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Name: omer celiker

From: Virginia

Bio: Software Engineer

Area of Expertise: Technology Developer/Administrator

Topic: General, Overarching Remarks

Headline: External facts and logic part of our brains will greatly improve – Super-smart humans

Nutshell: Direct deposit of information to our minds - no need for extraneous consumption of details.

Vision:

The brain deals with the following types of events:

1)Personal Experiences

(i.e. I remember how I looked on my 10th birthday.)

2)The external facts that are not personal

(i.e. Mt Everest is about 24000 feet high, I have never been there but I believe that is a fact.)

3)Emotions

(i.e. I love the color dark blue, it brings out the color of my eyes.)

4)Logical Reasoning

(i.e. if A is taller than B and B is taller C, A is taller than C.)

The largest information database on the world is the internet. Instead of reading a book to learn a piece of information, we will use some electronic devices to get the data from the Internet and submit it to our minds. (Let’s remember how quickly the hero of the movie Matrix "Neo" learned the kung-fu.)

Some facts are accepted by us as facts only after they are evaluated by the brain’s logical reasoning unit. That means our reasoning will also greatly improve though not at the same magnitude.

Date Submitted: January 28, 2005

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