Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AC Flyer who wrote (27503)	1/16/2003 12:20:58 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 74559

long time no hear your investment position... care to re declare it?

To: AC Flyer who wrote (27503)	1/16/2003 3:53:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

ACF, the reason that the female corpus callosum is relatively larger than the male is because of the corpus callosum function, which is the same in both. Its purpose is to provide connection between halves. Since a nerve fibre can only carry one signal at a time, because CDMA doesn't work in the corpus callosum, unlike in optical fibres, the number of fibres is related to the number of messages to be carried. Females carry the same number of messages between brain halves as males, so their absolute corpus callosum size needs to be the same as the males. Since their brains are relatively smaller, which is because their bodies are relatively smaller, and hence the number of brain receptors can be smaller, the ratio of female corpus callosum to brain size is larger than for males. For example each square centimetre of skin has a bunch of nerves minding it. Those nerves all have to have a piece of brain to look after them. Females have less skin, so they need fewer brain cells to keep an eye on them. Their intestines are shorter and smaller in diameter, because females are smaller, so the nerve systems coming from and going to them are smaller. <"The implication of women having more white matter connecting between the hemispheres of the brain is that they would have better communication between the different modes of perceiving and relating to the world," says Raquel Gur. "On the other hand, men would demonstrate a stronger concentration on working within any one of those modes." > Raquel is obviously a psychologist and not a scientist to have come up with that Just So Story. My bet is that men and women are equal in "multi-tasking". Just as they are equal in intelligence. I don't think female nerve cells are smaller than male nerve cells, so the nerve fibres have to be the same diameter in male and female to carry a message. So, we can make some predictions based on my brand new theory. Namely, a female's spinal cord at her neck would be in direct proportion to her brain size, which would be in direct proportion to her body size, give or take some natural variation on an individual basis. To test the theory, classify women according to body size, [excluding fat], measured by weight. My prediction is that there will be a direct correlation with spinal cord diameter. Then measure brain size and you will find that big women have big brains. Keep in mind that this is on a statistical basis, not for every individual. Because intelligence is a thinking function, not a body-monitoring and managing business, it's almost independent of brain size, though there is a slight correlation on a statistical basis [I just made up that bit too]. However, because thinking requires lots of chatting between the hemispheres, the corpus callosum needs to be fully-sized. Okay, that's enough introduction to the theory. I'm going to google spinal column diameters, brain mass, IQ, body size [ex fat] and see if the theory fits the facts. I won't bother with neurotransmitters, potassium concentrations, cell membrane thickness, and the many other things messing with our brains because I can't handle so many variables on the first go. Humans are notoriously individual and complex. That's my Just So Story. Now I'll go and find out what some facts are. Mqurice