Vince

You're confusing chronological age and biological age.

We only know the criminals who get caught, and it's more likely that the police will catch the dumbest ones first, who are also more likely to commit ...

Then they made fun of her because she looked like a nerd with her new glasses

First, awareness, then self-awareness, then awareness of self-awareness?

When I step outside, it is self-evident that the Sun is going around a flat Earth, which most of us know not to be true. It seems to me that non-human...

Difficult to answer without a clear definition of what consciousness is. The author of a neuroscience book I read defined consciousness as "the ensemb...

Here's the five senses in order of importance for humans: Sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. No wonder touch is the one you seem to have issues wi...

Anosmic refers to anosmia which is a condition that has to do with losing the sense of smell partially or completely. Microsmatic is probably a better...

What do you mean?

You can be born blind and still have a visual cortex. In absence of visual stimuli from the eyes, I'm quite sure the brain will have reallocated the s...

For lucid dreaming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge His first book is really popular.

There are different degrees of hallucinations. They can be incomplete but some are complete enough to make you think they're real without any doubt. T...

I used inhibited regarding the senses, in terms of restriction of perception. The uninhibition your describe is related to restriction of actions. Is ...

I can imagine the sensation, but my hand is not actually feeling it, if it was the case it would be called a hallucination. Different topic I believe....

If you can't decide which word is best then you could use "woke". It's popular these days and there are only four letters.

That was easy :smile: I am not a native English speaker but I believe both words are used interchangeably in popular language. However, I think their ...

Would it mean the same thing to you if you replaced "aware" with "conscious"?

I'm doing the same experiment and I can "feel" the texture of the sandstone. I have touched sandstone before so I believe I'm using the memory of it. ...

I believe language applies to complex forms of communication that use words, syntax and are able to express the most abstract thoughts. The obvious an...

I said "form of communication" because body language is not technically a language, and "universal" was meant to apply to known life forms. I just lea...

I don't hear words but I see a lot of body language, which I believe to be a universal form of communication. Human bodies speak volumes, and unlike t...

I've reached my limit about what I know about IQ but I believe it goes down to biology and genetics. I think what an IQ test is trying to measure is (...

I think there's controversy regarding the fact that your IQ can change over time, it is not supposed to, unless you are afflicted by a brain degenerat...

As well as a few hundred dollars

Wikipedia also says this: "Scores from intelligence tests are estimates of intelligence. Unlike, for example, distance and mass, a concrete measure of...

This might clear up a few things https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-calculate-mental-age-based-on-your-IQ-if-the-formula-to-calculate-IQ-is-mental-age-c...

Your mental acuity or intelligence is compared to the average mental acuity of a group of people of the same age as yours. If the average mental acuit...

This is correct Edit: I think the terms actual age or chronological age should be used rather than bodily age. It often refers to biological age, whic...

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." -Aristotle

A virus doesn't decide anything, it adapts to the environment through mutations over generations.

How is this a paradox? I see two different plausible causes that have the same effect. I don't see any contradiction. You're alone at the party becaus...

Intelligence is about understanding, wisdom is about making choices...I believe

We can do all these things because of the use of tools. Some animals use tools, just like the ancestors of humans did. We have gone further than other...

46 billion ly is the radius(of the observable universe)

The smoke theory is on the wiki page for "crying", not "tears"

Did you like it?

I loved Brainstorm, I still rewatch it every now and then.

Drugs are bad.

I'm no science guy but I see some of you are not seeing the importance of the differences between size, weight and mass.

The term "pushing" could be confusing. It is used because for a long time gravity was thought to attract things, like some sort of magnet, but nobody ...

The center is by definition the point that is equidistant from the circumference. From our perspective we can't see any edge of the universe. If there...

The Earth is more massive, so it curves space-time more.

They don't say that nothing existed before the singularity, they say they don't know. I believe the redshift of galaxies, considered to be a Doppler e...

Yes

Is there a center on a spherical surface? I believe every point on it can be the center, so it should be the same if you add one more dimension. Every...

Does it mean that the universe can't expand indefinitely?

Not sure if this is relevant but I will mention it. Cosmologists have thought for a while that the shape of the universe was flat. A new study hints a...

You may have agreed to treat me without asking me because of the oath you swear, but I don't believe this oath is without conditions. It works well in...

Doctors usually treat anybody even people who brought the illness upon themselves. But when you don't have enough of them to care for everybody, it wo...

You and Brian are free to take a chance at infecting each other, but you have to assume all the risks involved which includes becoming an extra burden...