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This Just In: General British strikes out again!
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So, SE++. Evolution rocks out with its cock out for millions of years at a time, and here we are just starting to realize how awesome and fantastic the universe is. How deep does human potential go? Will we as a species ever breach our own phychological and philosophical barriers, and if so will we use the power that information grants us for good or ill? What will become of us once we learn too much? Are we infinetly adaptable or simply too stupid to see how flawed we are?
MSNBC wrote:Newborns can follow a rhythm, a new study has found, suggesting rocking out is innate.
Infants as young as 2 days old can process pitch and tell if a series of notes are rising or falling in scale. And it is now known they have rhythm, too.
When "metrically-unimportant portions" of the beat were silenced, nothing much changed among the auditory-related activity in the brain, Honing said. But when the rhythm was disturbed, particularly by omitting the downbeat, the infant brain responded with an error signal: An expectation for a rhythmic pattern was not met.
Therefore, evolution may have favored brains wired to rock for learning purposes, said Winkler, and "music went along for the ride."
So, SE++. Evolution rocks out with its cock out for millions of years at a time, and here we are just starting to realize how awesome and fantastic the universe is. How deep does human potential go? Will we as a species ever breach our own phychological and philosophical barriers, and if so will we use the power that information grants us for good or ill? What will become of us once we learn too much? Are we infinetly adaptable or simply too stupid to see how flawed we are?
...I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
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Classy enough for you?
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I can't really speak to quality. I mean look at the shitty threads I make.
that's too many threads
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Im a terrible person.
when she was 2 she'd ride in the van with us on tour
and she had a habit of yelling "ONE" on the down beat every four bars of whatever music was playing on the stereo
she perceived phrasing when she was two
it always blew me away
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Conducted by Jonathan Swift a long time ago
we need to conduct experiments
Do I have something to show you!
This study basically proves that thousands of years of human artistic achievement in music is essentially due to something wired into us from millions of years of evolution because it made it easier to teach our dumb asses how to stand up straight to look over tall grass and tie rocks to sticks to make weapons.
The very last human achievement will be the modeling of human intelligence in a machine, and my guess is that will happen long before we really understand much of what's going on up there.
Did he say that this was impossible or something?
It is still like 75 degrees here.
H-Town wins again
turns out my semen cures gullibility
we'll be geniuses!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Not directly. The second line in the article mentiones that the evidence provided suggests that the newborn brain is not the blank slate it was once thought to be.
Thats basically the idea the phrase Tabula Rasa translates into. It was just a pun because he makes terrible games.
Ahh, well then.
Houston never wins.
Also, I love the cold, Mysst, but I was expecting it to ice given the weather at midnight when I was walking back across campus from the poker game, so I stayed up waaaaaaay too late and had to wake up super early.