Where does this come from?  ...with reflexes so fast they border on pre-cognizance.?
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Spiderman.  When the class is taking the tour the woman is speaking about the spiders.
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I think your definition of 'quick' might need rethinking!\nSorry, haven't a clue....
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Reflexes are pure nerve’s response! If you touch a flame with a finger you’ll immediately put it away as the result of just your nervous system response keeping homeostasis of your hand
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coming up from behind? Ya know - not same spelling ...but phonetically?\n\nI hear innuendos where other people don't, sort of like when Beavis and Bhead used say "Dude he said 'breast'" but it's more subtle than that and I only giggle to myself, I try not to be caught hearing it different. (unless around friends)\nSorry I couldn't come up with anything else... So little brain at this hour of the morning.
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Never had that happen before.... but it could have been something similar to a panic attack where your senses became heightened? Just a guess...
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It may seem to go in one ear and fly out the other, but observe how you learn a little closer. You will find that you learn very slowly, perhaps, but once you "get" something, it's in there forever. So the way you are actually learning new skills and techniques is very important, and you are already on the right track. Do not rush. Because you learn very slowly and meticulously, take your time and get all the details and spend a lot of time with those details until you master them. There is absolutely no need to rush. When you rush, you gloss over the important stuff, (like the centering presence of gravity) and it simply does not sink in. When you get involved and go slower, the material you wish to master will go much deeper into your consciousness until it all becomes part of your instincts, and from your instincts you will manifest a knowledge which will surpass book or surface knowledge, and it will even surpass the instruction of your teacher, because you are you and not him. Let your mind become very quiet inside and you yourself become very deliberate when someone is showing you something new. Do not be concerned at all whether the learning is happening or not, just give the new lessons your absolute and undivided attention. Concentrate on active listening, and just do your best to stay focused on what is being shown to you. Stay very alert. Very soon you will look back and begin to notice you have absorbed far more than you thought you did. When I was studying how to drive a car I felt I was hopeless, and then I later found myself quoting the instruction manual almost verbatim. I was noticing things like proper lane usage, distances to follow based upon the speed traveled, and a million other little things I never thought I had learned. The bottom line is to get focused on being quiet inside when something new is being shown to you and do not create an attitude about your learning processes which will only slow down the whole thing even further. Become ALL EARS AND EYES and you will become like a sponge and begin to absorb everything you are shown. You will also begin to get a little bolder and start to demand of your teacher to reinforce the parts you do not understand. If he is any good at all you will find he has infinite patience to stop the world and show you even how to balance on the front of one foot for ten minutes. Feel the strength in your legs. Walk in the woods often to strength ALL the muscles in your legs for keener balance. Close your eyes and stand on one foot and do not hold your breath. Now, do you see how quickly you are learning? Well, it is because of how quiet you have become with me while we were chatting... sent to you with good energies from Chris in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A.  (I am 63 years old and when I studied classical ballet, my teacher was 81 years old. She was still doing triple beats in the air with perfect balance and strength and she easily tired me to the point of almost giving up. I will never forget the value she had to me. She is now in Spirit. She is no longer with me in this world. But she taught me one thing: you can sneak up on the greatest knowledge a little bit at a time until it opens its arms and embraces you. I wish you total success in everything you undertake and direct your attention upon, and do not be concerned about mastering your art. You will. It is not a question of if. It is a question of when.   - C.
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Might be a tie, but I think I confuse others more--by talking too fast.  I [usually] know what I'm trying to say but am often met with blank looks because my wordsslurredtogether.  ;)
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does anyone have a Ubergeek to english dictionary handy? I'm a nerd but this guy is either BSing or his frontal lobe is ginormous! at least his spelling sux....
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Sorry you've had such rubbish answers. \n\nI'm usually quite good at this sort of thing, but I'm afraid I can't find any info on the origins of this phrase.\n\nI hope someone more knowledgeable answers you soon!
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Interesting puzzle:\nfMRI studies have shown that neurons in the brain associated with a task begin to fire about 800 milliseconds before the person is even aware that they want to perform an action.\n\nIs this God? Do we have no free will? Is this our soul?\n\n\n                     Med Hypotheses. 2001 Mar;56(3):364-6. \n    If there were no free will: Fisher CM.\n\n\n    Electrophysiological findings in humans who are performing voluntary acts, indicate that the intention to act, follows brain activity rather than preceding it. This has implications for voluntary behavior and the doctrine of free will. This essay reviews the fields of human behavior, including medicine, in which this new thesis might have far-reaching significance. Copyright 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.\n\nAn extract:\n\n...it should be pointed out\nthat somewhat the same conclusion may be reached on\nthe basis of rather elementary observation. Every thought,\nfeeling, inclination, intention, desire, every mental\nimpression no matter how brief or faint, must be created\nby nervous system activity. How else could they arise? Ideas would have to arise without a physical basis.\nNervous system activity must always precede. Every\nnuance of thought and feeling arises in and must be preceded\nby its own specific electrical configuration in the\nbrain. If one has the experience of ‘willing’ the nervous\nsystem to do something, the impression of ‘willing’ must\nhave been preceded by nervous system activity.\nOtherwise there would be no source and we are in the\nrealm of the supernatural. Before I think of anything, it\nmust first have taken form in my nervous system.\n\nAh yes, the nervous system... some may just call this the soul...\n\n\nEdit: in reference to the below answer, I've pulled out a (scientific) study that does not suggest that there is no soul.\n\n Hist Philos Life Sci. 2004;26(3-4):377-94. \n\n    'Show me your original face before you were born': the convergence of public fetuses and sacred DNA.\n\n    Gilbert SF, Howes-Mischel R.\n\n    Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA.\n\n    Embryology is an intensely visual field, and it has provided the public with images of human embryos and fetuses. The responses to these images can be extremely powerful and personal, and the images (as well as our reactions to them) are conditioned by social and political agendas. The image of the 'autonomous fetus' abstracts the fetus from the mother, the womb, and from all social contexts, thereby emphasizing 'individuality'. The image of 'sacred DNA' emphasizes DNA as the unmoved mover, the eidos, the soul of the human being. Since fertilization involves the forming of a new constellation of DNA in the zygote, the act of fertilization is being perceived as the secular and technical equivalent of ensoulment. This privileges fertilization above the other possible scientifically valued times when 'human life' begins.
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No. Reflex actions do not involve the brain. Reflex actions are controlled by the spinal cord. What a bunch of low info you got racked up! I bet those guys missed the 'reflex' part! Any reflex action is a result of the spinal cord. The brain usually controls all voluntary actions i.e actions that you want to do. You know what you are doing. But sometimes, there is a need for action so quickly that the nerves don't have time to contact the brain for instructions. The spinal column takes over. Example of reflex actions are taking away your hand when it comes into contact with hot water, closing of eyelids when someone attepts to punch you in the face. These actions are involuntary and beyond your control. You don't mean to do them. They just happen.
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If you have been practicing martial arts, the skills you have honed will be facilitated upon the need in real life...kind of like reflexes. \n\nI was drunk in a bar one night and someone put me in a full-nelson. Before I even knew what happened, I had clenched his arms, spun around and head-butted him. I didn't even think about it, I just reacted. \n\nI hope this helps ease your mind...
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Auditory reflexes are faster.  From the link:\n\n"For about 120 years, the accepted figures for mean simple reaction times for college-age individuals have been about 190 ms (0.19 sec) for light stimuli and about 160 ms for sound stimuli (Galton, 1899; Fieandt et al., 1956; Welford, 1980; Brebner and Welford, 1980)."\n\nThere's a lot of other good info on the link.\n\nThe first two answers look at the speeds of sound and light, which are not related to the speeds at which you brain processes a stimulus upon the arrival of the stimulus to the sensory organ.  The previous answer (from evilfiremonk) which states that neurons are all the same is dead wrong.  The speed of impulse propagation depends on the size of the neuron, the myelination (or lack thereof), the number of synapses and the types of synapses between the source and endpoint, and the directness of the pathway to the decision centers of the brain, and over-all path length will result affect the total time for a signal to reach its destination.
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Ichi THAT is BRILLIANT......I know that in the tangential thinking that often bests me 'thinkos are the weakest links, perhaps the 'savants' of my mind and truly the innocents. Perhaps they are what saves my butt altogether.\nAbsolutely Brill!!!! I am going to ask if I may have permission to use this in my writing for in my speaking & writing i have for the first time just spoken it aloud...thank for the new concept on somethng I have been doing, another thing to obssess on, fair play to you mate, brain food doesnt often ome through the screen like this. and it just did.\nNow does this include the frontal and temporal lobes? Will Kirlean Photograhy show this in action? Or is it a different part of the brain where the lost socks of our lives go to?\nTHIS is a cool quesion. I now possess a new word..and it is awesome..."THINKOS"..now THAT is HOT!!!
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It's probably a habit or reflex. Maybe it's a sign of nervousness. I think it's cool when they do it.
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Self awareness is dependent mostly on your frontal lobe, and your sense processing regions.  \n\nNo-one understands qualia, but we do know where it comes from based on brain injuries and defects.
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Deja Vu - Already Seen.\n\nThis can be many things.\n\nJungian theory states that we all have soul memory.  So if you are in a spot that an ancestor was - maybe you have a flashback.\n\nAll animals have instints - These are genetic memories.  Again flashbacks.\n\nSometimes one side of your brain process faster than the other, or you store a current event as memory BEFORE your cognitive side actually mulls over it.\n\nThen somtimes it's a step back in time.\n\nThen sometimes it's a quick premonition.  Like the time I overheard a boy in the front of my class talk to another about his vacation and I knew the whole entire conversation before he actually said it....  But that could be a wierd coincidence.....\n\n....