[extropy-chat] Draft Paper on Boredom and Superlongevity

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:59 PM, MB wrote:
>
> This fits my experience in school, in certain classes. The studying  
> was
> almost impossible for me to do. After about 10 minutes my "brain  
> stopped"
> - I was unable to concentrate and there was no meaning to what I was
> doing. Over and over the material I would go, all to no avail. My  
> input
> circuits seemed to have shut down. Surely not through overload though.
>

Public K-12 education in the US at least was actually designed to  
shut down large numbers of active bright minds.  I wish that I was  
kidding.


- samantha