Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy...

Heh, but you need to have access to the previous backup to be able to run QA on the current incarnation to be able to determine whether there's been any data loss.

Damn. I have no backups. I seriously need to convert to vector format before there's nothing left of me.

Wow, I've never heard anyone use "Moire-speckled" in casual conversation before.

Amazon turns up this HOWTO that might be helpful in getting started on figuring out backups: http://tinyurl.com/npmj .

Of course, the actual utility of that depends on your preferred backup format, but this format is pretty common in some parts of the world.

OTOH, you could try banging on the visual elements to see if that fixes the moire problem.

Ah, interesting, but I wouldn't recommend it. You can be anything, or become one with everything, but you will still be YOU. You can't get away from you, mwahahaha!

If you see something that looks messed up, pixelated, whatever, don't worry - that's not you. You're what's looking at it, not what's looked at.

Realize that you can cleanse your mind and your universe of everything, and with nothing left, there will still be you! Not your mind, not your self, just you.

...Now my head hurts.

Actually the brain is the repository of our memories.
They are written into the folds or some such.

Hmm...I feel the need to differ with you Devlin...

<from the article I linked to previously - snip>
Another question is, where do people with no brains store their memories? It was once thought that memory has a physical existence in the brain, but extensive investigation has shown that memory is not located in any one area. One neurologist says, “Memory is everywhere in the brain and nowhere.”
</snip>

Personally, I kinda like the theory that every cell in our bodies may contribute to memory storage. Cant prove it either way... yet!

Well, a lot of scientists who study the brain are saying that intelligence operates at the quantum level, so there may be something to what you say. However I still maintain that those individuals described as not having brains, in fact DO have them. They are just compressed to an undectable mass by the excess pressure of the cerebral fluid.

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Seems like a bunch of hand waving to me

-AP

Well if you check slashdot, there was an article posted today by some other linguistics scholars, alledgedly debunking the claims by providing a counter example. I still managed to read the counter example but it was certainly harder.

Emotion and memory are very closely related. You know this from your experience. Go to a party, meet a bunch of new people. Which faces are you going to remember? The woman who made you laugh, the man who made you feel embarrassed, and your new boss -- the ones who had an emotional impact.

So perhaps you would not be surprised to learn that the a portion of the emotion system of the brain (the "limbic system" is in charge of transferring information into memory. From years of experiments and surgical experience, we now know that the main location for this transfer is a portion of the temporal lobe called the hippocampus.

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Hippos just means horse in greek, Maerl, and Potamos means river.
Hippos+Potamos=Hippopotamus in Latin, a word which you adopted and left unchanged.
As for Hippos+Kampos=Hippocampus it means horse-shaped sea monster - a sea horse. I take it the organ is in a similar shape, hence the name.