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I'm passionate about

Bringing crazy ideas into something understandable, solve problems and questions people find impossible. Nothing is impossible, mark my words!
Processes are complicated, until you know the answer!

An idea worth spreading

The human brain stores things, in a unknown order and places.
The brain can associate old memories with a current situation depending on what you are experiencing, this is known amongst others already. And i firmly believe this is a foundation of how "artificial intelligence" works, not how you store it, not why or how "evolution" works.
It's how you take old memories, associate them with the current situation and combines those two.. The presents with "the now". This creates in itself a new memory that you store and can use next time a situation pops up.

This is how good or bad people become, good or bad.
It's what defines us, how we as child get involved in different situation depending on our environment (given by mom or dad) and how we learn from them in the early stages, and how we use those memories within each situation and create something new.

These behaviors can most likely be re-"programmed" by creating new memories in the place of another one.

Talk to me about

Anything, your thought alone is a example of how we work as a human being.
It's how we can understand ourselves by interacting with each other.

People don't know that I'm good at

Thinking in general. People think I'm stupid because i throw crazy ideas out there for no given reason or facts (usually) to back the theory up.

My TED Story

I found out about TED via a media station called revision3.com.
Where i go to relax, listen to other ideas mostly by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht.
They do actually have some just wild ideas and simply talks randomly until something good comes out.

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  A comment on Conversation: What have you learnt from watching TEDTalks?

  Jul 18 2011: I find myself spreading the word of TED almost every 3:d talk that comes up here, just because you do learn a thing or two or TED acts as a great news source that actually gives you real live news about interesting topics.
  
  I've learned a lot about the human study, the brain and the body..
  How society works and what's going on around the world.
  
  Stories that facinates me like the one about "Suspended animation" or the outcome of putting children in charge of modern day problems.
  TED, as Stephen below mentioned, acts as a gateway between people that are interested or knowlage.
  
  And on TED, everyone is equal, this is the only forum that i know where gender, age or race does not matter.
  I'm glad to be able to take in the information that is shared from within the community!
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  A comment on Conversation: Our modern societies still need feminism

  Jul 18 2011: Where i come from, companies tend to hire women just for the sake of it.
  
  I can see the lack of women in high rated jobs, but i also see a lack of education in those areas.
  Lets say, the IT industry, where i come from around 1-4 (out of 30) IT students are women at my local university, that sad, even if all those students get a job (which they probably will), women will be a minority in this case.
  
  There are some work sectors that are more appealing to women for some reason (i don't know why), the healthcare is dominated by women, the finansial sector is at the very least 50/50, the food industry is populated mainly by women and in shops/supermarkets the women tend to be highest in the ratings, also the cleaning industry there's a lot of women.
  
  But for some reason politicians complain about the lack of women in the IT sector, and they spend hughe ammount of money on campains to get more women into studying IT.. for what i ask?
  You can't force inwilling people and try to trick them into thinking IT is a good carrear because at the end of the day, you need to be genuinly interested in the work that you put in. Politicians have a way to twist words and put up fancy colors and what not just to get women interested, and sure it works, but how about when they start to work with the actual stuff? it's complex, not what they were promised and there will be 90% more guys in the sector that LOVES the whole idea behind IT and not just the front cover..
  
  Instead of trying to push women into the work areas that have a low rate of women.. why not raise girls to like computers instead for instance?
  
  I have a 6 year old sister, which thinks i'm her idol for some reason, and she picked up computer skills when she was 4-5, i started when i was 3, i can imagine that when she grows up she'll at least have a small interest in computers, she will not need polititians to like it..
  
  Either you like something, or you don't, the elephant will not become green cause you hate grey!
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  A reply on Talk: Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

  Jun 30 2011: I really don't understand what you are getting at.
  You missed that the langugage was written/read from right to left and you're saying this is nothing new to you, but to the rest of the world this might be?
  Some of us does not have the luxury of sitting next to a peace of stunning history, some of us can just imagine how it would be like to decipher these things.
  
  To me it looks like all these symbols not nesecairly represents names but more the object and it's properties such as a pit where you store food and perhaps what type of tood the animal on the tokens eat.
  
  One cool thing that poped into my mind would be to give a kid these symbols and see what a bunch of kids actually say about these scripts, kids tend to have a good way of learning new langugages early on and they often have a wild imagination which could give some interesting results on what the symbols meen?
  It's a wild idea and not very scientific, but the result might be interesting?
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  A comment on Talk: Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist

  Apr 13 2011: If there were a nobel prize for "every day heroes", this guy would get my vote.
  Scientists and other similar trades sure help people too, but it's these guys that does the small simple things that really can improve the every day stuff for people with limitations.
  
  This guy is worth so much attention for doing something for others with little to none interest in himself, sure he'll get a lot of publicity and get famous but even then, he still did something for someone else without actually gaining anythingi at it at first, it was a risk and he could have just ignored the whole thing but he whent for it for someone else, and made it.
  
  
  Ontop of that, he made the whole thing open source, if not a hero for helping others, he's a hero to the community of people who's mindset is that knowlage should be free.
  I'm a firm beleaver that if you're giving something to people, to help their day to day things, it should be free so that people can create amazing things. It's tough to get this thought out without sounding like a comunist, but i do think that stuff like this should be free, as well as operatingsystems for students or kids, and anything that will help you become something or live a "normal" life, should be free.
  
  
  Mick Ebeling will forever be a role modle, thank you!

• A reply on Talk: Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp

  Mar 17 2010: I agree, we can not make unnatural things since the resources we use originate from earth itself and is mostly just a compound of two things mashed together.
  
  With that said, i think Mark Roth is a crazy old lad (in a positive and great way)!
  I love that he is bold enough to say, "hey.. her's an idea" even if it involves putting in toxic materials into a body and to discover that it works as long as it's done properly.
  
  I don't know much about neuroscience but i imagine this has a lot of application potential within the brain as well to "reboot" or to be able to operate on organs such as the brain without permanent brain-damage occurs. As said, i'm not a neuro-scientist but it sounds like this could relate to alot of things where oxygen demand is the reason for the most damage such as brain damage?
  
  I would LOVE to see more of this even tho i'm a IT Researcher i come from a family within health care, and my dad is an ambulance driver and this would help a lot i can imagine!

• A reply on Talk: Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp

  Mar 17 2010: I agree, we can not make unnatural things since the resources we use originate from earth itself and is mostly just a compound of two things mashed together.
  
  With that said, i think Mark Roth is a crazy old lad (in a positive and great way)!
  I love that he is bold enough to say, "hey.. her's an idea" even if it involves putting in toxic materials into a body and to discover that it works as long as it's done properly.
  
  I don't know much about neuroscience but i imagine this has a lot of application potential within the brain as well to "reboot" or to be able to operate on organs such as the brain without permanent brain-damage occurs. As said, i'm not a neuro-scientist but it sounds like this could relate to alot of things where oxygen demand is the reason for the most damage such as brain damage?
  
  I would LOVE to see more of this even tho i'm a IT Researcher i come from a family within health care, and my dad is an ambulance driver and this would help a lot i can imagine!

• A comment on Talk: Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

  Feb 12 2010: A lot of people, at least where i live tend to choose fast food over healthy home-cooed food simply because it's fast to get.
  We're stressed out in our lives, we do everything in the last second and we end up doing what appears to be the fastest choice.
  
  I myself am one of those who tend to go to the big chains in the fast food business .
  Mostly because i'm lazy and i get hungry and i can't wait to just eat something, i'm blessed with being skinny even tho i eat so much junk.
  My body however probably ain't what it should be inside. My liver and other organs have probably taken a beeting and i know it, but i still end up going to a fast food joint at least once a day.
  
  But i think what Jamie is saying could actually change even behaviors like min, once we learn how easy it is. Driving around town for fast food takes about 60 min, getting in the car, drive down town, find a local joint, order, eat and pay. cooking food takes about 30 min. and you can stay at home!
  
  Best of luck Jamie!

• A reply on Talk: George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp

  Feb 4 2010: I agree to the fullest.
  There's two problems with healthcare in general for the "average user".
  It takes to long to get results back and waiting in the "waiting room" and It's extremely expensive, especially in some countries where you don't have a "roof cost". In Sweden you don't pay for more then ~1200 SEK (equivilant of roughly 110€) when it comes to medecin. However in some countries you don't have that luxury. Things like this invention could easely help people pay for their examinations, long waiting times and test costs.
  
  I'd love to take my sample and sprinkle it on a peace of paper one day and get my results back right away, maby even at home? Lets say you have a urinary tract infection.. You'd know the answer right away instead of waiting 2h for a nurse to get some time over and check your tests. And you could have your medication right away (at home?)!

• A comment on Talk: Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams

  Jan 14 2010: All the love to his family and whatever comes after life, i hope it treats him good!
  A well spirited guy that means no harm and truly shows you the guidelines in life.
  "Treat others as you would like to be treated", "Be nice to other people, it will pay back in the end", "Live your dreams.. not others".. i'm breathless.. i love the guy to death and i can only wish i had been to one of his talks.. it would have been an honor!

• A comment on Talk: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify

  Nov 20 2009: I think the talk was inspiring and fascinating!
  I dislike religion as a personal value but i can respect others who might have a belief.
  This is mostly because i think people need religion as a comfort, something to believe in. i don't but i assume others need and there for i can not complain about religion because i don't know how many life it has "saved" because people believe in something.
  
  This talk shows you how people tend to fall back to religion and start wars of different kinds. Either if it's political, physical or strictly job related.
  I know for a fact that some companies complain alot on out-sourcing to india because the process of executing things is different from what others are used to in example europe.
  When in fact it's just a matter of what perspective you have on things, on how to get the job done.
  
  everyone has their way of looking at things, and going about issues.
  Politicians need to get this! You can't start wars based on what people believe or