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Shinku Ryu
Anyway what im trying to say is that some scientist's say that there was evolution and some say there was'nt.so your taking side on those who agree and im on those who are saying there was not evolution...so we will keep talking about this and no one will win.......
And like I said.....find me some other SCIENTIFIC theories of how human beings developed over millions of years, or some other SCIENTIFIC article on human advancement.
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Well, since you kindly stated that your theory was sketchy, I wouldn't term it as a logical fallacy.. as I usually do.. *cougH* .. but I can read a little bit of sense to your theory. But this is the way I see it. You said that if the brain could send these signals outside the body... but you forget one thing my friend.. Theses signals aren't the air. There are neurons that carry these signals that the brain uses to control the body to the arm and other parts of the body. These neurons are in fact matter.. they have weight and occupy space.. thus, they cannot be transferred from inside the body to outside the body.
Good point....I've gotta stop making these debate posts at 3 in the morning......
I'll have to think up of some new way to argue my point now.....damn you *shakes fist*
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Forgive me if I attack ur theories head on like it's something to be proven soon.. but I just don't see that happening.. Energy is neither created nor destroyed.. but it can be transferred from one form to another.. First law of thermodynamics.. now there has to be a permeable or non permeable tract for energy to be converted.. It can't just go from one point to another the way you've described it. You talk of the untapped potential energy of the brain... well fine. I don't know what inside this block head of mine.. but even if there is potential energy.. How on earth or even jupiter would it be transferred to kinetic energy. You can manipulate urself into thinking that the object would move.. but according to Newton's first law of motion.. that object would remain in its state of Inertia!
I'm not sure how well this would apply, but here goes:
I've heard a couple stories of people who have been admitted to hospitals due to slash marks on their arms and bodies. They were mentally unstable....not to the point of being completely psycho, but a simple instability in the brain....and were claiming that they were being attacked by invisible forces. After doing a psychoanalysis, EEG (or whatever brainscans they did), they determined that there was no "invisible forces." What had happened was that the "victim" believed that he was being attacked to such a degree that the brain actually believed it too, and therefore CAUSED the slash wounds to open on their own, with no outside interference. The brain was tricked into thinking that some invisible force with a knife was attacking, and therefore the body responded as though it was actually happening....the brain caused the body to think that a knife was sliding across the skin, and in turn, the skin sliced open and bled. In The Exorcist, when the words "help me" appeared on the girl's stomach, they said that the brain has the ability to manipulate the body in strange ways....and attacked the idea of her being possessed by saying that the brain could have been TRICKED into thinking that she was possessed and was trying to call for help, and therefore the skin reacted in such a way as to raise up in the form of letters....I will have to try to find more sources on this but I do remember hearing reports of this.
Either way, the premise for my theory is that the brain might be able to manipulate the energy around an object to "trick" the object into "thinking" that it's being manipulated. Just as the brain tricked the skin of the body into thinking it was being sliced open, the brain could possibly "trick" the environment around it, and make the object "think" that it's being lifted up by an outside force, and therefore have the object float in the air, being manipulated by the brain's.....persuasiveness.
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True.. but so is the shark and the whale. They aren't living the perfect life.. so to say in the ocean.. Sure they're well adapted.. there are still somethings that'll hurt them.. that doesn't mean they'll evolve again. Who knows.. maybe the body wasn't made to reach perfection.. We might have gone far and evolved much.. but what if we weren't supposed to be perfect. Also note the fact that the environment is a parameter that defines at what level the body would work or evolve.. optimum effeciency so to say.. and with the ever changing environment we live in.. it's hard to note what kind of evolving our body would go through in order to counter that sort of change
Sharks and alligators/crocodiles have remained virtually unchanged for a few hundred million years....it is speculated that they have already reached the pinnacle of their evolutionary status, and have become perfectly adapt to their current environments. Now, there are still things that could harm them, but they are perfectly evolved in order to perform their tasks....hunting. They are the perfect hunters in their environments. Whales, let's say, are the perfect large herbivores....because they have no natural defense mechanisms for themselves (no teeth [Sans the killer whale, really], no method of self defense), they evolved to be very large, and travel in packs usually....thus making it difficult for other sea predators to try and kill them.
Naturally, no creature could possibly evolve to the point where they are completely invulnerable to any and all forms of harm, because that would throw off the balance of natural selection, the food chain, etc. If all fish evolved very tough, shell-like skin equipped with sharp poisonous spines, then it would completely throw off the food chain for all animals above it.
Now, all animals alter their environment in some ways...animal feces on the ground act as fertilizers for plants. Animals use up oxygen and replace it with carbon dioxide, and plants take up carbon dioxide and replace it with oxygen. However, humans are the only creatures that alter our environments to the extent that we do. We don't maintain an equillibrium with our surrounding environment like all other creatures do. The human species is actually not unlike a virus, as Agent Smith said in The Matrix:
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I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively devlops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consudmed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what that is? A virus.
Now, I'm not saying that we're actually viruses, but the Wachowski brothers had a good point when they wrote that bit. Us humans are the only creatures that don't have a natural balance with nature...we are constantly changing it and altering it to suit our own needs. As a result, we are constantly causing new problems over the years....new health hazards, risks, etc. Therefore, we need to continue to change in order to survive these risks and problems that we are constantly placing on ourselves. Therefore, our forced evolution might be on a different scale than the rest of the natural world, which doesn't act in such a way as we do.
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Shinku Ryu
what does the brain have to do with this topic..?!?!
Becuase one of my theories was that human beings will continue to evolve, but with an emphasis on the mental state. Therefore, if we can understand exactly how the brain works and its highest potential and untapped ability, we may be able to predict the next step in human mental evolution.
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