The value of hair

**Zsych** · 12-11-2011, 12:17 PM

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The story says that in Vietnam the US army pulled in some Native American trackers and tried to use them but they were ineffective if they were given military haircuts - and they suggest that its because long hair add to a person's ability to sense things and somehow affect how much electromagnetic energy we're putting out.

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I'm not personally sure that hair have a significant benefit much of the time, but its certainly possible that the movement of hair on your skin could be subconsciously getting interpreted by the brain to some degree.

It would be interesting if women's supposedly better intuition was related to having longer hair, and men cutting their hair short might be part of severing our ties to some part of our normal existence. I was kinda thinking of IXTJ men (supposedly) more often having short and more functional hair, and also focusing on a different set of mental skills.

**Distance** · 12-11-2011, 12:21 PM

If someone believes their hair contains mystical powers, they will be affected by the cutting of it. If they don't believe in the superstitious nonsense, they won't be affected by it.

**SirJac** · 12-11-2011, 12:31 PM

I would have thought that being placed in unfamilar terrain and ecosystem would have been reason enough to explain reduction in skills. While I'm not a tracker, I'd expect familiarity with your surroundings would be critical, and so it shouldn't be suprising that they performed better in the regions that they have lived their entire lives then half way around the world. If your familiar with all the sensory information that you are recieving, then it's much easier to pin point when something is out of place. In a new environment, most of the sensory information you recieve is unfamiliar and so the brain is would be unable to sort through it effectivly enough to tell the difference between an animal or a man walking through the woods for example.

**Kisai** · 12-11-2011, 12:32 PM


	they suggest that its because long hair add to a person's ability to sense things and somehow affect how much electromagnetic energy we're putting out.

This is on par with the
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	The story says that in Vietnam the US army pulled in some Native American trackers and tried to use them but they were ineffective

They took Native American trackers, put them around the world into a completely unfamiliar environment, and not only were they ineffective, but they griped about their magic hair being gone?

**Wilderness** · 12-11-2011, 12:36 PM

Or maybe the Native American trackers didn't want to work for a government which oppressed them, and realized that people would be stupid enough to believe this story.

**Distance** · 12-11-2011, 12:37 PM

	Originally Posted by Wilderness To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Or maybe the Native American trackers didn't want to work for a government which oppressed them, and realized that people would be stupid enough to believe this story.

Especially being forced to cut their hair...

**Zsych** · 12-11-2011, 12:45 PM

	Originally Posted by Distance To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	If someone believes their hair contains mystical powers, they will be affected by the cutting of it. If they don't believe in the superstitious nonsense, they won't be affected by it.

On the assumption that that story is valid - and that the trackers didn't know why they were doing badly themselves - one would think that the subconscious side of the brain might be leveraging some extra data input.

Kinda like some animals being able to sense storms and other trouble early... different use of the same kinds of data that we have available to find answers we often don't. Humans also vary considerably, and some are more in tune with their instincts/intuition than their logical sides. The problem with being too dependent on mental models is that eventually you can only see in that light.

... like this hair sensing idea largely falls outside my scientific understanding of what humans are so my first inclination is to just reject it. Even trying to consider it, I do so in a very distant fashion... But then we don't necessarily understand well how birds manage to migrate and go to specific places either.

**Wilderness** · 12-11-2011, 01:49 PM

Amish women never cut their hair either... I wonder what kind of special skills they have.

12-11-2011, 12:17 PM	#1
Zsych Core Member [309%] MBTI: XNTX Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 12,366	To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. The story says that in Vietnam the US army pulled in some Native American trackers and tried to use them but they were ineffective if they were given military haircuts - and they suggest that its because long hair add to a person's ability to sense things and somehow affect how much electromagnetic energy we're putting out. --- I'm not personally sure that hair have a significant benefit much of the time, but its certainly possible that the movement of hair on your skin could be subconsciously getting interpreted by the brain to some degree. It would be interesting if women's supposedly better intuition was related to having longer hair, and men cutting their hair short might be part of severing our ties to some part of our normal existence. I was kinda thinking of IXTJ men (supposedly) more often having short and more functional hair, and also focusing on a different set of mental skills.
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12-11-2011, 12:21 PM	#2
Distance Core Member [410%] MBTI: eNTj Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 16,422	If someone believes their hair contains mystical powers, they will be affected by the cutting of it. If they don't believe in the superstitious nonsense, they won't be affected by it.
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12-11-2011, 12:31 PM	#3
SirJac Member [23%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 958	I would have thought that being placed in unfamilar terrain and ecosystem would have been reason enough to explain reduction in skills. While I'm not a tracker, I'd expect familiarity with your surroundings would be critical, and so it shouldn't be suprising that they performed better in the regions that they have lived their entire lives then half way around the world. If your familiar with all the sensory information that you are recieving, then it's much easier to pin point when something is out of place. In a new environment, most of the sensory information you recieve is unfamiliar and so the brain is would be unable to sort through it effectivly enough to tell the difference between an animal or a man walking through the woods for example.
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12-11-2011, 12:36 PM	#5
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12-11-2011, 01:49 PM	#8
Wilderness Member [29%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,166	Amish women never cut their hair either... I wonder what kind of special skills they have.
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