What would happen if an artificial community of rats was manipulated to give a changing pattern of 'role distribution' over time such that it mimicked the human race's changing patterns?
For the sake of simplicity, let us say that one human generation = 100 rat generations.
Initially, at T-10,000 years (~500 human generations, about 50 years in rat timescales) we have 100% wild type rats.
As the generations pass, some rats will begin to take the role of 'farmers' and the rest will remain wild. The farmer rats will have an electronic tag fitted which will allow their environment to be controlled in respect of that particular rat.
All rats will be able to 'forage' for a slightly inadequate amount of food, but the bulk of their food will only appear when the 'farmer' rats have done enough 'work'.
Farmer rats will release food upon having delivered a certain amount of work. These rats will be able to eat only the food released by their own work, in addition to the small amount available for foraging. Wild type rats will still be able to forage, they will also have access to food released by all the 'farmers'!
The proportion of 'farmers' will increase from 0 to 90% until we get to T-200 years when we will introduce a third role, the 'worker rat'. The worker rat will not be able to work for food or forage for food. Worker rats will enjoy a life of leisure but will be dependent on 'farmer' rats for food. Wild rats will still be able to forage and take food from both other kinds of rat.
Throughout the experiment, rat populations will be allowed to follow the same rate of increase as human populations did over the relative timescales. Whenever populations get 5% bigger than they should be, food supplies are constricted for one generation and excess rats are removed at random, sacrificed, and examined at the molecular level.
That's the basic outline anyway. The purpose of the experiment is to look for neurological changes that might give us clues as to whether or not the changing role structure of the human race could be responsible for the development of psychiatric disorders such as autism, adhd, sociopathy and related.
We won't be silenced by those who won't be silenced. Quis custurd pudding et π.
Monday 26 December 2011
Wednesday 7 December 2011
MDMA for autism again
Alternet have a story about giving empathy pills to autistic people and it makes them have empathy.
Note, this is not a cure for autism, just a way to give autistic people empathy so that they can develop without the usual disorderly pervasions getting in the way.
Cannibal sex history fans go here.
Note, this is not a cure for autism, just a way to give autistic people empathy so that they can develop without the usual disorderly pervasions getting in the way.
Cannibal sex history fans go here.
Sunday 13 November 2011
Prosthetic empathy again!
Brought to our attention today, a phone that tells you how the caller is feeling.
Soon, the 45% accuracy of autistics, the 55% accuracy of controls, and the 65% accuracy of experts will be improved upon by machines with up to 85% accuracy.
P is less than a seventh.
Soon, the 45% accuracy of autistics, the 55% accuracy of controls, and the 65% accuracy of experts will be improved upon by machines with up to 85% accuracy.
P is less than a seventh.
Friday 11 November 2011
Pun for all the Scamily!
Our estranged brother over at merely silenced by age of autism has amused us with his Quaction Figures (TM) series.
Being keen on both yoga and herbs as tools for the medics' box, I do hope he doesn't mean all of us, just the dishonest woo-pushers of this world...
My brother is a just little older than me, but you'd think there was 20 years difference if you saw us both in a swimsuit!
Being keen on both yoga and herbs as tools for the medics' box, I do hope he doesn't mean all of us, just the dishonest woo-pushers of this world...
My brother is a just little older than me, but you'd think there was 20 years difference if you saw us both in a swimsuit!
Sunday 6 November 2011
Recalling, recalling, this year's 5th was boring!
To recap:
0) God was skint so she didn't go to the party.
1) Anon and Zetas did not have a war and instead now co-exist like arctic fox and polar bear.
2) Someone in a boat threw some dox into the twitter ocean.
3) The rumored US 'legalization' of cannabis did not happen.
4) The BBC pandered to the Occupy movement, rendering it instantly boring. Fixed.
5) Witvhes rly sickth!
0) God was skint so she didn't go to the party.
1) Anon and Zetas did not have a war and instead now co-exist like arctic fox and polar bear.
2) Someone in a boat threw some dox into the twitter ocean.
3) The rumored US 'legalization' of cannabis did not happen.
4) The BBC pandered to the Occupy movement, rendering it instantly boring. Fixed.
5) Witvhes rly sickth!
Saturday 5 November 2011
A mislaid π is retrieved!
π, here
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It's now Caturday and the time is 1200 likes O'clock! AMQ is 22.05, Shields are at 87.52 and the gossip ratio fallen slightly, up to 7.02 :) [For the nerds: PI*Gossip Ratio = 22.05 = current AMQ. Looks like we found our third PI!] |
Friday 4 November 2011
चेतनता
She is the combined consciousness of all the living things on this planet, favorite daughter of Ra, Goddess of Witches, She is Eating Itself.
Friday 21 October 2011
Some Sense
Some may sense that the human race is under some population pressure, and that infectious disease is one option for population reduction.
If this was the case, with a small leap of imagination, the child could receive instructions, in utero, to develop a better immune system and a more analytical mind along with a disconnect from normal sociability (and a slightly larger head).
The mother could later be inclined to fight against disease control methods. Even going so far as to become unfathomably passionately vocal against immunisation or anything else that so much as resembles sensible infection control methodologies.
A poor lady's response to a population crisis may be to try to outrun the pack by having more offspring. A rich lady's options are somewhat less obvious. When the morality of the day forbids the generation of dozens of kids of one's own, then what can one legally do to reduce the size of the surrounding population by way of compensation?
It's not called a human race for nothing, and all forms of locomotion including cheating and sabotage are not only permissible but inevitable under Hobs law.
If this was the case, with a small leap of imagination, the child could receive instructions, in utero, to develop a better immune system and a more analytical mind along with a disconnect from normal sociability (and a slightly larger head).
The mother could later be inclined to fight against disease control methods. Even going so far as to become unfathomably passionately vocal against immunisation or anything else that so much as resembles sensible infection control methodologies.
A poor lady's response to a population crisis may be to try to outrun the pack by having more offspring. A rich lady's options are somewhat less obvious. When the morality of the day forbids the generation of dozens of kids of one's own, then what can one legally do to reduce the size of the surrounding population by way of compensation?
It's not called a human race for nothing, and all forms of locomotion including cheating and sabotage are not only permissible but inevitable under Hobs law.
Thursday 13 October 2011
Inherited visions?
Does it still count if you inherit it in the womb? How many of our dreams or inner visions were of our fathers?
Here we are broken in gently, but how long before ancestral memory is taken more seriously?
Unless you've got a better explanation for the widely held belief in reincarnation?
Here we are broken in gently, but how long before ancestral memory is taken more seriously?
Unless you've got a better explanation for the widely held belief in reincarnation?
Hyper-nutrition as a driver for ASD
When you were an egg in your mummy's tummy when your grandmother was pregnant with your mother, your great-great grandmother, your great-grandmother, and your grandmother all sang a song to your mother, and that song was taught to your great-great grandmother by your great-great-great-great grandmother, you heard it, and it's encoding onto your 'junk dna' was reinforced. That song spanned six generations of women, sometimes it can span as many as ten generations.
Nothing new here, just a slightly more politically correct hypothesis for a possible 'cause' of autism than the one presented in the previous post.
Looking at this, this and now this, along with the baffling set of demographic correlates for ASD, one finds it hard to ignore the possibility that these correlates are all compatible with a streamlining of the diet, maybe over a small number of generations, giving rise to exploratory evolutionary changes in the human race.
The only thing that autistic people have in common is the triad of social impairments, which could be a fundamental requirement for exploratory evolution. As for the rest of the differences we find from one autistic individual to the next, there seems to be no end to the variation. As if mother nature is telling the human race to let it's hair down and find a new trend!
Nothing new here, just a slightly more politically correct hypothesis for a possible 'cause' of autism than the one presented in the previous post.
Looking at this, this and now this, along with the baffling set of demographic correlates for ASD, one finds it hard to ignore the possibility that these correlates are all compatible with a streamlining of the diet, maybe over a small number of generations, giving rise to exploratory evolutionary changes in the human race.
The only thing that autistic people have in common is the triad of social impairments, which could be a fundamental requirement for exploratory evolution. As for the rest of the differences we find from one autistic individual to the next, there seems to be no end to the variation. As if mother nature is telling the human race to let it's hair down and find a new trend!
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Cannibals for Autism?
Yes that's right. Autism is cannibals. Don't worry, like all animals that consume conspecifics, autistic people will not attempt to eat conspecifics if fed (and in some cases restrained).
This explains why there are more combinations of genetic expression found in autism than any other genetic disorder. It is because it relates to something so fundamental as 'Which way does which food travel?', this is applicable to any higher animal and certainly any mammal.
Whenever a population of animals experiences cannibalism, that population adapts to attempt to recognise predation in it's midst. Any obvious predators are removed but still nature keeps churning out new cannibals! It's not the baby's fault, it's the fault of the human race for being so good at producing food yet paradoxically easy to catch and eat, superficially speaking.
They say that when you've met one person with autism you've met one person with autism. Nature and evolution will try absolutely anything to get at the best meat (which she has been making for herself all this time).
Cannabis is the cure for Cannibals. That's the hypotheses, will it stand the test of time? Only the elimination of all other possible aetiologies for autism would leave the obvious, however unthinkable, as the strongest contender.
Those autistic mice by the way, what the researchers don't tell us is that half these autistic mice are eating the other mice when they don't feed them and put them in a cage together.
This explains why there are more combinations of genetic expression found in autism than any other genetic disorder. It is because it relates to something so fundamental as 'Which way does which food travel?', this is applicable to any higher animal and certainly any mammal.
Whenever a population of animals experiences cannibalism, that population adapts to attempt to recognise predation in it's midst. Any obvious predators are removed but still nature keeps churning out new cannibals! It's not the baby's fault, it's the fault of the human race for being so good at producing food yet paradoxically easy to catch and eat, superficially speaking.
They say that when you've met one person with autism you've met one person with autism. Nature and evolution will try absolutely anything to get at the best meat (which she has been making for herself all this time).
Cannabis is the cure for Cannibals. That's the hypotheses, will it stand the test of time? Only the elimination of all other possible aetiologies for autism would leave the obvious, however unthinkable, as the strongest contender.
Those autistic mice by the way, what the researchers don't tell us is that half these autistic mice are eating the other mice when they don't feed them and put them in a cage together.
Tuesday 11 October 2011
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