Monday 6 May 2013

madcap or photos of kittehs

As part of a series exploring the elasticity of the human brain, not just reserved for growing-minds, the Big Think revisits a discovery from last year concerning not just cat-people but also the larger possibility that as host to a toxoplasm taking up residence in the brain (accidentally since here it is shielded from the bluntest affronts of the immune system) that is bred exclusively in feline guts.

Effects of this mild form of zombi- fication—not necessarily with wholly unacceptable results and a third of the population may already be infected, which are perhaps extended to the string-section, does not validate the efficacy of blunt techniques of electro-shock therapy, lobotomies, psycho-pharmaceuticals and is no source of comfort to meditate on an alien conscience ruling our faculties (maybe in the same ways grains and fruit have orchard-keepers and planters well disciplined or how memes gravitate around pictures of cats), but it does demonstrate, nonetheless, that the mind’s native operating system is accommodating enough for new platforms and new ways of learning.