Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 09, 2015, 07:27:57 AM

>Dr pepper

Oh wow. I've never met someone who didn't like Dr. Pepper, if they drank soda at all.

Tried it years ago.

Never again.

....why is that actually?

I'd imagine it's because a lot of people, of whatever religion, actually emigrate to the U.S. on its fundamental ideas as much as for economic opportunity; your country actually attracts people of liberal values, regardless of religion.

Although, in saying that, 51pc of American mosques have texts on-site categorised as advocating "extreme violence".

Is it possible for determinism to be proved or disproved, or is the debate entirely based on conjecture?

All human knowledge is based on conjecture. In saying that, determinism has essentially been proved correct as far as it matters. Or, another way, free will has been shown to be false.

How misunderstood is the average Schrodinger experiment?

I'm not even sure I understand it.

Is it immoral to apply Pavlov and Skinner's experiments at a substantial scale on humans? Would it even be possible to do that at such a scale?

I'm not entirely sure if it'd be possible, but I'd certainly say it's immoral.

Even bigger than whoever thought up this whole "post modernism" pussy shit?

Fuck, are you kidding me? The only way postmodernists could be so meaninglessly obscurantist is by having read Schopenhauer in the first place.

It wouldn't be so tempting to call it freedom of speech if Muslims didn't riot/shoot-up a place when a cartoon is published.

Just let that fact detonate in your brain for a minute: at least 13 people are dead because a satirical magazine published a cartoon.

In saying that, I don't know of any cartoon published about Jews which genuinely isn't anti-Semitic, and I don't know of anybody actually calling out non-anti-Semitic cartoons as anti-Semitic.

le cheeky bump

are geniuses naturally endowed with a special understanding of logical or numerical reasoning?

That's why I'd wager it's genetic.

The objective basis of logic and, by extension, mathematics makes it much easier to identify potential geniuses in--say--a physicists' department than an artists' department. I think we're hesitant to even regard people like da Vinci as "artistic geniuses", purely on the basis that we're talking about something aesthetic; da Vinci seems to be a genius because he's a polymath more than anything (which is, of course, a valid enough reason).

I'd argue that our very conception of the idea of a "genius" gives us a bias towards looking among people with this mathematical bent. Calling somebody a "genius" carries a level of objective superiority or adeptness, which seems difficult to justify in things like literature or art--especially in our day and age.

You'd have a better answer than a lot of people, I'd be willing to say pretty safely.
Does it involve high amount of drive and vision?

I imagine genius is just an increased capacity to maintain a sort of awareness about information. If you assume intelligence to have an introspective function in that people are able to employ knowledge, in the first place, by a developed ability to connect pieces of datum to one another--to make the picture fit--and then apply it.

Genius seems, at least to me, to be the ability to withhold information, to introspectively connect this information and then to apply this information to a better degree that most other people. Sort of like crossing a "threshold" into genius in the same way we cross the thresholds into various categories of IQ.

I'd wager the foundation for this is largely genetic.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 08, 2015, 07:12:27 PM

Quote from: Naru (っ◕‿◕)っ on January 08, 2015, 07:10:43 PM

It's funny because we don't flip burgers in McDonald's

You will if I ever roll around.

I fucking make you flip those burgers.

I'll fucking watch you flip those burgers, you cunt-smothering spatula-faggot.

But the machine does it...

WALL-E CAN STILL USE A FUCKING SPATULA, CAN'T HE?

It's funny because we don't flip burgers in McDonald's

You will if I ever roll around.

I fucking make you flip those burgers.

I'll fucking watch you flip those burgers, you cunt-smothering spatula-faggot.

that's reasonable. unfortunately, american public education suffers greatly in the first category; national curriculum standards don't leave much wiggling room for the average student.

I'd also be wary of the fourth, especially in the South.

Administrative autonomy only really works if you can honestly trust the schools in question to honestly represent the material.

[Insert remove Common Core argument]

As I understand it, I actually think Common Core isn't a half-bad idea.

i can see where you're coming from. we have a lot of problems with our existing educational infrastructure which should probably take priority over things like this, certainly.

We really, really need to improve primary and secondary education before anything else.

Which gives me an idea for a thread, actually.

Eh, maybe. Her death could be a valued lesson, too

Or the evidence of chemotherapy will lead more people to believe in its medicinal capacities.

You can't play prediction with idiots.

And they die for a reason, too

The girl's worth more to society alive.

Flipping my burgers in McDonald's facilitates more value that not existing.