Sunday, January 1, 2006

The dangerous idea of Leo M. Chalupa

Got wind of this from Boing Boing. Edge.org hosts an annual question; What is your dangerous idea?

Leo M. Chalupa's idea stood out, and it's something I may very well try one day.

My dangerous idea is that what's needed to attain optimal brain performance — with or without prior brain exercise — is a 24-hour period of absolute solitude. By absolute solitude I mean no verbal interactions of any kind (written or spoken, live or recorded) with another human being. I would venture that a significantly higher proportion of people reading these words have tried skydiving than experienced one day of absolute solitude.



Technorati Tags: , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment