>From: Robin Hanson <rhanson@gmu.edu>
>>Old people tend to have worse eyesight. But, as Audie Leventhal and
>>co-workers, of the University of Utah, have discovered, this isn't
>>necessarily because they have worse eyes. It could be because their
>>brains'
>>image-analysis software has gone awry.
<snip>
>>Full text:
>>http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000323/000323-4.html
>
>This is disturbing; it suggests that ordinary brains get worse as
>they get older. It's not that they stay fine and the body they
>run gets worse.
Me thinks it may be time to reconsider that "Can I kill the original?"
thread.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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