Small google sample. That's just about changes during youth to old age.

Your ability to "grab" data becomes slower as you age. I was pondering aloud if it would cause a sense of "time going by faster" then when you compare your memory to the "time that went by" on a typical childhood day, etc...

My main wonderment is over the interface the body uses in particular to take input then decides what is a: not real, b: is real. I know most of that will be data comparison, I want to know what element of the mind was able to start that in the first place. I was wondering aloud if it might be humans' input interface is *very* hard-handed and exact, then compared to an Elephant's system? Could it be dreams? That was the only other question I was asking above. L0cky covered the rest.

I have also seen mental illness in my time. It has also given me extreme patience for anyone as I know reality is a troublesome thing. Our unique ability to communicate across that void is the biggest mystery to solve; to heal, to push innovation; and perhaps spread it one day (if we dare, or even think we should have that right). Besides a Unified Field Theory...

If someone knows anymore go at it. I just need links because I'll want to read it all.

Initially, I had a similar reaction as Bidouleroux to how the question was framed - too many open variables to assess the situation. But I think that's part of it. There's always going to be unknown factors. Who knows - the fat guy could be the key to a lasting peace settlement between Palestinians and Jews, or maybe has the solution for a true Unified Field Theory. That's the point - you can't know these things in advance.

Ultimately, I agree with Kuga. It's homicide in both cases - someone dies as a direct result of your actions. It's kind of like the difference between strangling someone vs. shooting them (killing with your hands vs. pulling a lever). The question for me comes down to your personal belief structure. Most people will apply the "utilitarian" approach, i.e., saving the lives of 4 people is better than causing the death of 1. But again, most people can only take that so far, and struggle with becoming more "directly" involved.

(side note - I put this in the science channel because I was under the impression that the study used fmri to show the areas of the brain active in answering each situation (cingulate cortex?). This may not be the case. I'm still looking for references to this, but if anyone feels this doesn't belong in science in the mean time, go ahead and knock it out.)

The most significant thing about this theory is that it makes predictions. Several of these predictions will be experimentally tested next year at the large hardron collider.

When I first saw this in Focus magazine a few weeks ago, it struck me that it is in fact a periodic table of the quantum world, and this is exactly how Lisi describes it. It has already predicted quantum particles with properies which have later been found, just as the periodic table did. It also neatly ties them all up together, along with all the interactions and force carrying particles.

The fact that it is consistent with existing quantum field theory and the standard quantum model - is exactly the point of a unified theory. Any candidate for a unified field theory must be consistent with both special relativity and the quantum standard model.