Re: Human Imperfection

[T3D John W Roberts <roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 21:35:10 -0500
>From: T3D john bercovitz  <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Human Imperfection

>> Humans are lucky in many aspects of their design, which work 
>> well with a technological civilization,
 
>Or does the technological civilization work well with the 
>human design?  8-)
 
Well, both, I suppose, but the senses that humans are best at tend not to
be adversely affected by crowded conditions, and not much by major
changes in environment. Being able to hear everyone in your apartment
breathing (like a dog) could be more distracting than useful. Humans
have excellent control of their hands, and hardware in their brains for
speech that even other primates lack. And, of course, our excellent stereo
vision gives us something to talk about on P3D/T3D when we run out of other
topics. :-)  :-)  :-)  There are science fiction stories discussing the
use of smell, taste, etc. for archival storage, but these could present
problems in an office environment or a theater.

BTW, daylight-hunting raptors may have high retinal acuity, but how much
image processing do they do? I understand the human brain expends a goodly
number of watts in visual processing - probably much more than the energy
consumption of the entire brain of a bird.

John R


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