Dolos: your "leap" in language ability between ages 7 and 10 is 100% in line with normal language development. Children, especially boys, have huge variance in their language abilities until about age 10, where everyone is generally the same. Up until age 10, being even 2-4 years behind your peers linguistically is totally normal. If you have discovered techniques that you feel assist in your language comprehension in ways they don't help your peers, great, however, being a couple of years behind at age 7, which corrected itself by age 10, is nothing unexpected given typical language development, especially in boys.
Originally posted by Lord LucienI'm possessed by the spirit of guile and trickery. Done terrible and terrific things with it. Capable of greatness, I am.
No! You?!
Anyway, there will be 7,000 transhumanists running 8 billion lives and accounting for the resources they use while they don't even necessarily have to work via network infrastructure manipulation and regulation.
Transhumanists will be humanity's accountability to the AI by pulling our weight, they will stand in the way of an outsourced humanity, they will stop AI from turning us into recyclable goo. I will be the foremost human-based authority on earth, the most gifted transhuman. If a transhumanist attempts to exploit his/her power over the life/lives a free citizens, I will **** his/her day up.
Here's how my "super polymath" intelligence would work.
I have asperger's, considering my level of functionality despite the disorder, and my memory and past behavior that is indicative of the disorder and all its cognitive advantages and disadvantages: I have some above-average neural plasticity.
Daniel Tammet's arithmetic (within back of left hemisphere) and geometrical perception and understanding of rotation of shapes (spatial area within back of right hemisphere); are transfused. This allows him to calculate like 3^27, as he sees numbers as shapes and can fit two numbers together to see several trillion digits as one geometric shape. He has memorized over a thousand digits of pie with complete accuracy. But also, he can't drive AT ALL.
If I can get my hands on a high dosage of adderall (My physician started me on the lowest dose of focaline due to my erratic behavior on ritalin when I was like 7) and combine it with high levels of nicotine I'll be able to fine tune my brain, before age 25; to use combinatoric transfussion/diffusion of optimized regional brain functions to the extremes of Daniel Tammet's savantism (and diffuse it so I can drive properly). I will be able to do this within hours, and undo it instantly; and my brain will be programmed to do this automatically after the last 5 years of my brain's fine-tuning and development, and ever-after that as a super polymath. PhDs will be easily and expediently obtained.
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And inimalist was saying earlier that too much plasticity reduces how much information a brain can retain??? COME ON, BRO! REALLY!?
And you claim to have a Master's in cognitive psychology. Pfft.
And this is controlled synisthesia I'm talking about. Moreover, meta-cognizance based cominatorics, culminated with mathematical optimization-based introspection, of optimal trans-functionality of particular combinations in regional interactions. When refinement of synaptogeneses makes this process automatic; you get the epitome of human-potential in cognitive performance. Of course, consciously, this process requires a great deal of arousal and plasticity. With a sustained perpetuation of the amount of neurotransmitters, specifically neropinephrine, that can flow into the prefrontal cortex at any given point in time, the neural-plasticity of a potential savant is brought about and this can cause synisthesia. When this process changes from a conscious procedure into a subconscious procedure, the neropinephrine is no longer required and impulses no longer need these unsustainable concentrations of neurotransmitters to activate.
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Originally posted by Bardock42
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I take it you think my use of terminology is erroneous and therefore incoherent?
Or that you can't understand these terms and therefore I'm speaking gibberish? As Omega Vision pointed out, true comprehension is my ability to convey concepts without funky terminologies. I am -- as inimalist pointed out -- a degree-less layman.
I'll try and lay out the concept of synethisthesia for you without terminologies in the future. I can comprehend it.
The brain's tasks are separated into regions; one part of the brain works differently from another -- and different parts of the brain rarely interact, but when they do it allows people to do amazing things. For example, one part of the brain is good for understanding language, another part is good for conveying ideas through language. These parts work together and are responsible for our ability to carry out a meaningful conversations. However; many of these tasks don't normally work together in such a way. In Daniel Tammet's case, the area of the brain responsible for registering arithmetic into numbers have somehow become intertwined with the areas responsible for registering arithmetic into geometric shapes and the entire color wheel for that matter. So he perceives numbers and math problems literally as shapes and colors melding together, which allows him to do things other people can't.
There are a crazy amount of possible combinations that have the potential to allow a person to do incredible things. I.E., learn a new language or solve a super-difficult math problem with incredible speed and efficiency. Does that make sense?
Originally posted by Dolos
The brain's tasks are separated into regions; one part of the brain works differently from another -- and different parts of the brain rarely interact, but when they do it allows people to do amazing things. For example, one part of the brain is good for understanding language, another part is good for conveying ideas through language. These parts work together and are responsible for our ability to carry out a meaningful conversations. However; many of these tasks don't normally work together in such a way. In Daniel Tammet's case, the area of the brain responsible for registering arithmetic into numbers have somehow become intertwined with the areas responsible for registering arithmetic into geometric shapes and the entire color wheel for that matter. So he perceives numbers and math problems literally as shapes and colors melding together, which allows him to do things other people can't.And, there are a crazy amount of possible combinations that can have the potential to allow a person to do things like learn a new language or solve a super-difficult math problem with incredible speed and efficiency. Does that make sense?
Probably not. At any rate you said that before in your pie post, if that's all the meat there are to your posts I think I'm not far off with my assumption.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Probably not.
What do you mean, "probably". You should know whether or not it makes sense to you.
At any rate you said that before in your pie post,...
That was condensed into terminologies, and a small part of what I was conveying. My "pie" post covered more content than just synisthesia, it also covered conscious manipulation of synisthesia and the processes at work there.
...if that's all the meat there are to your posts I think I'm not far off with my assumption.
That's not all there is to it, that's what I decided to decipher for you. You still haven't told me if that part has even been successfully deciphered yet.
If you are asking me whether I, with a very limited knowledge about how the brain works, could possibly see this as an explanation, again, not based on anything at all besides whether it's a plausible story, then yes. If you are asking me whether I believe that it is true, judging from your track record, the answer is no.
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My point is that that part never needed to be deciphered, it was clear from when you first said it. What looks like absolute gibberish to me is this:
"Moreover, meta-cognizance based cominatorics, culminated with mathematical optimization-based introspection, of optimal trans-functionality of particular combinations in regional interactions."
Assuming you meant "combinatorics", I believe I know and understand these words, at least some usage of them, and to me this seems like the equivalent of "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
"[1]Moreover, meta-cognizance based cominatorics, [2]culminated with mathematical optimization-based [3]introspection, of optimal [4]trans-functionality of particular combinations in [5]regional interactions."
Translation:
"[1]Moreover, I'll use combinatorics [not cominatorics] at a semi-conscious level. [2]Since I previously referenced something math related but I like the sound of it, I will go ahead and say that it is mathematically optimized. [3]But I added "introscpection" which means I'm going to think about this stuff a lot so it is not really [1]"meta" anymore. Meaning, it is not going to sit between conscious and subconscious thought processing. [4]The trans-functionality is purposefully ambiguous so I can say these thought processes will bridge different areas "thought" such as spatial recongition and speech recognition. Since we know different areas of the brain focus more on different things (memory, movement, etc.), [5]we can throw in "regional interactions" to show a relationship between some of these processes."
I numbered the sections to make it easier to follow along.
Originally posted by Bardock42
If you are asking me whether I, with a very limited knowledge about how the brain works, could possibly see this as an explanation, again, not based on anything at all besides whether it's a plausible story, then yes. If you are asking me whether I believe that it is true, judging from your track record, the answer is no.-
My point is that that part never needed to be deciphered, it was clear from when you first said it. What looks like absolute gibberish to me is this:
"Moreover, meta-cognizance based cominatorics, culminated with mathematical optimization-based introspection, of optimal trans-functionality of particular combinations in regional interactions."
Assuming you meant "combinatorics", I believe I know and understand these words, at least some usage of them, and to me this seems like the equivalent of "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
That was gibberish but only because it was a hurried summation, let me reiterate that:
If I know what regions do what, there are so many regions with so many specifications that the combinations are nearly endless, so much so that cominatorics are required to lay out the effect of each possible interaction. From that; I'd have to optimize the interactions to get the best results possible, and that takes mathematical optimization. This is all academic, and done before actually causing synisthesia and putting this optimized plasticity to use. In fact, synisthesia would be necessary in order to do this arithmetic, to allow more synisthesia.
Originally posted by Bardock42
So, you are with me on the "this says nothing" train?
Not only that, it contradicts itself and says stuff that is rather simple and already known such as the "sensory cortex and the somatosensory cortex"* that he referred to as "regional interactions." But he wants it to mean more.
*I need to be clear that that was an example but not necessarily what he was talking about.