Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
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Re: Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
#32There 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).
Re: Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
#33He is still alive...and apparently has done quite well for himself... http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/19/politics/trump-investigation/i...
Re: Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
#34There 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).
Re: Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
#35“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…
It is not. It's one of those things that qualifies as "Not Even Wrong".
Re: Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
#36He is still alive...and apparently has done quite well for himself... http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/19/politics/trump-investigation/i...
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