From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 28 08:42:13 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:42:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AlslZ-0005TT-9c for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:42:13 -0800 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:42:13 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Almost there! Message-ID: <20040128164213.GH11006@digitalkingdom.org> References: <000e01c3e3cc$1b7398e0$6501a8c0@COMER> <20040127002552.GH11006@digitalkingdom.org> <00d901c3e4a0$8d4deae0$6501a8c0@COMER> <20040127190057.GQ11006@digitalkingdom.org> <1075235552.2704.31.camel@taoying> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1075235552.2704.31.camel@taoying> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 504 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:32:32AM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 08:00, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > 3. It will without question require more brain space then we > > currently have, so they'll either need to give something else up > > (allow me to suggest emotional centers for a start) or much > > bigger heads. > > Or, giving up something that is not 'brain', but is otherwise > cloce to the normal cognition center ... > > i.e. boost the efficiency of lungs, and you can reduce their > volume. Then you have a space, protected by the ribcage, that is > close to the brain/spinal cord. Yep, that works. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui