super 4 senses instead of normal 5
Infernity 03 Feb 2005
Yours
~Infernity
Edited by infernity, 21 March 2005 - 01:22 PM.
Chip 03 Feb 2005
If this super brain enhancer you speak of had been thoroughly tested and for a long time shown to have no other repercussions maybe I would choose one sense to lose but I am strongly attached to myself as I am. I have no tattoos, no piercings. I wear no rings and I hate my watch though I wear it. It is attached with a velcro strap so I can take it off quickly and easily and I do so often. I don't really like clothes either but to function without being castrated [:o] from many options by the social norms, I wear those.
Kind of reminds me of the movie, "Children of Dune" which I thought to be so poor I couldn't finish it. In it a major figure becomes blind but he can still function as if he had super sight because, I surmised, his other senses were heightened due to having been born under the influence of the "Spice." Mmmm, spice.
Infernity 03 Feb 2005
Thanks for sharing that informaton.
Yours
~Infernity
enemy 03 Feb 2005
And the number of "taste buds" on the tongue decreases linearly with age. For all intents and purposes, I'm going to lose this sense anyway.
scottl 03 Feb 2005
Reference please.
Zinc deficiency is a cause of loss of taste for many older people.
enemy 03 Feb 2005
Edit: Ok, got it. I was overly glib in my interpretation, but the end result is the same.
http://hubel.sfasu.e.../effectage.html
Edited by enemy, 04 February 2005 - 12:18 AM.
Infernity 04 Feb 2005
Now, I wonder who's the one who voted "sense of touch"; He might have think he won't feel pain or something like that, but (and do me a favour and don't tell me I am too young to say it, it has just caught my attention) what about having sex? If you will lose the sense of touch you won't be able to enjoy sex...
~Infernity
zg00 04 Feb 2005
http://www.plosbiolo...al.pbio.0020146
But while we are on the subject I did find an interestingly on-topic article titled "How You can Restore Vision Loss or Your Declining Sense of Taste, Touch, Hearing or Smell through the Use of Nutritional Supplements and Meditation".
Can't vouch for the validity of any of it, but if your interested:
http://www.meditatio...icle5Senses.htm
zg00 04 Feb 2005
"Without a doubt, zinc is the first thing to take when your sense of taste starts to go, so think ZINC, ZINC, ZINC"
"...and since zinc is a major component of semen, you can bet that men who have lots of sex and ejaculate a lot are usually low on zinc stores. It's one those things that's usually low when men have prostate problems as well."
Its that second part that gets me. If its either abstinence or supplements, hell, I'm sold!
This is the kind of thing they should be teaching teenage boys in health class!
Infernity 04 Feb 2005
~Infernity
zg00 04 Feb 2005
Heh, well zg00, I read somewhere that having sex often is strengthening the immune system, and well don't forget the pleasure it brings, so I think that sex is causing more positive results than negative ones...
~Infernity
Agreed and now with proper supplementation your bulk semen excretions needn't deplete your zinc levels either. Just made me laugh. >=)
eternaltraveler 04 Feb 2005
I'd go with sight if I was sure about getting a daredevil kind of radar with the loss.
eternaltraveler 04 Feb 2005
Thank you, enemy.
Now, I wonder who's the one who voted "sense of touch"; He might have think he won't feel pain or something like that, but (and do me a favour and don't tell me I am too young to say it, it has just caught my attention) what about having sex? If you will lose the sense of touch you won't be able to enjoy sex...
~Infernity
Not to mention, without pain you would probably die fairly quickly. There have been people born who don't feel pain. They haven't tended to last very long. Besides the obvious reasons like leaning non-chalantly against the stove with their hand on a burner, they would do things like sit in awkward positions. The reason we get uncomfortable sitting one way for a very long time is because it's good to shift a bit to keep our circulation going.
zg00 04 Feb 2005
I'd vote for smell, but taste and smell are so intimatly tied together.
I'd go with sight if I was sure about getting a daredevil kind of radar with the loss.
Um...porn?
Ouch.
Infernity 04 Feb 2005
[g:)] ah hehehe, well let say there are some things you judge by the way it looks and that's what we wanna do, I won't take it to porn you horny zg00 heh [lol] , but to choose a mate for example, we usually look first on the outside. And also on ouselves (especially girls)... [wis]I'd vote for smell, but taste and smell are so intimatly tied together.
I'd go with sight if I was sure about getting a daredevil kind of radar with the loss.
Um...porn?
Ouch.
Your truthfully
~Infernity
zg00 04 Feb 2005
-Zach
Bruce Klein 10 Mar 2005
I must safely defer to 'wouldn't take it' as having all input streams is better than marginal improvement in others, I think.
prismatic_light 21 Mar 2005
Infernity 21 Mar 2005
Moreover, think about how would that be to not ever taste the great tastes you love so much again... kinda big loss if you ask me.
Yours truthfully
~Infernity
Infernity 21 Mar 2005
Without hearing the sounds of nature, and the explanations...
A great loss, I wouldn't like to lose it.
Moreover- that's an helpful sense. errr all of them are [glasses]
Yours truthfully
~Infernity
Edited by infernity, 21 March 2005 - 08:31 PM.
prismatic_light 21 Mar 2005
Infernity 21 Mar 2005
But well you may also eat some spoilt food by mistake- you simply wouldn't taste it has a wrong taste.
However, well thanks for sharing anyway, I suppose every choice is the best for other people.
Yours trithfully
~Infernity
123456 21 Mar 2005
Infernity 21 Mar 2005
Wouldn't you like to be able to smell better than dogs, have the ability to see very far things clearly and so very small thing which normally you cannot see, or hear every small sound? hmmm wouldn't be nice to have an extreme sense of feeling ugg... and taste- we don't need more than what we have I supppose...
Yours truthfully
~Infernity
123456 22 Mar 2005
"123456,
Wouldn't you like to be able to smell better than dogs, have the ability to see very far things clearly and so very small thing which normally you cannot see, or hear every small sound? hmmm wouldn't be nice to have an extreme sense of feeling ugg... and taste- we don't need more than what we have I supppose..."
No, I would not, that is just me; Others such as yourself may want such enhancements. There are negative things, depending on the individual, which these enhancements bring; Hearing every small sound may drive a person crazy, think of it infernity.
Infernity 22 Mar 2005
Yes different people I suppose... I accept your idea.
Hehe, well not crazier than I am now [lol]Hearing every small sound may drive a person crazy,
Yours truthfully
~Infernity
Edited by infernity, 22 March 2005 - 11:43 AM.
DJS 22 Mar 2005
John Schloendorn 22 Mar 2005
Infernity 22 Mar 2005
It sounds pretty provocative in first, but you gotta consider lots of things...
Yours truthfully
~Infernity
Infernity 22 Mar 2005
Hmmm I suppose not. You can check it- but no returning back...Really depends on the degree. I suppose it can't be tested and reversed, can it?
That made me think.
What happens if I take one of the Brain Enhancers and after it take a different one [huh] ?!
... weird.
Yours truthfully
~Infernity
Edited by infernity, 22 March 2005 - 12:27 PM.