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[Infernity]

If there would be Brain Enhancers that improves into a super way upto a divine one all FOUR senses but totaly destroys the fifth one, would you take it? if not- vote "I wouldn't take it", if you would- which sense will you give up for improving the others?

Yours
~Infernity

Edited by infernity, 21 March 2005 - 01:22 PM.

[Chip]

I voted that I wouldn't take it. My father lost his sense of smell decades ago and he attributes that to the smog of Los Angeles. I contend that there may be more senses than just the five. I understand that the skin and eyes emit small bursts of coherent light and that somehow, some people, can begin to sense the ion fields about a human body that may be influenced by this ionizing light. That might be one other sense that is not recognized by main stream science and I think there may be others.

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]

Your attachment to yourself Chip, is wonderful! seeing the total beauty that nature has bestowed us is wonderful...
Thanks for sharing that informaton.

Yours
~Infernity

[enemy]

When I get a headcold, I can't taste anything.

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]

"And the number of "taste buds" on the tongue decreases linearly with age"

Reference please.

Zinc deficiency is a cause of loss of taste for many older people.

[enemy]

crud, I'll dig up the reference. It was a lonnng time ago.

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]

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

[zg00]

I figured everyone would go for sense of smell. I swear I read somewhere that evolutionarily of all our sense smell has been declining most, but doing some quick research only seems to bring up mixed results:

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]

I've just got to include this quote because its too funny:

"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]

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

[zg00]

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]

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.

[eternaltraveler]

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]

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]

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.

[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]

Your truthfully
~Infernity

[zg00]

Absolutely agreed. And that webpage I was just looking at, it was...ah, anthropological research!

-Zach

[Bruce Klein]

This is really a tough question.

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]

I believe that I could do without a sense of taste. After all, I spend way too much money on my food as it is. Plus, it makes that Calorie Reduction diet a little easier, doesn't it?

[Infernity]

Hmmm yes, prismatic_light there is a point in your words. But- you first have to be sure that what you are eating is not spoilt...
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]

Hmmm who voted "sense of hearing"? I personally would not do without it. Without hearing myself singing, without listening to my favorite music, without hearing That whisper..................... [sfty] (Y.L.L.I)
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]

Well, I decided that taste is least important of the others for my survival and happiness. Smell can warn someone of airborn dangers. Sight and hearing have obvious uses. And who could give up touch? I believe you put it quite eloquently earlier.

[Infernity]

Some tastes does not worth being forgotten..........
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]

I am happy with all my senses. Out of all I think sight is the most important, yet I will never give up one or more of the others in order to enhance it. In this existence all senses are possible to enhance without relinquishing the others. I would not want to ever enhance any of my senses i.e enhance sight like those light amplification goggles used in the dark or infrared goggles.

[Infernity]

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...

Yours truthfully
~Infernity

[123456]

infernity said;

"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]

123456,
Yes different people I suppose... I accept your idea.

Hearing every small sound may drive a person crazy,

Hehe, well not crazier than I am now [lol]

Yours truthfully
~Infernity

Edited by infernity, 22 March 2005 - 11:43 AM.

[DJS]

I'd give up smell. Its not super important to me, and if I could get enhancement of the other four senses it would be well worth it.

[John Schloendorn]

Really depends on the degree. I suppose it can't be tested and reversed, can it?

[Infernity]

Oh well, I understand your position Don, although it is still hard for me to digest a situation when I have no sense of smell. Recognizing spoilt food, smell every morning the fresh air, or in matter of fact- recognize toxic air (for example cigarettes smoke, deletion fluid- I don't know how it is being called in English, in Hebrew it is tipex, gas leak, etcetera), smelling the food before eating it... Hmm don't you like to smell your girlfriend's hair after she gets out of shower...? [sfty]
It sounds pretty provocative in first, but you gotta consider lots of things...

Yours truthfully
~Infernity

[Infernity]

(John)

Really depends on the degree. I suppose it can't be tested and reversed, can it?

Hmmm I suppose not. You can check it- but no returning back...
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.