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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (301088)	5/31/2016 4:22:12 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 540724

ST, I don't know whether you will agree with this or not, but here's my take on the human brain. I don't think the mind is as simple as people think i.e. as portrayed by the normal distribution of the Stanford Binet IQ test. You might want to read Robert Ornstein's book:" the evolution of consciousness". He has been aa research psychologist for 50 years and teaches at Stanford and UC medical school and is a world authority on the bicameral mind. His research indicates we have many minds, he calls them simpletons. It makes perfect sense though when one thinks about it, in that we evolved over millions of years, and in the past have been many different kinds of animals each one with a different mind. As Carl Sagan said in his book Broca's Brain, sometimes we see the world through the eyes of a lizard. Scientific American a few years back produced a study on the "Expert MInd" and they stated it takes 10 years to develop an expert mind, more than to train a neurosurgeon. They used chess players as their examples. Poker is much like chess only more right brained, I think. But I have my own experiences to draw on. I'm a very average person according to the Stanford Binet IQ test. Yet I am a successful high stakes poker player. In fact I'm getting ready to move to Las Vegas to make my living playing poker. When I go on the road and play poker, I win over 80% of the time and the other 20% I generally lose only because my brain gets tired. It is common for me to sit down to a table with people who would test much higher than I on the Stanford Binet IQ test because poker is an intellectual game based on math. So lots of people with math backgrounds play high stakes poker. It is not uncommon for me to sit down to games with people that have PhD degrees in physics and math and engineer's. I seldom have any trouble beating them and I've never sat down to a table where I didn't feel I had the edge. And the reason I'm able to beat them so easily is simply because I know more about the game than they do. I have more software than they do. So when I sit down to the table I have the tools to beat them. The analogy I like to use is a good computer with a lot of software will do a lot better than a big computer with little software. All you have to do is go to areas where the people are very uneducated and it is hard to tell the difference between someone who is biologically challenged and someone who is educationally challenged. The secret to education is building a person software i.e. their knowledge. And the vast majority of people are capable of learning great amounts of knowledge. Much much more knowledge than people generally think because the more the brain thinks the stronger it gets not unlike an athlete who trains.

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