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fun with graphs219:22, 31 July 2012
keleman422:02, 25 July 2012
Reductionism... erm, redux!214:58, 22 July 2012
Pathetic322:19, 19 July 2012
Why do you make stuff up?1120:11, 18 July 2012
Dawkins and gender politics217:29, 15 July 2012
Everybody, look here!401:35, 14 July 2012
Foxnews 10 tips to spice up your sex life.1821:05, 13 July 2012
"better than"321:00, 11 July 2012
Solipsism116:40, 7 July 2012
e-mail202:35, 4 July 2012
You've probably read this already022:21, 23 June 2012
Greece322:54, 22 June 2012
I'm sure there were goats in Babylon405:52, 20 June 2012
''Psychology Today''416:18, 19 June 2012
PUI: Philosophizing Under the Influence119:44, 18 June 2012
50 shades of Grey1314:07, 7 June 2012
Arty propaganda!1603:22, 4 June 2012
Book reviews816:26, 3 June 2012
Just whining about being old617:00, 31 May 2012
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fun with graphs

http://griffsgraphs.com/2012/07/03/graphing-every-idea-in-history/

And i'm never I using a phone to post here ever again....

Scarlet A.pnggnostic14:44, 30 July 2012

File under "unnecessary but awesome."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)22:29, 30 July 2012

Wow, looks like I should start reading some Nietzsche.

Picon small.pngLiquid Blue19:22, 31 July 2012
 
 

Thanks for that reference. I'd run across one of his (her?) papers a few years back but have never been able to remember the name to follow up! His (or her) two earlier papers, cited in your article are the ones i wanted to read. mucho thankso.

Green mowse.pngGodotWhat is your fucking defense of automatic guns, again?20:12, 25 July 2012

No problem -- I didn't even know you were looking for it. Check out her earlier paper on "intuitive theism" for the role of teleology in the context of other cognitive mechanisms.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:48, 25 July 2012

I didn't either, till i read your comment on that threat and said "oh my god, that's the author!" heh. Jesus you must read 24 hours a day.  ;-)

Green mowse.pngGodotWhat is your fucking defense of automatic guns, again?21:04, 25 July 2012

They call it "grad school."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)21:30, 25 July 2012

Wait, I recall this term. but reading doesn't seem to come to mind. I am picturing glasses of liquid, and perhaps too many naked bodies, and bad british reruns. I must have the wrong term in mind. hummm "ga-ra-d sk-ol". hum

Green mowse.pngGodotWhat is your fucking defense of automatic guns, again?22:02, 25 July 2012
 
 
 
 

Reductionism... erm, redux!

Obviously interesting work from the field of computational biology but I do think it'll attract some Gold Standard comments. For example:

I do not think it is necessary to predict the final shape of a protein from its amino acid sequence. It is sufficient merely to encode all the rules amino acids follow and let the resulting protein form by running the model.

Which is why comp-sci students need to learn more biology.

Scarlet A.pngmoral09:57, 21 July 2012

Wonder how far off we are from scaling up models like this for more complex organisms. The formula might be worked out by multiplying the estimates from the Singularitarians by the number of times they've failed to predict said advances.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)14:32, 21 July 2012

From what I can gather, it seems to be more like manipulating numbers in a database representing the chemical reactions, rather than a full simulation. In which case I "simulate" chemical reactions in Excel all the time.

Scarlet A.pnggnostic14:58, 22 July 2012
 
 

So you really can't either recant your assertion or back it up? Asinine moron.

Baloney Detection (talk)21:48, 19 July 2012

Seriously, go outside or something. Take a break for a while. If you're just going to troll me for not agreeing with you 100% about the "Yuddite" cult, I'm just going to delete any messages you post on this talk page from here on out.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)22:10, 19 July 2012

A red herring and a strawman. Impressive.

Baloney Detection (talk)22:11, 19 July 2012

Here, I made a sandbox for you to play in. Don't bother with my talk page as further trolling will be moved there anyway.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)22:19, 19 July 2012
 
 
 

Why do you make stuff up?

You claim I said you was in the "Yudkowsky cult" (your words, mind you), yet I never said anything like that. Why then did you claim that I did?--Baloney Detection (talk) 18:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Baloney Detection (talk)18:25, 17 July 2012

Making stuff up is what I do best.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:44, 18 July 2012

So you are not going to either back up or recant your assertion?

Baloney Detection (talk)17:48, 18 July 2012

Oh, please. You and the rest of the new anti-LW crew have spent almost all your time here not-so-subtly insinuating that there's some kind of "Yuddite" cabal around here. The obsessive fixation with LW almost makes me want to give my life savings to SIAI! Now where's my credit card?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:00, 18 July 2012

Don't try to change the subject. You asserted that I made an specific claim. You should either back up your assertion or recant it.

Baloney Detection (talk)18:16, 18 July 2012

Are you really going to keep pushing this? If I said something blew my socks off, would you want me to prove that my socks literally flew off my feet?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:33, 18 July 2012
 

The Cabal rises. and wants to make synthetic brains! or something.

Green mowse.pngGodotQu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons18:22, 18 July 2012

Back to schoolyard logic are we?

Baloney Detection (talk)18:26, 18 July 2012
 
 
 
 
 

Dawkins and gender politics

I appreciate the attempt to fix the write-up, but the description of the context still sucks. :( It would be nice to have an article on Elevatorgate, and I have some ideas in that direction, but it will require quite a lot of time and effort, which I don't have. :( Another problem is that a lot of the source material probably got deleted in the National Geographic take-over of Science Blogs.

ZooGuard (talk)05:50, 14 July 2012

I just flicked it back so there wasn't nothing at all in the article on it. I do think it goes into rather excruciating detail for a bout of internet drama, though.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:01, 15 July 2012

Ha, my dream Elevatorgate article would make the unfinished one on Comet Elenin look short. :) It's a divisive issue "in the community" and there's still chance to turn some people in the right direction with a good ol' exposition of the facts. A lot of the problem with it is that people are hearing only abbreviated versions that play on their prejudices. So, an article, or at least an Essay, is sorely needed.

ZooGuard (talk)17:29, 15 July 2012
 
 

Everybody, look here!

Finally, an example of doing it right. Congratulations, Nebuchadnezzar.

"Shut up, Brx."23:48, 13 July 2012

Ooh, do I get a cookie??

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)23:49, 13 July 2012

Not if that's a BDSM metaphor...


Kidding. Do jokes like that offend you? Do you get unwanted attention and commentary for this particular preference of yours?

Sorry, it's just that everytime I think User:Nebuchadnezzar of RationalWiki, I think "neuroscience, writes great articles, BDSM"


Call it latent bigotry I've yet to eliminate.

"Shut up, Brx."23:53, 13 July 2012

Not if it's a good joke. That one wasn't. Try harder next time.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:11, 14 July 2012
 

How dare you insert actual science. Actually, how dare you. How very dare you!

Scarlet A.pnggnostic01:35, 14 July 2012
 
 

Foxnews 10 tips to spice up your sex life.

Edited by another user.
Last edit: 18:48, 13 July 2012

and yes, it really is for real. really.

[1]

Green mowse.pngGodotToilet paper bondage22:13, 12 July 2012

Just got finished reading that. Holy crap.

AceThe Rep Grows Bigger22:36, 12 July 2012

When did, frankly, scary amounts of passive aggressiveness become sexy?

Revolverman (talk)23:06, 12 July 2012

When did pretending you watched someone take a shit become sexy? If my wife did that I'd say "You're fucking sick, woman. Get some fucking help."

AceThe Rep Grows Bigger23:09, 12 July 2012

God, at least if you are going to do it - actually DO it. course, by the time you've been married long enough, you've seen it. like it or not.

Green mowse.pngGodotToilet paper bondage23:48, 12 July 2012
 
 
 

There's also the Men's Health version if you haven't seen it yet (a follow-up to the analogous article charting Cosmo's lunacy). They're odd, very odd, in a very different way to Cosmo but I can't quite put my finger on why.

Scarlet A.pngd hominem10:34, 13 July 2012

Is it supposed to be about sex or a chemistry experiment?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:50, 13 July 2012

The men's articles have a bit of the pick up artist feel to them. "all women are a game. your job is to decipher the game". there's also the sense that everything is about the sex and just the sex, and not even the enjoyment of the sex. just getting to the sex.

"dip your willy into nutella". why??? dear god, why??? i don't want dick flavored nutella.

Green mowse.pngGodotQu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons16:56, 13 July 2012

Maybe they think women are like dogs that don't want to take their medicine, so they cover the 'pill' in peanut butter to disguise it.

±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRlongissimus non legeri17:01, 13 July 2012
 

Men have to spread their seed as fast and as far as possible. No time for actually enjoying sex when there's a job to do.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:04, 13 July 2012
 

I know, nutella is awful.

Scarlet A.pnggnostic19:42, 13 July 2012
 

"Pop your chap in a jar of Nutella, then present it to your lady. Be rewarded with a very enthusiastic blowjob." You might not be. Sounds a lot like when a cat drags in a dead rodent to present to its owner, expecting some kind of reward.

 
 
 

We had a teacher in high school who would pick up every piece of change and someone pulled the old "glue a penny to the floor" trick on him once. I guess Fox would consider that foreplay.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:40, 13 July 2012

if you're 7, sure.

Green mowse.pngGodotQu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons17:08, 13 July 2012

Hey now, let's keep it legal, okay?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:12, 13 July 2012

When boys picked on girls in the 1-5th grades, we were told it was "cause he likes you". I never believed that.

YOu all just liked picking on us, right?

Green mowse.pngGodotQu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons17:15, 13 July 2012

Fairly sure it's because they're super reinforced to like 'boy things' -> girl things are taboo -> therefore being girly is icky -> make fun of girls.

But that just might be my inner feminist grumbling.

±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRlongissimus non legeri17:37, 13 July 2012
 

There's a good blog post on the "because he likes you trope". I think the author concluded that they were going to instruct their daughter to give as good as she got in that sort of situation.

Scarlet A.pngpathetic21:05, 13 July 2012
 
 
 
 
 

I was reading a post on anti-islam and/or anti theism, and the anti-islam (pro rational) guy had summarized and simplified Islam into "Islam is what is found in the Qu'ran, and that is what I was attacking. If you are Islamic, you believe this, and it's not scientific" or some such.

I'm truly bothered by the idea of re scripting religion, or really any ideology (conservatism via the CPs of the world, as example) then attacking that strawman. And the reason it bothers me is actually cause to me it seems like these people are getting their self-value from being "better" than others. "god, you are so stupid cause you believe in a god".

I fully get why we attack pseudo-science, or bad medicine, or even political lies. those deserve to be stricken from available options. But I don't get why anyone cares if an unkonwn woman (who can afford it and has no serious medical issues), buys a bracelet of magnets to make her mood feel better or reads tarot cards. why does it make these people feel bigger/better to point out other people's "stupidty".

Green mowse.pngGodotToilet paper bondage20:33, 11 July 2012

Answered your own question: "...these people are getting their self-value from being "better" than others." Now, let's write some articles ripping on cranks!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:37, 11 July 2012
 

As most of the major skeptical writers will say, the issue is that if someone buys a magnetic bracelet to feel better and then feels better, they'll assume there must be something to it. So when it comes to buying the magnetic bracelet to cure their kid of leukaemia there must be something to it, so it must be able to help.

I don't advocate attacking the indiviudal, though. It always has to be the idea. "This is why the bracelet doesn't work" not "this is why you're an irrational fool for buying it".

Scarlet A.pngnarchist20:52, 11 July 2012

I get that. that's why I get this site, and enjoy it. I don't get the need to feel superior.

I read things like CP posts, here, and watch how many people take delight at how stupid, or ignorant, or insane the CPers are. They delight in pointing out the littlest of problems. and that's what I see on some of these pages on facebook. It's not about the ideas, it's about the *making fun* of the people who believe the ideas.

Green mowse.pngGodotToilet paper bondage21:00, 11 July 2012
 
 

What do you think about death as a possible refutation of solipsism? Would it even count since you couldn't share it with anyone?

Sam Tally-ho!21:14, 6 July 2012

Presumably, everything would disappear. It's one of the weaker workarounds for solipsism.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:40, 7 July 2012
 

You has.

Lobster 11.jpgtalk03:31, 20 June 2012

you has more.

Green mowse.pngGodotFire! Fire! Fire! (please send spare firefighters)01:46, 4 July 2012

Replied.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)02:35, 4 July 2012
 
 

You've probably read this already

But in the off chance you have not: [1]

Тytalk22:21, 23 June 2012

Want to help? Heard that you're a bit of an expert on this.

Osaka Sun (talk)15:03, 21 June 2012

Not really -- from the looks of it you know more than I do. At least after writing the article.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:06, 21 June 2012
 

All right, I added a section on Greece-baiting#The issue of monetary sovereignty.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:21, 21 June 2012

I added a bunch of things to that, thanks. :)

Osaka Sun (talk)22:54, 22 June 2012
 
 

I'm sure there were goats in Babylon

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sterileGoatsforSterile.svgno new information05:11, 19 June 2012

Sir, this talk page is not an authorized free speech zone. Please remove all political paraphernalia from the site at once.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:52, 19 June 2012

I gotta permit

sterileGoatsforSterile.svgno new information13:43, 19 June 2012

Has it been approved by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:13, 19 June 2012

Of course. The FBI, however....

sterileGoatsforSterile.svgno new information05:52, 20 June 2012
 
 
 
 

''Psychology Today''

Do you think it deserves an article? In addition to Satoshi Kanazawa, they are also the home to this fact-challenged blowhard, and they have also published a credulous article on Morgellons in 2007

ZooGuard (talk)20:02, 18 June 2012

Pseudopsychology Today? Probably. You haven't even scratched the surface there, really. The problem is that PT has hundreds of blogs (many of which don't last more than a few months) with very little editorial oversight or quality control. This results in it being a very mixed bag, albeit with a signal-to-bullshit ratio that's tilted toward the bullshit end of the spectrum. They have an affinity for pop-psych BS and have jumped heavily on the pop evo psych bandwagon, though. In addition Kanazawa, there's also Ogi Ogas of Survey Fail fame and Gad Saad. There are also a lot of good articles that are accessible to the layperson and they even carried some skeptical blogs like Massimo Pigliucci for some time. So I'd say go for it, if you want to, but it'll probably be a bit of a job with the diverse array of woo they promote.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:23, 18 June 2012

I think I'll pass - as usually, I don't have much free time at the moment. Anyway, there's a guy called Gad Saad? O_o (It's the same in most Slavic languages.)

ZooGuard (talk)20:34, 18 June 2012
 

And apparently there are actual scholarly sources for its decay :D (via):

The primary popular magazine whose title contains the word psychology, “Psychology Today, has a readership of more than 3 million people. Initiated in 1967, its early issues featured scientifically grounded and entertaining articles by eminent research psychologists, including Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo, Nathan Azrin, Hans Eysenck, and David Lykken. Yet beginning in the 1970s and extending into the 1980s, Psychology Today shifted in content and style to appeal to a more general audience, featuring articles on such pop psychology topics as love, relationships, work, and happiness, most of them written by NON-EXPERTS from a largely NON-SCIENTIFIC perspective (Benjamin & Bryant, 1997). Despite a brief and ill-fated attempt by the APA to rehabilitate the magazine in 1983, Psychology Today’s LACK OF SCIENTIFIC RIGOR PERSISTS TODAY.” --Scott O. Lilienfeld. American Psychologist, Volume 67, No.2, “Public Skepticism of Psychology: Why Many People Perceive the Study of Human Behavior as Unscientific”, pg. 119.
ZooGuard (talk)09:01, 19 June 2012

Heh, nice find. Lilienfeld has also co-authored a great book on pop psych.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:18, 19 June 2012
 
 
 

PUI: Philosophizing Under the Influence

Intro to Philosophy class + marijuana = GENIUS! (Bonus: now with its own Kickstarter project!)

Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope09:02, 18 June 2012

I can't tell if this is serious or a meta-ironic project by some art student. And I don't know which of the two would be worse.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:44, 18 June 2012
 

50 shades of Grey

What the fuck is with women, specifically house wife/stay at home mom types, and this dumb as shit book. The writing is as bad as Twilight (it started as twilight fan fic, in fact), and the bdsm is trite. The eroticism is "oh yes. fuck me there. yes. that is good. i like to be fucked and spanked. yes. please. oh. oh. this is nice. i am aroused. I am turned on.".

Cyan mowse 2.pngGodot01:13, 23 April 2012

What the heck kind of sex scene were you expecting from fanfiction? That's about as good as it ever gets.

Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope01:28, 23 April 2012
 

Oh, it was a Twilight fanfic? Everything makes so much sense now. You have to remember that the vanilla types have never come into contact with anything as kinky as this "spanking" stuff before. Not that there's anything wrong with being vanilla, of course. Except when they take pictures of themselves doing absolutely disgusting things like having missionary sex with no ropes or whips and then post it all over the internet and shove it down our throats in banner ads. You know what, vanillas just make me sick!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)01:57, 23 April 2012

Proper response to this bullshit here.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)02:11, 23 April 2012

The thing about this "escaping from responsibility" thing is that you only ever hear it from the dom/mes... isn't it more likely that the clientele of outspoken dominatrices are high-flying rich men ("hey, we have judges, lawyers and rich businessmen!") because they are the ones that can afford $600 per hour, rather than this is what the occupation causes them to want? I'm not convinced that this sort of "release" thing is anywhere near a proper explanation.

Scarlet A.pngsshole08:20, 23 April 2012

It could be true, but only in some cases for the reason you suggest. Any "explanation" will necessarily involve gratuitious amounts of intellectual masturbation, as even basic demographic statistics of BDSM practitioners are either non-existent or drawn from extremely biased samples.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:17, 23 April 2012

There is one easy answer. "it fucking feels good, and that's all that matters".  ;-)

Cyan mowse 2.pngGodot19:41, 23 April 2012
 

All sexual studies draw from one selection bias to the other. Hell, this is why we can't answer the question "what percentage of the population is actually gay?" - and of course, not least because defining "gay" for this purpose is a clusterfuck. Hence why LGBT groups say it's in the range of 10-15% but an ONS survey recently came out with 3%. Fuckin' statistics...

But in any case, here is a complete list of people I know with submissive tendencies and high-power high-responsibility jobs:

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Scarlet A.pngbomination09:08, 24 April 2012
 
 
 
 

In the style of Gilbert Gottfried

Scarlet A.pngmoral13:43, 7 June 2012

It's possible gottfried made it better!

Green mowse.pngGodotWhen I graduated, Cognative Science of Religion didn't even exist! now it's everywhere13:51, 7 June 2012

Though this does mean my circle of friends now go around shouting "MY CLIT-TORR-US!!!" at each other...

Scarlet A.pngsshole14:07, 7 June 2012
 
 
 

Arty propaganda!

Thought you might like these: this painter may have undeniable talent, but the paintings he makes are overdramatic, cornball propaganda at its finest.

Also, he's trying way to hard to layer on the symbolism. Isn't it enough to just have Jesus handing America the Constitution? Do you really need to label and explain all the background people, too?

Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope05:49, 23 February 2012

Oh not this guy... it makes me cry each time I see it.

Scarlet A.pngpostate10:42, 23 February 2012
 

Awesome! I had seen the first one before, but not the Jesus one.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)15:44, 23 February 2012

Oh yeah

Scarlet A.pnggnostic19:26, 23 February 2012

Had to be done.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:28, 23 February 2012

Also check the reworded one: "We couldn't have two black people next to each other, that would be a mob"

But seriously, this guy seems radically unhinged for someone who knows his way around a paintbrush.

Scarlet A.pngbomination20:07, 23 February 2012

the "forgotten man" is revisionist history at it's finest. all these corporate shills turning to "help" the guy, but "socialists" like Rossevelt turning away.

IN WHAT FUCKING WORLD??/

Pink mowse.pngGodotGrow a vagina22:11, 23 February 2012
 

Statement to the effect that all artists are insane.

Тysic semper00:52, 24 February 2012
 
 
 
 

A $4,000 update on the state of conservative propaganda art.

Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope02:17, 4 June 2012
 

I may actually get one done. Political Zoo by Savage good you think?

ТyrannisPlead15:13, 3 June 2012

No idea, I've never actually read/listened to any Savage for more than about five seconds or so. You were supposed to do the new Matt Ridley book anyway -- I want to see if he's out-Lomborged Lomborg.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)15:23, 3 June 2012

Okay, I'll dust the book off and give it a shot.

ТyrannisPlead15:25, 3 June 2012

Handy link for tracking when I am posting and all that [1]

ТyrannisPlead15:34, 3 June 2012

Endorsement by Pinker, not too surprising. But James Watson? I guess he has gotten a bit wingnutty in recent times.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)15:45, 3 June 2012

I'll try and get the prologue done by this evening, and maybe the first chapter as well, got to move stuff today.

ТyrannisPlead15:48, 3 June 2012
 
 
 
 
 

Just whining about being old

Every article you've given me today had the words "cognitive science of religion". You know, I do not think that was even a concept when I graduated. It's what I was interested in, but we didn't really have any useful technology then. I think the MRI is mostly a 90s tool in cognitive science, and the rMRI even a "00"s tool.

I was / am seriously contemplating going back to school for "study of mind" issues: language, religion and cognition in general, but I worry I couldn't hack the science that would have to be part of preparing. Lots of A&P, but also crap like physics and chemistry, and celluar chemistry and crap.

Green mowse.pngGodotWhen I graduated, Cognative Science of Religion didn't even exist! now it's everywhere01:58, 31 May 2012

And by the way, it amazes me how much one tool has revolutionized "mind" studies (vs. brain studies) so much. I assume equal discovries in physics, and space and shit are equally revolutionizing. There is more to learn, to study, than we can ever have time to do, adn we just keep inventing things to go deeper, farther, smaller, larger, etc.

humans and science be stud muffins!

Green mowse.pngGodotWhen I graduated, Cognative Science of Religion didn't even exist! now it's everywhere02:01, 31 May 2012

There's a lot of neuro-hype surrounding fMRI scans, though. (Look at the pretty brain pictures!) As Jerry Fodor once said: "It’s been clear for a while now that mental processes occur north of the neck. The rest is a sort of biological bookkeeping."

It is true, though, that one of the big problems with early cognitive models is that they ignored the brain (in the earliest cases, this wasn't really a choice, though, so much as a result of cognitive neuroscience not existing). After Damasio, it's a travesty that an emotional component is still absent from so many cognitive architectures -- though that's beginning to change.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)02:49, 31 May 2012
 

In the research I've been doing, the earliest work I found that might be called "cognitive science of religion (CSR)" is Guthrie's 1993 book. Use of the term doesn't seem to appear until around the early 2000s, though.

What's A&P? (I'm guessing nothing to do with this.) It's not an incredibly science heavy field, but you need to have a decent grounding in bio/neuroscience and definitely stats. Some upper level psych courses are almost entirely stats. Possibly some comp sci. Depends on what school you go to, though.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)02:16, 31 May 2012

I'd either stay in colorado, or do it in france. A&P is anatomy and physiology. I'm gussing you kinda need more knowledge about how brain works, in ways I didn't really get in my undergrad classes. ;-)

The reality is it's been nearly 20 years since i sat in class, and much longer since it was general ed/general science. oh well. it might be a pipe dream anyhow, as it's so costly now to go to school. I paid 1100 per semester, at CU, and now it's up to nearly 7800 just for classes. sheesh.

Green mowse.pngGodotWhen I graduated, Cognative Science of Religion didn't even exist! now it's everywhere02:55, 31 May 2012
 

But when we get hyperpolarised MRI working we'll revolutionise the whole field of cognitive science by tracking individual cells and specific chemical uptake within the brain.

Or at least, that's what I tell the people who are paying for it.

Scarlet A.pngsshole16:48, 31 May 2012

It really is an amazing tool, if you understand the limits of it. I've seen studies on depression, that show (in conjunction with normal cat and mri) that the hypothalamus is smaller in some 75% of depressive people, and that "anti depressants" will increase the size of it. (Meditation actually does the same thing, surprisingly).

I also like watching the differences seen, somewhat regularly, between people who are reading a text, people who are asked to make something up, people who are asked to relate a true story as far as they know it, and people who are asked to solve math or logical problems and "talk" at the same time.

Those are some amazing things. so prelimiary, of course, but it does show that different parts of the brain assist in each of those different activities. ie "talking" is not just one part of the brain, and "thinking" can engage a whole host of differences across the "type" of thinking.

I would like to see a really trust worthy study of how women and men's brains work. I do think we are biologically different in the head, just cause the hormones running in our body HAVE to do something, even if a tiny something.

Green mowse.pngGodotWhen I graduated, Cognative Science of Religion didn't even exist! now it's everywhere17:00, 31 May 2012
 
 
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