Comments on: Arms are pretty important things

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:54:28 +0000

Wow, the De Chucklehead wants me to go to work for the certified board there. Yet still can’t explain anything, not even in a single thesis sentence. The elite eggheads must think they know everything, the science is settled.

I don’t argue with ants, DChimpster, I step on them.

Now I’m going to take my deserved break and rest, as stepping on ants is tiresome.

You must think your credential very powerful, to be able get me to look things up and do as you say, merely by typing words on the internet. Ya think it’s some magick spell from Mr Shakespeare that you plagiarized?

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:33:40 +0000

As an MD with a formidable knowledge of neurologic disease, I have Board-certified knowledge of these subjects, and was listed in Best Doctors in America from that publication’s inception onward, Ymar. Regrettably you do not. You’d best look them up yourself; and look up Polonius too, slow your descent into snarkiness.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:32:11 +0000

Since DC obviously thinks he’s an expert on this subject, demonstrate for all of us here, how you know I am wrong. Or is that something that a copycat of other people’s writing is incapable of?

–Brevity is the soul of wit.– Do you think you came up with that line yourself, but just can’t explain the thinking behind them?

neuroanatomy and neurophysiology

Did you come up with those words yourself, or did you have to look them up? And at the place you looked them up, did they explain how I was wrong?

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:25:58 +0000

Just give a literature reference to your claim that “The very center of the brain calculates motor controls”. That is a request, not a command, Oh Learned One.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:17:31 +0000

Are you under the impression that I give a damn what you think DC?

Did you forget when I wrote that I didn’t like people agreeing with me as well as those in disagreement. Do you understand what that means?

In the past I might have attempted to “prove my position”, but these days the masses of human ignorance isn’t worth my time.

So given that apathy is the soul of brevity, I’ll keep it short since getting additional work for your sake, DC, would be harming my rest.

Eventually, you’ll get a basic education in anatomy, DC, but it’s not something I need to give out. I suggest you read a basic modern research summary of the human brain DC, but since your opinion is likened to the wind, utterly invisible, it’s not necessary.

What I know is that one DC head here thinks it can tell me what to do. Go ahead and see what happens when you do.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:21:17 +0000

Give it a rest, Ymar. What you apparently don’t know about neuroanatomy and neurophysiology will fill textbooks on those subjects.
“The very center of the brain calculates motor controls” is utter mumbo-jumbo. And you go on from there.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:56:52 +0000

Conscious thought is not necessary for movement impulses.

It’s why hard wired responses in combat can occur even if the body is destroyed or if the brain takes a fatal shot, the nerves still respond to the conditioned sequence until it physically cannot.

The very center of the brain calculates motor controls, while the front part and other parts handle emotion, sound, and visual cortex with conscious thoughts.

Being able to shut down unnecessary parts of the brain to reroute the energy to the necessary parts, is part of what specialized training or natural gifts provide. It’s why a trained soldier (when an order is given) or a trained warrior, is much more effective than their equivalent untrained counterparts.

What a normal person takes 10 seconds to figure out how to do, operant training and conditioning can do in less than .3 seconds.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:06:39 +0000

Trained or untrained, Neo, there are times when a fall is just a fall and the consequences are fate. The patch of unexpected ice under a doormat, the feet slipping out from under the balance of the body too fast for thought, flinging up higher than the head and the center of gravity too swiftly for anything but the thought: no matter how I move this is going to hurt, hip hitting concrete first no matter what head and body might do. As best i could I controlled my landing: the result, head safe, hands safe, legs and feet safe, hip smashed. People want to say there is always some way to reassert control. I understand the impulse and wish it were so, but time, gravity, and speed have a truth of their own. Wishing that we were always in control is only a wish. Because of surgeons and knowledge and technology in the days before Obamacare I still walk, but if I work for hours I ache and limp. To prevent it? Just don’t fall in the first place. Miss the ice, see the misstep, avoid the fate.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:13:27 +0000

Apathy is the soul of brevity.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:05:35 +0000

I agree with Ymar’s How To Fall, though brevity is the soul of wit.
Roll, baby, roll!