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You Are a Retrospective Soul The most misunderstood of all the soul signs. Sometimes even you have difficulty seeing yourself as who you are. You are intense and desire perfection in every facet of your life. You're best described as extremely idealistic, hardworking, and...

Coming up with a single Theory of Funny is amusing in itself. I agree that the unexpected and the absurd are important aspects of humor. Irony and sleight of hand can shake up our expectations. Almost all simple jokes (knock-knock jokes and so forth) are built on the idea of having an...

34) Bros cannot make eye-contact during a Devil's Three-way. The only thing a guy needs to know to survive is the Bro Code.

I didn't know INTPc had a high IQ subforum, so I went and checked it out. The only thing that seemed to indicate that they had higher intelligence than the rest of the forum seemed to be that they mentioned it more often. Someone mentioned it earlier, but I think arrogance would be more...

I'd upload into the internet. Omnipresence or nothing.

A simple way to think about it would be the Nernst equation - a simplified version of GHK equation to calculate a single ion potential: [IMG] R = gas constant T = temp in Kelvin n = valence for ion F = faraday constant This would make (8.31 J/mol*K x 297 K) / (+1 x 96500 coulombs/mol) Which...

I have recently (as in, today) begun a regimen of mucuna pruriens, which is supposed to help with lucid/vivid dreaming. I prefer the analogy of the coordinate plane we used in the thread "Presence of Self." The dimensions of human experience don't really make sense without both the objective...

It's the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation. It calculates the membrane potential across a cell membrane, which is important for resting potentials and action potentials in a neuron (like in my avatar). This version of the equation is calculating potassium, sodium, and chloride ion voltage difference...

Snow is uncomfortably wet and cold. Snow gets in the way and has to be moved. Snow covers my car, meaning I have to brush/scrape it off. Snow makes driving orders of magnitude more dangerous and stressful. Snow makes going outside a pain in the ass. Snow melts and causes flooding. Snow gets...

My avatar would: All night long.

3 voices: The expert: comes up with ideas, builds models, and runs through sensory/introspective data and advocates for them. This voice spends a great deal of time explicating various thoughts to myself, as if I am the one that needs to be convinced of whatever I'm thinking about. This bastard...

Both string theory and E8 theory are completely mathematical models that have little basis in experimentation or observation. They seek to change reality to fit their model, since there are no experiments that would require them to change the theory. I agree about anthropogenic global warming...

Logic depends on emotion. The orbitolfrontal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which is associated with decision making, is also closely associated with the limbic system (emotional systems of the brain). The cingulate cortex, which controls executive functions in the brain, is also...

I don't doubt it exists. But for it to be a disorder would mean it would have to be debilitating and hinder normal functioning. Everyone feels a little blue sometimes, but that doesn't mean everyone suffers from depression. If I go on wikipedia and look up Schizophrenia, I fall into all of the...

The Cyanobacteria that have the ability to turn into nitrogen nodules could pass on the genes for this advantage. If there was a colony that had the mutation for such a transformation, and a colony that did not, when the conditions favored the change, the colony that has the mutation would...

I've often thought the Encyclopedia Dramatica definition for Aspergers syndrome described a lot of the personality disorders people think they have around here:

Cooperation fits into the selfish gene paradigm. If being cooperative increases fitness, then the genes that promote cooperation will be selected for. Cooperation happens on the organismal level; selfishness is the gene(s) that promote cooperative behavior doing so in their own "self interest"...

I rarely remember any dreams that I have, so I really don't give them much thought, to be honest. I know a lot of people around here like to see meaning in them, but to me they're just the random images and emotions generated by the brain firing neurons - I'm sure it has a physiological...

The same argument is often used for pessimism vs optimism: things will either meet the optimists expectations, or disappoint them; things will either meet the pessimists expectations, or pleasantly surprise them. People start off blank in my view of them - neither good or bad. Starting with...

What is a subjective universe, exactly? There is a certain being-in-the-world or Dasein, for which I am the focal point of everything that I'm currently present to - is this a subjective universe? Is the subjective universe the mental construct I've built to complete my experience of the...

It's a futile task, but there is no reason not to try: I want to describe the subjective of experience of being a conscious, sentient being. I am of the opinion that subjective experience is not exactly the same for everybody. I think different personalities and people of different intelligence...

I said I used to be fat until I lost a bunch of weight about 5 years ago (I lost almost 100 pounds). Now I'm just left with more skin than is necessary to hold in my viscera. Needless to say, I will never have 6-pack abs.

Technically, I have a phone that is physically in my possession. It's a pre-paid kind, but I haven't put minutes on it in over a year and I'm 99.9% sure the number has been canceled. So, to say I have a phone would be like saying I still have a dog a year after it died. Therefore, I voted that I...

If this is purely on the feedback received from other people, I voted somewhat unattractive. Seeing as I've had no feedback at all (I can honestly say that I don't remember ever being given an assessment of my physical attractiveness from an impartial party) I don't know if that was fair. I...

My fridge is full of high school cafeteria food, courtesy of my mom (who is a lunch lady and gets to take leftovers for free). This includes Bosco sticks, chicken fingers/patties, slices of pizza, and a large tub of sweet and sour chicken. And lets not forget the old working class staple: store...

Same. Even if I'm not doing anything on the computer - I read in my computer chair, I watch TV in my computer chair (granted, most of the shows I watch are on my computer), I eat in my computer chair, I do my homework in my computer chair etc. I would just change one thing: If I'm at home I am...

I made a post related to this a while back, where I made a proposal to how I would shape the educational system. I think one of the biggest changes would be using the school as an experiment to test the best ways to teach children. I couldn't agree more about personalized education, but one...

Your result for The Sublime Philosophical Crap Test ... N-S-R You scored 100% Non-Reductionism, 44% Epistemological Absolutism, and 11% Moral Objectivism!

People not bogged down in the accepted dogma may have a unique way of looking at things. This isn't so much about having a theory that you could take to the bank (or those writing grants) but about using available information and making connections and trying to see things in a different...

I thought I was actually going to get the opposite response. I'm usually the one pointing out that INTP does not equal genius. I thought people would take this as me trying to prove my point. Neutral mutations do happen. But something is only neutral until the environment changes - being...

Well, I haven't been looking at the forum much the past couple days, but where have people been bashing women?

INTP's are (stereotypically) supposed to be theoretically minded: Extroverted intuitives (Ne) are supposed to find patterns and meaning in often times disparate things; introverted thinkers (Ti) are supposed to be good at systemizing and ordering things into a logical mental model. This may or...

A dead body, as far as I'm concerned, is an object. Therefore, it's treatment is left up to the owner - they can do whatever they want with it in private, as long as it isn't a public health risk. To make it illegal would be like making it illegal to have a sex doll. Plus, I prefer what I call...

http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html Blue Brain Project: building a brain. This is a must see video for anyone interested in the brain and artificial intelligence - especially the last half or so of it...

People talking is just people talking, but there are entire fields of study and numerous volumes written on the subject of group dynamics, sociology, cultural anthropology, and psychology. The earth is just a hunk of rock hurtling through space, but we have vast scientific fields dedicated to...

Physiologically, the three common areas in the brain for the orgasm of both men and women are the nucleus accumbens (that seems almost like a pun, doesn't it?) which is associated with the brains reward (dopaminergic) system; the anterior cingulate cortex, which is associated with pain...

I fear being stupid, but not really relative to other people. Not being able to understand something is very frustrating to me, and often sends me into a spiral of self doubt.

So you're asking what our masturbation stories are? :D It's an interesting question why we require the fantasy, and perhaps even the narrative. Even reading a text with a sex scene in it can be arousing. It's been shown that women are much more interested into the context and atmosphere of...

This thread is already a good indication about peoples thoughts. First, nobody has a serious answer to the OP. They either are embarrassed to talk about it, or they really don't think about anything besides pornographic images (this is still biased towards males). Second, the thread received a...

Sex is fun, but fleeting. Pursuing sex can be a waste of time, especially as much time as some people (probably mostly males) spend doing so. The enjoyment of sex is disproportionate to the amount of effort it can take, the ridiculous social rules and "games" that are required, and the possible...

Reminds me of this: Where our technology and understanding of the brain is now, I don't think a robot that can appreciate music could be built. At least, it might be programmed to act as if it does, but there would be no self to act as the proprietor of such emotions, so it would not be aware...

A non-spiritual spirituality is something I've thought of before, too. I've never read his stuff, but I think it's something Sam Harris writes about. I think the key to spirituality is the idea of believing in something bigger than oneself (for spiritualists, this would be the spiritual realm)...

If you aren't willing/able to put in the time, there is really nothing anyone can do for you. On the other hand, I like to think of math as a puzzle and not a problem. What I enjoy doing is reading ahead in the book before class and trying to figure things out myself, then after class, not...

If someone hadn't started picking crap up off the ground and modifying it, we a) would not have survived long enough to invent anything else and b) would not have had the spark of ingenuity that led to everything else.

I have sent zero texts my entire life. I don't know that I've ever owned a cell phone sophisticated enough to do texting. It's possible I have, but I never bothered to look into it. I've had no reason to. It helps to not have any friends.

The self is an emergent property of the system. The system necessarily depends on the non-firing neurons - there would be no self if all neurons were in the "on" state at all times (even too many of them being in the "on" position causes seizures). Perhaps this is why neurons have inhibitory...

Talent and popularity aren't always correlated. YouTube - The Dive (Eyedea)

Rapper Eyedea of Eyedea & Abilities died on October 16 (cause still unknown). As far as I'm concerned, it's a bigger blow to music (or at least independent hip-hop) than the death of Kurt Cobain or 2pac. YouTube - Oliver Hart - Step by Step

They're not my teeth, and it's a picture of someone with scurvy.

In moderation, yes. Heavy consumption can cause liver disease and brain shrinkage, along with other problems (not to mention the short term, where it makes you prone to injuring yourself or others). Creating profiles for students would be an ongoing study in finding better ways to teach them...