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Flechette:
Adam Harishon didn't even have a shirt on his back. He literally had NOTHING!

Yet he was the most intelligent and strongest human who has ever lived!

We today only use a fraction of our brain's power, and our physiques are pathetic.

Adam was operating at optimum.

Since then, it's been downhill all the way, which is part of the plan.

At appropriate junctures in history, Hashem permits discoveries in technology to compensate for that decline, without which mankind could not survive.

The year 5600 (1840) was pointed out by the Zohar as a year that would see such revelation in particular, and indeed most discoveries of the Industrial Revolution were made around that time.

msd:
Thanks, Muman613. I liked both articles. The only thing I disagreed with was this part:


--- Quote ---Let us envision a memory transfer. Assume that we have a person with an incurable disease, and neither his body nor his brain can be salvaged. We clone a new body for this individual, brain and all. This new body has a blank, new brain capable of functioning, but without any memories. We bring all of the information of the sick person into the brain of the new body. If all of man’s memories, thought patterns and personality traits are transferred to a new body and brain, then this person literally exists in his new body, but nothing physical has been transferred, only the information.
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But that's not important. I agree that the human mind cannot be replicated with technology (unless we are growing new brains organically so that they have the same physical makeup as normal brains). I think it may be possible that we will invent robots that seem to have all the characteristics of humans, that act and talk just like us, but unless their brains are organic and molded just like ours are, I will doubt they have consciousness (any form of experience and sentience).

I know there's nothing inherently evil about technology. I was just making a point in regard to what you said about technology making us lazy. But you didn't quite say that -- you just said that it has ALLOWED us to become lazy, which is different.

Thanks again for the articles. I'll read them again later.

Admittedly, I did not understand this part:

--- Quote ---For example, when we are looking at two points of light, one bundle of nerves carries the message of one of the lights to one part of the brain, and another bundle to another point, another part of the brain, and the total message is spread out in space. The nerves with their messages cannot converge on one point or on one particle because the size of the nerve is far in excess of any particle. Therefore, since these nerve endings are in different parts of the brain, one producing the impression of light here and another over there, what entity in physics can account for our seeing two lights at the same time? These two discrete things must be in two places at the same time and there is no physical entity where this can possibly be true. In physics, there are four known forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear forces. None of these can help us to see how a physical entity can have been in two places at once. The entity that encompasses the two points of light together as a unity cannot be a physical entity. It is the mind which has the unique function of holding disparate things together in a unity and which spreads over matter.
--- End quote ---

But I think I get the gist of it from the rest.

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I guess to summarize how I feel about "the superiority of the ancient individual," I would say that I think man has not gone up or down since he was created. I do believe in evolution, but I think when man became spiritual, which the Garden of Eden story symbolizes, I think from that point on man has stayed the same as far as his brain capacity and capabilities are concerned. Ancient fossil records of Cro-Magnon man go back 30,000 or more years and they show a man that is about as robust as us, with a brain cavity similar in size to modern Europeans and Asians.

Flechette:
Yet no human bone, artifact or record can be positively dated as being older than 10,000 years.

There is no evidence that our ancestors were apes or ape-like creatures, and no fossils have ever been found to link human beings with anything other than human beings.
   
After years of careful study, top researchers like Lord Solly Zuckerman and Professor Duane Gish concluded that the entire concept of man's evolution from an ape-like creature is a phantasm, and that all the once-sensationalised "missing-links" such as Cro-Magnon Man, Peking Man, Neanderthal Man, Java Man, Orce Man, Fontechevade Man, Wadjak Man, Grimaldi Man, Olduvai Man, Foxhall Man, Nutcracker Man, Swanscombe Man, Leaky's 1470 Man, Heidelberg Man, Galley Hill Man, Piltdown Man etc.etc., were either 100% ape, 100% homo sapiens or 100% hoax!                       
According to Jewish tradition (Sanhedrin 109) the punishment of one-third of the builders of the Tower of Babel was their miraculous transformation into apes: devolution not evolution!

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