On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Your comments about being hooked up to a heart monitor reminded me of > one of the more interesting areas of this field, applying behavioral > psychology to biofeedback. One cool area is single muscle unit > training. You can train individual muscle fibers to selectively fire > based on visual or auditory input. One fo the things this has been > used for is to train amputees to control artificial limbs and actually > achieve some fairly fine-grained control over the limb's movements.
Ninjas have known this for thousands of years. ;) > As for the (semi-coherent) comments about what happens when the person > is aware of the shaping. Well what do you think that a lot of > psychotherapy is? That said, there is a lot of research that shows > that these methods are just as effective with the person's knowledge > that it its occurring as when there is no immediate awareness. Thanks. I'm nothing if not semi-something. :) Maybe you can train yourself in ways most people wouldn't dream possible. But to what ends (manipulation-wise)? Hrm. I was kinda thinking about how in HHGTTG, the mice.... you know. Arthur thought about this for a second, and then his face cleared. "Ah no," he said, "I see the source of the misunderstanding now. No, look you see, what happened was that we used to do experiments on them. They were often used in behavioural research, Pavlov and all that sort of stuff. So what happened was hat the mice would be set all sorts of tests, learning to ring bells, run around mazes and things so that the whole nature of the learning process could be examined. From our observations of their behaviour we were able to learn all sorts of things about our own ..." Arthur's voice tailed off. "Such subtlety ..." said Slartibartfast, "one has to admire it." -- Slartibartfast: [talking about the Earth] Best laid plans of mice. Arthur: And men. Slartibartfast: What? Arthur: Best laid plans of mice and men. Slartibartfast: Oh. No, I don't think men had much to do with it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312832 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
