Heh...hey there, Failed Cakes... That's in the same family [though yours is for math-savvy, mine is for math-stupified] as [a true story I think I've posted before]... Me and my best bud in math class [roughly, with other stuff excluded]: Teacher: So three factorial is written 3! Us: nah, that's TH...

Like the recent pair of experiments where they trained people to be synesthetic...and after a while [ ], the people had GLOBAL intelligence increases...which lasted for months afterward for those who stopped training...and continued to increase [though more slowly] for all those who kept training. ...

There have been a handful of documented instances of cranial trauma causing savant abilities, but most savants are born that way. Cranial trauma has also caused people to have different personalities--sometimes even different memories--and in at least one case the person now spoke a foreign languag...

at least some thought must be given to the (metaphorical) mechanics at work behind all of this. I once heard something of the nature that, in order to believe an account of the miraculous, one had to establish in ones mind whether the teller (assuming them to be of sound mind, granted) would have m...

This could have gone a lot of places, but I liked this thread and it's pertinent in any number of ways to peter's original questions... I'd never come across this before, which seems strange... Anyway, check it out if you have an interest is how we might get from quantum to cosmos without [perhaps]...

To put some flesh on the bones; life as emergent not perhaps from matter per se, but from the arrangement of matter. Emergent from arrangement of the the ninety two plus or minus alphabet of elements, comparable with the emergence of meaning from the twenty six letters of our alphabet with arrangem...

Random thought; life/animacy viewed as an emergent behavioural property of matter? Yes, very much that in play. If you have a space with 2 hydrogen and an oxygen, but they're separated, they act in specific ways as you pump energy in and out. [they actually fluctuate all by themselves, too, or cour...

I dont get any of this at all ... frames of references etc. Frames aren't hard. [[though there ARE frames that aren't "real"....they're built from definitions and such so we can talk about things, solve particular problems...there are real, instantiated frames, too. Rules, causes, effects...

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me... Doesn't really matter. Whatever you call it, not being inside life is being dead. The only way I would concede the argument is if my consciousness remained intact, aware and active after the physica...

"Tell me what life is . Not what it does, but what it is ." (Ditto for energy, though I grant there are {or maybe}differences). This relates to several discussion in several thread and my position in such... It's, in many ways, Kantian "thing itself"-ish. [but not entirely that]...

Chaos systems are not actually chaotic. Tautologically speaking, chaotic systems are, in fact, chaotic. As it was originally defined, however, (not by the Greeks, I mean) chaos is the sensitivity of open/dynamic systems to changes in initial conditions. They're deterministic and can be modeled give...

. it bears no more relationship to the state of affairs than say your imagining being in India has to actually being in India. But, dude...my imagining being in India DOES have a relationship with the state of affairs of being in India. How close, accurate, useful, effective/affective the relations...

LOW QUALITY SCIENCE JOKE ALERT: The interesting thing that emerged from this work was that by multiplying the entire equation by distance (D), I realised the following: https://i.postimg.cc/sfpCMh2G/std.jpg Biologists among you will be pleased to know that the terrible itches that have blighted so ...

but surely the hugely larger amount of available heat-energy per unit contact area in the case of water is bound to be a factor here? The water contacting your body absorbs heat from you but then it passes the heat on to the water next to it, ad infinitum. It's infinite regardless of the medium. In...

And yes there are tonnes of shit thatll kill ya or aint great or good for you .. I mean tonnes of stuff And you're probably underestimating. In U.S. food, [food only, it's worse for other products] not even 1/3rd of chemicals have been tested at all. Of the third that have been "tested," ...

Yet it is an intriguing possibility V ... is the explanation below flawed? If so, how so? Any event in the universe occurs as a point in space and time, or spacetime. A massive object such as the Sun distorts or curves spacetime, like a bowling ball sitting on a canvas. The Suns gravitational dent ...

I appreciate the analogy, not because it is what I meant, but because I can at least follow the path of inference that led you to make it, and it makes sense, AND it's a smooth move to bring music back into the thread about music. Of course math has order. And any ordered system will be describable...

First, kudos to Z...I don't know how it happened considering how much I read on this kind of shit, but I had never seen anyone talking about torsion on the grand scale like that. Considering what we've seen lately in actual measurements, I'd guess clues/info about it MUST be in the data somewhere.....

while it might take a while for 50 degrees C air to overheat you, water at 50 degrees C should do it far quicker. There is the flipped vector of that, too. You can live outside in air of 60-70 degrees totally naked and comfortable. But extended immersion in water of 60 [obviously I'm using Farenhei...

mmm.. interesting .. ok so all black holes eventually disperse. Maybe thats how things resolve naturally .. universal pockets contract .. matter collides and falls into higher density pockets In reality isnt understanding the best we got? But you say that we cant exist beyond or outside the laws of...