Re: [scifinoir2] Wonder why we don't crash like computers? Yale explains

2010-05-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Please do, Mr Worf. I'd love to see it. Reading this might provide an explanation for my two incidents. I am an intensely visual-minded person. What I write, I stage out in my head, and I draw on visual cues, mostly from comics, to help. I put a lot in every day. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, M

Re: [scifinoir2] Wonder why we don't crash like computers? Yale explains

2010-05-12 Thread Mr. Worf
There's a science radio show on PBS that did a segment on this topic a while back. They say that sleep does a delete and defragment of the brain so that is why we do not crash. During the day everything that we see, feel, smell, hear is stored into a buffer. Some of it will be placed into permanent

Re: [scifinoir2] Wonder why we don't crash like computers? Yale explains

2010-05-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Amazing post, Mr Worf. I have to say that, on a couple of occasions, I do feel as though my mental OS has crashed, literally like a computer's. Chugging right along and then whammo, I'm rebooting, vision coming back from brown around the edges, unable to move or form cohesive thought. On those occa