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here there's different levels of plasticity so for example it was pretty rapidly as opposed to homo sapiens so you can look at all of these measures to find out how plastic brain is versus how preprogrammed it is. then we look at how much sleep they get which is what correlates and it turns out it correlates perfectly which is to say the less plastic the last dream must leave it to needs because it isn't in danger of getting taken over because it doesn't have that much plasticity but the more plastic you are the more dream sleep you have because you need to protect the brain because it is more danger of takeover of the visual cortex. so that is how we study it. and next as it turns out some people with antidepressants or inhibitors have less dream sleep so now we are going to be looking at that and doing studies on if everything else is, you know, hopefully approximately the same but you are not getting dream sleep at night, what is the effect and one of the things i noticed right away is people on these antidepressants say that their vision gets blurry. the doctors and the clinicians say i

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to forget is that the aboriginals that use this location are essentially just like us, they are homo sapiens sapiens, they have the same mental powers, linguistic powers that we do. they are us, they are dealing with problems and issues perhaps different in degree than we do. but how they resolve those issues, whether it is sea level change in florida or lord knows what else, is instructive for us to appreciate and because they are us, it is easier to identify with their lives and their trajectories here and in other places like this than perhaps if you just read about it in a book. when you have a gifted staff, which we were fortunate enough in having, that addressed not only what the actors and actresses of antiquity were doing here, but the stage, the geological stage of which they performed, and knew what they wanted to learn and we could in fact buy or get whatever we needed to do that, you can pose questions, you can ask things as you might imagine that you just can't do in other places. we had a telephone on the site that was connected by a modem to the mainframe computer at the unive

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