--- In [email protected], "PaliGap" <compost1uk@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "seventhray27" steve.sundur@
wrote:
> > It has been suggested here, that a person does not have full brain
> > development until they are 25.  And I think the part of the brain
> > that is not fully developed, IIRC is that part which evaluates the
> > future consequences of our actions. I am just putting that out there
> > as one thing to consider.
>
> Yes I see that has been mentioned here. There must be something
> wrong with my brain though, 'cos this idea seems to me to be
> off-the-wall bonkers beyond belief. Do you *really* believe this?
> Really?

Really, I have no idea.  Nor do I really care.  I brought it up because
it was recently mentioned, and it's probably true.  And as I said, the
part of the brain that isn't fully developed has to do with appreciating
the full consequences of our actions.  I don't believe I said anything
about writing scientific papers.  So, before you go all Michael Jackson
on me, and try to make a connection that doesn't make any sense, why
don't you read what I wrote.  I think that would require only junior
high comprehension. (-:
> Einstein published his first paper at the age of 22. It was on
> "Conclusions from the Capillarity Phenomena" - But his
> brain had not yet reached the stage where it "evaluates the
> future consequences of our actions"?
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> Then again perhaps it was 23 year old war hero Frank Edward Young
> (VC)'s brain that was at fault:
>
> "On 18 September 1918 south-east of Havrincourt, France, during
> an enemy counter-attack and throughout intense enemy fire, Second
> Lieutenant Young visited all posts, warned the garrisons and
> encouraged the men. In the early stages of the attack he rescued
> two of his men who had been captured and bombed and silenced an
> enemy machine-gun. Then he fought his way back to the main
> barricade and drove out a party of the enemy assembling there.
> Throughout four hours of heavy fighting this officer set a fine
> example and was last seen fighting hand-to-hand against a
> considerable number of the enemy"
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