<div>Well, here is a way to expand the size of your brain, today.</div> <div><A href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=5615">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=5615</A></div> <div>( I actually keep trying but so far I can't get past the count of 5 with out tossing everything to the dogs.)</div> <div> </div> <div>D. Amato<BR><BR><B><I>John K Clark <jonkc@att.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Russell Wallace Wrote:<BR><BR>> My guess is that no simple chemical tweak will confer large<BR>> benefits to most people without corresponding disadvantages,<BR>> simply because if such were easily had, evolution would<BR>> probably have already found it.<BR><BR>Not necessarily because an entire galaxy of solutions are unavailable to<BR>evolution, but not to intelligence. Every large change evolution makes<BR>consists
of lots of small changes, and every single one of those small<BR>changes must confer an IMMEDIATE advantage to the organism; evolution just<BR>doesn't understand the concept of one step backward two steps forward.<BR>Imagine if you had to turn a prop airplane engine into a jet with a million<BR>tiny changes and ever change must improve the performance of the engine, and<BR>you had to make the changes while the engine was running. It just couldn't<BR>be done. That's probably why evolution was never able to come up with some<BR>apparently simple things, like a macroscopic body part that could move in<BR>360 degrees.<BR><BR>John K Clark<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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