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Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Anonymous User
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Date: December 22, 2008 06:58AM I think veronique has a mean math teacher in her past. :p Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Omega
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Date: December 22, 2008 07:08PM Exercising the brain without acquiring wisdom is like chewing gum vs. eating. Re: Increasing your grey matter
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la_veronique
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Date: December 23, 2008 06:32AM chomp chomp\slurp slurp
chomp chomp ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! yes, community builder i had great math teachers 1+3=1 2+3=90 they taught me that all things were possible if u look at anything a certain way, it can be proven even the above 1+1= infinity 1+1=1 Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Anonymous User
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Date: December 23, 2008 08:50AM Omega Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Exercising the brain without acquiring wisdom is > like chewing gum vs. eating. So we should just let our mental capacities atrophy until wisdom arrives? Re: Increasing your grey matter
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arugula
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Date: December 23, 2008 11:15AM LaV, that's not the kind of math that builds your brain, that's elementary school arithmetic.
something like this would be more like it. [www.math.uiuc.edu] Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Sundancer
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Date: December 23, 2008 12:04PM I like LaV's math better. Re: Increasing your grey matter
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kwan
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Date: December 23, 2008 03:51PM Arrrgh!!!!!! Elementary school math... and... THEOREMS!!!!!!!! (Hyperventillates, then runs screaming from the room.)
Actually, although I was horrible at doing math (why oh why did the guidance counselor put me in 'honors' math classes when I was going into music?!?), I was real good at typing them after I got out of college. I worked for an ocean engineering professor at MIT for a couple years, and I had to type up poster-sized pages of complicated equations, sometimes for hours, using a Selectric typewriter and a Symbol ball (this was the 1980s) and I got good at it, but I was bored out of my mind and eventually had to quit, and that was when I went back to my chosen right-brained activity: playing music. Sharrhan: 
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Anonymous User
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Date: December 23, 2008 09:37PM School can make anyone hate math. But math is just as beautiful as naval gazing, perhaps more so (depends how nice a naval you got I suppose). Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Jgunn
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Date: December 23, 2008 10:19PM practical use of math:
If Jodi has 1 apple, 2 hands and 1 mouth, how much fruit does she have in 5 minutes? NONE ~! i ate it !! ...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist  Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Omega
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Date: December 24, 2008 06:01PM communitybuilder Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > So we should just let our mental capacities > atrophy until wisdom arrives? Truth, knowledge, and wisdom are sought. If one enjoys playing chess or doing higher math, that's great. If one simply exercises the brain for its own sake without enjoyment or purpose, I think one would be better off finding what it is that one enjoys and doing that instead. My original statement may have been a little harsh. What I meant was that exercising the brain for its own sake is IMO not a virtue onto itself, except perhaps in the elderly -- but even then the elderly wouldn't be exercising the brain by doing something they didn't enjoy. Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Omega
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Date: December 24, 2008 06:04PM Then again, I suppose that exercising the brain for its own sake is better than not exercising the brain at all.
But exercising the brain as a byproduct of enjoyment or purpose is best.  Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/24/2008 06:15PM by Omega. Re: Increasing your grey matter
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pAL
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Date: December 24, 2008 11:38PM Meditation is exactly the opposite of thinking - or contemplation or visualizing and reasoning to solve problems -__-
Meditation gives us the power to: -) exercise our Free Will - and make more 'unerring choices' - , - Regarding our future good health and happy .,. peaceful .,. well being -__- Where You -_- Me -,- Myself and °I° - can all agree -__- U2-b-as-1+1x1= 1 /*-*\ @___@ The most difficult task is To still the mind The smart ones think The intelligent -_- reason The wise ~_~ meditated today The healthy - eat live alkaline foods The strong – work out 3–5 days a week The flexible – practice Hatha yoga yesterday The happy sing praises °-° and dance and play ~___~ (:- |)— pAL Re: Increasing your grey matter
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Anonymous User
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Date: December 25, 2008 01:02AM Omega Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > But exercising the brain as a byproduct of > enjoyment or purpose is best.
Does it matter whether the chicken or egg came first? People who don't make using their minds or bodies to the fullest a priority probably won't experience much enjoyment anyway. Re: Increasing your grey matter
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arugula
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Date: December 25, 2008 04:17AM Think about it this way:
Whatever takes you into the zone, you enjoy that. When you get into higher math problems, you are in the zone. There is some pleasure in making use of your ability to process advanced abstract thought, pushing your ability to its limits and setting new limits that are even more "out there." There is also great pleasure in playing Debussy. They are not so different as LaV has pointed out, both take great effort and provide greater rewards. Re: Increasing your grey matter
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arugula
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Date: December 25, 2008 03:37PM I forgot to add, you call it a pringle, I call it a hyperbolic paraboloid. Re: Increasing your grey matter
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la_veronique
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Date: December 28, 2008 02:26PM hit me up with some flaxseed garlic cumin hyperbolic paraboloids in a X^2 rotated about the Y axis.
I will stare at the X^3 rotated about the Y axis til all the sand reaches the bottom of the hourglass to see when my little lunch break is over. chomp chomp chomp hmmm.... this needs a little raw hummus sigh  Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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