From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 03:55:18 MDT
"Matt Gingell" <mjg223@nyu.edu> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
>
> >The consumption of alcohol is known to kill brain cells, but fortunately
> >it kills the slowest and weakest brain cells first. This is why one gets
> >so much smarter after three or four beers. Perhaps you should drink
> >more. {8^D spike
>
> Yeeeaaaah. Neural Darwinism - screw the scraggliers, who needs them? Now I just
> need to justify chain-smoking and I'm home free.
You could always point to the attention-improving effects of nicotine,
but I guess explaining away lung cancer and artheriosclerosis are a
bit harder.
As for myself, I now have a big pile of articles to justify my
caffeine consumption. :-)
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension! asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/ GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:05:01 MST