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• A reply on Conversation: Idea: The human brain is currently evolving by adapting to electronic based high frequency cycles.

  Nov 17 2012: For example, i switched my moving parts hard drive in my mac with a solid state drive and that helped reduce the beach-balling in my work day quite drastically. This alone helped my efficiency and productivity in a measurable way. Data transfer between components can become bottlenecks as well. I think that any choke point where there is a difference of orders of magnitude in speed should be specifically targeted and minimized. Components should be specifically paired to work in the same ranges of speed.

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  Nov 14 2012: Yes, eating the rest provides more protein :-) Mostly it shows there is a demand for the gene, a selective advantage, a fertile ground for the gene, an opportunity, a growing resource niche attracting the gene, a potential for higher survivability of the gene, the ability for the gene to pay for its copies' higher education and therefore increase the chance of its propagation for many generations...

• A reply on Conversation: Idea: The human brain is currently evolving by adapting to electronic based high frequency cycles.

  Nov 14 2012: I've started to think that there is no static environment. Especially our curent times, we live in a relatively dynamic epoch which has seen humanity become an industrial species, an event unique in the history of life on earth. We are creating our own environments, and removing or changing non-human environments. What humans dont realize is that just because we are creating our own environments, doesn't mean we do not need to adapt anymore. In fact, we are now busy adapting to our own man-made environments. In some ways, those are changing much faster then the ancient non-human environments.

• A reply on Conversation: Idea: The human brain is currently evolving by adapting to electronic based high frequency cycles.

  Nov 14 2012: Yes, check out this infographic: http://msnbc.msn.com-id2.us/jobs/
  It basically says that people who work in a high frequency environment are at the top of the food chain. This is the main evolutionary requirement for passing genes on.
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  A reply on Conversation: Idea: The human brain is currently evolving by adapting to electronic based high frequency cycles.

  Nov 14 2012: That is a good question. What we are witnessing is a split in frequency usage of the brain, as you mentioned. The low-frequency patterns are more deeply embedded in our physiology. It's the same thing that happened during the Industrial revolution. We created machines that were efficient based on their output and material constitution but where detrimental to and physically incompatible with their operators, resulting in a miserable existence for the poor people who were stuck working them in factories. What we need is a compromise: we need to be better at switching between the 2 frequencies, or we need to pick one and abstract the other using intermediary tools and interfaces. For example, i'm a coder, i hate typing and i prefer writing more efficient shorter lines of code rather then verbose long paragraphs of code. Let the robots do the hard work, and let me control the robots using interfaces that fit my physiology better. For us older folks, the robots would do the high frequency stuff. For younger people, i suspect they would rather have the robots do the slow frequency stuff.

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  Nov 14 2012: I think a good start would be in trying actively to remove some of the bottlenecks separated by larger orders of magnitude from the computers interface. That alone can increase our efficiency in interacting with them. Other bottlenecks will then become apparent such as the actual methods of interaction, which will give birth to more direct connections such as mind control.