The talk about brain preservation in the comment section reminded me of this excellent discussion on CBC radio about preserving your brain long after your body is dead and the progress scientists are making to solve this problem.
Apparently, the only way to salvage your brain for posterity is for it to preserved while you’re still alive, thus killing you. Waiting until after you’re dead will cause the chemical interactions that are your thoughts and memories to atrophy.
These scientists reject commenter RR’s belief that our minds can not be reduced to our brains.
Pumpkin Person 
regarding peepee’s cockring inspired theory…it’s false!
1. my dad had much lower scores than i did. and lower scores than his father would have had (if there’d been a high stakes test).* AND there’s NO history of this illness in my family past my dad and his brother.
de novo mutation?
so if it’s “genetic” it’s likely X-linked or recessive.
this means my brother and i are very unlikely to come down with it…
2. when he applied harvard accepted 20% of applicants.
*he did have very high LSAT scores…or so he told me…a much higher percentile than his SATs.
but we may benefit from the bad allele (ala cockring)…not matched by my mother…
but it’s sending me shivers…
my bro’s PIQ is very high.
his VIQ is like 110.
[redacted by pp, july 13, 2018]
my dad WAS diagnosed with cerebellar atrophy based on images of his brain about 5 years ago…and he had been drinking very heavily…
1. alcoholism is the most common cause of cerebellar atrophy…the staggering, slurring drunk…
2. my dad stopped drinking.
3. it just got worse.
4. his brother was NOT a big drinker.
5. alcoholism as symptom?
“These scientists reject commenter RR’s belief that our minds can not be reduced to our brains.”
They can reject it all they want. It’s not an empirical matter. Reductive physicalism is false.
“Reductive physicalism is false”
Then the inverse:
wholistic physicalism
is true
Nope.
^^^ Very funny parody account.
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/graduate-student-awards-and-publications
This is RRs favourite webpage.
Or should I say, ‘RR’.
No need for “scarequotes”, nothing I’ve ever written in my 3 years blogging indicates that I deny that race is real.
brain cells have no role in being rational about some proposition?
When I am thinking; brain cells don’t contribute at all to my thinking?
How can they do that?
We have here an obvious case of, “want to believe something that’s obviously false? Call a metaphysician!”
Metaphysics is a bottomless rabbit hole. You can never win an argument with metaphysics, except among friends who already agree with you (in which case, “win” should be in those scare quotes you mention). Bringing metaphysics to bear on an empirical question is like bringing a catfish to a gunfight. You’ve already lost.
Well? How can they do that?
you said: “The brain is a necessary pre-condition”
so are you just obfuscating again.
You believe in actuality the brain is not needed for thinking.
you believe in fairy dust.
from an empiricist POV one might conclude that my dad’s fatal illness was held at bay by drink.
he quit…it got worse.
anything’s possible.
peepee might add some neuro-psychiatic symptoms…[redacted by pp, july 13, 2018]
my only possible neurological symptom is an aldo ray voice…that i can’t improve without screaming.
20+ years prior my dad had 2 neurological symptoms.
1. a parali(y)zed vocal chord.
2. nystagmus
the ENT told me i did NOT have a paralyzed vocal chord.
^^So this is on topic, but my comments aren’t. Makes sens.e
at least it’s about the brain
Your comments are half racist and half repeating what I’ve already said.
I control the content of your brain.
Also…..snitches get stitches.
Girly man.
i guess that sample sucked!
it was his voice 1% + his body 99%.
he’s the extreme.
…
the point is that…
a voice disability can be extremely SEXY…as long as it doesn’t progress.
notice that the interviewer is an EXTREME homo.
the MDs are dumb. “hospice” just means they can’t do anything. the proximal cause of death in cases like his are usually pneumonia. in his brother’s case it took a year.
it’s not ALS apparently, because he’s not paralyzed, just un-able to co-ordinate.
alcohol per se does not kill neurons. this is a yuge misunderstanding.
alcoholism leads to thiamine and folate deficiency which can kill neurons.
but the ataxia associated with alcoholism is just embarrassing.
it’s not fatal.
death from alcoholism per se is always due to cirrhosis.
and that’s IT!
ALL other causes of death are at most…
“alcoholism was a factor.”
my father died from drink. it took until he was 95. but it killed him!
yeah. basically aldo’s is my voice.
it’s like a whisper if you’re not listening closely.
it’s “normal” if you’re not hearing disabled.
sad!
[redacted by pp, july 19, 2018] this is very sad!
when i’m sad i masturbate to gay porn.
when people go to a psychiatrist and say, “i’m depressed”, the psychiatrist should say, “have you tried gay porn?”
it’s very depressing when oprah won’t have sex with you.