The Human Brain
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The Human Brain
The phenomenal power of the human mind I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdaniegThe phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.NOTE: I read this somewhere and I just had to pass it around. I do not know the origins of the text
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George Patton
George Patton
Well someone posted it recently, but no one has posted about
what it means.... A forgotten intellectual giant of the 20th century,
Claude Shannon, discovered something in 1948: That information is a
branch of physics. Think about that for a second. Or think about
it for a year or two.
Then recall that our minds are custom-designed for processing
information in a time-critical way in order to promote survival
of the corporal being. It's like, our eyes process optical energy,
our ears process sound energy and our brains process information
energy. Information energy? Is there really such a thing?
If you can understand incomplete visual or audio information
with only a few clues, why should it be a surprise to understand
communications information in the same way? Shannon tells
us why this is so. To me, it totally rocks in that it shows us that
the real frontiers of knowledge are still close, still something a
single person, a single mind can explore and discover for everyone.
OK, OK, I know, it's not Britney without panties, but it's still pretty
damn cool!
what it means.... A forgotten intellectual giant of the 20th century,
Claude Shannon, discovered something in 1948: That information is a
branch of physics. Think about that for a second. Or think about
it for a year or two.
Then recall that our minds are custom-designed for processing
information in a time-critical way in order to promote survival
of the corporal being. It's like, our eyes process optical energy,
our ears process sound energy and our brains process information
energy. Information energy? Is there really such a thing?
If you can understand incomplete visual or audio information
with only a few clues, why should it be a surprise to understand
communications information in the same way? Shannon tells
us why this is so. To me, it totally rocks in that it shows us that
the real frontiers of knowledge are still close, still something a
single person, a single mind can explore and discover for everyone.
OK, OK, I know, it's not Britney without panties, but it's still pretty
damn cool!
