Smart Pill

Scientific American Mind: Smarter on Drugs

We seem to be making astounding breakthroughs in our understanding of the our brains. We are very far from knowing everything but we know enough to start manipulating the brain. If there was a smart drug available, will I take it ? YES. If there was a pill that made people happy, should we take it ? Sure, why not ? There may, no there will, be trade-offs to make. It might make other parts of our body less useful. We might be able to guide evolution towards a particular path(how exciting and terrifying at the same time!). There was another study which , if I remember correctly, laid forward the hypothesis that evolution has been/and_is optimizing the brain. I am not sure I believe this though.

So in addition to becoming smarter,inventive and intelligent, somehow our brains(well, most of our brains) have evolved to hope, have faith and most of all believe in a supernatural force(God) that guides us?Hmm...something to think about...

YSR

Have been listening to Kanda naal mudhal and the songs are really good except for the 'Spin that shit up' bit! I am not sure what Yuvan Shankar Raja's first movie was but I started liking his music after listening to Thulluvatho Elamai. I also like 7G, Arindhum Ariyamalum, Kadhal Kondein, Punnagai Poove and Nandha.
It is known that he has been/is heavily 'inspired'/'influenced' by other musicians, most notably his father Illayaraja. You only have to listen to the theme from 7G and the theme from Johny or the song 'theendi theendi' from Bala and Illayaaja's 'rhim jhim' to know what I am talking about. Recently I was listening to 'Oru Kallooriyin Kadhai' and there is this line in kadhal yenbadhu which sounds exactly like a line in vayadhe vaa vaa from Thulluvadho Elamai. What, he is being inspired by his own songs now? I like his music and I think he is talented enough to make original music. So, why? Why Yuvan?