Second Brain Discovered In Humans!

Maybe that guy just ate-ed a mouse brain.

If they were gonna make something up they should have said it was in the scrotum.

  On 2/15/2010 at 5:14 PM, Masonic Boom said:

This sounds very interesting indeed, but I'm googling and can't seem to find any real case studies, or indeed any reports articles except in the Daily Mail, which I'm certainly not going to trust. The myth-hunters at Snopes seem skeptical.

i think it was bbc or channel 4 documentary i watched where it showed several people who had been affected. Bear in mind that the people didn't know who their donors were.

  On 2/15/2010 at 5:18 PM, Masonic Boom said:

But it seems to be wishful thinking that people pick up the unknown characteristics of transplant organs.

 

Which is a shame, as it's a great story.

lol what's wishful thinking about it? It's just a slight extension of what your original post was about. I couldn't give a fuck either way to be honest, it just fairly interesting. I'm sure people who have the transplants would prefer it if these traits were their own. If there's a desire for anything, its a desire not to believe this.

Maybe wishful thinking isn't the right word, but it's more ... psychological? Am having a brainfart about what the term is where you make something happen because you expect it to happen. Like a self fulfilling prophecy.

i.e. wishful thinking on the part of the transplant patient

  On 2/15/2010 at 4:43 PM, Rambo said:

it wouldn't surprise me if this doesn't end here. I remember hearing how people who have recieved heart transplants suddenly take on new characteristics. I saw a documentary where this stereotypical biker type dude suddenly needed to write poetry once he recieved a new heart. Anyway, they tracked down the organ donors wife and she was blown away as her dead husband had been a lifelong poet. Shit fucking tripped me out like itunes.

2012 is coming!

  On 2/15/2010 at 2:01 PM, Masonic Boom said:

Serotonin, the wonder-gut drug. It's funny how they don't tell you the links between it and digestion when they put you on SSRIs and you have to discover the side effects for yourself.

if by "they" you mean my doctor then you are completely wrong.

who are "they"?

there is much we don't understand about the potentiality of these fleshy machines we believe

we are so familiar with. i feel i am wasting my time speaking about such things on this forum,

but i will say this....

the human body is designed a specific way, to operate under specific conditions, using

specific fuel. the more we lack true understanding about this and the more we don't adhere to its

specific design, the more we will suffer and the less we will know about who we truly are.

the average human operates it's body at such a low level that it is as though it is not even truly

alive compared to a truly live human being.

the definition of a healthy person as apposed to a sick one is usually whether or not he or she

is bed ridden or not. if one can function without assistance then one is considered relatively healthy by todays standards.

we are the walking dead.

you lost me at "designed"

  On 2/15/2010 at 8:45 PM, troon said:

there is much we don't understand about the potentiality of these fleshy machines we believe

we are so familiar with. i feel i am wasting my time speaking about such things on this forum,

but i will say this....

 

the human body is designed a specific way, to operate under specific conditions, using

specific fuel. the more we lack true understanding about this and the more we don't adhere to its

specific design, the more we will suffer and the less we will know about who we truly are.

 

the average human operates it's body at such a low level that it is as though it is not even truly

alive compared to a truly live human being.

 

the definition of a healthy person as apposed to a sick one is usually whether or not he or she

is bed ridden or not. if one can function without assistance then one is considered relatively healthy by todays standards.

 

we are the walking dead.

Farts are the songs of the soul

  On 2/15/2010 at 8:47 PM, Hoodie said:

you lost me at "designed"

there is much that human beings are lost in and unaware of down here, we would not be the first.

and yet of course, you troon, know the secret to unlocking our body's full potential. Surpassing physically any mere athlete yet conceived in your wonderous understanding of human physiology and kinesthesiology.

  On 2/15/2010 at 8:10 PM, essines said:

  On 2/15/2010 at 2:01 PM, Masonic Boom said:

Serotonin, the wonder-gut drug. It's funny how they don't tell you the links between it and digestion when they put you on SSRIs and you have to discover the side effects for yourself.

if by "they" you mean my doctor then you are completely wrong.

 

who are "they"?

It would be a stunning coincidence if "they" meant *your* doctor, considering we live in completely different countries.

I was prescribed them by a GP who talked to me for five minutes, warned me against drinking while on them, or operating heavy machinery then pushed me back to the duty nurse.

  On 2/15/2010 at 8:45 PM, troon said:

there is much we don't understand about the potentiality of these fleshy machines we believe

we are so familiar with. i feel i am wasting my time speaking about such things on this forum,

but i will say this....

 

the human body is designed a specific way, to operate under specific conditions, using

specific fuel. the more we lack true understanding about this and the more we don't adhere to its

specific design, the more we will suffer and the less we will know about who we truly are.

 

the average human operates it's body at such a low level that it is as though it is not even truly

alive compared to a truly live human being.

 

the definition of a healthy person as apposed to a sick one is usually whether or not he or she

is bed ridden or not. if one can function without assistance then one is considered relatively healthy by todays standards.

 

we are the walking dead.

I don't think we're the walking dead. Sleepwalkers might be a better term, though.

To use the phrase "designed" is dangerous indeed, and carries too many delusions of creationist myth-fantasies.

However, it is true that the human body and mind evolved in such a completely different habitat and under such different environmental pressures that it is hard to compare what we are now with what humans were when we were becoming human.

It's a misunderstanding of evolutionary processes to use the terms "designed" or "made" - but the truth is, human bodies were not "made" to lead such sedentary lives, or consume such vast amounts of processed sugar and fat. Technology has changed our lives in every way imaginable from those of our proto-human ancestors. However, once technology has been made, it can not be unmade. "Progress" (as loaded and possibly wrong a term as that is) cannot be rolled back.

I would be totally unsuited for living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and I would not want to, even if it were an option. I agree that the lifestyle I have now is not the one for which humans are not the most well "fit" (in the Darwinian sense) but I struggle to find another alternative.

The article basically says that the neural network in your stomach is similar to the one in the brain, and the brain doesn't work as hard as it appears to in matters of digestion, delegating those responsibilities to the lower neural network.

Yes, we've known there's been a connection between food and happiness for thousands of years, but the reason why there's a connection is a little more clear now.

Sounds pretty cool.

This is interesting. I've read that when Egypt was a superpower people considered the seat of consciousness to be in the heart rather than the head, which was an auxiliary organ at the time. Any part of the body could be a seat of consciousness because the whole body is conscious of itself, not just the brain of the rest of the body. Consciousness isn't restricted to the body; to the mind every point in the universe is a center of awareness.

Yes, the belief that the heart was the seat of consciousness persisted for quite some time. We still speak of many mental functions as being performed by the "heart" if they are emotional. (i.e. music coming "from the heart" or the obvious heart/romance/love association.)

...was trying to look up evidence for this but wandered accidentally into an article on trepanning. Odd.

Anyway, either belief is a myth. Consciousness isn't a thing.

So if the second brain is in the gut, does that mean people who are constipated are retarded?

No, it just means they have shit for brains.