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Question: What is your Rat Disneyworld!? Do you believe it's possible for humans!?
On of my favorite reports was about an experiment done at the University at Berkeley, California, with old fat rats!. The researchers used the oldest rats they could find!. They were fat, listless and dull!. The researchers did scans of their brains and found that many neurons and dendrites had disappeared, and there were large empty gaps!. Then they developed challenging new mazes with interesting new toys, gave them rat playmates with which to socialize, and provided tasty treats at the end of the run!. It was a Disney World for rats!. The old fat rats began to lose weight, they were more agile, and when they took new scans of their brains after 6 weeks, guess what!? These creatures had developed 2000 more synapses or connections per neuron, trillions of new dendrites had grown and the large empty gaps had filled in!.
So the question is what do you think might stimulate your mind enough to sprout new dentrites!? Is is studying philosophy or science!? Is it being creative!? What do you!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Neurological sciences are waking up, aren't they!. And it is about time! Many lay people have long asserted that the mind, and in fact, the entirety of a person becomes increasingly animate and enduring if given the simple import that is promise; -- that if one is given a reason to be, then that person and all having to do with that person establishes cause, both within and without, to ensure more promise for him- or herself and as result for others!. Therewith, all manifold parts of the individual create the many conditions -- medical and social -- to ensure that such persists!. And boom! Longevity is brought forth, viable and important!.
'Ever see the film, The Green Mile, starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan!? Here was an instance in which a mere mouse was accorded longevity well beyond the scope of not only mice but human beings as well!. The mouse's name was Mr!. Jingles, a mere mouse which was now some 70 years of age!. Its longevity was prompted by supernal circumstance but in any case gives demonstration that more is possible than what we heretofore thought possible!.
Point I make here is, there truly is no cut-off in terms of organismic potential, for life is a plastic, malleable thing, able to adjust and shape and form according to the purposes and functions at hand -- if of course there is somewhat to fulfill of these purposes for!.
That these laboratory rats salvaged themselves should come as no surprise!. For rats are no less a part of all life than any other species!.
Just think -- only a few years ago, the neurobiologists and research physicians and high brow scholars in the Schools postulated that the brain undergoes neuronic attrition from the moment of very young childhood and this depreciation continues into old age without recourse to reversal!. Now finally, this is all esteemed as sheer claptrap, all horse apples!.
While science was heretofore this time intent on savaging our human potentials for the future, Life always Knew to salvage what was thought otherwise apt to discard or destroy!.
Now, if we could only convince the human resource professionals and Recruiters at the Corporations and Institutes and the Admissions Counselors in the Schools of this who spew out all this baloney about one being too old or too out of conditioning to potentiate useful events, as they preach it still at the assembly line in the 'Opportunity Circuit', and if we can just convince 'them' to wise up and catch up and abide the increasing wisdom displayed by the neuroscientists, we all will be a whole lot better off by a long shot, ay!?
I tell you -- just what do we know about anything!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
"playmates with which to socialize, and!.!.!. tasty treats" kinda does it for me!. i'm going to Disneyland!.Www@QuestionHome@Com