Understanding 9/11

Having lived with the "War on Terror" with a basically permanent installation of the issue in my transient memory for close to 5 years, I feel its time to give Dan Rather credits for delivering such a good answer to the burning question:

Why?

...less than 5 days after the attacks.

Please follow the above link if you are still confused about whether it's Islam, religion, anti-americanism or what.

I strongly think that Rather's 5 year old answers are very valid & I wish more people would digest them.

Brain performance

Believe it or not you can read it. The brain does a
great job helping to optimize reading and pattern
recognition.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan
mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers
in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset
can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit
a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was
ipmorantt

The human being and its brain

To me, the brain is constructed to OFTEN be wrong, but programmet to be right.

Wanting to be right
Our emotional memory wants to receive verification that we are right. Being right sais "I can predict the future". It it obviously a very important feature. If we can predict the future we feel safe. All since we then know what to do to get food etc.

Made to be wrong
When we are not right, we are wrong. Not a good feeling to most of us. But it should be. Always being right means we have ceased to learn. Being wrong is learning. Or: Not accepting not being right is a lost opportunity to learn.

Small children have a lot to learn and are not often right. It is frustrating.

Old people may think there is nothing left to learn. That's indirectly a bad feeling.

This was a very condensed little story. I have studied the function of the brain some and all can be verified by looking at how the brain works.

If we can see life as predicting, studying the actual outcome and resting we are doing pretty well.

Its a very important insight.

The ski from Kalvträsk

One year before of the birth of my father an old ski was found in an area close to town.

Two years later a second ski was found a few hundred meters from the location of the first ski. There was no doubt the skis were a matching pair.

In time the two skis were given to the regional museum.

Subsequent analysis revealed that the skis were made 3200 BC (over 5000 years ago), making each of them the oldest ski ever found - worldwide.

This pair of ski is older than the pyramids of Egypt.

Since they are dated to well before the earliest known writing (related to the Swedish landmass) they are classified as pre-historic, thus not really Swedish - if that matters at all.

The Sentinelese

The Sentinelese live on the North Sentinel Island, just off the South Andaman island in the Indian Ocean - or about 600 km from Thailands west coast.

They are probably the "less known about" - but yet known - tribe in the world. I found it interesting that their huts in the interior of the island have never been visited by anyone from the "civilized world". The tribe simply refuse contact with other than their own people, even they accept gifts such as coconuts when given to them.

Indian authorities have strictly forbidden visiting the island. Their authorities reason may not be the same as your reason. There are claims that they are cannibals.

A helicopter flying over the island to check the situation after the tsunami of Dec 26, 2004 was attacked by a man shooting arrows, so the inhabitants (only a total of between 30 and 250 of them(!)) were probably ok. Rumours say that there is no way they had problems with the tsunami even though the island is very exposed. They could certainly feel something bad was coming. Who knows. Satellite images before and after the tsunami indicate that the reef surrounding their island once turquoise now has turned sand-colored. Seems the reef has been filled with sand. Let's hope fish is still available enabling them to live on. Other tribes in the area have been taken to the mainland, but not the Sentinelese. They'd never go.

Here's one of the most interesting site I found about the Sentinelese. Includes a few videos of the tribe. One of them is really cute, showing a woman pulling a man ashore after considering his interested for the visitors being exaggerated or dangerous.

This link is also good - or you might like this one

The transient memory

The transient memory is a part of the brain receiving stimuli from the sensitive organs, i.e. eyes, ears, nose, skin etc.

According to what I know , it can at most keep seven concious processes going at the same time.

This blog will list stuff that I catches my interest as stimuli passes through my transient memory.

Several 1000 stimuli is processed each second. I will pick a few of the most interesting.

Conclusion: The information on this blog is SERIOUSLY DIGESTED.