I agree, although it would be kinda tricky to grade.
I'll digress a little: I remember a talk by Ramchandran on how teaching humor and various forms of lateral thinking could have greatly helped children developping their intelligence.
School could be pretty interesting in the future decades.
I'm not even sure this is the right place for this thread, but I wanted to know what are your opinions on the recent findings on the effects of meditation.
I'll post the wikipedia link instead of looking for a nice looking catalogue out of sheer laziness: Research on meditation - Wikipedia, the...
As far as I'm concerned, the meaning of words isn't set in stone: atheism can be used to mean both the lack of a belief on the matter or the belief (without claiming certainty) that god doesn't exist.
The Britannica and the Webster both report the "who denies the existence of any god" definition...
John Templeton Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's not the best source on the issue as the article appears to have been created by two equally biased factions, but it shoud give anyone interested a general idea of the subject.
I first heard of it because of some criticism about...
While I do believe conscious experiece to be the result of a natural process, at the moment we still have no idea of what said process is.
Here is a rather incomplete explanation: we see a red figure. We do so because the light bounces on the figure and stimulates our eyes in such way that...
I agree we don't yet know enough to draw any conclusion. Personally, while I consider Dennet's viewpoint perfectly reasonable, I wasn't convinced by his arguments:
I feel as if he redefined consciousness in a way that allowed him to ignore the problem instead of demonstrating it doesn't exist.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In short: how and why does subjective experience arise? Is it reducible to known physics or are we missing some piece of the puzzle?
As an atheist, I'm surprised from how many of my ilk react when the subject is mentioned. I...
Could someone explain me Gödel's incompleteness theorem in the simplest possible terms? I'm not very competent in math, but I'm interested in the implications it ssems to have for the human mind.
I nearly had a stroke reading the second article when I saw the name of the girl is Linnea - I know it must be a name as common as mary up there, but for a second I thought it had to be a swedish girl I knew with that same name. I can't imagine what her and her family are going through...
Everytime I've had direct knowledge of something reported on a paper I've found it to have been distorted beyond the breaking point. This story, sadly, is far from incredible and if true the principal deserves everything the law can throw at him - however, passing judgement without hearing every...
One doesn't need to have experienced someone's exact same experience to relate to his feelings - if that was the case, nobody would be able to feel any empathy at all.
Sure, I cannot claim to have perfect understanding of what a suicide is feeling, but the same applies to every single experience...
I'm not sure I would qualify this as paranormal since it's farly legitimate science but here I go: Retrocausality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basically, on a quantum scale, future events could influence past ones.
Thoughts?
It's quite the contrary in my case. I tend to be more outspoken in RL, mostly because I can make my point more clearly and quickly. For example, in real life I would have probaly stated that people are themselves only when wearing a mask, even though I don't personally believe it, just to enjoy...
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
Do you think this is the case? Would people choose to behave like this in RL if they could?
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
-The tower of the elephant (1933)
Now apply this line of thought to the net.
No consequences whatsoever for what you say + audience + anonimity =...