In interesting article in the Daily Mail last Saturday. Link
As all top sports people will tell you rehearsing the moves sends the same messages and creates the same muscle response as actually doing the moves, something sports scientists have proven, so this latest research should not come as too much of a surprise.
An interesting aspect of it is that it would, seemingly, lend weight to the argumant that violent computor games will have a physical affect on brain development.
It seems to me that development and progress often outpaces research and knowledge. There is, obviously, a lot we have still yet to discover regarding our own brains and it seems rather foolish to create games, devices and new technologies before we really understand the affect they may have upon us. I guess it is called progress and science has always supported it but it seems a rather short sighted form of progress to me: A great leap forward followed by two leaps back (in the form of unforeseen side-effects or damage) is, hardly, what I would call progress.
Science can dismiss these concerns but we only have to look at science’s track record to see the warning signs. Listen to the scientists of the 1950’s with their almost religious fervour, by the year 2000 we should have been living in a world of abundant, safe and free energy, 9 to 5 would be a thing of the past and we would all be taking vacations on the moon.
