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Your Heart - Your Brain - Your Life - Don't Waste 'em . . .

Alex Van Starrex avanstar at tig.com.au
Sat Jul 17 04:31:17 EST 1999


Thanks for the links - I'd (found and) lost one or two, when URLs changed.

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Dan Fake wrote in message <7mkmuh$39i$1 at bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>. . . in a futile attempt at following a non-existent and mythical
>god, christ, and holy spirit.
>
>Do good, live long, prosper. Love one another, hope for an
>afterlife if you wish but know we're all in this together, life is
>the only certainty, and we're all headed to the same place (in
>all likelihood).
>
>Dispense with belief in perceptions of existence cooked up
>by the ancients. Get with the program. Live for today.
>
>- - -
>
>Details:
>
>Your heart? See Cut To the Heart:
>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/
>
>The Virtual Body - The Human Brain
>http://www.medtropolis.com/vbody/brain.html
>
>A Brief Tour of the Brain
>http://suhep.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/MM/Biology/biology.html
>
>The Whole Brain Atlas
>http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
>
>Brain Functions and Map
>http://www.neuroskills.com/tbi/brain.html
>
>Explore the Brain and Spinal Cord
>http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html
>
>Mr. Brain Fly Through
>http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/medical/brain.mpg
>
>The Brain: A Work In Progress (L.A. Times)
>http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/SCIENCE/REPORTS/THEBRAIN/
>
>The Human Brain
>http://www.feedmag.com/brain/favlobe.html
>
>Excerpt from How Does Our Memory Work?
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/278710.asp
>"What science knows about remembering and forgetting - If a Jaz disk
>can hold two gigabytes of retrievable data, can someone please explain
>why I can't recall my own Visa number? Perhaps the most amazing
>thing of all about the information revolution is that, somehow, a few
>decades of computer engineering appear to have outmatched a billion
>years of nervous system natural selection. ..."
>
>Excerpt from Remote Control Humans:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_375000/375521.stm
>"Could computers one day control peoples' brains? ... Essentially, as
>long as an achievement is physically possible then there is no reason
>why we cannot learn to do all sorts of things just by thinking about
>them. Driving a car, making a cup of coffee and operating a computer
>are obvious examples, although anything that requires movement and
>can be automated is fair game - and that means just about everything."
>
>Excerpt from Mind Over Matter:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_374000/374377.stm
>"Controlling a robot arm by brain power alone sounds like science fiction,
>but experiments involving rats' brains have brought it closer to reality.
Dr
>John Chapin, of the MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine in
>Philadelphia, has shown for the first time that brain cell activity can be
>used to control a robotic device."
>
>Excerpt from It's All In the Brain:
>http://www.hhmi.org/senses/a/a110.htm
>"We can recognize a friend instantly-full-face, in profile, or even by the
>back of his head. We can distinguish millions of shades of color, as well
>as 10,000 smells. We can feel a feather as it brushes our skin, hear the
>faint rustle of a leaf. It all seems so effortless: we open our eyes or
ears
>and let the world stream in. Yet anything we see, hear, feel, smell, or
>taste requires billions of nerve cells to flash urgent messages along
>cross-linked pathways and feedback loops in our brains, performing
>intricate calculations that scientists have only begun to decipher. ..."
>
>Excerpt from Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry:
>http://www.discovery.com/sched/domestic/maps/990509dsc.html
>"New technologies of brain imaging and genetic testing, coupled with
>observations of animals who are learning a human language, confirm
>what many pet owners already know: that animals experience an
>enormous range of emotions."
>
>---
>
>-Dan Fake, Atheist #1468 - Freethinker #2b - Humanist #2b2
>
>
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