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[–]SuperAgonist[S] 7 points8 points9 points  (7 children)
They mention in the article that one of the problems with recreational stimulant use in high doses impair the brain's decision-making abilities by amplifying the signals from the striatum (which tend to be irrational and emotion-based), so much that these negative signals override the signals of the prefrontal cortex, which help the person avoid irrational, risky choices. This is why, in a previous post, I've mentioned how important it is to increase dopamine binding only in the prefrontal cortex.
I would like it if someone can extend on this subject!
[–]0_- -3 points-2 points-1 points  (6 children)
Damn, i replied in that post. Went from 12 to 2 because i was replying to people. Seinfeld lesson learned, leave on a good note. Anyways language learning enhances the ability to stop and pause, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_multilingualism?wprov=sfla1 im on tablet, but i encourage ancient language learning to have more impulse control.
[–]Juicedupmonkeyman 2 points3 points4 points  (5 children)
Why specifically ancient language learning?
[–]0_- -3 points-2 points-1 points  (4 children)
They are actually superior languages. Look at this example:
Languages they actually superior are.
In Latin, word order does not matter. Here is a rough translation of the first:
Sunt enim actuale superiōrēs linguās.
And the second:
Linguas sunt enim actuale superiores.
So in Latin you start by finding the verb. "sunt", they are. This points to the accusative, which is the plural accusative feminine word linguas (languages), along with the matching adjective (superiores), enim means "for, in fact", actuale means actually.
The literal translation in English is: They are in fact actually superior languages.
Word order is generally unimportant in Latin except in certain cases. Marsque Neptunus sunt Dei. "Mars and Neptune are Gods". Mars and Neptune have to be next to each other due to the usage of the word que. But you could reword it Sunt Dei Neptunusque Mars and it still means the same thing.
If you want to think about the implications of this:
always / at nine o'clock / out of the garage / in the morning / drives / his car / he
he / to town / after breakfast / often / Mrs Hodges / takes
Do you see the problem there in the second one?
Yes there can only be one meaning to that, but that is because some English words decline like Latin words! "He, him" is an example of one of the few declining English words.
Latin never stopped being the language of the elite. All these words you use in English, video, audio, et cetera, are just examples (exemplum) of how many English words are based on Latin words.
It seems hard to learn, but it's not, since so much of the vocabulary you will be able to figure out due to it's similarity to English words.
Here is a pastebin of all of the 413 words you could find in a university level Latin 1 class, 2 semesters from a textbook: http://pastebin.com/tQhCVeAF
Notice how there are tons of ways to relate that to an English word.
mittō, mittere, mīsī, missum -- to send
"Remittance"
quaerō, quaerere, quaesīvī, quaesītum -- to look for, to search
"Query"
tl;dr: It is a superior form of English, more perfect, and instead of struggling pathetically, like a worm, to say what you want to say by typing more and more words in order to complete the meaning, you can use a rule based language and put the words in ANY order, as long as they follow the rules, and one missing or misspelled word won't change the entire meaning of a sentence, paragraph or book. How many times do you have to go back in English and edit something because if you don't, the people reading it will think you are retarded? In Latin, that's not really a problem, because word order doesn't matter to much. You don't screw everything up because you missed a word.
That is how much English sucks. If you make even one mistake, it screws up the reader, mentally.
Yes that has profound neurological implications, you speak English in your thoughts.
[–]Juicedupmonkeyman 1 point2 points3 points  (3 children)
I sort of understand your point but the whole "profound neurological implications" just smells of pseudoscience. Do you have anything to back up that learning ancient languages is better? Or did you just pull this out of your ass?
[–]0_- -1 points0 points1 point  (2 children)
I mostly wrote that just for myself actually, I back up a lot of this stuff in Evernote.
The fact is that intelligent people can see the mathematics of the language, and they know it's better based on that. That is actually the meaning in the Wizard of Oz, when they reach the end of the golden road, and the scarecrow is asking for a brain but he is given a diploma.
The faculties inside my brain are functioning well, so I can recognize the mathematics of the inflected languages. You on the other hand are laughably asking for scientific proof that can't exist. Are they going to clone people and raise them the exact same way, assume that they react to everything in the same way, then one day they begin teaching them a different language? Do they teach rats the languages?
You started off nice though, so I'll end nice.
A growing body of research demonstrates that bilinguals show advantages in executive functions, specifically inhibitory control and task switching.[76][77] A possible explanation for this is that speaking two languages requires controlling one's attention and choosing the correct language to speak. Across development, bilingual infants,[78] children,[77] and elderly[79] show a bilingual advantage when it comes to executive functioning. Interestingly, bimodal bilinguals, or people who speak one language and also know sign language, do not demonstrate this bilingual advantage in executive functioning tasks.[80] This may be because one is not required to actively inhibit one language in order to speak the other. Bilingual individuals also seem to have an advantage in an area known as conflict processing, which occurs when there are multiple representations of one particular response (for example, a word in one language and its translation in the individual’s other language).[81] Specifically, the lateral prefrontal cortex has been shown to be involved with conflict processing.
So that covers bilingualism in general.
But I will pose this to you: since over a third of English words are based on Latin, and conflict processing is a result of bilingualism, think about all the opportunities conflict processing creates as a Latin speaker continues to hear English words based on Latin. "video card" "video, I see", audio cassette, "audio, I hear".
That alone allows me (ego, mei, mihi, me, me, meus, mea, meum) to dive so much more deeply into the English language.
Actually it allows me to write English perfectly when I take the time to. You just base the English on the Latin rules.
Communication is one of the few things that separates us from animals. Latin will give you the ability to both speak Latin and communicate in English better than 99.9% of your peers.
It's also crazy powerful for programming, I do stuff in python etc.
The core philosophy of the language is summarized by the document "PEP 20 (The Zen of Python)", which includes aphorisms such as:[44]
  • Beautiful is better than ugly
  • Explicit is better than implicit
  • Simple is better than complex
  • Complex is better than complicated
  • Readability counts
Latin hits hard on all those points. Beauty, of course, you see it on beautiful school logos. Latin is incredibly explicit: it has a future perfect tense and future pluperfect tense: "When I will have waited for you, you will have had seen my suit". Incredibly simple, a single word can have like 60+ forms, but it's still one word with many functions. Complex. Very very readable.
Again, all this is saved for myself. It's like a notepad. People like you continue to make me stronger and stronger as I justify my actions. But you also have an opportunity to gain here. But it has to be an implicit motivation, you have to want to learn about this stuff yourself.
[–]Juicedupmonkeyman 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
Ahh you're a computer programmer with autism. Missed that at first.
[–]0_- 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
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