# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1394470778 14400
# Node ID e0f8793b7aaf94b8b8821474215a10c0f6f14797
# Parent  79d17299ada080e93973d992e164f4baeb4ce5b5
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diff -r 79d17299ada0 -r e0f8793b7aaf org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Mon Mar 10 12:58:36 2014 -0400
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Mon Mar 10 12:59:38 2014 -0400
@@ -36,16 +36,16 @@
      depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
      back pain. I think that smells of rationalization. I don't buy
      it. I propose that in many suicide cases there is a disease that
-     causes the suicidal behaviour. We already know that certain
+     causes the suicidal behavior. We already know that certain
      parasites have mind-bending properties in other animals, even
      mammals like mice. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a
-     parasite that causes suicuides in humans. Some problems:
+     parasite that causes suicides in humans. Some problems:
      - What does the suicide parasite get out of it? :: This might be
           answered by the whole thing being a glitch caused by
           cross-species contamination. Toxoplasma works this way.
-     - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicuide should
-          be more common amone people who share a contaion
-          vector. There should be suicuides that don't make any
+     - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicide should
+          be more common among people who share a contagion
+          vector. There should be suicides that don't make any
           sense : people who weren't really depressed, who had no
           reason to kill themselves. People who have killed themselves
           should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@
                   into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
                   is then frozen. The backup cells are created just
                   the same way as natural identical twins. The backups
-                  can be used to regenerate organs. ect. Also, it
+                  can be used to regenerate organs. etc. Also, it
                   would be a good sci fi concept, because you could
                   have a culture where people reward people who were
                   especially awesome are "reborn" from their
-                  backups. Imagine having a young bach every
+                  backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
                   generation, etc.
 
 - cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the