Re: one of many "super human" abilities of a human in emergencies
fair enough.
alright, while i didn't run to the next store and bought myself The Bell Curve, i did read the whole wiki article (without checking the sources for loopholes, so I'm gonna have to trust you and that site...)
it seems to be based on many "probably"s, and "highly likely"s and i'm sure that studies can only suggest and not beat down the opposition with a scratchless wall of facts and steeled conclusions
so from a scientific point of view i rather have to admit that i wasn't being accurate with my percentages. i should've done it like you and used words not numbers, since numbers aren't exactly foolproof but have the expectation of being foolproof...
since you seem to be capable of voicing an opinion on the determinism debate, I'd like you to look through this theory i posted a while ago (note: i don't like it, it assumes the metaphysical aspect of us to be non-existant, which pretty much sux (uhuh)):
free will is an illusion. "souls" do not exist. the instant an influence is registered by your senses/nerve system and thus translated into electric signals and transmitted to your brain, they are processed there, meaning whatever characteristics those translated signals have will decide which path they take through your brain and how they are reformed during that process(the brain signal transfer/transform structure has been made sophisticated and "perfected" to fit this by evolution/survival of what works). then they will likely go to other parts of the body, all determined by the characteristics (quantity, quality and generally how they are made up) of the initial signals and what path they took through the brain...
also, feelings are an illusion. they are merely the effects of hormones and again electric signals created by your senses through outside(/or even inside) influences. why does each human have different feelings in the same situation? these factors:
-they absorb slightly different amounts/magnitudes of influences in the same situation (sitting in the lobby room of some hotel, for example)
-they're DNA is unique (see standard genetics) and thus they're body, including brain structure (electric signal paths, yada yada) and hormone system has been developed a bit differently than that of others
-they're path through life since birth is unique. they haven't been eating the same, the pressure that has been applied to different parts of their body in every situation isn't the same... etc., so the electric signal history they have been generating through influences hasn't been the same (visual sense, acoustic sense, bla bla...) and the purely physical/biological way those signals have affected body development (brain structure, bla bla...) hasn't been the same...
