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  A reply on Talk: Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness

  Dec 20 2011: Consciousness is not lost during sleep, so much as it is greatly reduced. If you yell at a sleeping person, splash them with water, pinch them, you will receive a response. Its just that the sleeping person requires greater stimulation. I think it would be helpful stopped viewing consciousness as a switch that can be turned on and off, and more like a dimmer, as we continuously have a changing level of awareness throughout the day.
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  A reply on Talk: Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy

  Dec 16 2011: So true. It can kill you in minutes if one breathes it. I been trying to ban it for years now. Glad you are on the cause too.
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  A comment on Conversation: What do you have to be grateful for today?

  Dec 13 2011: Clean water and dirty jokes, warm homes, filled with cold beer, concerned friends protecting me from apathetic enemies.

• A comment on Conversation: How do we compel our politicians to truly work for us?

  Dec 4 2011: I think it is more than voting people out. You have to pick your issues and organize people who care about these issues to be vocal in there support or condemnation of certain politicians. basically form your own lobby. With the internet it can be done on the cheap, and it can have an effect on the local level. As for the national level that is a bit more difficult.

• A comment on Conversation: Fill in the Blank - If I knew I could not fail I would ___________ ?

  Dec 4 2011: be very very bored.

• A reply on Conversation: Banning science because of racist origins

  Nov 28 2011: Well what is so special about this book. Anatomy books are fairly common, exhibits like body worlds, tour around the world, those's that need to have access to cadavers. We also must remember that there are still people alive who had to suffer through these camps. Many med students will have personal connections to the bodies that were unethically obtained. I would hardly see this as banning science as anatomy is is taught.

• A comment on Conversation: Given ongoing wars, do we have a psychosis in our species? If so, can it be cured? Most would not conceive war as an answer to any problem.

  Nov 27 2011: I would not call war a psychosis as much as an gross distortion of our nature. Many animal once they reach mating age fight over who gets to spend time with the ladies. As much as we try to place wars in a context of geopolitical problems I see it as nothing more as an extension of this desire. The problem is though we are really smart as a species which lead to two problems. 1 we can create incredibly dangerous weapon. 2 Its the young who go off and fight. They are flooded with hormones and can be manipulated by people who aren't per say any smarter, but have a much clearer head, and have practice manipulating young people based cultural templates that have been around longer than any of us.

• A comment on Conversation: On average are the CEO's of the top 100 companies worth their salary?

  Nov 27 2011: I do not think the argument should be whether they deserve their salary or not. Some do most don't The problem is it skews the economic landscape. Do they deserve their salary more than you deserve not to live as a surf. Will we be better off if we acknowledge that while some people do deserve more, others deserve a fair slice as well and we have to weigh theses needs.

• A comment on Conversation: Banning science because of racist origins

  Nov 27 2011: I would not ban the book, but I would question why you want to use it. I am not familiar with it other than the information you have posted, but the world is not short on anatomy book. If it contained some knowledge that was not know to us I would say we should accept this knowledge with the acknowledgement of the dubious origin. That said there are plenty of book, both with drawing and cadaver picture to choose from so why choose one that is morally tainted. I am assuming you are studding medicine of some kind to be interested in books like this, at least many people who read such books are. Would you want a doctor who had such ethical flexibility that they would seek out books written by a Nazi doctor that contains fairly common knowledge at this point.

• A comment on Conversation: We were supposed to die two years ago. Does anyone remember the Swine Flu paranoia?

  Nov 27 2011: Well yes the media loves to spin a good yarn, but I would be a bit easy on the good people at WHO. Swine flu is the related to the Spanish flu which killed somewhere between 50 and 100 million people. Any new virus we are unfamiliar with should not be underestimated. That said we as a species fare well against most diseases so maybe its their job to warn us, and our job not to panic.