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Started by LHX, February 21, 2007, 05:16:47 PM

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LHX

February 21, 2007, 05:16:47 PM
is it possible to make your brain more effective?

does it not involve using symbols?
neat hell

LMNO

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February 21, 2007, 05:19:12 PM

The Good Reverend Roger

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February 21, 2007, 05:19:50 PM
Quote from: LHX on February 21, 2007, 05:16:47 PM
is it possible to make your brain more effective?

does it not involve using symbols?

Depends.  If you are the average American (I really can't speak for Europe), you'd make your brain more effective by digging it out of your skull and splattering it all over the teevee screen.

If you're anyone else, you might consider trying to teach yourself how to think without using symbols.  Wait, that's impossible.  So I guess your question doesn't make any fucking sense.

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The Good Reverend Roger

#3
February 21, 2007, 05:20:46 PM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

tyrannosaurus vex

#4
February 21, 2007, 05:22:25 PM
in my experience the only way to make my brain more effective is to watch more tv.

because, as long as you keep doing simpler and simpler tasks all the time, it'll feel like your brain can handle anything.

although, there are symbols in this process, the "tailspin to slothitude," the "cabbage soup," and of course, the "oprah winfrey show," which may not be symbolic of anything but when you're up at 3am watching TiVo'd copies of the same episode 14 times in a row, it starts to seem like it's the only thing that comprises the entire universe.

Or so i've been told.
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LHX

#5
February 21, 2007, 05:22:38 PM
is the fact that most abstract concepts are named after something physical and tangible a accident?

or is it a memory device?
neat hell

The Good Reverend Roger

#6
February 21, 2007, 05:23:30 PM
Quote from: vexati0n on February 21, 2007, 05:22:25 PM
in my experience the only way to make my brain more effective is to watch more tv.

because, as long as you keep doing simpler and simpler tasks all the time, it'll feel like your brain can handle anything.

although, there are symbols in this process, the "tailspin to slothitude," the "cabbage soup," and of course, the "oprah winfrey show," which may not be symbolic of anything but when you're up at 3am watching TiVo'd copies of the same episode 14 times in a row, it starts to seem like it's the only thing that comprises the entire universe.

Or so i've been told.

Well, yeah, but that's just the ILLUSION of being more effective.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#7
February 21, 2007, 05:23:43 PM
Quote from: LHX on February 21, 2007, 05:22:38 PM
is the fact that most abstract concepts are named after something physical and tangible a accident?

or is it a memory device?

Accident.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LHX

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February 21, 2007, 05:27:42 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 21, 2007, 05:23:43 PM
Quote from: LHX on February 21, 2007, 05:22:38 PM
is the fact that most abstract concepts are named after something physical and tangible a accident?

or is it a memory device?

Accident.

welcome to the land of unverifiable claims

enjoy your stay


it doesnt change much in these parts so try to get comfortable
neat hell

P3nT4gR4m

#9
February 21, 2007, 05:29:33 PM
All written language and most intellectual thought is accomplished using symbols. Ours is called the alphabet. If you want to get into maths our system was actually so shit that we adopted the arab system of symbolism, since those fuckers totally pwned the shit out of mathematics back then.

If reading something can make you better at doing something that involves any degree of thinking then the answer is yes. Symbols can be employed to make your brain more effective. this in the context that we're talking in terms of mind here and not biology. If it's the biological one we're asking about then I'd advise reading a book on diet and then go exchange some currency for whatever fruit or vitamin you think you'd benefit from.

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The Good Reverend Roger

#10
February 21, 2007, 05:29:51 PM
Quote from: LHX on February 21, 2007, 05:27:42 PM


welcome to the land of unverifiable claims

enjoy your stay


it doesnt change much in these parts so try to get comfortable

Well, if my claims are unverifiable, then that implies that they are also not prone to being disproven.

And THAT implies that your claim is unverifiable.

So what was your point, at least in asking that question?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

tyrannosaurus vex

#11
February 21, 2007, 05:29:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 21, 2007, 05:23:30 PM
Quote from: vexati0n on February 21, 2007, 05:22:25 PM
in my experience the only way to make my brain more effective is to watch more tv.

because, as long as you keep doing simpler and simpler tasks all the time, it'll feel like your brain can handle anything.

although, there are symbols in this process, the "tailspin to slothitude," the "cabbage soup," and of course, the "oprah winfrey show," which may not be symbolic of anything but when you're up at 3am watching TiVo'd copies of the same episode 14 times in a row, it starts to seem like it's the only thing that comprises the entire universe.

Or so i've been told.

Well, yeah, but that's just the ILLUSION of being more effective.

ahem.

Evil and Unfeeling Arse-Flenser From The City of the Damned.

The Good Reverend Roger

#12
February 21, 2007, 05:31:12 PM
Quote from: vexati0n on February 21, 2007, 05:29:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 21, 2007, 05:23:30 PM
Quote from: vexati0n on February 21, 2007, 05:22:25 PM
in my experience the only way to make my brain more effective is to watch more tv.

because, as long as you keep doing simpler and simpler tasks all the time, it'll feel like your brain can handle anything.

although, there are symbols in this process, the "tailspin to slothitude," the "cabbage soup," and of course, the "oprah winfrey show," which may not be symbolic of anything but when you're up at 3am watching TiVo'd copies of the same episode 14 times in a row, it starts to seem like it's the only thing that comprises the entire universe.

Or so i've been told.

Well, yeah, but that's just the ILLUSION of being more effective.

ahem.



Hideous troofs ITT.

TGRR,
Will now feel free to slam his dick in the car door.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LHX

#13
February 21, 2007, 05:35:23 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 21, 2007, 05:29:51 PM
Quote from: LHX on February 21, 2007, 05:27:42 PM


welcome to the land of unverifiable claims

enjoy your stay


it doesnt change much in these parts so try to get comfortable

Well, if my claims are unverifiable, then that implies that they are also not prone to being disproven.

And THAT implies that your claim is unverifiable.

So what was your point, at least in asking that question?
yeah
but see the difference is this:

im not settled in my claims

and im willing to ditch them at any given moment when something more useful comes along

im even willing to deny that i ever held a particular point of view in the past if it would prove fruitful to do so


and i definitely dont attack new shit just by virtue of it clashing with how im currently seeing things


why dismiss things without taking a good look at it?

seems retarded
neat hell

P3nT4gR4m

#14
February 21, 2007, 05:36:17 PM
Quote from: LHX on February 21, 2007, 05:35:23 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 21, 2007, 05:29:51 PM
Quote from: LHX on February 21, 2007, 05:27:42 PM


welcome to the land of unverifiable claims

enjoy your stay


it doesnt change much in these parts so try to get comfortable

Well, if my claims are unverifiable, then that implies that they are also not prone to being disproven.

And THAT implies that your claim is unverifiable.

So what was your point, at least in asking that question?
yeah
but see the difference is this:

im not settled in my claims

and im willing to ditch them at any given moment when something more useful comes along

im even willing to deny that i ever held a particular point of view in the past if it would prove fruitful to do so


and i definitely dont attack new shit just by virtue of it clashing with how im currently seeing things


why dismiss things without taking a good look at it?

seems retarded

No way dude - that's freedom  :troll:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark
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