Brain Exercises

 

It is interesting.  Not just the learning part, but trying to squeeze the most production out of the process as one can.  There's a thousand little tricks,  and the learning should never stop.  Most of that pressure is self inflicted.  However, the pressure I feel when I'm moving the coils around with the crane is something different.  An accident there won't leave you with a black finger nail. You can kill someone.  That's the kind of task where fear is an interesting companion.  Of course, you don't want fear to overwhelm you so you can't do the job-- which isn't dangerous at all if you do everything the way it's supposed to be done.  But on the other hand, you want to keep that fear somewhere in the back of your mind so respect for what you're dealing with is maintained.

 

 

 

He he.

Years ago, when I was more snide, on other message boards, I used a tag line that read "Philosophy is a field of study designed to keep the right people away from sharp objects and moving machinery." 

I'm not Joe handy guy either, compared to many of my co-workers.  But, all it takes is a little focus.  For example, when using a skill saw at home,  I make sure my work area isn't cluttered,  I make sure the blade depth is set right, and I think the cut through before I do it, conscious of where my hands will be and where the cord will be in relation to the blade.   Same with moving coils of steel around.   You think it through, look for potential problems first.  Most accidents are the result of several small things going wrong. You eleminate all the ones you can, and the ones you miss probably won't have a catastrophic impact.

That's why someone once observed that "luck" is the residue of good planning.

Speaking of which, I've promised to construct a light box for Rebecca West, and I should probably do that today-- or at least get started.

 

 

 

 

Excellent discussion guys, really enjoyed it, keep us informed boomboom what the disks are all about.

 

That is funny you should say that, I started to read it, and felt the same way, so I moved along, but kept thinking about it in the background, and of a sudden, it all started clicking and I went "hey", and went back to the thread and read it, and the majority of the linked info.

And yep, sure enough, it all meant that relativity exists in the micro and macro of this light speed.

Very simply put of course.

 

Loved that whole read, wonderfully refreshing.

just register your computers as a network, in the soft ware registration prompt

I am not as old as you are Boom Boom, but I have a similar problem that if I do not use it, I tend to loose it. Since we can be creatures of habit, it seems to me that neurological pathways are highways so to speak, and not traveling these roads, names of towns can slip our mind. "Waking up by traveling similar journeys" do tend to re-ignited those same neurological pathways. Having a strokes and damaging areas of the brain means that in order to ignite processes in our body expressions means to try and ignited those same pathways that were used. By correspondence, we see correlations to our own lives. Looking at something and orientating the mind to see angles of something, is to me much like looking deep within the functioning of society to see what lies at the "bedrock or infrastructure" of the supporting objects of perception. This is where something vaguely familiar eggs the conscious mind to look harder into the reservoir of our own histories. Brings those memories back to the surface.

Having attended a recent seminar, I can attest that Anaka is very good. Some of his exercises, e.g., relate to getting communication between the different hemispheres of the brain going. (Juggling is one way.) But it is his infectious enthusiasm that is, perhaps, most memorable. For those interested in brain exercises, his presentations and books are great resources.

The Spotless Mind

Psychology professor Karim Nader is helping sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder lessen debilitating symptoms—and in some cases, regain a normal life.Owen Egan See also: The Trauma Tamer

IC: Why is this research so important?

Karim Nader: There are a lot of implications. All psychopathological disorders, such as PTSD, epilepsy, obsessive compulsive disorders, or addiction—all these things have to do with your brain getting rewired in a way that is malfunctioning. Theoretically, we may be able to treat a lot of these psychopathologies. If you could block the re-storage of the circuit that causes the obsessive compulsion, then you might be able to reset a person to a level where they aren’t so obsessive. Or perhaps you can reset the circuit that has undergone epilepsy repeatedly so that you can increase the threshold for seizures. And there is some killer data showing that it’s possible to block the reconsolidation of drug cravings.

The other reason why I think it is so striking is that it is so contrary to what has been the accepted view of memory for so long in the mainstream. My research caused everybody in the field to stop, turn around and go, “Whoa, where’d that come from?” Nobody’s really working on this issue, and the only reason I came up with this is because I wasn’t trained in memory. [Nader was originally researching fear.] It really caused a fundamental reconceptualization of a very basic and dogmatic field in neuroscience, which is very exciting. It is the first time in 100 years that people are starting to come up with new models of memory at the physiological level.

I've been a huge fan of Dali's paintings most of my life.

I can't stand Escher, personally - I find his stuff too tacky, techical, impersonal, etc.... On the other hand, the Surrealists really appeal to me.

Spending a little time looking into science and art, Dali rose to the occasion in my view in terms of Geometry and the tesseract. He had a "religious epiphany" moving toward dimensional perspective, and related it too, moving perception toward geometry, as if "other worldly." Many understand his private life not to be so blessed with such religiosity?:) IN this way, I felt there was a kinship toward artist expression moving minds in science toward an malleable experience in terms of "using the brain and twisting it" one might say. This is a perspective I formed around how we view projective geometry in terms of it leading perspective in that artistic sense.

Check this out:

http://www.braingym.org

Ha! Good one, G. Pie. That's a good puzzle.

Oh boo! I'm in there with the 80 percent.

Aside from slowing my year-old laptop computer down a bit because it's such a massive program, I am quite pleased with the NeuroActive CD. It has a ton of brain exercises that one can do anytime, besides the regular program designed to be done every two days. All these exercises take quite a bit of concentration, and some memorization, as well. It's such a large program, however, that I've decided not to install it on my old desktop computer, which is already quite slow.

Twenty minutes every second day is the suggested schedule. There are music and spoken words sections as well, so headphones are a good idea unless your computer has good speakers.