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Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)

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Re: Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)

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There are a few recorded examples of this. Peter Watts had quite a good blog post on them a while back: http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116 About 50% of the examples have above average IQ (he says).

That reminds me to read Blindsight again. I find Peter Watts' novels disturbing but fascinating.

Re: Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)

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post #25

“If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side” The way I see it, the Human Brain increases its efficiency (Assuming the 10% Brain Efficiency Myth is true) in such cases, to be able to do all the work that otherwise an entire Brian would have done. I'm curious what would h…

> Assuming the 10% Brain Efficiency Myth is true

It is not. It's one of those things that qualifies as "Not Even Wrong".

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