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[Pippy]

Hey Adrian, thanks for joining in.

They use the same section of the brain, the same skills are developed, etc, etc.

I would have to point out that even if you are right, you are mincing. Let's say you sat in your chair all day learning form your TV, computer and video games. Sure it might lead you to make or keep a few synaptical connections. But does it lead you to make as much as or more than if you were learning in a more active and reality based way?

If what you do in front of the tube is slip into a trance state (which none of you seem to even notice, creepy) and sit still for hours, then there is no way you can compare that to a learning paradigm that included physical motion and cognitive awareness (ergo no trance). So the argument that games help you learn is fallacious, because they break down your ability to learn, to hold and process information while they are 'teaching; you. And that is apparent in the hyperactivity, that is a sign of decreased, or at least changing brain function.

Games develop our ability to work out things, to strategise, and to think both logically and laterally.

What would be a better way to learn to strategise, and thing logically and laterally? Oh, to have a learning system not based on hypnosis. It pains me that no one here comprehends the state of mind they are in when watching TV or playing video games. You really feel as spry as when you are out and about? Play games or watch TV for an hour. Is your breathing rate decreased? Are your eyes heavy, and you blink a lot less often? Are you kind of dreamy, having trouble holding thoughts? Are these all sign that the electrical rhythm in your brain is being pushed closer to the sleep side of the scale? If you don't think you're being hypnotized, than I don't know where else to start.

You don't watch tv or play computer games, and you think you are the expert on such things?

Same as the sex argument. Why do I hate video games and TV? Because I went through it. I watched hours and hours a day of TV. I played days and days of Starcraft. I still catch a little here and there, if only to try to be up and up on the world the others around me live in. My expertise is in the fact the I lived these things, thought them through and realized them for what they are.

I've played video games for years, watched tv for longer, and I can't report any such "hypnotism" you speak of. I'm focussed on something more than I possibly would be than other tasks, but only because my brain is being stimulated with so much information.

I would urge you to look into hypnotism, brain wave function, and the effect of TV and computer screens on the mind. If you don't notice when something is sapping your life energy, you must not be paying enough attention. If it feels like "more focused" to you, and it because your brains is so over-stimulated, then I would suggest you re-think what those statements mean.

This is kindergarten stuff here. TV is bad for you. You don't think so, that's your own problem.

You do bring up a good, but misplaced point about time on the computer. I spend time here, I have other forums, I check the underground news every day. I write Emails to family. I try to limit my time on the box though, because I am able to comprehend what it is doing to my mind. But that it makes me some kind of hypocrite is fallacious to the core. I say 'TV is bad for you, it rots your brain', and you take it all personal and come back with "Yeah, but you use a computer... so... there!" That has absolutely nothing to do with the point I am making. I know the computer rots my brain too.

Thanks.