wow i lasted 3 years in the last science forum, now im banned from all for insanity

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by raaaid

now if i can have an an augmented 3d perception i could visualize 4d in 3d

I prefer touching double Ds over visualizing 4D in 3D.. Your mileage may and clearly does vary

[ATAG_Doc]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

I prefer touching double Ds over visualizing 4D in 3D.. Your mileage may and clearly does vary

+1

[swiss]

Originally Posted by raaaid

...the next stage of evolution...

...or a natural humanity who lives just 100 naturally in a next natural stage of evolution...

Evolution?
The evolution of man is as follows:

-We get taller, due to our nutritious food
-our skulls will be narrower, due to the above
-our eyesight will most likely get worse, as this part doenst change the same speed our bones do.
-we lose teeth and hair, as we have no need for them to survive

Now, what the heck makes you think our eyes evolve, although we dont need eagle eyes for survival?
You're almost blind, yet live and post here happily on a daily basis.
Did it ever occur to you, that you might be the living proof something like de-volution exists as well?

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by swiss

Evolution?
The evolution of man is as follows:

-We get taller, due to our nutritious food
-our skulls will be narrower, due to the above
-our eyesight will most likely get worse, as this part doenst change the same speed our bones do.
-we lose teeth and hair, as we have no need for them to survive

Now, what the heck makes you think our eyes evolve, although we dont need eagle eyes for survival?
You're almost blind, yet live and post here happily on a daily basis.
Did it ever occur to you, that you might be the living proof something like de-volution exists as well?

There is no "de-evolution", just a constant process of adapting to the requirements for you to reproduce effectivly. If eye sight gets worse, then that simply is a marker for lesser requirements in eyesight in our modern world. On the other hand I expect some adjustments for sitting in offices 8 hours a day in the long run, instead of running through the woods catching prey.

Btw, if men will lose its hair has still to be seen. Recent studies suggest men has still hair for the very banal reason that it makes life harder for bugs, mosquitos and other leeches having a go at you. Else we already would have lost it.
I dare say even the most rich and sophisticated/intelligent people on this planet will be thankful to keep it for bit longer unless they want to eridacte all insect life.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by swiss

Did it ever occur to you, that you might be the living proof something like de-volution exists as well?

the knife of evolution cuts both ways!

[6S.Manu]

Evolution? What's that?

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

There is no "de-evolution", just a constant process of adapting to the requirements for you to reproduce effectivly.

Devolution does as a noun does exist.
Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution is the notion that a species can change into a more "primitive" form.

On the other hand I expect some adjustments for sitting in offices 8 hours a day in the long run, instead of running through the woods catching prey.

Like what, most ppls eyesight in front PC get worse after onyl a few years.

Btw, if men will lose its hair has still to be seen. Recent studies suggest men has still hair for the very banal reason that it makes life harder for bugs, mosquitos and other leeches having a go at you. Else we already would have lost it.
I dare say even the most rich and sophisticated/intelligent people on this planet will be thankful to keep it for bit longer unless they want to eridacte all insect life.

Nice theory, doesnt work tho.
A lot of parasites and bacteria rely on hair being present to survive. Ticks on the other hand dont care if there is hair or not.
(I only have hair on my head an legs, everything else is shaved, first thing you will notice is you'll need a lot less deo...)

What's left? The mosquitos.
I think my hair on arms and legs didnt change much over the past 10 years, yet, at some point the flies virtually stopped bitting me. Maybe they dont like my "nutritious" blood - their offspring probably would die instantly if exposed to it, lol.
On the other hand there are the blacks who suffer a lot under mosquitoes in Africa in other regions of the world. Take a close look at their hair, specially on arms and legs and explain how they can keep away those tiny buggers.

[chantaje]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkrJOOTjj4

the first 5 min have the truth about the future of human evolution

[MadBlaster]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

I dare say even the most rich and sophisticated/intelligent people on this planet will be thankful to keep it for bit longer unless they want to eridacte all insect life.

ROFLMAO!

No crossing of eyes is necessary to percieve the 4th dimension Raaaid. Some tests for you. First, you must turn off your augmentation ability or these may not work!

1) Now go look at an object. Say, a rock. Close your eyes. Say “one-one thousand” to yourself. Now open them and look at the rock again. One second of time has just been mapped by your brain relative to that object and your 3 dimensional perception of it. Do you see the rock? Did you see the time pass by? You did! You have a record of it in your short term memory. All you have to do is remember it. You can re-live it over and over as many times as you like until you decide to forget it.

2) Look at a polaroid picture of yourself taken sometime in the past. Now go look at yourself in the mirror. These representations are 2D, more or less. Now, try to remember everything you did from the time the picture was taken to the time you looked in the mirror. Your brain just mapped the 4th dimension relative to those two 2D planes!

This augmentation must be something other than perception of 4th dimension. Maybe a mutation on how we perceive space-time. More or less efficient? Have no idea.

[swiss]

lol, i almost spilled my coffee.