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Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen
« on: June 21, 2020, 11:29:02 pm »
An irresistible connection.

In English:

In the cult film "Coffee and Cigarettes" the musicians Tom Waits and Iggy Pop sit in a typical American diner and sip coffee. There is a pack of cigarettes on the table that someone left there - enough reason for Tom and Iggy to talk about how happy they are now to have finally quit smoking. "The best thing about quitting is," says Tom, "that I can just treat myself to one now," takes a cigarette out of the pack and lights it.

Isn't this from the director of Dead Man?



When reaching for the cigarette, the basal ganglia in Tom Wait's brain gave their okay. "The basal ganglia is a kind of command center that decides what we will do next," explains Nicole Calakos, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham (USA). It is a group of highly networked associations of nerve cells that sit from the tips of the ears around an index finger far inside the skull.

The basal ganglia act like a selective amplifier in targeted, conscious actions ...

YIKES!
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

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Re: Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2020, 12:24:07 pm »
Just distributing extractions from our explorations of Linear Algebra:

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Christopher Marlowe wanted to invent a religion around tobacco.

The first "European" who brought back tobacco from the "Americas" was put in prison for 7 years as the smoke flowing from the body appeared "Satanic" ...  :D

Yes, we must joke more frequently about such matters.  Seeing my love of studying mathematics and programming for no practical reason as the result of demonic possession of a higher order is wonderful.  This is as good an explanation as any other.

"Why are you studying math?  Are you trying to become an engineer or something?  You're nearly 50.  Your life is over you loser!"

"Why, I am possessed by demons of a higher order ..."  8)
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

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Re: Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2020, 12:03:26 pm »
I was wondering Herr Hauser if you have come across this:

https://www.livescience.com/51919-modafil-improves-attention-learning.html
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Re: Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2020, 12:54:15 pm »
No I have not heard of this in particular, but I am aware of "brainy drugs" used by the more ambitious and competitive students.   

Today I am going to motivate myself to make bread with a bread machine donated to Maman from her brother, my uncle.   It is time to make bread in the midst of the calm storm brewing in my brain.   Computers churning, so many things going on simultaneously.  Machines, machines, machines, electricity, ovens ... It's total science fiction Bizarroland, Brother Holden.  Part of my brain knows what it is doing, and another part of my brain is just observing it all, in awe and dumbfounded.

Holy Horseshit, Holden, there are 0 guests and just you and I logged in.  This is the reality of our isolation; and yet we are still scratching at the surfaces of such deep subject matter.   I appreciate Raul's presence as well, for he helps to keep us somewhat grounded, always reminding us to take a nap.   That is a powerful technique, to know when the conscious mind has reached its limits, and to just collapse and process on subconscious levels.



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Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

~ Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen ~