(no subject)
Jun. 21st, 2010 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressIf you were a zombie, and you had the ability to time travel, and go eat the brain of ANY PERSON FROM ALL OF HISTORY, whose brain would you eat?
The way I see it, there's two major paths of reasoning.
The first is the standard time traveler's adventure, to wit, if you could kill the brain of someone before they achieved something great, what do you think would happen to the time stream? Obviously, you could eat Einstein's brain as he's on his deathbed. Or you could eat it when he's fifteen, before he's even made it to America or considered relativity.
The second, and much more important in my opinion, consideration is that of taste. What makes a brain taste good? Do intelligent brains with lots of connections taste better? One answer I got was "Well, I'd go back at least to pre-industrial age, since then I wouldn't have to worry about brains full of mercury" --that's important! Do brains from before humans started pumping chemicals into the air and water taste better?
And similarly, when is the best time to eat a brain? Do you want to eat it at the peak of the human's intellectual progress? Do brains taste best when they've fully matured, and are close to death? Does a baby's brain, all fresh and tender, taste the best?
My answer to the question is simple --I want to eat Feynman's brain. That would be *awesome*. That being said, I'm still trying to work out exactly when it would be best to chow down --I'm thinking I want to wait until he's on his deathbed, just because then he would have managed to get out all his wonderful works and words. I don't want to ruin Feynman for the rest of the world here, because let's face it. He's *awesome*.
(However, if it comes down to a matter of taste, because his brain would be more delicious at a certain point in his career, I would be happy to nom down there. I'm a zombie after all. What do I care for anything but the most succulent of brains?)
~Sor
MOOP!
The way I see it, there's two major paths of reasoning.
The first is the standard time traveler's adventure, to wit, if you could kill the brain of someone before they achieved something great, what do you think would happen to the time stream? Obviously, you could eat Einstein's brain as he's on his deathbed. Or you could eat it when he's fifteen, before he's even made it to America or considered relativity.
The second, and much more important in my opinion, consideration is that of taste. What makes a brain taste good? Do intelligent brains with lots of connections taste better? One answer I got was "Well, I'd go back at least to pre-industrial age, since then I wouldn't have to worry about brains full of mercury" --that's important! Do brains from before humans started pumping chemicals into the air and water taste better?
And similarly, when is the best time to eat a brain? Do you want to eat it at the peak of the human's intellectual progress? Do brains taste best when they've fully matured, and are close to death? Does a baby's brain, all fresh and tender, taste the best?
My answer to the question is simple --I want to eat Feynman's brain. That would be *awesome*. That being said, I'm still trying to work out exactly when it would be best to chow down --I'm thinking I want to wait until he's on his deathbed, just because then he would have managed to get out all his wonderful works and words. I don't want to ruin Feynman for the rest of the world here, because let's face it. He's *awesome*.
(However, if it comes down to a matter of taste, because his brain would be more delicious at a certain point in his career, I would be happy to nom down there. I'm a zombie after all. What do I care for anything but the most succulent of brains?)
~Sor
MOOP!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
on 2010-06-21 03:56 pm (UTC)