Actually it is knee and back injuries that are the common long term
problem, not head injuries. I know guys with knee and back problems 40
years later... long term brain damage is not common for players
through college. Brain damage is mostly seen in pros, linebackers and
offensive linemen mostly.
It's become a lot better than it used to be. When I was playing (I
played through high school) you had to be very, very unbalanced to be
taken out of the game. I no doubt had concussions and kept playing. I
played in about 70 collision football games.
The brain can take a pounding and still work
Since AGI consciousness is an emergent property for which there can be no
flowchart, for many years it seemed impossible to draw a diagram of
consciousness.
http://ai.neocities.org/Consciousness.html -- recently obtained a new ASCII
diagram in which consciousness is depicted as the opposite of