Because "you" are in control of your arms and your legs. It's just that "you" extend beyond the function of your conscious mind. Besides, your conscio...
"Neither males nor females, neither Jews nor Gentiles, neither gay nor straight, neither young nor old, neither caucasians nor negroes nor asians nor ...
It's disruption without a cause. Would that make a good movie? Who should the male lead be? Does it need a planetarium as part of the set? Maybe in th...
She could represent that for you, and I would agree that as far as social justice goes, the whole thing is rank nonsense. In fact, the object of SSGA ...
When we know the wherefore and wherefrom of an art work, we can't take it on its own merits without some mental gymnastics--which are, of course, well...
It's late for this information, but... The thinking behind the statue and its placement (which Adweek called a stunt) was engineered by McCann Ericsso...
Ernest, it's hard to imagine a less felicitous way to interest people in your writing than the approach you have pursued here. Peevish to start with a...
What do you think a horny, powerful, pawing, snorting, twisting bull would represent--little girl sisterhood and apple strudel? Cream cheese? Got Milk...
Just to clarify... It wasn't the observations of what went on in the toilets that was problematic. It was observing license plates, and then obtaining...
That's right -- the scandal was about consent and subterfuge. No doubt about it, Humphreys' methods were extremely invasive. Subject identities were n...
I don't live in NYC, so I never have to look at this. In that respect, I just don't care. On the other hand... There are a batch of bronze sculptures ...
We are not. Intentions exist, of course. That's how it came to pass that some part of my brain is writing this sentence. It disagreed with you. (It's ...
Here are pictures of three of my intellectual heroes - David Riesman, Oliver Sacks, and Laud Humphreys https://68.media.tumblr.com/115efd3b20876fa9637...
I haven't read Fromm's Escape From Freedom for a long time. It was good, and a book I should revisit (time, time, time). That and The Sane Society. Th...
What is this state of disorder that brains have to organize themselves out of? Doesn't the brain put itself in order from the get-go? Brains that are ...
No, events which make us happy and the appearance of the objects of our love come first. The chemicals follow to assist us in feeling happiness and lo...
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have encountered the several basic ideas. There are not 'thousands'. Some of the contenders... If you do...
There are two placebo effects: experiencing symptoms suggested by an outside source (like a medical textbook) and experiencing the demise of real symp...
You're sort of a special person, since we've actually met face to face. Glad things are going well for you. I am about the same (opinions vary about w...
I can imagine why a gay guy would want to watch porn with females. Some gay guys do watch straight porn, however, for various and sundry (mostly devio...
I used to like Freud's id, ego, and superego model, along with the conscious and unconscious mind. There is something to say for it as a kind of drama...
Ah, that eternal question: WHAT is the meaning of life? It appears that it is up to us to decide, since no oracle has spoken, no golden tablets have b...
We intended to build the foundation 4 square according to the Pythagorean theorem, and we built it in the dark (we didn't have a permit). When the sun...
One interesting interpretation of God and Jesus is that God became Jesus, and ceased being God. The death of God? Yes, at a particular time for a part...
I am at best ambivalent about believing that God in any form exists, so I'm probably not a very reliable witness to the validity of the Trinity. On ma...
The larger issue about drugs (especially antibiotics) is their activity way down the line among the bacteria. Bacteria can acquire genetic information...
Indeed. The Burning Issue of Merck vs. Best Buy in World Trade... Merck sells internationally, Best Buy doesn't. The real question is whether Merck ha...
What part of R39.5 billion in revenue do you not understand?. Whatever Merck's standing in the lineup of world companies, Best Buy is going to be clos...
In the US. I don't know what its rank in the list of world corporations is. Of the worlds 25 largest pharmaceutical companies, it's Novartis, Pfizer, ...
The positions change. Best Buy is a MN based electronics and appliance big box operation. It generates $40b in sales, has 1500 stores, and 125,000 emp...
Some of us pretty much heretic protestants and catholics find the concept of the trinity kind of incoherent and nonsensical too. Press a priest and yo...
Our natural defense against bacteria and viruses is gene related, sure. But the variety of antibodies produced is greater than that specified by genes...
There's some highly unwarranted leaping to conclusions, here. Animals, in general, didn't seem to be very good at resisting novel diseases prior to th...
Consciousness is one aspect of the brain's operation, but the brain does many things that we can not observe. There are many functions that are invisi...
I suppose in the beginning there were requests for adjustments to the first philosophical schools, too. "There aren't enough students in this school."...
There may be better treatments; let us hope and let us advocate. There are not very many classes of psychoactive drugs (a lot of the brand names are '...
Let me add one more thing: Not being able to succeed in school is a genuine, life-long disadvantage. The desire to help children learn is genuine and ...
The initial experiments with amphetamines and hyperactivity go back to the 1960s. It was found that children who were "hyperactive" experienced what i...
People often forget that they go looking for evidence to support their screwed up views of the world. Not that I, an Enlightened One, would ever do th...
Why don't you march up stairs and confront him about his damnable sneezing? People should not be wished well when they sneeze, they should be denounce...
The Times of Israel reported that in 2016 "Israel’s INSS think tank charted 469 attacks, carried out by 800 perpetrators in 28 countries, killing 5,65...
In support of your post... We forget, or we weren't born yet, that there was more terrorist activity in Europe in the 1970s than in Europe in the pres...
I had maintained from the get go that the US did not have the capacity to solve the problems of the Middle East. It wasn't that we lacked force; that ...
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