There is quite a lot of evidence that repeated mental processes do in
fact modify the physical brain. Bagley's book "Train Your Mind, Change
Your Brain", is worth glacing thru if you find the professional
literature boring.

If a person's mental activity is largely devoted to playing a
simulator game and posting on the net, one can be sure other underused
parts of the brain begin getting used to support those activiites. If
you pilot an airplane often, the process becomes 'easier' because
there's actually more brain devoted to it. Some other underused
activity will be less supported.

Researchers are always on the lookout for subjects who spend much of
their time in unusual ways, so that their brain functions can be
mapped with some of the newer imaging methodologies.

Anthony, I have this infromed consent document here I'd like you to
read. After you sign it we're going to stick your head in this fNMR
brain bloodflow imaging device. . . . .

Hey guys, don't laugh. It may sound funny, but we do that kind of
stuff every day. And there are many many safeguards to protect all of
our subjects, so don't start thinking after the process someone like
Anthony after being subjected to intense magnetic fields will only
walk north or something.


although poorly On Dec 9, 5:48 am, Airbus wrote:
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"Airbus" wrote

There's something wrong with you - you know it, and you desperately need
help.

I heard something else in the last day or two that got me thinking.

In addition to all of his other problems, I think I know what one of his
largest problems is, that explain his behavior on the internet.

He is addicted to attention. Positive, negative; it makes no difference.
Attention is what he craves, and must have it, above anything else in his
life. Just like drugs, he will get it, one way or the other.

So there it is; another thing to add onto his list of problems. Addictive
personality disorder.

This one fits too well to not be true.

Maybe - maybe not that simple.
Attention craving, certainly, but addictive, not necessarily.
I bet he doesn't play the lottery obsessively, or the horses.
But I'll also bet he doesn't have an abundance of friends dropping in.
It's more related to an inability to establish intimacy - something that went
wrong in that department a long time ago - It will take a long time to get to
the bottom of it, and a long time to get back out, but it is possible to work
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