Here's a little time waster I invented a couple months ago while lying in bed. As you know, the theory on human thought is that memories and ideas which appear from the inside to be so rich and detailed, may involve only a tiny collection of neuron associations. Human faces, of course, command a little extra overhead. But when we picture a car, we may really just be picturing red and shine.So anyway, picture a skeleton cube, meaning twelve bars connected at eight junctions where three bars meet. In other words, topographically, a box with holes punched in all the sides. Now take a fire hose, and start looping it in and out and around this frame. In the bottom, out the left side, in the top, out the back. Keep picturing now. At some point, after random weaving, you will abstract.Meaning, I can pretty easily picture relevant aspects of a pattern. Like, I can wind it 20 times around the left front bar, and picture that as completely as I wish. But when I choose which of the six planes to cross next at random, I plainly start to lose track and abstract after about nine or ten. How many randomly chosen planes can you cross before your visual of previous planes compresses?Now, on a related topic, consider human sexuality. Imagine the potential risks of using abstraction to determine what is sexy. Are photos of girls sexy? Yes. Are life-size, painted statues resembling girls sexy? Are perfect girls with one leg amputated sexy? Are horses with good physique sexy? Are 12-year-old girls sexy? How much genetic code must this take to safely program us?MP

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Quoteare horses with good phyiques sexy ?Male or female horses ?

I used to go for the night mares when I was a little boy...But now I'm all grown up!Now help me do some serious research into the functioning of the human brain, by counting how many hose-grid weavings you can visualize at once, darn it! Then we can move on to our next little examination, involving poker MP