In article <481ace9d$1@news.povray.org>, voi### [at] devnull says...
> I was under the impression that your heart *can* recover from damage. 
> Similarly, you can't regrow brain cells, but the brain has an impressive
 
> capacity to reassign functions and regain normal functioning after 
> fairly serious injury.
> 
Well, actually, the brain can grow new cells, it just doesn't do so 
much, and it wouldn't help in some cases, since the *data* is encoded 
into the existing cells. It might, in theory, repair itself with new 
tissue, but the result would tend to be a blank slate, with no means to 
relearn the correct responses. Its likely that there is some genetic 
markers that strongly inhibit new growth, precisely due to how it could 
destabilize the existing pattern.

> >> - Central nervous system with cognative abilities unrivalled by any 
> >> organism on Earth, as far as we know.
> > You forget the mice.
> 
> Is this a Douglas Adams reference?
> 
Yeah.

As for unrivaled. In scope yes, in function.. Not so much. A lot of 
animals have recently proven to have "some" of the same key capacities 
we do, and some may even have ones we don't, but our unique mix of the 
ones we do have give us the abilities we do. Things like a single gene 
knocked out, like one group in the UK, and the capacity to form symbolic 
links in speech is greatly impaired, resulting in badly slurred speech 
and comprehension issues. A single gene whose mutant form (very few 
species, including other primates "have" a version like ours) also 
exists in parrots, who *have* the same symbolic capacity we do, while 
missing other things.
 
> > But the question 
> > was not what I want but if there is improvement planned but not 
> > realized. Just to decide whether we are in alpha or in early beta.
> 
> Heh. Well, that would depend on who the "designer" is, no? ;-) Let's not
 
> even get into that one...
> 
Not even mentioning that the genetic code is such a bloody mess that.. 
Well, its almost like, if someone designed it, they let it start out 
real simple, then rewrite itself over billions of years, without any 
intervention. lol 

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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