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the fox study is interesting as it is part of a range of studies, leading to the conclusion that a limited and identified set of genes are important t...
December 21, 2018 at 21:54
homosexual behaviours are observed in many species; however, homosexuality as a personal identity is far from universal. Homosexual tendencies are sha...
December 21, 2018 at 20:35
"The war on drugs and the war on terrorism are both sham operations which set up new profit making operations." Bitter Crank, making a conflict profit...
December 21, 2018 at 19:10
a country is conquered when it is invaded quick and with resistance. If you are patient, you don´t need to conquer; you have demographic jihad and sub...
December 21, 2018 at 18:59
Brzezinski did what he had to do following the book: help Muslim factions kill each other. Islam is a fire, and we have been giving fuel to that fire ...
December 21, 2018 at 18:52
coins do not play any factor in economy either...I think you mean money, which is a thought, and thoughts are conditioned by biology and culture. "If ...
December 21, 2018 at 16:05
Dawkins is not a good source for this discussion in particular. He probably thinks that milk conspires with coffee to enter our bodies every morning a...
December 21, 2018 at 14:17
it´s not possible that some cancers are entirely environmental. You need a human being to develop the cancer, and the human being is shaped by genes. ...
December 21, 2018 at 14:14
"in a perfect world, the judge would be able to press a button and instantly alter the brain/mind and behavior of the offender, and would immediately ...
December 21, 2018 at 13:03
It is real in the same sense that what happens in a videogame is real. The videogame interacts with the real people and machines outside, is determine...
December 21, 2018 at 12:00
bad and beneficial can go together. Colón had "bad" intentions, today we would call him entepreneur or something worse; but the consequences of the pr...
December 21, 2018 at 11:57
Democrats, like the Left in Europe, gave up reason and civilization to survive. In Europe, the only flourishing left-wing parties are those against th...
December 21, 2018 at 11:05
"I am afraid Bill Gates is misled when he pushes for education for computer technology over education for being humans living in human communities" In...
December 21, 2018 at 10:45
I would like to know what "a free will act" is really like. What are the conditions for an act to be truly free?I can not think of motions without cau...
December 20, 2018 at 22:02
the moral factor in how we deal with antisocial behaviour is very important. Some acts are minimized or even considered fair by reason of different ve...
December 20, 2018 at 21:48
"If there is any comfort to be taken in this future existence or yours, it is that it was always to be as such and there was nothing you could have do...
December 20, 2018 at 21:03
If a dog attacks people, it is put into a cage, deprived of its freedom; it might be even sacrificed for failing to respect the rights of humans. The ...
December 20, 2018 at 20:54
In Spain we have the same people, but they aren´t even scientists; they are writers of novels, and artists of any kind. And chefs. When we see this mi...
December 20, 2018 at 19:05
In a computer program to develop new designs via I.A. algorithms, what is nature and what is nurture? For example, if I need a new design for a car ty...
December 20, 2018 at 18:04
"If the idea is that we should have equal outcomes for all, you can't achieve that by just taking children from their parents and letting the State ra...
December 20, 2018 at 18:00
Okay, so my take on your question is: the universe is too full of information and relationships for us to understand, to represent in our minds. So we...
December 19, 2018 at 23:43
The Guardian is biased because it offers a simplistic, manichean, super-racist, anti-west, pro-feminist, pro-globalist view of the world; and their re...
December 18, 2018 at 11:18
I think the nurture VS nature axis is very little useful, and false even; since nature and nurture aren´t really separate worlds but two aspects of th...
December 17, 2018 at 11:51
yes, that argument is silly. The guy was determined to make it though, so here it is
December 17, 2018 at 11:40
What Wittgenstein could we read if we haven´t read with Wittgenstein yet? Reading is a dialogue with intellectuals, and you can not bear an intellectu...
December 17, 2018 at 11:38
Anyway, I thought you meant Einstein, the grey parrot; but there´s no need, just take another healthy parrot and instruct him from birth to talk and d...
December 14, 2018 at 17:18
it does not matter, as you can not possibly do that. You would have to clone their entire life and world of influences, from what they read, to what t...
December 14, 2018 at 17:16
It matters a lot TWI. Because our society is based on the free-will assumption; in fact this belief is very disfunctional as it promotes violence and ...
December 14, 2018 at 11:46
Because you have such a strong thinking machine, you need to work on the punctuation of your comments to give us some break, mate. Perhaps Kant was a ...
December 14, 2018 at 10:54
intellectual consistency is something I had to un-learnt in the first year of my teaching career; from then on it was "whatever works". All state-run ...
December 14, 2018 at 10:40
This universe is special because you are in it, lupac
December 14, 2018 at 10:36
I like the quote from Revelation. It´s a pity only this Revelation book was preserved, because I´ve known it was a whole popular genre in Judaism, ear...
December 14, 2018 at 10:33
to try to understand better the world. By chatting with intelligent people you figure out things. For example, I´d really like to have my notion that ...
December 14, 2018 at 10:29
I understand that for people who know a lot more and are already prepared for bigger fails, some patience is required with members that are still doin...
December 13, 2018 at 08:17
you don´t have to agree, it´s very established science; we learn by doing things to solve mental or physical problems, and react to the feedback. Like...
December 13, 2018 at 08:14
you have to check your sex life; if your sex life is good, you don´t need a psychiatrist. It is that simple, but people elaborate because they think t...
December 13, 2018 at 08:08
that is how we learn everything
December 13, 2018 at 07:58
they exist on a metaphysical plane, that is, the secundary or psychic dimension emerged from the physical one. In imagination that is, like when I had...
December 13, 2018 at 07:57
Number2018, it is not a conspiracy theory, unfortunately. This is the link to the meeting Soros-Puppet president. Soros new base in Barcelona, capital...
December 12, 2018 at 18:33
unenlightened, I did not think you were an idiot. We are not supposed to know about all matters in the universe; for example, I do not know what pedal...
December 12, 2018 at 18:17
"Sometimes cooperation is necessary, sometimes conflict is necessary. There is no doubt that both strategies work when used at the appropriate time".,...
December 12, 2018 at 18:06
From other countries is difficult to understand what is going on, as happens people who don´t understand Brexit. Is not a separatist region against th...
December 12, 2018 at 15:04
what do you propose we do in Europe to avoid Civil War? Is there any particular thought you would try to communicate to us if you had a last tv ad of ...
December 12, 2018 at 12:55
You need to work out your biological metaphor better. If Dutch elm disease could not survive the death of the elm, there would be no dead elms by Dutc...
December 12, 2018 at 12:51
What I do is to actually ask the person if I may, if I should give them a gift before I do. I don´t like people forcing presents on me, and I don´t li...
December 09, 2018 at 17:46
OKAY this is my take on your issue: Gifts are favours the giver receives. Unlike stuff we ask from others, gifts are not requested, so the favour is r...
December 09, 2018 at 17:38
the lower layers of the atmosphere in the locality. As for the real causal agent, the Universe and its entropy.
December 07, 2018 at 14:06
nothing about science would change? please explain that, it is hard to reconcile with the history of Science. I guess you mean that the underlying phy...
December 07, 2018 at 10:46
For me the real question is whether an entirely (religious) belief-free Science is even possible, given that Science needs to suppose an order and und...
December 07, 2018 at 10:30
I don´t think our thoughts can generate emotions in someone else; because we always need the colaboration of an environment, including the "receptor" ...
December 02, 2018 at 18:20