The First and Last Line of Every Doctor

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The Doctor has been through...well, a bunch of incarnations. The enumeration really gets confusing, what with the War Doctor being thrown into the middle. And then there's Peter Cushing playing the Doctor in two films. Counting the Doctor gets very wibbly-wobbly.

Anyway, here are the first and last lines of the incarnations of the Doctor that we know so far and are considered canonical. More or less.

-via Geekologie


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The first Doctor said his body was wearing a bit thin, then he collapsed to the floor. The seventh woke up in surgery and pleaded with the OR team to stop because the anasthetic was killing him.
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One thinks immediately of the autistic savants who have perfect memory of all the events of their life, including eidetic images of every page of every book they have looked at.

It emphasizes how pitifully little of our brains we utilize on a regular basis.
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The brain might have a TOTAL capacity of around 2.5 petabytes - but how much space does the multi-tasking, multi-threaded, realtime embedded OS with all of it's 24/7 monitoring/managing utility apps use up?
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I've asked this question before- not to anyone who would be likely to know the answer, just people who I thought would find it an interesting question whose ough,der-of-magnitude answer might tell us quite a lot. Similarly, I asked questions about how much ram we have,and how many operations per second we can perform.

What I usually got back was a strong sense that somehow the brain just doesn't work this way. That memories and working memory aren't measurable in bits, and thinking isn't measurable in numbers of logical operations or big-O notation.

I'm glad to see a more numerical answer to this kind of question, even if it is (necessarily) very approximate.
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**FACT CHECK**
Actually, there are over 100 Billion neurons in the brain and since the connections for each neuron multiply exponentially (eg. 2 neurons connect twice, 4 neurons connect 64 ways, 8 neurons connect 32,000 ways, etc.) After all is said and done, there are more possible synaptic connections in the human brain than there are particles in the known universe. Far, FAR more than a trillion which really is quite meager compared to the numbers we are talking about here.
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"One thinks immediately of the autistic savants who have perfect memory of all the events of their life, including eidetic images of every page of every book they have looked at.

It emphasizes how pitifully little of our brains we utilize on a regular basis."

I love this myth that we don't use the considerable amount of our brain capacity. Abstract thought of even the most basic sort is the result of the carefully controlled cooperation of numerous disparate regions of the brain. Our brain don't just have huge dead zones.
As for this romantic idea of the autistic savant, it's also silly. The normal human brain receives and processes a massive amount of data every second. It discards the input it deems irrelevant and focuses on the most important. If it didn't, you would be overloaded constantly with trivial, distracting information that impaired your higher functions. This is essentially what disables the autistic. While they may like Temple Grandin be geniuses about very specific topics, they are unable to function on more abstract levels such as comprehending social interaction.
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