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Or I should say, that the "cortexes" visual, linguistic and such are the faculties of reflection, which utilize non-conscious sensuous modes symbolica...
April 22, 2017 at 23:27
Not to just repeat myself, but I just feel like, given the knowledge of brain structures, that simply can't be the case. One develops their faculties ...
April 22, 2017 at 23:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe9msExUK8
April 21, 2017 at 19:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9uk9IcoQ0w
April 21, 2017 at 19:12
Infanticide is big in the animal kingdom in general, but I think that it's always about scarcity. When a population is having trouble supporting the g...
April 21, 2017 at 16:35
The Iliad.
April 20, 2017 at 22:32
I have a big family of vivid visual thinkers, a couple of whom are great artists. When I was a kid I knew something was wrong because I couldn't look ...
April 20, 2017 at 20:15
Lol, yeah, I knew it was more fellating, and you weren't actually questioning the legitimacy of your life. Yourself that time.
April 20, 2017 at 06:07
That is wise. Not to make you question the legitimacy of your whole life, but I can have that effect.
April 20, 2017 at 05:30
I think that it's simpler, and less fellating, based on both the knowledge that he wasn't super quick to pick up language, and his language brain regi...
April 20, 2017 at 05:10
"Scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial process...
April 20, 2017 at 04:24
Lol, it's not the size that matters, but how you use it!
April 20, 2017 at 02:43
I don't claim that anything is constructed after the fact. In Schopenhauer's the art of controversy he says something about it being great if people's...
April 20, 2017 at 02:26
Having no experience myself, I think that I can authoritatively field this one. There is no inherent meaning in sounds, sensations, images, smells or ...
April 19, 2017 at 19:49
I always thought that "photographic memory" didn't literally imply visual memory, but really accurate memory. It seems a more accurate use of the word...
April 19, 2017 at 17:22
That's a true fact, you got me there.
April 18, 2017 at 19:47
You know, Einstein had a huge visual cortex apparently.
April 18, 2017 at 19:04
When talking about psychological gender differences, there are many folk ones that might be right, but the differences statistically that have been di...
April 18, 2017 at 18:34
If I press hard on my eyes, with them closed then it kind of makes colours, that I can kind of imagine are things, and warp into things. Maybe the abi...
April 18, 2017 at 17:45
I'm better God, you can make the freak cold snap and snow go away now, k thx.
April 18, 2017 at 17:35
I think that it does clearly affect what we think, though this fact hardly escapes everyone. Socrates seemed to take people that had audio revelations...
April 18, 2017 at 17:12
It's about visualization only, at least for me. I don't suppose that I'm great with smells or taste either, but I remember feelings, and sounds well. ...
April 18, 2017 at 03:52
Yeah, I have that. Though I have had like a handful of visualizations in my life. Otherwise it's all empty up there, or more like a buzz that I can't ...
April 18, 2017 at 00:14
My new phone doesn't have an FM radio... I'd have to use data to use the radio... Yeah... but you should try the radio, it's pretty good.
April 17, 2017 at 05:06
Who knows how the ancient wizards made TV and cable work. No one knows that anymore, so they're just pretending to, and taking the money of the dinosa...
April 17, 2017 at 01:20
You know, we shame each other into it.
April 16, 2017 at 23:42
Notice how that little girl is already off balance... or maybe never attained it, I dunno. Her left outside heel isn't as grounded, and her right shou...
April 16, 2017 at 22:30
Honour code. Have you no honour!
April 16, 2017 at 21:36
One thing we forget, is that we aren't the one talking, we're the primate ignoring everything around them to listen. You thought, saw, tasted, and fel...
April 16, 2017 at 21:35
There are currently over eight thousand rules of philosophy club, and I of course cannot expound them all here, and will rather do so arbitrarily when...
April 16, 2017 at 21:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tINExHGMg
April 16, 2017 at 02:37
Analytic things are true by definition, or tautological. Reason is a process of truth retention, and is deleterious by nature. You're to find the nece...
April 15, 2017 at 23:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtZk8meJJVE
April 15, 2017 at 21:43
I said they sounded like fun, so clearly I was speaking of someone else.
April 15, 2017 at 21:04
They sound like a lot of fun.
April 15, 2017 at 21:01
I don't think that it is obvious, nor significant that she is a response, and he is not. Are all responses inherently inferior, or less meaningful or ...
April 15, 2017 at 21:00
You think that one is legitimate, and the other is not, so you anthropmorphize them with this opinion? They're inanimate objects, with no concerns at ...
April 15, 2017 at 20:45
Hurt my sciatic nerve a a few days ago, ouchy. Sciatic pain is more common in women, and men recover more quickly from it. This is because women tend ...
April 15, 2017 at 20:44
That's a weird thing to say.
April 15, 2017 at 20:42
I think that being unintimidated by an overwhelmingly superior force will always be far more epic than being an intimidating force. I don't think that...
April 15, 2017 at 20:21
That would be pretty math, but I don't know his email unfortunately.
April 09, 2017 at 00:37
According to Google A bunch of people are trying to get McDonald's to bring back the mulan sauce, and a corporate chef says he's working on it. So whi...
April 08, 2017 at 23:04
It has to be the one time promotional Mulan Szechuan McNugget sauce.
April 08, 2017 at 20:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tkyXzxAAoI
April 08, 2017 at 07:36
It was compiled by his sister after his death from scattered notes and her husband's opinions.
April 08, 2017 at 03:12
I read all of Nietzsche's books, except the will to power, which doesn't count.
April 08, 2017 at 02:51
I thought it was more, survive until adulthood, find a mate, rear young, and make your life about them, and them more important to you even at the cos...
April 08, 2017 at 02:24
Religion as an institution or force of influence, power, and authority is what people mean, I think also, when they say they aren't "religious". Relig...
April 08, 2017 at 02:07
"I'd rather hang out with the witches" echoes softly from the fringes with the resonance of none. Glob I'm a rebel. I wanted purple eyes when I was a ...
April 06, 2017 at 06:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6me5FfuIhA Growl growl.
April 04, 2017 at 01:12