[ExI] restoration-ready

[William Flynn Wallace]

Unusual case - friend of mine was hit by a car.  He and his wife were
walking and he pushed her out of the way.  Once recovered from concussion,
etc., he was left with no sense of smell.  He sued and won.  After the
verdict the judge called him to the bench and told him that he had heard
that zinc might help.  He started taking zinc and two weeks later while
walking in Birmingham he smelled a hotdog-  most wonderful thing on earth,
he said at the time.  He experimented:  after going off the zinc he lost
it;  back on zinc, he got it back.  We have a lot to learn about the
brain.   bill w

On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 3:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> 'Younger than Springtime, am I.........'  source?
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> South Pacific, the musical:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmOcn159K6w
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> Do try to catch the collection of Michener short stories upon which it was
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> >… look at the auditory system, the visual system, the nerves run rather
> strictly to various areas, whereas the nerves from the nose run all over
> the brain… Billw
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> That explains most of it right there.  I have known of stroke victims who
> went blind or lost their hearing or lost a specific function such as
> balance, motion, even speech.  But I have never heard of a stroke victim
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> Conclusion: perhaps there is massively redundant circuitry on that, where
> parts of the brain not otherwise occupied get used for that function.  I
> would prefer my brain’s otherwise idle regions be wired for additional
> smartness rather than smell, as it apparently is in the head of Anders
> Sandberg, but for me, it is what it is: smelly rather than smart.
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