Are you fucking retarded? Tons of animals hold their breath to go under water. Just because people can do it on command only means people are smarter than animals. Depressed dolphins will hold their breath until they die.
Depressed dolphins will hold their breath until they die.
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No. That is very different than choosing to randomly hold one's breath at will. Your analysis is retarded.
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"...Research has since proven that the stress and depression experienced by captured beings continues to lead whales and dolphins like Kathy/Flipper to become so depressed and hollow that they just decide to end it all of their own free will..."
Well, if ranker.com says it, then it must be true. Your stupidy hurts my brain.
I think he is saying that the fact humans can do it voluntarily is just an artifact of our general ability to control certain behaviors, and the voluntarism follows from the fact that we are conscious of whether or not we are entering the water. I'd wager that a baby could not voluntarily hold its breath, but if you placed it in water, it would automatically.
The ability to hold your breath is important for any mammal that can enter the water to hunt. Since we are not always in the water, then something has to tether the behavior to when we enter the water. It's not very useful if the behavior doesn't start until after we've taken in a breath full of water. The degree to which we are conscious of our doing this is just part of being human, and the fact we are probably more conscious of a lot of our behaviors than, say, a grizzly bear is.
Muscular contraction is another example of something that can happen automatically or voluntarily. Holding your breath is just a special case of muscular control anyway, preventing the automatic contraction of the diaphragm.
A grizzly bear probably doesn't stop in front of reflective surfaces to flex his biceps or quads and see if he's getting sick gains, but humans do. It doesn't change the fact that the underlying physiology is the same. If the bear needed to stand up, he could voluntarily do so, part of which will involve flexing the quads, even if the bear is not conscious of every step in the chain of the movement. Humans just have the intellectual capacity, attention, and coordination to really drill down on finer and finer levels of control.
Interestingly, this finer, more precise control is also the reason we produce far less power than something like a chimpanzee. We sacrifice power drive for precision. A chimp couldn't play Mozart, but it could push the piano a lot easier than we could. Consider that your fingers are at the tail end of an anatomical and neuro-muscular chain. Getting precise movements at the tail end means you have to limit the power going through the whole chain, whereas a chimpanzee can generate a lot more brute power in the same chain because it has less conscious control of it. That said, most muscular chains have a total power capacity that never gets tapped - which you'd find out if you passed electrical current through them.
I enjoyed your post. Very insiteful and thought provoking, but its late and im feeling snarky so ignore the rest:
I love holding babies under water for long periods of time. We take a coat off to flex and see our chad abs but a bear cant take off his coat off so whats the point. I heard negros can open bananas faster than smart people.
youre a fucking idiot
You sound like my therapist.
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