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A great many people suffered in their early years and during those years developed skills that helped them survive or cope with their circumstances. Most of these people eventually get away from their family-of-origin situations but a great many of them do not then learn new skills for dealing...

It's dangerous to draw broad conclusions from very little evidence. Let's say, instead, you know 500 people from each of the 16 types. And, let's say those 8,000 people were from a wide variety of other types (roughly half male, half female, many of each age group, several ethnic backgrounds...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2083761/meet-coinye-west-the-kanyeinspired-bitcoin-alternative-for-normal-folk.html

When I read those pages, though, I feel like Faraday must have when Maxwell sent him papers on the mathematics of electricity and magnetism. I'm sure that the language that I see there is meaningful, but I would really like a translation into simple English. (Then again, from what math I do...

Me either. So... https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/d5d3dc850933 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93DeWitt_equation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_constraint_of_LQG

I agree with Architect's advice. There are, however, probably good jobs available from either the physics or the biology pursuit. However, if your aim is knowledge, then get the job, make your income stream secure, and then get back to acquiring knowledge. I have a graduate degree -- I've...

Thoughts/suggestions... 1) You enjoyed cooking. By itself, that's very important, frankly. It's easy enough for me to go for months without experiencing anything like enjoyment; I don't know about other INTPs, but, finding something that's actually enjoyable is itself a good thing. 2) You...

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A significant number of female-female pairs exist in other animals. Often this facilitates the rearing of young, but not always. In some non-human primates, female-female pairings appear to be for, among other things, pleasure. I don't recall there being all that many male-male pairs in other...

Merry Christmas all. If you're on the same side of the equator as I am, your days are getting longer now as well, and that's something to smile about. Oh, and happy new year while I'm at it. If we were a superstitious lot, we might care more about such things. All of that said, I had a really...

Where is the toilet? Is the room heated? Who pays for the heat? Does the water require a hand-pump? If not, who pays for the electricity and the water? Even cold water isn't free in much of the world (though the cost might be walking through dangerous territory to find a well); who pays to heat...

My wife (not an E or a J) talks all the time. She talks when no one is listening, she talks when no one is home. She talks when she's alone in the car. For her, it's about her Asperger's more than her type. I've learned when to listen to what she's saying, and when to ignore her. I ask her to...

Why? Isn't that a good question here? Why do you want to respond?

Sometimes it's important, sometimes it's not. The circumstances matter.

Negentropy is interesting, I suppose, though Fuller had a tendency to mix philosophy with science in strange ways.

Based on your revealed age in another post, I'd also suggest the possibility that this is one of those things that happens to some people after their 20s. Once you're in your 30s, there's this "I guess I'm in this for the long haul" issue to come to terms with. From birth until about 5, there...

It's even possible that not everything is possible.

From our good friends at Merriam Webster analyze: to study (something) closely and carefully analyze: to learn the nature and relationship of the parts of (something) by a close and careful examination synthesize: to make (something) by combining different things synthesize: to combine...

Good stuff.

We are primates and mammals. We are part of a long line of beings, all of whom had a large measure of their success, as living beings, traced into their genes and brains and biochemistry, and developed along avenues of groups. Lactators had something others did not -- necessary, long-term bonds...

This is a remarkably difficult question, actually. At least, given the ambiguities and the implied meanings. What I suppose is that you mean something like: You believe lots of things. Some of the things you believe are things that you would say you knew if you were asked whether you knew them...

As my father used to say "When you get hungry enough, you'll know what to do."

I am trapped in the equivocation. Which am I supposed to do? A) Describe myself, but do so without using my cognitive functions (this will be a challenge as I rely heavily on my cognitive functions to do things like type on this keyboard). B) Describe myself without describing my cognitive...

It doesn't matter how "an INTP would fare in such a field," it matters how you would fare. And, given your interest, what more are you looking for? Do it.

Awesome.

Alternative paths in education in the US aren't all that hard. A high school student who has had some problems with grades or test scores shouldn't have any trouble getting into a community college. While there, keep your wits about you, get a 4.0 GPA, and then apply to universities after a year...

Lecturer Almost every year, at some point at the end of a semester, a handful of truly grateful students will, after their final exam, approach me, shake my hand, and tell me some variant of "This was the most influential class I've had while studying at a university, thank you so much." This...

Electrons aren't things in the same sense in which macroscopic things are things. And, decay, at the level of radioactivity, is a fishy thing. Energy alters over time.

There are academic fields, such as mathematics, that have "applied" variants (at least, in the US universities, this is how they're described). In philosophy, probably the subfield with the most application is ethics. From biomedical ethics to engineering ethics to jurisprudence to policy, that...

My problem is income, not outgo. With a family to support (two kids, a spouse, two dogs, three cats, a house, 3 acres of land, etc., etc.), I really can't just sit on my ass accepting someone else's generosity as a means of getting by in the world (ah, to be young again). So, I've learned to be...

Occam's razor has long fascinated me. After all, it's a pragmatic rule, and not a logical one. It might be a useful guide for trying to understand the world. Like many other presumptions, once we accept it, we then have to deal with the consequences of having accepted it. I'm a fan of such...

Excellent advice. And, in particular, if you can befriend anyone who, in the context of this, "outranks" you, nurture the relationship. Oh, and, this is great for your character. You'll have war stories later. Most folks I know who work at a fastfood place long enough have excellent grease...

Not so. 1) The opinion of the masses, for instance, isn't necessarily correct. We've gotten this advice many times from philosophers and others. 2) The opinion of some people, in some fields, is vastly more relevant than the opinion of other people on the same topic. (For instance, if I'm...

In the US, there is so much variation from one institution to the next that it's hard to give a reply that is uniform. That said, usually researchers do teach if they work at a university.

http://io9.com/five-of-the-six-papers-published-in-support-of-yesterda-1412267282 Citing Title 17 of the U.S. Code, which states federal works are not subject to copyright protection, Berkeley biologist Michael Eisen decided to make them freely available on his blog. Viva la revolución...

So step outside your specialization, use the fact that you're really good at math to make a bunch of money for an organization that needs mathematicians. I don't see the problem.

Why must philosophy have a use? And, why must it have a use of which you approve?

Arguing from the observed experiences of things moving through air to conjectures about how things might move through space isn't really a very productive analogy. Propagation through air and propagation through space aren't necessarily connected in the ways that are being anticipated here.

I tend to agree with those who are offering support or confidence in you. What I've found is that when I have a high degree of confidence in myself (which usually follows from being assured of my own competence in the field) then I do fine even when when there are unknowns. I don't know about...

Taken out of context, this is a pretty remarkable pair of sentences.

The ones who are better than the others, yes.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/09/10/219372252/the-most-and-least-lucrative-college-majors-in-1-graph

Speaking of 4D, etc. ... I was marveling again the other day at an Escher-esque image and I commented to the one wearing the shirt that one of the marvels is that, normally, we have no problem representing 3D objects with 3D images -- televisions, photographs, etc. However, it is possible to...

Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure. A. P. CHEKHOV The Cherry Orchard 1 FROM THE NURSERY When I was born, you waited behind a pile of linen in the nursery, and when we were...

I agree. In the early 20th century, some primatologists took mother chimps and their babies out of the wild and brought them into steel-and-glass cages to study how "mothering behaviors" worked. One doesn't understand how a mother chimp mothers her offspring by taking the mother and her...

This is an interesting little video that hooks tangentially into what you're getting at. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc Also, you are saying many of the same things Kierkegaard was interested in. And, your writing skills are fine.

This: http://www.thepathfinderchronicles.com/2013/08/plays-as-good-as-it-reads.html?m=1

I've experienced the deaths of others and the grief of that many, many times. The stages of grief are generally apt and accurate. That said, as was pointed out above, often the experience isn't in the order listed. Further, and this is important, grief comes back. Even if you've worked through...

You are the only thing that exists.

This has happened to me my whole life. In my mid-40s, it continues to happen. Sometimes I engage it intentionally, but, not usually.