“I have a dream”

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

We all know about this famous speech.  But I have a very simple dream.  I want to create the best TRIATHLETES EVER.  I am making a big statement that can backfire me but this is my state of commitment.  Intelligence and abilities are goal oriented as we can see when we read about dolphins below.  Please, keep in mind a parallel of Columbus’ arrival to this continent when reading about dolphins in the following paragraphs. Columbus “Europeanized” the natives in order to pass them as “human beings” and made people believe that they had the same dream.  That is why Juan O’Gorman wrote “The invention of America.”

“He identifies a central paradox in this understanding of America in that it was seen as both similar and different from the other parts of the Orbus. As such, it was considered physically the same, but spiritually and historically different, and thus needed to be incorporated into the Christian framework of belief and into the history of Europe.”

http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/839287/language/en-US/Default.aspx

By just looking at the first sentence regarding dolphins below, we can see the degree of arrogance.  Dolphins have a bigger brain than humans and we want to “translate” them with our human brain!!  Our “reading” is a very limiting version of a dolphin that makes me apologize to dolphins for it.  We have the belief that our brain governs our body but we do not want to believe that a big brain is better than a small one.  Without considering the body-to-brain mass ratio, the dolphin brain is more than twice the human brain.  “The dolphin’s dreams” are not human dreams and such a big difference clouds our interpretation and future behavior toward dolphins.  

The dolphin’s brain-to-body mass ratio is greater than most other mammals… Dolphins are also able to interpret televised behaviors and to respond to gestures shown on the screen upon being exposed to television for the first time. This is the first demonstration in any animal species (other than the human) of behavioral response to televised gestures. Dogs, cats and chimpanzees have not shown such responses in similar research protocols. This research has changed the way in which we have in the past classified dolphins primarily as acoustic specialists. We now realize they are visual specialists as well, using both sight and sound to succeed in their aquatic environment.

Dolphins have been shown to recognize themselves in a mirror.

They are aware of their own recent behaviors and can repeat a behavior or, when asked by a trainer, perform a behavior which has not been performed recently. Commands representing "repeat" or commands representing "any" result in the repeating of a recent behavior or choosing any non-recent behavior, respectively. This shows the ability of a dolphin to maintain a mental image of the behavior it last performed and update that image as each new behavior is performed, repeating the latest behavior in this sequence when requested.

Dolphins respond to a trainer pointing to an object. Not only do dolphins understand and respond appropriately to a human pointing directly at an object, they respond appropriately to a cross-body point (placing ones arm across the body pointing to the object). An example of an appropriate response to pointing would be to retrieve an object to which the trainer points or to move an object from point "A" to point "B".

http://understanddolphins.tripod.com/dolphinbrainandintelligence.html

Whoa!

This is the way to overcome the difference in human beings and athletes.  We need to “deconstruct” history with each one of our athletes.  The way Miguel León-Portilla mentions and I wrote April 16 in this blog, What a Cybernetic Triathlon History is.  For many athletes this is the only way, it is not a matter of physical stamina.  It is a matter in how we make our history and believe it, and this is education.  We do not have “to have a dream” if we are fortunate to have the “right” history for our objectives. JUST DO IT.