<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:682.485px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-" style=""><div id="gmail-:pd" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt gmail-adO" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:pe" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH gmail-msg-7406394101748684321" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5"><div lang="EN-US" style=""><div class="gmail-m_-7406394101748684321WordSection1" style=""><div style=""><div style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I learned to seize every opportunity to not fly paragliders.<font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></p><font color="#888888" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">must keep you really busy bill w</font></p></font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id="gmail-:oy" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;border-radius:5.5px"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50% / 20px no-repeat; height: 11px; opacity: 0.7; width: 24px;"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:48 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-7406394101748684321WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ExI] neuroscience questions<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in"><b>>…</b> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>>…<span style="color:black">Could it be that rarely practiced skills representing certain brain areas get taken over by new concerns? I have no clue.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…I have been told that if a brain function isn’t used, that piece of brain gets recycled (in a sense) and used for something else. Other stuff overwrites the cool stuff you once knew.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Example: a friend of mine crashed a paraglider, was all broken up, spent months in the hospital, we though he wouldn’t make it. He pulled thru but now his legs are stiff and he does well to walk. He had been very athletic before. He was the one who commented about his brain circuits being reprogrammed for other things.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I learned to seize every opportunity to not fly paragliders.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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