Random Rants And Tracks Of Thought

The human mind is an amazing mystery of the most part. Theres the age old saying "You can't know anyone until you know yourself", but can you really know yourself? We don't use our entire brains, so how can we know ourselves entirely? Part of the mind is cut off. Can your subconcious be known to the concious? Can the concious be known to the subconcious?
The interesting part of that is that we don't use our entire brains. It's widely believed that unlocking the rest of our brains, although we'd probably go crazy, surviving it would result in special powers, such as that of supposed psychics. However, if you mix evolution in with this, as you should, then these two theories collide in a very interesting way.
The whole point of evolution is basically survival of the fittest. The stronger genes survive, the people with most advantage. And as these strong genes flourish, mutations sneak in. This is how we evolved from apes, how we've got 5 toes on each foot instead of 4, how we have long legs. It gave us an advantage in life, and we survived better, stronger. What is there to say that during this evolution someone couldn't mutate to have more of their brain unlocked? Specifically the part that supposedly gives us these psychic powers, maybe even premonitions of the future. It's bound to happen one day, how could it not, our minds are all thats left to develop.
But whats the advantage? What about having psychic powers would make us stronger, more able to survive? Think about it. If you knew your enemies intentions before they acted. If you could stop a bullet with your mind. Theres nothing to say that through evolution we couldn't do this, it's entirely possible. And with the way things are going these days, it's starting to get to be neccessary.
However, humans evolved to walk and talk, you're still unable to do these things unless you observe someone else, listen to someone else.
If you left a new born baby alone its entire life, what would happen?
You'd have an emotional wreck of a person, a wild man. Walking would eventually be possible, because theres a certain level of instinct involved in walking. But how can you learn to speak with no knowledge of language? how can you learn to behave without an example? But more importantly, How would you know whats right and whats wrong with what you learn, without an example to follow? You can't write a law if you don't understand what it involves, and evolution is gradual. It's start off as one person, and then their children, and their children. If someone evolved to have these powers today, it'd still be more than a thousand years before it was widespread.
That is of course, providing that you learn how to use your powers, you know right from wrong. Otherwise you'd either have no control, so the future wouldnt have control making the evolution pointless. Or you'd be outcast from society, possibly incarcerated or executed for rimes you'd commit without intention.

In these times there's a great war between the Xbox360, Nintendo Wii, and the soon-to-be-released Playstation3. However, most people disregard the most obvious games machine there is - the PC. Why is this? Apparently consoles are better, or not.
Consoles these days are all about the megahertz and gigabits. All the companies are worrying about visuals and having the fastest system and more processing power. Those few slight increases in number of pixels on screen and number of colours acheiveable.
This is why consoles will fail.
These consoles are good for nothing but having friends round to play on 1 system, like a racing game or football game. FPS? Sure, they have FPS games...but they're all released for PC too, and PC is better for the genre because of being able to aim with mouse instead of jumbling 3 analog sticks around and then hitting a buttom with your little finger to fire, then having to stop aiming for 5minutes to change weapon and BANG! Oops, you're dead. If only you had a mouse, instant pointing to where you want to shoot, the button is in a convenient place under your finger while you aim, the secondary fire is there too, ooh and look, a little weapon scroller in the middle of the two fire buttons.
The exception to this of course is the Nintendo Wii. They're not tried to go for pretty, lifelike graphics (and who wants them - games are about imagination), the Wii concentrates on pure, raw gameplay. It's the next step towards virtual reality with what i like to call game immersion. Your movement, whether its the bowling motion, swordfighting, punching or even waving, controls the game, you are immersed. This adds a whole new level to the gameplay, and makes it a little more of a social machine too, as you can even use those games to get a good workout done. This is something even the PC hasn't managed yet.
This sort of idea is something that more console manufacturers need to catch on to, after all, even if you release a console with hardware thats not released to the public in any other way, give it a year and the hardware will be old and outdatedd, no matter how pretty you make it computers can be upgraded to get prettier, and consoles are pushing it there to keep up.