You'er welcome megrfl.

i really try not to post stuff over my own head,
I am convinced that if i can understand it, so can everyone else.

Cheers!

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here is the wiki link to the mirror test that Mug is referencing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
it is interesting to note that European Magpie is a bird with a tiny brain.
could this indicate that architecture may have a bigger roll to play than size when it comes to smartness?

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In two years you replace your entire body down to the last atom... -- Source

Boy, as I was re-reading that the following day, I was wondering if I'd been duped into an urban myth, it sounds so incredible. But I recall reading something about Feynman asking a friend this question when he found out he had cancer. I forget what answer came back, but I thought it was like weeks or months....

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No, I want to count the mind as a very complex web of electro-chemical neuronal activity within the brain. Only recently have imaging techniques improved enough to get some understanding of this phenomenon, but these techniques are improving rapidly, e.g., see diffusion tensor imaging....

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