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| Viergacht | Jan 25 2009, 03:58 PM Post #31 |
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Oh yeah, understood. I find it interesting because it's such a new field. Seems like there's a lot of interesting work still to be done. |
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| Paralith | Jan 25 2009, 05:41 PM Post #32 |
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I don't really respect classical psychology, either - without a link to the actual biology behind our minds, it all seems very arbitrary to me. I definitely prefer evolutionary psychology much more, because it's based on the evolution of behavior, something that can really be studied and tested and lead to the formation of greater explanatory theory. It's definitely an exciting field, and I feel I understand why humans do what they do much better because of it. |
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| lamna | Jan 25 2009, 06:04 PM Post #33 |
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I find a lot of it to be nonsense. Like the thing where it says weapons like missiles and guns are used by men to compensate for having small cocks. That's just the most aerodynamic shape, vagina shaped rockets would be useless. But I think that is more man-hating feminist argument than actually psychology. You know the kind I mean the ones who don't care about female circumcision or Sharia law's attitude to women. The ones who bitch about a man getting a job over a woman because he is more qualified. For me a science should be about stuff, and if evolutionary psychology is about brain too then it is more acceptable and understandable to me. |
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| Viergacht | Jan 25 2009, 09:13 PM Post #34 |
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If you've read something like that, I don't think you're reading something very good. A lot of that sort of thing is just-so storytelling. You need to make sure what you're reading is backed up by good solid science. |
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| mnidjm | Jan 27 2009, 02:51 PM Post #35 |
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| Rodge the Linkbot | Jan 27 2009, 06:39 PM Post #36 |
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Physics, mostly the newer theoretical stuff. Evolutionary biology and I'm starting to like quantum biology. Psychology and sociology. Just because my suckiness with math is rarely ever noticed. I like that. |
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| lamna | Jan 27 2009, 07:07 PM Post #37 |
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Quantum biology? |
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| Rodge the Linkbot | Jan 27 2009, 07:23 PM Post #38 |
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Yeah, it's not really it's own science yet but it's getting there. Basically, it's the study of how an organism's biology work at the Quantum scale. For example, the sense of smell works partially on Quantum Wave-Collapse. You see, smell usually is explained to us as molecules fitting into their respected holes and that's how we smell them, but it's WAY more complicated. Many molecules would fit into the same hole and be completely different, once they are observed by a nerve they under go a wave function collapse and our nerves know what smell to tell our brain it is. I know, sounds compllicated, I don't even understand it like that, but it's basically this: Molecule goes into the hole, wave-funtion collapse happens, then we know what it is. The problem with this science is we can't oberve it happening since all our current methods to study quantum behavior involve super cooling the subject, which would kill anything alive so we can't study it. So we have to observe the phenomena outside the animal/plant, while someone else finds something in biology that's missing, and we all hope it fits. So until we find a way to observe it inside the organism, it really won't be much of a science. We were only able to do this once with plants using loads of lasers and masers and I don't know what all just get how light functions in a chloroplast. |
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| Paralith | Jan 27 2009, 11:54 PM Post #39 |
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It would be if you ever got into the subjects seriously. Statistical analysis is essential to research in any area, but is particularly prevalent in these subjects. |
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| Xenophile | May 14 2009, 10:08 PM Post #40 |
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Formerly known as alienboy.
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Astrobiology, and in the future, Exobiology.
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| Ànraich | Jun 2 2009, 10:18 PM Post #41 |
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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I have to say that recently my interests have turned back to computer science. Sure, some of the more advanced stuff requires an incredible understanding of some advanced mathematical concepts such as algorithms and advanced matrices, but most of it is mainly plain simple logic. Plus, the math you do need for a good understanding of computers is really the only math that makes much sense to me and that I'm good at, so that's helpful. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| seascorpion | Sep 11 2009, 03:34 AM Post #42 |
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paleontology hands down, this makes my predictions not as accurate every time as you people, as my predictions are based on what has happened in similar situations in the paleozoic, mesazoic and cenazoic, so bear with me |
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| Ànraich | Sep 11 2009, 11:02 PM Post #43 |
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I've changed a bit more again. I like computers, but they're more of a hobby than anything else now that I look at it. I've really gotten into biology again, particularly astrobiology/exobiology. And now that I'm taking a class in it, I'm very much enjoying physics. I've never really like math before, but I enjoy doing the math in physics; it's not pure math, which throws me off. It's something I can visualize and it's cool that I can use math to describe the movement of a ball down an inclined plane. I'd very much like to major in a biology field and minor in physics. Or at least take some physics classes. I once wanted to become a game programmer, but looking at that decision closer, I realize that while I may have many great ideas for video games, I don't want to spend my life making them a reality. I can just as easily make them myself, if at all. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Iowanic | Sep 23 2009, 08:37 PM Post #44 |
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I've found geology rocks. |
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| Ànraich | Sep 24 2009, 03:54 PM Post #45 |
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I hate you so much right now. Puns? Really? The lowliest form of comedic entertainment? But geology is a pretty useful science, there's a lot rocks can tell us, especially if they've been buried underneath other rocks for millions of years. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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