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A decent, easy to read book that I've suggested before is "Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect" by Read Montague, which covers a bit about the evolution of the human brain. A couple links you can check out (which I've posted in other threads) are the genetics of the brain and an article on brain...

I'm tempted to make a super-thread in the same vein as Adymus explaining evolution, so I can just start linking to that. Unfortunately, I don't have the time nor energy right now to do that or make a sagacious response to your queries - perhaps this weekend I'll see if I can hash out a cohesive...

I wouldn't consider myself intelligent, as I don't relate to the pros, yet many of the cons illustrate many of my flaws. I am curious as to why a lot of people on this forum seem to take it a priori that they must be intelligent. I don't mean to be insulting, but it seems a bit unjustified a...

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I'm going to buy everyone one of these:

I want to say visual, but for me it's much more of an internal vision. When she mentioned being able to test things in her mind, that sounds very much like how my thinking is. I'm terrible at math and I can't memorize things worth a shit, but I have a very good visual intuition for the...

I'm not sure if its what you're looking for, but you can have peer editors give you criticism and talk to other writers on a forum at Critique Circle. I haven't posted anything on there in over a year, but I know there used to be published people on there and people that had knowledge about how...

Or maybe this kind:

They actually have a technique for scanning atoms down to the femtometer scale (1*10^-15 meters). It's very cutting edge, and when they took the first closest look at the constituent parts of an atom, this is what they found:

I enjoy seeing people forced out of their comfort zone. I think this is why I like Chuck Palahniuk books so much, because they always have elements of social upheaval and the rejection of the status quo and common values (although often through unsavory means). I don't know about disasters, but...

Mitochondrial DNA Parasite co-evolution Intestinal bacteria co-evolution DNA mutation rate calculations Comparative embryology (1) But the biggest load of evidence comes from DNA similarities and molecular markers that fit with the phylogeny that has been constructed through the fossil record...

Consciousness means conscious of something, including ones own actions. Objects are contingent on pure causation because they are not aware of their actions in order to alter them. Free will emerges from consciousness when we become conscious of the things we do and think, able to reflect back...

I dislike the word rebel, simply because of the angsty way it's often used, so I would posit that I am more of an independent in that I believe in the autonomy of people as conscious, sentient beings. I dislike the idea of arbitrary or coercive rules or laws, and I dislike the idea of arbitrary...

Need for Achievement 2.26 5.8 5.6 Need for Affiliation 1.13 1.1 1.3 Need for power 3.38 1.7 1.8 Self-references (I, me, my) 0.00 0.5 0.8 Social words 11.28 11.4 12.0 Positive emotions 1.88 1.8 2.1 Negative emotions 3.38 1.5 1.6 Big words (> 6...

Pictures of atoms.

21 out of 30. I skipped the word scramble ones, I've always been terrible at those.

Honestly, if I were really interested in making a generalized distinction between P and J, it would probably be subjective and objective respectively. Someone that is P, being that their judging function is introverted, will actually make more subjective judgments - as much as people like to...

Denial is a strange defense mechanism for me. I'm sure there are things I deny, but for the most part, I've always had the problem of never allowing myself to get away with anything. Most times, when I start attempting to rationalize an action to myself, I end up catching myself in the denial...

I think, from the way this is worded, you are under the common misconception that all evolutionary change must be good - working towards disease resistance, or becoming smarter, or stronger, so that evolution is always an "upwards climb towards superiority". This, along with a goal-oriented...

I assume people are talking about the Belyaev silver fox experiment? I think people have a slight misconception about the biology and evolution of the brain. I don't feel like posting all the links I've posted in several other threads again and having them go unread, but I'll just say that in...

Wow, somebody missed me? I'm not sure whether to be honored or horrified.

YouTube- One is the Loneliest Number

A good place to start for some interesting, lay-man friendly theoretical physics is Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos" (to a lesser extent, "The Elegant Universe", which talks mainly about string theory and can be watched as a NOVA special) and Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw's "Why Does...

I posted the sources beneath the figures, which were more to 'wet the whistle' for the links; but, sadly, I have found that most of the links I post go unread, which generally results in me having to explain them (which, admittedly, I don't always hate doing). The first article is only looking...

As far as brain regions corresponding to different functions, there have been studies done on this: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/content/vol156/issue2/images/large/aj14t1.jpeg http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/content/vol156/issue2/images/large/aj14f1.jpeg...

This. If you had the sun about the size of a baseball, you'd need a football field to fit the rest of the solar system in it, if done to scale. That, and Mars is about 1.5 AU from the sun (1 AU being equal to the average distance of the earth from the sun), with Jupiter about 5.2 AU from the...

They're all philosophies; PhD means "Doctor of Philosophy", with philosophy meaning love of wisdom and distinguishing itself from other approaches to knowledge via it's focus on critical thinking, the application of logic and reason, and a drive to demystify phenomena - this as opposed to...

Then we will no longer be used by the economy.

Seven dollar a fifth whiskey in a plastic bottle was my poison of choice. That expensive shit is corrosive to my leaky finances. Christ I'm glad I don't drink anymore.

It's very presence in the fabric of spacetime causes it to distort (also, remember that the fabric of spacetime would actually be four dimensions rather than the two dimensional analogue in the taut fabric metaphor). The problem is, what exactly is the "fabric" of spacetime? Is it a stuff that...

I'm sure the Neanderthals, if they were capable of such cognition, would have had an aversion to the way homo sapiens behaved - over-hunting, overpopulating, and overusing the natural resources to create their terrible technologies, like the atlatl. My point is, our primate minds seem to be...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism

Barack Obama is a good orator - he successfully convinced a sufficient majority of an entire nation that he was different than other politicians, and even a good portion of the rest of the world cheered his victory (and patted him on the back for nothing more than rhetoric). Not that any of the...

I don't deny that there are general differences in the biology of males and females, but what is seen as masculine and feminine is a societal structure. Women are "supposed" to be more concerned with relationships, yet every guy at my school is on their cell phone talking or texting just as much...

I'm inclined to say 8 as well, but I'm not sure what constitutes a male or female personality (which is mainly why I'm saying 8).

If you have some fabric stretched taught and roll a ball over it, it'll move straight. Now, if you put a heavy weight in the center and roll the ball across near the heavy weight, the indentation caused by the weight will cause the ball to change direction. In the frictionless vacuum of...

Relativity: Graviton:

Electromagnetic radiation is caused by the absorption and emission of photons by electrons (except gamma rays which can come from the nucleus) as they become excited and then fall back into their ground state. The type of electromagnetic radiation that is emitted is dependent on which electron...

I believe I read about it in Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. But also, if we consider E = mc^2 as E/c^2 = m, if we were were to add 1000 joules of potential energy to a spring, its mass would increase by 1000/c^2 or 1.113*10^-14 grams. The same thing happens in atoms during fusion and...

Does something require mass in order for this gravitation to influence it? I'm just wondering how it accounts for mass-less particles like photons. Also, energy effects the gravity of an object - a spring that has been compressed has slightly more gravity than a spring with no pressure, simply...

Best sport ever (to do, not watch) is fishing. Second is ping-pong.

I have found myself unable to cry, for some reason. There have been times when I thought that I probably should, that it may even be advantageous for me to do so, but I can't seem to get myself to actually do it. No matter how badly I feel, trying to cry is sort of like trying to force laughter...

I'm hard pressed to find a lot of INTP's that listen to hip-hop music, and the few that I have seem to listen to just a few mainstream people (except Madoness, who helped me find Aesop Rock's "Music for Earthworms"). I enjoy underground hip-hop that has well thought out lyrics, the sort of shit...

Best song about love ever: [/SPOILER]

Generalizations denote a trend in some commonly held trait or belief in a group of people. Generally speaking, INTP's have a habit of procrastinating; if a poll was taken, the majority of INTP's would report that they procrastinate. A stereotype would be meeting an INTP and because they are an...

I live in Michigan, I'm surrounded by fresh water. Everyone living in deserts, or getting their water from a river, are going to run out and die.

I think INTP's are just as susceptible to corruption, fraud, and evil as anyone else. There are probably already a number of INTP's in a lot of western governments (at least a lot of NT's, I would assume). So, I imagine this thread is more like "what would it be like if the members of this...

s/he?

English 102 Chemistry 103 Biology 101 Math 107 Easy classes, except Chem is a little rough (having taken none of the prerequisites) and my English professor is crazy. Biology 101 is a joke, and I wish I had gone straight to Bio 151 instead of listening to the counselor.

I don't know, I've met some really big women, and on occasion, even a nice guy.