On Wednesday 18 Aug 2010 10:32:39 pm Thaths wrote: > I posit that doing anything requiring hours of deliberate, thoughtful, > delcate effort every day (7-days a week, etc.) rewires your brain. Be > it child rearing or solving cross word puzzles or repairing antique > mechanical watches. >
In fact doing nothing at all should also rewire your brain. But science demands deeper hairsplitting. For example would the father of a young child in Pakistan, caught in the floods pick up his crossword puzle in lieu of picking up his (human) baby? The second series of expriments would be to test people who have loved crosswords for years to check if they prefer crossword over 4 week old baby for saving in emergency situation. If carefully controlled experiments show that dad prefers puking crapping baby over stimulating crossword puzzle, there must be some difference in the wiring that has occurred in response to baby versus that by crossword puzzle. And that the rewiring has occurred in a short time relative to time spent loving crossword puzzles. Why the difference if all rewiring is caused merely by doing something repeatedly over a long period of time? That would be a question that needs further investigation, should my statements in the paragraph above this be true. One may know the answers by intuition, but minus experimental proof, it would mean zilch. shiv
