From me@kencomer.com Tue Jan 27 14:07:01 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:09:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.168.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AlbMK-0000RO-L8 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:07:01 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO COMER) (kencomer@sbcglobal.net@68.94.35.65 with login) by smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2004 22:06:55 -0000 Message-ID: <004b01c3e522$71e6b660$6501a8c0@COMER> From: "Ken Comer" To: References: <000e01c3e3cc$1b7398e0$6501a8c0@COMER> <20040127002552.GH11006@digitalkingdom.org> <00d901c3e4a0$8d4deae0$6501a8c0@COMER> <20040127190057.GQ11006@digitalkingdom.org> <1075235552.2704.31.camel@taoying> Subject: [lojban-beginners] semi-topical climes A Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:10:58 -0600 Organization: Happiness, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-archive-position: 501 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: me@kencomer.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cheetham" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:32 PM Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Almost there! > 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. Perhaps the speed of communication from there to the > brain would be too slow for some real-time work, but it could be a good > backing store for things like vocabulary, and long-term memories. Make > it a 'full backup' of the brain, and you might even end up with the > ability to restore personality/memories after a severe head trauma - > after all, the only reason the brain is in the vulnerable head is to > speed up the data from the eyes and ears, which benefit from being as > high up as possible ... > > -djim, severly off-topic ... ROFL! When I received this, I had already begun typing a lengthy reply directly to Robin because, interesting though the topic was, I did not want to hijack the mailing list for a personal conversation. The reason I found your post particularly entertaining is that I had independently arrived at a very similar conclusion... But, in my case, I had... N'mind--I'll post it here for your amusement, as it appears that the subject is sufficiently close to "logical language beginners" to merit inclusion... After all, if you can upgrade the processes used by the brain through language, why stop there? -- From the Certified Mind of Ken Comer (never trust an uncertifiable brain) "I love America because they make great horror movies." -- an Iraqi citizen who disapproves of the occupation, but otherwise likes the USA (Source: AFP Fri Oct 31, 6:23 AM ET)