Cure for Gray Hair.
Andre Willers
8 May 2013
Synopsis:
Re pigmentation has been done using a modified pseudocatalyse
. Both for age-related graying and vitiligo .
Discussion :
1.This has been known for some time .(1992) This is the
first time a large-scale study peer-reviewed in a mainstream journal has found
for the effect .
See Appendix A and Appendix B
2.This means that big pharma’s and cosmetic companies will
be forced into a race .
3.The prize is a market of about 2 000 million people ,
with a constant incoming stream of agers .
4. Vested Interest
Effect :
Big vested interests in cosmetics , hair dyes , etc actively
discouraged development . (Nothing to patent ?)
Only the present media-storm (a mini-hysterical focus) may
be able prompt some development .
5.There has been something similar : Viagra .
A proven remedy displaced all the nostrums .
The same thing will happen with gray hair . But this time
the nostrum market is much larger . Think soaps , hair dyes , shampoos ,
conditioners , shower gels , etc , etc .
6.Unintended effects :
Old-age markers . See Appendix C
6.1 Gray hair as a dominance marker will disappear , unless
it is dyed back in .
Sigh! The Chairman dyes his hair white . Typically human .
6.2 Sexual cues will
become even more unclear than at present . “And Cougars will stalk the land”
6.3 Alopecia might very well reduce . Reduction of hydrogen
peroxide at the root follicle should reduce hair-loss .
6.4 Skin-heads will become unfashionable .
6.5 Tattooing (artificial hair-patterns) will probably
become unfashionable , too . But expect dermal led-implants . A hide of many colours
.
6.6 Nostril hairs :
The Rapunzel Syndrome (See Appendix C) . This will lead to
stronger sense of self , with a concomitant
reduction in demand for psychotropic drugs .
6.7 Moustaches will make a big come-back .
6.8 Increase in demand for pheromone scents or just
deoderants . Old men will become more smelly .
6.9 Combs (see Appendix D)
Combine this with cheap 3D printing now easily available and
designer combs and brushes (even dispensing
the PC-KUS) can be personalized as fashion accessories .
This influences sexual selection . A mate that can design
and print comb accessories is fitter and
will attract better suitors .
I can see the excesses of this trend in my mind’s eye . (Think
hairstyles of the French aristocracy , only now aided by computers , apps ,etc)
6.10 Hair Stylist Advisors will then become a highly
fashionable , highly skilled occupation , putting hairs through hoops dreamt up
in computers .
A poor hair will feel like crawling back into the follicle .
Hair Psychologists already exist (new to me too) . Google it
. But these ones will treat the hair itself , not the owner .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichotillomania
. Suicidal hairs . The mind boggles .
6.11 Hats will make a comeback .
. See Combs in Para 6.9
and 6.10 above . Use 3D printers
to create personalized hats as fashion statements .
A hat is also a useful platform for all sorts of gadgets :
cameras , cellphones , Google Glasses , health monitors , Bluetooth , etc.
The Hatter Advisor , like the Hair Stylist Advisor , will
then become a highly fashionable , highly skilled occupation .
6.12 Shoes .
A really unintended consequence . Once 3D printing becomes fashionable
, it is but a short step to designer shoes .
Cordwainer Advisors :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer
. A cordwainer (or cordovan) is a shoemaker/cobbler who makes fine
soft leather shoes and other luxury
footwear article
Shoes printed 3D from scans of your feet , to your own
design . No more pinching . Anatomically correct .
6.13 Handbags :
The same as for shoes .
Incredibly , there is no English word for the maker of
handbags !
Call them a Modiste : One that produces, designs, or deals in women's fashions.
Call them a Modista : One that produces, designs, or deals in men's fashions.
A modiste will then advise on the whole ensemble
: handbag , shoes , hairstyle , accessories , clothes , nails , etc .
A really highly skilled artist , which must also
be completely au-fait with 3D printers , fashions and on-line patterns .
Will cost you a pretty penny . But Artificial
Intelligence Franchises will help .
6.14 Nails :
See Appendix E
Profession : Nail Stylist (Manicurist)
Another unintended consequence : nails are
keratin . Their tactile sensitivity can be maintained or even enhanced by using
the same technique .
Areas affected would be sport , especially golf
and tennis . All music . Medical work . Any endeavour involving tactile
sensitivity .
6.15 Artificial Intelligence Franchises :
The demand for on-line skills for Modiste , Nail
Stylist , Cordwainer , Hair Stylist Advisor will outstrip supply .
A fashionista can print a new outfit for a few dollars
. But they need a personal design . An advisor will help . But personal , human
advice will be expensive .
An advisor can franchise expertise via an AI .
Errk! I am out of date . Already being done . See http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130506-daniel-widrig-to-show-off-3d-printed-design-this-week-in-london.html
6.16 “ Hair-the musical” will make a big comeback .
6.17 Umbrella’s
You guessed it . All these fancy accessories and hair will
not be rain-proof . So add an Umbrella advisor . There is not even an English word
for umbrella maker .
Use Umbrellista for Umbrella Advisor . The usual 3D printing
.
6.18 Wigs . Perruquier Advisors .
A perruquier is a wig maker.
One would think that wigs would completely
disappear . But the combination of metamaterial technology and fashion will
very probably lead to hi-tech wigs that blend in with the normal hair . They
will have metamaterial EKG pickups on or in the scalp (like SQUIBS) , with processors
and antennae in the hairs .
6.19 Green Polar bears .
See Appendix F
Algae in the hollow tubes of polar bears’ hairs
turn them green . This leads to a loss of insulation . The bear will search for
warmer climes .
An aerosol spray of PC-KUS and algae should
motivate them to move to prepared habitats . Same for wolves .
“She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy”
I'm just a hairy guy”
I’m just another modista , being chased by a green polar bear .
Well , that was fun !
Andre
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Appendix A
Gray
Hair And Vitiligo Reversed At The Root
Monday, May 06, 2013
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Source : Federation of
American Societies for Experimental Biology
New research in The FASEB Journal
suggests that loss of skin or hair color can be corrected by a new compound --
a pseudocatalase -- that reverses oxidative stress
Bethesda, MD—Hair dye manufacturers
are on notice: The cure for gray hair is coming. That's right, the need to
cover up one of the classic signs of aging with chemical pigments will be a
thing of the past thanks to a team of European researchers. In a new research
report published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org)
people who are going gray develop massive oxidative stress via accumulation of
hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, which causes our hair to bleach itself
from the inside out, and most importantly, the report shows that this massive
accumulation of hydrogen peroxide can be remedied with a proprietary treatment
developed by the researchers described as a topical, UVB-activated compound
called PC-KUS (a modified pseudocatalase). What's more, the study also shows
that the same treatment works for the skin condition, vitiligo.
"To date, it
is beyond any doubt that the sudden loss of the inherited skin and localized
hair color can affect those individuals in many fundamental ways," said
Karin U. Schallreuter, M.D., study author from the Institute for Pigmentary
Disorders in association with E.M. Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany and
the Centre for Skin Sciences, School of Life Sciences at the University of
Bradford, United Kingdom. "The improvement of quality of life after total
and even partial successful repigmentation has been documented."
To achieve this
breakthrough, Schallreuter and colleagues analyzed an international group of
2,411 patients with vitiligo. Of that group, 57 or 2.4 percent were diagnosed
with strictly segmental vitiligo (SSV), and 76 or 3.2 percent were diagnosed
with mixed vitiligo, which is SSV plus non-segmental vitiligo (NSV). They found
that for the first time, patients who have SSV within a certain nerval
distribution involving skin and eyelashes show the same oxidative stress as
observed in the much more frequent general NSV, which is associated with
decreased antioxidant capacities including catalase, thioredoxin reductase, and
the repair mechanisms methionine sulfoxide reductases. These findings are based
on basic science and clinical observations, which led to successful patient
outcomes regarding repigmentation of skin and eyelashes.
"For
generations, numerous remedies have been concocted to hide gray hair,"
said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal,
"but now, for the first time, an actual treatment that gets to the root of
the problem has been developed. While this is exciting news, what's even more
exciting is that this also works for vitiligo. This condition, while
technically cosmetic, can have serious socio-emotional effects of people.
Developing an effective treatment for this condition has the potential to
radically improve many people's lives."
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Special note: This report
follows up on a 2009 study, which describes the cause of gray hair. Seehttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-02/foas-nla022309.php for
the press release for that study, andhttp://www.fasebj.org/content/23/7/2065.full to
access the full report.
Receive monthly highlights from The
FASEB Journal by e-mail. Sign up at http://www.faseb.org/fjupdate.aspx. The FASEB
Journal is published by the Federation of the American Societies for
Experimental Biology (FASEB). It is among the most cited biology journals
worldwide according to the Institute for Scientific Information and has been
recognized by the Special Libraries Association as one of the top 100 most
influential biomedical journals of the past century.
FASEB is composed
of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition
of biomedical research associations in the United States. Our mission is to
advance health and welfare by promoting progress and education in biological
and biomedical sciences through service to its member societies and through
collaborative advocacy.
Details: Karin U.
Schallreuter, Mohammed A. E. L. Salem, Sarah Holtz, and A. Panske. Basic
evidence for epidermal H2O2/ONOO−-mediated oxidation/nitration in segmental
vitiligo is supported by repigmentation of skin and eyelashes after reduction
of epidermal H2O2 with topical NB-UVB-activated pseudocatalase PC-KUS. FASEB
Jdoi:10.1096/fj.12-226779 ; http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2013/04/29/fj.12-226779.abstract
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Appendix B
n Reply To: Benjammin's post @ May 4 2013, 10:19
PM
I would suggest you get a little more educated on this vitiligo news. The news source I mentioned was but one of dozens that picked up the story.
Have you heard of these folks from Bradford University or even the medical journal itself? It's been around since 1912. This is about as prestigious as you get:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of...imental_Biology
1) the Bradbury people behind this are experts on pigmentation - world class researchers
2) You don't get published in one of most well-respected medical journals for being something that
the medical community scoffs at. This discovery even illicted high praise
from the journal's well-respected editor.
3) I counted over 40 media outlets that covered the story - and that is just from a 3-day span. Surely more to come.
Vitiligo forums were buzzing about this over the weekend.
Upon request from the journal, I have seen the before and after photo results from the offical study and they are very impressive. No less impressive than Clinuvel's.
Pretending it doesn't exist and scoffing at it doesn't change the facts. You'll be hearing a lot more about this research and very soon.
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Appendix
C
Old Age Markers
Andre
Willers
23 Dec 2007
Why do men
growing older get grey hair and bald pates?
Why does
their ear-hairs , nostril-hairs , eyebrows and pubic hairs grow much longer
than younger men’s ?
Why are old
men smelly ?
Involuntary
Altruism .
We know
that evolutionary mechanisms operate even after the last child , because we
have evidence of the GrandMother effect . Older
Females in a family (ie with the same genes as their offspring) have
evolved menopause and an extended lifespan . More and healthier grandchildren
survive with a grandmother . The mechanism is part of general evolutionary
theory .
So what
about old men ?
They are
sacrificial old goats !
A family
fleeing predators would have a markedly better chance of its genes surviving if
the older males are marked for predators . The predators gain by not having to
expend too much energy . But the evolutionary kicker is that predators on hominids are usually of the big
cat family . Their cubs have to be taught to hunt on easy prey . Older , slower
, weaker hominid males are recognized by their markers .
So , they
learn from early on what the markers are . A tacit bargain was struck .
The
Leopard-class of big cats specialized in hominids . A saber-toothed variety
evolved pari-passu with homonins . A desperate arms-race of survival ensued . I
refer you to the tooth-holes in the skulls of some unlucky homonins found
fossilized in Africa . The end-cat was a large black leopard with widely spaced
saber-teeth and a high intelligence . Black because it was a night-hunter (when
homonins nested) , widely-spaced saber-teeth to fit the growing skulls of
homonins , high intelligence to keep up with the growing intelligence of their
prey . But they did not have hands . They were exterminated , probably by
concerted human effort . The last fossil record found was about 200 000 BCE ,
roughly contemporaneous with MkI Humans . The development of weaving probably
had more to with their demise than anything else .
The present
survivor of this class (the spotted leopard) preferred baboons and monkeys ,
and thus survived .
This went
on long enough (estimated 7 million years) for a true instinctive fear to have
been programmed into the amygdala(like for spiders and snakes) .
Go to the
Zoo and look at a black leopard .
If he looks
at you , you feel a frisson of fear . This is your amygdala kicking in . (You
don’t feel the same looking at a lion .)
Of course ,
the black leopard is a pussy-cat compared to the previous terrors .
But , we
can create an ideal hyper-image (idoru) .
A Black
cat-head , broad with very widely spaced reflecting golden eyes , widely spaced
saber-teeth . I suspect that saber-teeth wider than the eyes will immediately
kick in the amygdala responses . The same effect is noticeable in horror-movies
. The ratio of width-of –mouth to width-of-eyes seems to play a critical role .
So , if you
have eyes close together and a wide mouth , do not show your teeth . The
response is not rational , but instinctive .
Psychopaths
are reputed to feel no fear . Is this true a for genetically programmed
response like this ? There might be some therapeutic benefit in making
psychopaths or extreme sociopaths feel terror . The mirror-neuron structures of
empathy that should have formed in
childhood can then be reconstructed .
To
resume the argument :
Ropes and
nets woven from plants by hands negated physical strength . Hence , MkI human
males and females were roughly the same size and strength . Unfortunately ,
these fibres left no physical record until the impressions left in ceramics
circa 30 000BCE . But we know
that clothing became widespread as a result of the Toba-winter (72 000 BCE) .
There was no time to invent new technologies , so old weaving technology was adapted to provide
insulation in the survivors .
The old-age markers .
The smelly
bit first (ie the evolutionary oldest)
The hairs
around the glands extruding smelly compound grow longer with age .
Normally ,
body hair grows a certain length , then stops , dies and is replaced . Normal
body hair around glands are crinkled , twisted and convoluted to give maximum
surface-area to the scent-molecules . Pubic hair is the best example .
Ears : Tufts growing out of the ears
broadcast the earwax scents. Also , hearing gets harder .
Nose
: Nose hairs
are unique to humans and supposedly evolved due to the smoke-filled
environments after the usage of fire . The effect is to capture molecules on
exhalation , store them , then release them on inhalation . In other words , a
short term memory . The vomenerosal organs in the upper palate and connected to
the nose are also connect to very ancient parts of the brain concerned with
identity . Pheromones and other chemicals (like antibodies) extruded by the
body are stored by the nostril hairs and fed back to the vomenerosal sensors .
The body is continually reminding itself of its identity . This also happens to
be the definition of self-awareness .
The
intriguing speculation is that this method of base-line identity setting
extends to the immune system . Evidence from yoga not only indicates
self-awareness shifting due to concentrations of “I am I” pheromones by
breathing through the nostrils , but that the immune self-definition is
affected as well .
The
Rapunzel Syndrome .
Too small a
concentration of nasal hairs causes insufficient self-definition . Auto-immune
diseases like arthritis , asthma , diabetes etc follow , as well as
meme-diseases like low self-esteem , drug-abuse . Note the effect of cocaine
sniffing on personality coherence .
Too large a
concentration of nasal hairs like in old men , makes the person very
self-assured with “presence” , the presence being molecules broadcast .
“Charge! and damn the torpedoes .”
Notice that
breathing masks like worn in very cold or very hot climates have similar
concentrating effect , but weaker by an order of about 10 . (Norse ,
burkas,etc)
Intervention
!
Cheap and
easy . Noseplugs mimicking dense nosehairs will do the trick .
I am
actually embarrassed that nothing more complicated is needed .
Noseplugs
made of coarse organic wool should do the trick .
Even
cottonwool will work , though it is a bit too dense .
Moustaches.
The poor
man’s noseplug . Notice that individuals with moustaches always were always
self-assured ,even if they were completely wrong . Societies with moustaches
were losers . Celtic tribes had moustaches .
So did Hitler and Stalin . Breathing in their own definitions of I all
the time explains a lot .
Note the
law-enforcement fashion for moustaches .
It is not a
fashion , but a statement .
The
Eyebrows.
Eyebrows
have a long and honorable history of enabling mammal survival , going back to
the dinosaur days . The eyebrow is dense with sebaceaous glands , pumped out
onto the eyebrows and spread onto the environment . For a burrowing rodent , it
was essential to know where it had been (identity and location) , as well as
who had been there before and how long ago . Refer to muskrats ,beavers , etc .
Humans do the same . This is why dogs jump up and try to lick your face . They
are not trying to lick your face . They are trying to lick your eyebrows . Your
scent-identity is being broadcast all the time by the glands in your eyebrows .
Hence old men with bushy eyebrows .
But , while
this would have been fatal when lots of predators were around , in “civilized”
surroundings this gives the person a certain edge as being wise .
The normal
heat-envelope around the body ensures that most of these pheromones go upwards
, but standing on your head a lot will change that . Sigh . Another yoga shibboleth
bites the pheromone . A full head covering like middle-age armour would have
exaggerated effects on self-esteem .
Ice-hockey
masks ? I rest my case.
A
Christmas Present :
Millions of
dollars can be made by an Eyebrow Scent . You owe me 5% for the idea , whoever
you are . I hereby claim intellectual property right on the idea at Cape Town
on 24 December 2007 AD .
The act of
kissing only exists to bring the nose and eyebrows into proximity . Lots of
compatibility signals ensues .
Applied
scents are lies . Will an Eyebrow Scent significantly change human society ?
No . But
you can make a shitload of money out of it , since nobody has thought of it
before .
Armpit
hairs .
Not much to
be said here . Too fat , and they are worn away . Otherwise long and straggly .
Pubic
hairs .
Pubic hairs
in men grow long and straggly in old age . These capture more urine scented
molecules and sets him up for a predator .
Grey Top
Hair
As you can
see , changing the colour of
hair to
grey is a long range signal to a predator . This was sufficient at first .
Bald
Pate .
Since
females can also go grey , albeit later than males , the bald pate evolved to
signal predators . Imagine a family running through the long grass with the
cats in pursuit . They see a flashing bald pate bobbing up and down in the
grass . They know that this is an old hominin male . Note that females do not go bald .
Self-referencing
scents .
As you can
gather from the above , the very definition a person makes of itself down to
immune-level can be determined by scent-feedbacks .
Interventions:
As I
promised , smelly old men .
Barber
pubic hair and underarm hair to about 2 cm .
Bad
feedback mechanisms are halted . Simple noseplugs restores some degree of
selfpride .
Always
shave .
The same
holds for normal ages (20-40) . Variants of ice-hockey masks where the top
holes are blocked might be considered .
And so it
goes .
Andre
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Appendix D
Combs
Andre
Willers
24 April
2008
The oldest profession .
Hair
Dressing and Grooming .
The
time-traveller with hairdressing and grooming skills can get a job anytime back
to hominid days . Beats plumbing any day .
This
partially explains the queer gene : Faux-queer . A cunning stratagem to get
close to females without the usual male chest-beating .
Discussion:
Grooming is
built-in to the hair of mammals .
Hairs get
tangled and knotted ( see Theory of Knots) . Your personal experience is that
after day’s activity and a night’s sleep , your hair gets tangled and knotted .
The theory shows that it is nearly certain that this will occur in any system
with three degrees of freedom .
Tangled
hair is a bit of no-no to our homonin . It shows that it cannot get a grooming
partner . Parasites also have access to unprotected skin .
Chaos first
did the weaving with knots and tangles .
Un-weaving was then invented .
Initially
fingernails , then a sharp , hard pointed stick ( a one-toothed comb) to tease the knots apart ..
When a
favourite stick was kept , it became a tool .
A
one-toothed comb .
Found all
over in old sites , but usually called something else .
Plaiting of
hair followed . Then some unsung woman genius inverted it and plaited grasses
and other fibrous growths . Ropes and nets were invented .
Physical
strength became unnecessary .
Mk I humans followed .
MkII humans
followed after Toba , when weaving was invented as insulation (clothes) . So
was fashion , and the world was never the same .
From the
evidence , fashion seems to be a more powerful driver than anything . I would
like to put an “except” here , but from the Greenland evidence where people
starved to death because eating abundant fish around them was “out of fashion”
with some old bishop I cannot .
What is of
interest is that un-weaving was invented first , then weaving .
Note the
correlation of Peace being invented before War .
Multiple-tooth combs .
An
invention so ubiquitous that every human on the planet today has one and uses
it at least once a day .
It enables
an individual to self-groom . You can comb out the tangles in your hair or pelt
by your own , without help .
This had an
enormous effect on the development of civilization . The very concept of
individualism is predicated on the existence of combs .
It frees
the individual from the tyranny of the group .
An unkempt
individual is excluded . No ifs or buts . Look around you at the homeless
people . Once grooming is lost , so is social acceptance and survival . Hence the
large number of spaza-hairdressers . It is not an affectation , but sheer
survival .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “Super Refugee”
Note the
insistence of disciplined groups like the military or police to hair grooming .
Or the inverse , the trust civilians have for anybody with a taut haircut .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “Old Age Markers”
Note the
hairstyles of the Mandarin class in China : shaven in front , denoting wisdom
from survival , and extravagant hair (plaits) at the back , denoting humanity .
Hence , a
monk will shave his head denoting a divorce from human concerns .
If someone
obviously not in a religious order shaves his head (like bouncers , etc) they
signal an indifference to the grooming order . They are essentially doomed . An
extremely interesting feedback cycle is initiated that ends in the
marginalization of such individual . They
tend not to have children .
It must be
noted that these are universal hominin markers , operating at well below
conscious perception .
Andre
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Appedix E
Human Nails .
Andre
Willers
23 August
2007
Synopsis :
Human
fingernails are intimately linked to rhythm and pattern recognition neural
systems . It is also the third most important element in human sexual selection
.
Discussion:
Evolutionary
roots:
Hominid
bipedalism evolved quite early .
Moropithecus
(16 to 25 MY ago) showed adaptations to upright posture .
They walked
on branches and clutched other breast-high branches for stability .
(See
Science DOI
: 10.112 / science.1140779
New
Scientist of 9 June 2007 p18 “Four legs new ,two legs much older”
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “The Squat and the Wobble” )
This
adaptation was lost in some streams of
homonids , but retained in the homonin (ie our) ancestors . This means
that for significant evolutionary time our ancestors clung to thin branches
with their fingers curled around the branch and their fingertips pressed
against the wood ..
The branch
is not only a mechanical support , but also transmits information . The
branches are elastically resilient , so waves caused by any large organism
walking and stalking about can be picked up by suitably sensitive sensors and
the type of organism identified by a neural-network .
The
canopy-network is an information-rich network because of it’s resilience .
Similar type of signals can be carried by the ground (cf elephant feet ) , but the damping and
bandwidth is totally different .
Small
wonder that homonins have recreated the canopy in the Internet .
An Internet
created by elephants or whales would look completely different .
The
finger :
The
sensor-network is the pressure-receptors below the nail . The finger part in
touch with branch is liable to tissue destruction , abrasion and calluses . Any
sensors here are degraded by wear-and-tear .
But ,
hydraulic pressure transmits around the finger bone to compress the pressure
receptors in the nail-bed against the unyielding nail , giving quite fine
detail to a neural-network .
Some
Corollaries:
1. IFF
(Identification Friend or Foe)
This
evolved literally at the start of the dinosaur/mammal split , derived from
reptiles and has been refined ever since .
Any
predator has a particular rhythm caused by putting it’s feet down in particular
sequence (gait) .
If the
predator is on a branch (or any resilient surface) , the rhythm is
transmitted .
Soil can
also be a medium , but less efficient (cf elephants)
This
neural-network for IFF evolved under the
fingernails .
In other
words , a lot of rhythm recognition (ie pattern-recognition) takes place in the
nerve-plexus under the fingernail .
The
survival advantages are obvious .
The primary
advantage is in recognizing non-hostiles . False alarms are extremely wasteful
, especially in hard times . A trinary classification at neural level of hostile , neutral and friendly would
evolve as an optimal solution .
There are
circuits directly stimulating flight-or-fight mechanisms . There is a direct tie to the hippocampus
and amygdala through stress proteins .
There is a direct neural tie to muscles in the arm (from fingernails) and the
legs (from toenails) .
This
enabled the prey to identify a predator creeping or galloping up to it and take
immediate reflex action .
Hyper-length
neurons is the latest fashionable term to denote really long nervous
connections without synapses .
The rich
nexus of nerves under the fingernails have long been a target of human torture
. But notice the aversion to nail-less humans or nail-biting . Notice how your
attention is drawn to a nail-malformation (like a blue-nail)
2.
Grooming.
Unarguably
a defining social element in homonins .
But every
human is complex of pressure waves .
Heartbeat ,
breathing , peritalsis are only a few of
the passive pressure-waves that can be sensed by fingertips . More active
palpations enables joint-crackling , lung and abdominal spaces to be felt by
fingertips . Ask any doctor .
By
definition , some females would be better at fingertip sensitivity than
others . Since most infant mortality
involves the gastro-intestinal system , which can be felt , sick babies allowed
to be handled by the more sensitive woman are much more likely to survive . No
language for this is needed initially .
Nursing and
handling babies need sensitive touch .
Those
females better at it ( ie well-shaped fingernails) evolve into midwives , since they reduce infant mortality
for the group .
The midwife
is the first professional .
Indeed ,
the medical round has not changed much in about 70 000 years .
The
dominant female shaman , surrounded by a cloud of students , stalks from infant
to infant , subjecting them to tactile examination . Easily remedified
complaints (like blockages) or tried and true herbal plants are used to reduce
infant mortality . This information is transmitted to the students .
Note
self-medication by chimps and gorillas .
3.
What drives this language development ?
The problem
with previous language-development models was that there is no really , really
compelling evolutionary reason why language should evolve .
Hunters do
not need it . Noise is contra-indicated . Modern warriors like the SEALs use
sign language in combat .
Small-woman
groups might have the tendencies , but how does being top-woman of a small ,
isolated group translate into a planetwide meme-and-gene dominance ?
We have to
have a mechanism whereby local dominance is transmitted .
The
Answer :
Old-Fashioned
Darwin .
The
reduction in infant-mortality is the
driver .
The
transmission of information (ie language) then has an extremely direct
relevance not only for a small tribe , but larger groups .
A tactile
sensitive female with some language skill creates a positive feedback
environment for higher infant survival rates . The language element enables her
to teach students that scatter and repeat the process . The tribes that accept
or send students to the college outbreed those that that don’t .
There
is a crux point here relevant today :
Matriarchs
(ie doctors) who tried to keep this advance in-tribe got overwhelmed by those
that made it freely available .
Females ,
following an ancient imperative , would bring sick infants to the friendly
neighborhood clinic .
The
Matriarchal-Medical societal group outbred all others . And language was
essential to the information transmission .
Argh!!
A bunch of
doctors huddling together and exchanging
jargon is the origin of language. The jargon was expanded to include terms for
social competition for resources and status . Language was born in all its
glory .
Note that
the invention of Peace
(See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “The
origins of war and Peace”)
is a
logical consequence of the above scenario during a stress episode like Toba .
Not to
mention the College / University idea . Which morphed into Organised Religion .
The Dark
Side .
The Rite of
Passage (ie to qualify to be seen as human and worthy of procreation ) was an
invention simultaneous with the invention of Peace . Youths who could not
subordinate their impulses (to fairness , pain , boredom ) to the society ,
were expelled from the procreational pool , or even killed .
This
mechanism (meme-structure) is still active today . (Flunked Varsity ? You’re
drafted.) Can’t stand the fraternity initiation ? You are not human . Go flip
burgers .
This works
fine as long as the governing society is in charge . But by expelling it’s
mutants , the society builds up a pool resentful beings of various degrees of
humanity.
A sudden
change (climate , plague , technology , etc) reduces the defenses of the
original system sufficiently to bring about a revolution
Ie the
climatic stabilization about 12 900 years ago that made profitable agriculture
possible .
4. Snakes
.
The alert
reader would have noticed that a reliable , sensitive temperature sensor is
lacking in the human sensorium . The most sensitive ones are in the elbows and
the back of the knees , and these hardly lend themselves to easy usage .
So they
bred snakes . Remember , these are the people that domesticated through
selective breeding all our present domesticated species .
Snakes then
would have been the very first
domesticated species .
A living
thermometer .
The
infra-red sensors of snakes are more sensitive than present thermometers used
in hospitals .
The
specially bred snakes would have been bred not only for thermo-sensitivity ,
but for chemo-sensitivity as well .
The
forked-tongue could detect not only breakdown products of illnesses exuded
through the skin or breath , but location as well . (That’s why it’s forked.)
A basket of
specialized snakes would enable a medical practitioner of the era
70 000 – 12
900 BC to give first level medical care equivalent to that of country clinic in
our era . Diagnostics would have been superior , since specialized snakes would
be doing this . Think programmed bio-chips .
Problem
cases would be referred to the local College center .
Poisonous
snakes was bred for medicinal aspects of their poisons (still being done today)
.
So where
are these snakes today ?
Traces of
their genetic material should be found in garden snakes in Western Europe .
Obviously ,
nobody has looked for genetic bottlenecks from this viewpoint .
So this is
a verifiable test .
Evidence of
deliberate breeding (especially in mitochondrial snake DNA ) should be
found . It is doubtful that really
highly specialized snakes could survive in the wild (think feral Jersey cow or
Merino) , but some would have gotten lucky . Their genetic traces should be
traceable .
Cultural
remnants :
The
Caduceus is a cultural remnant . (Intertwined snakes is still the Western
symbol of medicine .) Not bad for a
symbol about 30 000 years old .
Legends ,
statues and inscriptions of dragons .
Bible :
Eden . The snake got the starring role as the baddie , since the victors wrote
the history books .
Also note
Isis , purging of Ireland of snakes , Feng Shui , etc
Spirals : in rock engravings , etc . Which
way does a snake coil up ?
Midwives
.
The memes
for this civilization is coiled up inside the one set of humans that had to
survive : the midwives .
Remember , they thought biologically . The
concepts of seeds inside reproducing systems came naturally to them .
The
Matriarchs had thousands of years to see
their demise coming and to plant seeds
Ho-ho-ho !
The New
World Order is guaranteed to be completely different from the Bilderbirger
vision .
So , there
were some good ones matriarchs and some
bad ones .
The good
ones tried to ensure the survival of what was good in their civilization .
The bad
ones tried to ensure their dominance .
The ensuing
civil wars destroyed almost everything .
Most of the
good got thrown out with the bad .
The planet
is littered with the ruins of their buildings , bioforms and still-active
bio- weapon
systems .
Some
meme markers that have survived the wars :
Bio-warfare
vs numbers . Fear the disease-ridden stranger . If you are not for us , you are
against us . Any writing or symbol is dangerous , since it can contaminated
with mind-altering vectors by touching it .
Some
remnants of these have survived in central-europe : psychotic and schizophrenic
inducing chemicals in basic foodstuffs like rye (ergot fungi) . Some very
localized near the original labs .
(One particular variant of psychosis inducing
behavioural change organisms was localized within about 50 km radius in central Europe : symptoms : fear of persecution : paranoia with very
definite cut-off points . A weapon .)
Your
attention is drawn to plasmodium induced behaviour changes where the carriers
are cats (and dogs as well) .
This would
be a civilizing influence in a mild form ( taking risks by trusting ) , but a
mind-control form in a strong form (trust unconditionally) . (Oxytocin stimulation)
A horrible
thought is that the sites of the Nazi extermination camps (and the very idea)
came from people picking up extermination bio-weapon contamination from old
weapon sites . Note that the Nazi camps are on a line that would be a natural
defensive line about 9 000 years ago .
Old weapons
that kill and kill again .
Why the
sudden sanity in the late twentieth century ?
Acid rain .
The vectors
of madness were in the fungi (forest rhizomes) in the ground .
The
weaponized mind-altering fungi , bacteria and viruses were obviously spread as
widely as possible over the defensive lines . The ones that could survive
thousands of years would be in the old fungi structures underground . These
(because they were carrying a non-survival payload) were the first to die in
acid-rain .
Remember ,
they thought like biologists .
They would
not pick up a rock and bash you on the head . They would breed some organism
that makes you vulnerable to their memes . You then would pick up a rock and
bash their enemies ‘ heads in .
Can these
organisms recover ?
Of course .
They doing so now . See the latest history .
Why did
this civilization nearly vanish ?
(See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “The
origins of war and Peace” , “Costs” ,
“Nazca” , etc)
Your
attention is drawn to the putative small comet impact on North America about 12
900 years ago . See New Scientist 26 May
2007 “Firestorm from space wiped out prehistoric Americans.”
This
resulted in a short-term planetary climatic stability
(alas , now
coming to an end ).
The
resulting climatic stability led to usable , profitable , large-scale
agriculture .
This led to
an explosion in human numbers .
The
Matriarchy tried to keep the lid on .
Things got ugly on both sides .
The
sub-human mutants (partially our ancestors ) won and extirpated their enemies .
The late bronze-age cataclysm was but the end stages of a 7 000 year old clash
of memes , and was correspondingly bitter.
Think Paris
Hilton vs Bill Gates .
5
.Rhythm .
Rhythm is
then a very ancient IFF mechanism .
Music is
used as a cultural defining mechanism . Era’s and societies are defined by
ephemeral harmonies .
If you like
my rhythms , we are pals .
6.
Musical instruments:
Nearly all human
instruments are characterized by causing compression waves around fingertips in
sequences and cadences .
Guitar ,
piano , flute , etc .The reason why they popular is that they are easy to play
. The reason why they are easy to play is that pattern-recognition takes place
in the fingertips .
A hardwired
threat is a cat stalking along slender bough . The cadence of a four-footed
stalk is known . The damping of vibrations along a bough of decreasing diameter
is known . The speed of the approach of the predator can then be calculated .
In music
this translates as impending threat or doom . Can you see how it goes ?
Now you too
can design threatening music that operates at instinctive level .
Finger
tapping .
This is a
variant of “Counting to ten” .
The
pressure impacts on the nail-beds causes interrupts in the amygdale ,
hippocampus and lower stem . Hence the
success of some stress therapies using fingerclicking .
You got
rhythm if you fingertap and foot/toe tap
with the music .
Fingertip to forearm tapping .
You will
not find this little item anywhere else .
Endorphin
release is proportional to fingertip-to-forearm cadences .
Instead of
tapping your fingers on the table , tap them on and around your forearms
instead in time to the music . Notice you will automatically start waving your
forearms about .
Endorphin
release is increased by orders of
magnitude .
Why ?
Your
forearm is like a branch . You are tapping your fingertips and moving your
hands and forearms in a way that signals “ Only friendlies and non-hostiles”
about .
Monkey’s
joy .
Listen to
some music that has a beat . Put your right hand on your left forearm and vice
versa . Tap your fingers on the forearms as if you are conducting like mad . Go
mad .
Try it .
Notice the
flatness if you stop . This is endorphin production being stopped . (Especially with semi-classical music)
Notice that
you move your fingers about 3 times as frequently as your thumbs . To be more
exact , e=2.718… more frequently . The reason is obvious .
Notice that
all musicians move their instruments if they can . The pianist moves his head
and torso as he moves through the virtual canopy . Notice the contortions of a
violinist . What does the virtual monkey-mind cluster of a violinist see as she
contorts and gyrates ?
7.
Counting .
The
relationship between mathematics and music is well known .
But why ten
fingers? Many different variations have been tried .
The answer
is simple : 4 fingers + 1 thumb on each hand .
The thumb
gives a better grasp on the branch . The 4 fingers at roughly equal distances
split the harmonics of the wave on the branch . This is a physical optimization
, inherent in the nature of vibrations . A physical and mathematical law of
vibrations .
4=2^2 , 8 =
2^4 . Can you see it ?
A little
prediction : the spread of thickness of 4 fingers in homonids will optimize
natural harmonies in branches of varying taper .
This means
that the thumb is not strictly necessary for rhythm recognition . Notice that
most instruments do not require the thumb except for grasping . (Eg the guitar
: the right thumb is usually replaced by a plectrum.)
This also
means that the thumb could be used for something else , and that is what
evolutionary systems did . Thumb systems specialized in acting as reference
point for the other fingers . A weight-lifter , javelin-thrower , tennis-player
, golf-player , violin-player , etc all do the same thing : their hands analyze
the vibration-characteristics of their instrument to find the sweet-spot
relative to the other fingers .
8.
Golf:
The monkey
swings through the air and grips a branch .
The 4x2
fingers hook over to top . Immediately , IFF is done in the fingertips .
If no enemy is detected , the thumbs
hook underneath . By this time , the branch has deformed under the weight and
vibrations set up . Using the positions of the thumbs as reference points , the
vibrational characteristics of the branch is analyzed . If the monkey wants to
stay and have a firm grip , it must move
to a vibrational node of the branch (ie where the standing wave caused by it’s
weight cancels out . Usually called the Sweet Spot .) . notice that one hand
must get there first , usually overshooting . The overshooting hand is adjusted
closer to the sweet spot , then the other hand . This approximation process is
repeated until the monkey is satisfied (inside the parameter.)
It moves
its hands , the fingers frequently and the thumbs less frequently (ratio of
about 3 to 1) until it feels happy .
Now do the
same to the golf club .
If right-handed
, cradle the club lightly at balance point in the left hand with the fingers
underneath and the thumb over the top , the handle to the right . The right
hand has a light overhand grip .
Hold the
club horizontal (like a branch ) , waggle it gently up and down . With the
fingertips on the club , shift your hand alternately to the right until it
feels correct . Jiggle the right hand back to correct for overshoot .
Then lock
the right thumb in . (Note , locking the thumb is characteristic of all golf-grips
. Now you know why .)
This is the
interesting bit . While locking the right thumb in place , wriggle the left
fingers and thumb until they feel ok . The right fingers can be wriggled as
well , but not the right thumb . Do not wriggle the fingers more than 3 times
the thumbs at this stage .
9. Piano
An
interesting corollary is that you will learn the piano better and faster if you
tape the thumbs out of the way .
10
.Birds .
So why
doesn’t birds have ten toes ? They have 8 = 3x2 + 2.
Birds can
fly , so they don’t have to stick around and develop enhanced harmonic analysis
.
11.
Stochastic resonance .
The
Stochastic resonance mechanisms which evolved in the brain and hands to deal
with random branch movements due to weather was essential to the development of
language .
Lying and
an honest error cannot be distinguished
from each other . And it does not matter in the long term .
12
.Sexual Selection.
Men
look at women and see at a subconscious level :
1. Her
middle/hip ratio is about 0.75 . Enough room for babies head
2.High ,
conical breasts . They will not smother baby while suckling and running .
3.
Well-kept nails . Tactile sensitivity for baby care and nursing .
Women
look at men and see at a subconscious level :
1. A taut
bum . Good runner . Essential for good hunter .
2.Muscled
arms . Good hunter and protector .
3.
Symmetric face . Behaviour not too weird .
That’s it . The systems can only count to three .
If you want to overcome any negative impression on any one
of these factors , you will have to work
hard at it .
I was surprised to see nails pop out as an important sexual
selection criterion . Females are always buffing , colouring , shaping ,
hardening , etc nails .
Shaped nails .
Refer to magnetrons . Shaped guides to various wave-forms
can magnify the effect million-fold . Women with wave-guide shaped nails are
remnants of the old order . Good or bad ? Unfortunately , nobody can tell . But
if you run into one , run like hell .
The groove is only quantum deep , but it is coupled across
all time .
So much for this space-time .
Andre
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Appendix F
Scientists in the late 1970’s discovered
another interesting tidbit about polar bears. A number of polar bears in zoos
from around the world were turning green! These scientists discovered that the
algae responsible for making the bears green were not on the SURFACE of the
hairs, as originally supposed, but were INSIDE the hairs (Lewin & Robinson,
1979). The algae more than likely came from the pond waters in the bears’
enclosures.
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