[lojban-beginners] semi-topical climes A

["Ken Comer" <me@kencomer.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Cheetham" <jim@gonzul.net>
To: <lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
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?

--
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