How did I not know about this place before, now it's going on my list.
I visited Hong Kong 8 months after the actual walled city was razed. I wish I could of been there before hand, There is a German documentary about it. They tried to map it, but not much exists about the complex before it fell. It makes me sad.
Look up the Kowoon Walled city for yourself to see more about this amazing place.
I took a trip to Osaka/Kyoto back in April, just got around to editing the clips together. Apologies for the portrait mode/weird audio levels, just tossed it together. https://youtu.be/IvnDkShHRFs
There's a phenomena that CGPGrey called "suddenly castle" where you can be walking in the UK and suddenly there's a castle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rcX8zOVGw8
The videos out of Russia make me think that they have "suddenly ruins" instead. Not cause they show up so much, but because it's never the same ruins.
Now I liked how he made them a primer and was not overall very deep into religion
As I know nothing about religion or Christians or whatever
I was saddened by the thing he said that people talked about it like adults as I don't read the comments nor am I that curious to with this video or series
I don't know about the Youtube comments, but the comments on the Patreon page for the videos were indeed pretty civil
edit: this did resonate with me. I mean, I was 13 or so when the film came out, and it certainly got me into reading the books themselves, along with all sorts of other stuff.
the bit where he rails against shitheads getting angry that I black guy played Ford, ending with the fact that the original Ford Prefect "only came in black" was just... great
This isn't all that unsettling. Parts of your body are constantly moving and doing things almost autonomously whether you're talking about individual cells or complex organs. Sure, cells and organs can respond to stimuli from the rest of the body but that system of communication can break down, and almost certainly will at some point during a life. And that reveals the fact that while the talky, high falootin conscious part of your brain likes to think it's in charge, and there's some truth to that, "you" are as much a collection of many complicated interconnected parts as you are a single entity. That the brain works in a similar fashion is something people have known for a while. I guess conceptually it's interesting that you might have two consciousnesses... except that in most people those two separate entities are in constant nigh instant communication so can you really call them separate?
I guess it's kind of amazing that if you intentionally disconnect the lines of communication between different parts of the brain they can each still work semi-autonomously, if not perfectly. (Try that with your average computer and you'll get an error message, at best.) But I mean the brain is filled with redundancy: you can literally chop off large swaths of a brain and assuming they aren't some specific really important parts you'll still get a basically normally functioning human.
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But I mean the brain is filled with redundancy: you can literally chop off large swaths of a brain and assuming they aren't some specific really important parts you'll still get a basically normally functioning human.
gonna have to disagree with you there, sport.
Tiny embolisms or clots in the brain slowing or severing connections is the kind of thing that cause strokes or epilepsy. Unless you were exaggerating "chopping off larger swaths" will definitely fuck up a human in one way or another. Sure, sometimes you can retrain some abilities using different parts of the brain or repair the connections through extensive therapy, but completely decimating your ability to read or speak or walk or grip or swallow or stand up, or randomly sending you into uncontrollable seizures from even a tiny little glitch puts a bit of a dampener on being a normally functioning human.
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So I'm late to the party on this whole Movies with Mikey thing but holy shit.
I kind of jumped around the playlist to start, watched episodes on TMNT, The Rocketeer, Scott Pilgrim, Hitchhiker's Guide and The World's End and enjoyed them all, fun, insightful stuff.
And now I just watched the episode for The Force Awakens and there were tears running down my face
https://youtu.be/vj6Kd8RSmVY
...maybe i'll finally get back into wheel throwing.
this is a really good instruction on one of the fundamentals of ceramics
But I mean the brain is filled with redundancy: you can literally chop off large swaths of a brain and assuming they aren't some specific really important parts you'll still get a basically normally functioning human.
gonna have to disagree with you there, sport.
Tiny embolisms or clots in the brain slowing or severing connections is the kind of thing that cause strokes or epilepsy. Unless you were exaggerating "chopping off larger swaths" will definitely fuck up a human in one way or another. Sure, sometimes you can retrain some abilities using different parts of the brain or repair the connections through extensive therapy, but completely decimating your ability to read or speak or walk or grip or swallow or stand up, or randomly sending you into uncontrollable seizures from even a tiny little glitch puts a bit of a dampener on being a normally functioning human.
Ah! But that's the fascinating part!
Major portions of the brain are removed in a lot of surgical interventions to little ill effect. Now, obviously a lot of these are removing portions that are not effectively behaving as brain tissue so much as seizure-generators. So really, removing big chunks of brain is also the solution to a lot of intractable seizure disorders.
And hemispherectomy, removing fully half of the brain tissue, is done for a variety of reasons (epilepsy, trauma, hemimegalencephaly, a bunch of others). Particularly in children it can lead to shockingly good outcomes.
For instance, in a study of children who had half of their brains removed at a relatively young age:
No significant cognitive deterioration or loss of language occurred, and four children showed significant cognitive improvement. Behavioural improvement was reported in 92% of those who had behaviour problems pre‐operatively.
It's not so much redundancy, since if you got rid of my left brain I'd probably be hemi-paralyzed and have trouble speaking pretty much forever. But it is resilience and plasticity and sort of an agnostic approach to setting things up. Your mind doesn't seem to super depend upon what the structure of the actual brain is, given that it has time to figure out how to use the tools available to it or create new ones.
And ironically smaller injuries to brain tissue can cause larger deficiencies in cognitive functioning because they don't entirely destroy parts of the brain, and the brain appears to be relatively conservative when it comes to writing off bits of itself. That means that extremely injured areas will still be in use, whereas completely destroyed areas can be rebuilt to function properly.
Heck there are people with half a brain who have PhDs. It's far from guaranteed that all function will be nominal after the surgery, and it's definitely way easier to recover if you had it as a kid, but it's totally got some crazy-good recovery stories.
The brain is super complicated and intriguing and I highly recommend everyone read a bunch of papers about hemispherectomy outcomes because they're all fascinating.
Edit: Oh! Though note that I'm relatively certain that most bilateral destruction of brain tissue will just straight fuck you up.
Hence half-brained kids being relatively normal, but poor H.M. being rather completely amnesiac from a comparatively much smaller removal of chunks of both left and right hippocampal tissue. Though that's probably influenced by age as well. Also, good example of how smaller != less serious for brain injuries.
I've always thought "hating mimes" was more of a joke about hating something totally innocuous and harmless for no reason than an actual thing that happens in reality
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I visited Hong Kong 8 months after the actual walled city was razed. I wish I could of been there before hand, There is a German documentary about it. They tried to map it, but not much exists about the complex before it fell. It makes me sad.
Look up the Kowoon Walled city for yourself to see more about this amazing place.
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There's a phenomena that CGPGrey called "suddenly castle" where you can be walking in the UK and suddenly there's a castle.
The videos out of Russia make me think that they have "suddenly ruins" instead. Not cause they show up so much, but because it's never the same ruins.
I don't know about the Youtube comments, but the comments on the Patreon page for the videos were indeed pretty civil
the bit where he rails against shitheads getting angry that I black guy played Ford, ending with the fact that the original Ford Prefect "only came in black" was just... great
edit- like, the rap was alright, but it doesn't come close in awesomeness to his actual words.
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Sounds too much like Nelson Munts
10 years ago I spent a decent amount of time tracking down true gaffer's tape while working audio. It makes a hell of a difference.
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I feel this video needed a Pacific Rim reference.
neuroscience!
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I guess it's kind of amazing that if you intentionally disconnect the lines of communication between different parts of the brain they can each still work semi-autonomously, if not perfectly. (Try that with your average computer and you'll get an error message, at best.) But I mean the brain is filled with redundancy: you can literally chop off large swaths of a brain and assuming they aren't some specific really important parts you'll still get a basically normally functioning human.
gonna have to disagree with you there, sport.
Tiny embolisms or clots in the brain slowing or severing connections is the kind of thing that cause strokes or epilepsy. Unless you were exaggerating "chopping off larger swaths" will definitely fuck up a human in one way or another. Sure, sometimes you can retrain some abilities using different parts of the brain or repair the connections through extensive therapy, but completely decimating your ability to read or speak or walk or grip or swallow or stand up, or randomly sending you into uncontrollable seizures from even a tiny little glitch puts a bit of a dampener on being a normally functioning human.
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I kind of jumped around the playlist to start, watched episodes on TMNT, The Rocketeer, Scott Pilgrim, Hitchhiker's Guide and The World's End and enjoyed them all, fun, insightful stuff.
And now I just watched the episode for The Force Awakens and there were tears running down my face
Hey, that's Jack Howard!
...maybe i'll finally get back into wheel throwing.
this is a really good instruction on one of the fundamentals of ceramics
Ah! But that's the fascinating part!
Major portions of the brain are removed in a lot of surgical interventions to little ill effect. Now, obviously a lot of these are removing portions that are not effectively behaving as brain tissue so much as seizure-generators. So really, removing big chunks of brain is also the solution to a lot of intractable seizure disorders.
And hemispherectomy, removing fully half of the brain tissue, is done for a variety of reasons (epilepsy, trauma, hemimegalencephaly, a bunch of others). Particularly in children it can lead to shockingly good outcomes.
For instance, in a study of children who had half of their brains removed at a relatively young age:
It's not so much redundancy, since if you got rid of my left brain I'd probably be hemi-paralyzed and have trouble speaking pretty much forever. But it is resilience and plasticity and sort of an agnostic approach to setting things up. Your mind doesn't seem to super depend upon what the structure of the actual brain is, given that it has time to figure out how to use the tools available to it or create new ones.
And ironically smaller injuries to brain tissue can cause larger deficiencies in cognitive functioning because they don't entirely destroy parts of the brain, and the brain appears to be relatively conservative when it comes to writing off bits of itself. That means that extremely injured areas will still be in use, whereas completely destroyed areas can be rebuilt to function properly.
Heck there are people with half a brain who have PhDs. It's far from guaranteed that all function will be nominal after the surgery, and it's definitely way easier to recover if you had it as a kid, but it's totally got some crazy-good recovery stories.
The brain is super complicated and intriguing and I highly recommend everyone read a bunch of papers about hemispherectomy outcomes because they're all fascinating.
Edit: Oh! Though note that I'm relatively certain that most bilateral destruction of brain tissue will just straight fuck you up.
Hence half-brained kids being relatively normal, but poor H.M. being rather completely amnesiac from a comparatively much smaller removal of chunks of both left and right hippocampal tissue. Though that's probably influenced by age as well. Also, good example of how smaller != less serious for brain injuries.
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