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The Chinese have clearly become far more individualist and far more capitalist (they have far more millionaires than ever before, despite millions still living in abject poverty). But they are very patriotic, and work together with other Chinese for the mutual betterment of their people. They...

If no-one creates the basilisk, then who does it punish?

Sensors start learning the Plié in ballet class, by learning the steps perfectly, and then later on try to make their Plié graceful. So Sensor reasoning goes from concrete -> abstract. For example: When solving problems, sensors prefer to start with what they know. If they don't find a solution...

What's a smartbulb?

If you hair and her hair get tangled up together, then yes you are.

Is everything quantum entangled? In a nutshell, no. 1) Particles can be entangled, as long as they remain in superposition and retain the information of their connectedness in the interference patterns they generate. Once they decohere, they lose their connected information, and the...

If you want to impress your boss' boss to get a promotion, you need to use the Peter principle: People in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence" Employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent...

We want scientists to be very smart. I gather from Google that there are 7 million scientists in the world and 7.8 billion people in the world. So for every 7 scientists, there are 7,800 people. So scientists are 1 in 1,114. https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx 1 in 911 people have an...

NMI (Need More Information). How does your fear of abandonment affect you? What things do you do differently in your life because of your fear of abandonment?

Up to you. I've known lots of heterosexual guys who sometimes had feelings for a male friend growing up, and were confused about their sexuality, sometimes into their 20s. I've always thought that was why so many gay guys dated women before they started dating men, because they were unsure...

Amygdala. Processes fear based on how many times you feel afraid, which should reflect how many times you're in that situation and have reason to feel afraid, which would in turn reflect how likely that danger is of occurring. However, add in newspapers, TV, internet and social media, and you...

Introverted skills are more important for situations that require introversion. Extroverted skills are more important for situations that require extroversion. The world has become a lot more closely integrated. In the workplace, people no longer work in separate offices any more. Academics...

Scientists don't know. A closed sphere is a closed system. A closed system is a system where all objects inside the system can only interact in such a way that means that even if they change their position, velocity, momentum, or anything else, would remain inside the system. Think of it like...

Did not know this. The earlier seasons were interesting. But the last 2 did seem to be unbelievably stupid. Tyrion KEPT underestimating Cersei, even though it was obvious after the first attack, and her blowing up the citadel, that when threatened, she prefers to strike first, while the enemy...

Ned Stark was killed brutally on the orders of Joffrey. But then it was political. Cersei Lannister kills a lot of powerful nobles. But when she does it, it's incredibly shocking, as she's in prison and supposedly powerless, while Ned Stark is killed by people who (at the time) wield a lot of...

Because someone asked WHY. Did you ask why humans are born with 2 hands and not 20 hands? No? Why not? Becuase people wonder about things that conflict with their experience. It's not usually the case that doctors are good at car mechanics. Sure. Most people believe that if their dads and...

So do you think that this is how atheists think about studying and education, where someone else is in charge? Oh no, I'm getting bad grades (bad things are happening to me at university). I must ask for the head of my department's forgiveness. Oh no, I'm still getting bad grades. Maybe this is...

Science Direct - Asymmetry between the two sides of the face increases steadily with aging

Already do what? An atheist is "not a theist" as much as a theist is "not an atheist". So yes, when someone tells you that they are a theist, all that tells you is that they are "not an atheist". So according to your own rules, it would indeed be unfair to hold any theist accountable for the...

IME, IQ isn't a great predictor. INTPs tend to be very high in IQ and ESTPs much lower. So if it was, then INTPs would be much more productive and would earn a lot more than ESTPs. IQ is a good predictor within a few points. E.g. if you consider plumbers, the plumbers who are 3 points above the...

True democracy was about "one person, one vote". We used to have representative democracy, because (a) there was no internet. Parliament/Congress could only rely on votes, by people showing up. Most people couldn't get the time off work to attend Parliament/Congress and vote. So we had...

I used to think that the conscious was the big thing and the subconscious was just an add-on, But then I watched a science documentary that said that scientists had studied how much of the brain's processing is used for the conscious and the subconscious. Some scientists said that if the brain's...

based on my prior post, I think the difficulty is more as follows: The body seems to be very focussed on homeostasis. E.G. people trying to lose weight and dieting, tend to suffer from a yo-yo effect. When they're on the diet, they lose weight. But as soon as they stop dieting, they return...

How right you are. We have a sympathetic nervous system and a parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system reacts very quickly to changes in the environment, and has been used as the explanation for the fight/flight/freeze instinct. The parasympathetic nervous system mulls...

Jung didn't say that Ni and Ne were 2 functions. He only said that there was ONE function, Intuition, and then described: 1) how intuition works in the intraverted attitude. 2) how intuition works in the extraverted attitude. So they are bound to have a lot of similarities, as to Jung...

Dominance is an odd word. Generally, when people say things like that someone is dominating a conversation, it means that you can't get a word in. When someone is being submissive in a conversation, it normally means that the person is saying "Yes.", "I agree", "Uh-huh", but not much else...

1) Shannon developed information theory, which showed that the universe could be described as a digital VR, where the properties of particles and waves in the universe could be described as quantities. 2) Entropy was then explored in this light. Entropy had previously been described in various...

This is a development process that I've found over the years, seems to really help in getting things done in development. This is copied from a post I made in INTf. But I'd been meaning to write it here for a long while. Thought you guys might like to read it, and see what you think. Basic...

Sadly, even though Leibniz said that you need to know mathematics to understand philosophy, many philosophers are not mathematicians.

The Holographic Principle was invented in order to justify that position. This is no different.

Thanks for the compliment. Don't stress over it. If you get to it, great. If not, also great. It's just a hypothetical discussion at this point. But I do feel strongly that science should be impartial and objective, and shouldn't be presented in ways that would be likely to increase misogyny...

I heard that a lot of academics and scientists smoke pot together. It helps them think up new ideas. Physics isn't easy. But science is highly competitive now. Scientists live by "publish or perish". They have to keep publishing, or they lose their career, and they can't get published without...

OK. But your reasons that college girls are often immature, are reasonably valid. However, it so happens that studies often use college girls, because it's a heck of a lot easier to get college girls to agree to a study than working women. I think, that given that college girls have a very...

OK. But I still see it mentioned a lot. It's been mentioned before, that internet users should be careful about what they say on the internet, because a person's digital footprint remains a long time after one has changed one's views, and for many things, forever. So once this notion came on...

That would be using the same lines of thinking as my proposal, and so I would expect it would be equally valid. So that's fine with me. OK. But just so you know, a lot of these studies are performed in universities on college girls. There are thousands of women in universities, who have a lot...

Try using lateral thinking. How can you know what Holocaust survivors think and feel if you've never spoken to one? How can you know what Jewish people think of Judeo-Christian values, if you've not asked any Jews what they think of it? Hint: they'll tell you that there's no such thing. How...

That's all right. I can get a bit acerbic. Nice to know. Not to disagree, here. But I have noticed a certain problem, that certain people would frequently get extremely irritable, impatient, and intolerant without any clear reason. But when they'd eaten, they suddenly became calm and relaxed...

Condoms are a very recent invention, and only became used by a large portion of the population since the 1940s or even later. It's not really been around long enough to generate significant biological changes. So I agree that condoms would not have had time to significantly change how humans...

With the one I dated? Yes. Still friends after 20+ years. With the ones I didn't date? A few, who were great friends anyway. They were the sorts of friends who I'd go drinking with, crash at their place, have mad conversations, generally hang out with. Our friendship was not dissimilar to a...

Happens a lot. People like to talk about their feelings. If you mean they expressed feelings for me, most of the time, I didn't really know what to say. It gave me pause for thought. But I didn't feel that people would really listen to my POV that much, and so didn't really know how to respond...

True. Abe Simpson isn't solving anything by shaking his fist at a cloud. Abe could get an umbrella. But that requires consistent mental effort to keep thinking of potential solutions and then ask many "what if"s to figure out the problems with each potential solution, until you arrive at a...

I do. But there ARE people out there who believe that atheists are delusional and immoral. Are you suggesting that I should also respect all of the beliefs of that person?

Hello. Your avatar looks interesting.

Do you honestly think that atheists are the only people in the world that have suffered from oppression because they didn't share the religion of their oppressors? Have you heard of the Holocaust? Guilt by association. So because one Jewish person committed murder, you think that justified the...

You can hate everyone equally, religious people, and non-religious people alike. It's not OK to hate on religious people, but not hate on non-religious people. So ugh, right on back at you.

I know what you mean. I was friendly with religious homosexuals (didn't judge), bisexuals (didn't judge), and men who used to be women, back 25 years ago. Didn't make any difference to me, as I was raised that not being racist, sexist, etc, meant to treat everyone completely equally. But these...

In theory, yes. In practice, no, because psychology is a science, and so subject to the same biases and pressures as the rest of science. In reality, though, psychology is even more subject to those biases and pressures than the rest of science. Science may be used to promote political policies...

It's not rationally deducible. Most of maths is about taking subjects that defy deduction, and finding the few elements that are deducible in it, and then restructuring approaches to finding solutions around those certainties. e.g. calculus. But it takes a huge amount of mental effort, which...

If you read up on a history of science, this is pretty common in scientific history. Dark energy is necessary for a completely different reason, namely the Dirac Sea. Matter is thinly spaced. Without it, space is thin. Thin space behaves exactly as you'd expect, such as when you're throwing a...

Marbles, what's the site's policy regarding Nazis?