works about that situation though. Nature has a mind of its own.

(i probably made mistakes but I'm not getting paid for posting!)

K...

The orientation of tiny structures caused light to reflect in a particular way, looking shiny or iridescent.

What would these structures be called?

Could it be you linked your site's forum to SFN?

In the days before the internet, there were large books in the library that listed all that information, including the person to whom you should send the application; usually the department head. All that info should be online now. I'd take it as a bad sign if grad schools haven't joined the rest of us in the 21st century.

A lot of schools haven't really figured out the internet thing. My schools website still has a copyright 2004, not a bad thing.. but the library hours are for last semester...

Anyways, I suggest you look at their website, email them, and wait for a reply. If they don't reply within a week, reply to someone higher than them, or in the same department; math, chemistry, physics. Even a student commission or something, if everyone else is jacking around.

That way you can have someone get ahold of someone else for you.

I sometimes find tons of mistakes on niu.edu so I just message the webmaster or some other staff and have them direct the mail for me.

I emailed Kevin Warwick a couple of times before, so I know that these people can't be that busy at other colleges.

Have any webpages that go into detail?

Hmm.. wonder how long that site will keep up. Usually people will ban people who share their accounts.

Would there be color disfiguration over time from the electrical stimulation?

I'm one for bionic parts.. but if you get hit with an EMP, you're screwed.

We aren't that far off.. I believe it took about 2000 mice death to make a mouse from two female mice.

So you've got about a 1/8000 chance probably to make a super-mutant human.

I do agree to the human hunt factor.. even the Vanilla Skies factor where humans with ESP become created and they have emotional breakdowns from all the mind reading. People would probably hunt them and make them sex slaves or just keep disecting them.. We can't just do it individually. Although eugeneics is a great idea, people would fight over the idea because they aren't special.

Even those who are more talented intellecutally take anothers job because of money. When people become aware of their life and surroundings and throw away materialistic possession, then perhaps we could work as equals.. but people won't work as equals..

Life isn't fun anways, I wanna be like Gene Starwind and explore space. If we could be better than we are now, the worst thing that happens is what happened in the Animatrix.

o.O

I want to be my own god, so I chose biochem and neuroscience.

It's not about the money, it's not about the status.

It's about the knowledge and the power that comes with it.

Both pay very well, though.

Don't worry about running out of money, we've got the Internet and libraries these days. Colleges with computers and free internet access, all you gotta do is get to the computer. Knowledge is free these days, yet the trouble is finding it.

What I would do if I were you is I would research animal psychiatry, genetics, and cognitive science.

By doing that you help science look into the mind of animals and you also get to do both fields.

I think a good example of this is betty the crow. I dislike bring the same topic up over and over, but if it works, hey.

People spend long amounts of time trying to figure out what to do. I stumbled back and forth and as a child wanted to do computer science. However that got booted out of America into India so I stopped. That was an economic change. Luckily that pushed me into neuroscience and a lot of other things of interest which I decided to go with. I was interested in technology, sci-fi, and cyborgs as a child.. also genetics and dragons.. I thought if we had dragons with certain acidic compounds in their body, there may have been electromagnetic waves in earlier days that allowed them to form wings, and this acid could have also started fires when spit onto houses..

Experience, trial and error, all those things will help one decide.. Try to do it quickly though, you ain't got much time. Meditate on it with free time.

I look at flies and sometimes I see a metallic shine on their skin.. I can't tell what it is. Does anyone know?

Hmm.. interesting.. I don't think it would alter personality in much of a way since personality is already cut off and can't be altered from new information coming in without the chip implant. However, personality may be able to be altered from within, certainly there would be little degree of effect from the neurological chip using the same scientific and mathematical principles of the hippocampus encoding.

I should get some sleep and come back to this thread later today.

I'm looking for peer-reviewed papers that have to do with scientific research on nootropes, that could help verify the reliability of some of the OTC drugs.

I like your idea of the BC-I.. but I'm discovering some breaking stuff.. well for the analog to digital to analog system to occur, we're going to have to tap into the chemical reactions that occur in the brain, hopefully those would be the analog.. then we'd have to convert that process and the way it works into digital. We won't be playing with simple copper wires and silicon.. we might be using calcium and some other type of metals.. I suspecting that the learning process of atomic elements and chemicals will have a lot with this BC-I mind uploading process.

I might be crazy here, but there might be a differnt type of encoding system for the brain that relates to analog.. but more an a quantum mechanical scale that has to do with atoms.. I'm sure the encoding system has a lot to do with the chemical actions of the atoms in the brain between different regions. Perhaps similiar to binary making it digital.

Other than that...

Many of these drugs are being developed for alzheimer's disease but can be used to increase memory and learning ability in a normal person without causing cancerous effects.

The side-effect I'm currently researching behind "Smart Drugs" is the idea behind them that if you take them, the ability and process in which the brain makes them regulary will drop.

For example, if a person does heroine or some other drugs, it increases endorphins in the body unnaturally. You see, the body makes endorphins regulary to help your body cope with pain, but these unnatural endorphins tell the body that you are taking in an artificial source now. The body thinks for itself and decides to stop producing endorphins naturally. That's why when people stop doing heroin and other drugs their body is prone to pain and injury excitment.

The side-effect is, "Will the brain stop the regular process in which the learning process occurs through chemical reactions?" In other words.. if I take artifical drugs to get smart... will the body stop producing the natural chemicals that make me smart?

Of course, over time the body starts remaking them.. but it is a very slow process, which creates a withdrawal process.

Read this article to get a somewhat decent understanding...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0000E503-E27C-1329-A27C83414B7F0000

1a. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_potentiation

1b. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropics

2. http://nootropics.com/smartdrugs/smart-drug.html

3. http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/molecules/pdb54_1.html

4. http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/CONSUMER/CON00207.html

"The research data I've seen was not based on well-controlled studies in which a

'smart' drug and a placebo were compared, and in which there was an objective measure

of how successful the drug was, such as having to remember someone's name," Crook

said.

"The clinical evidence relied on animal models, but animals and humans may not

react the same. Individual people are different, too. A 25-year-old stockbroker won't

react to certain stimuli in the same way that an older person would."

The interesting thing behind this is that a few decades ago, people will still trying to discover the complete teaching process of animals that were not human. We still to this day are trying to figure out their learning process and have become amazed by things that betty the crow can do by herself. Certainly some animals must learn differently than humans having a different neural structure.

Should I rephrase? Or does no one know?

Have you tried looking for info on findarticles.com?

It gave me five stars.. what's that mean... I'm an immortal?!

W00T! I am immortal I have inside the blood of kings YAH!

Wheaties. You gotta' have your wheaties. Breakfast of champions!

Seriously though, most likely some type of neurotransmitter malfunction is occuring creating a biological predisposition. Since this biological fault exists and they are put in a regular environment.. say.. McDonalds.. when they see that the cashier can't count, their impatience and hate towards the idiots of society begins to grow more and more. This is most definitely a nature vs. nurture issue.

Supposedly they aren't suppose to have feelings..

I'm sure they have the feeling of want, otherwise they wouldn't pick what tool to use.. Of course they sometimes use random choices.. there is the emotion of want still existant.. want makes most of anyone's decisions in life.

There must be some type of feeling, perhaps selfish want. Perhaps they can't feel anything about others.. or else they can't interpret how they feel. Maybe they can have an emotion of their own.. but they can't feel someone elses making them careless of how they scream and shout while being pushed into the ground and stabbed multiple times with a fork in the face.

And slowly it turns into totse...