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by roceasta 9y ago
>Learning the time tables for example - you just have to do lots of exercises to get used to multiplying. No way around that. Learning how to perform mental arithmetic with the aid of pencil and paper was a way to escape from the grind
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by roceasta 9y ago
The fact that school math is thought to be 'scary' and 'hard' is not the issue. Plenty of video games are known to be scary and hard. For instance, they contain monsters and are difficult to complete. They even have ob
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by roceasta 9y ago
>So read always from authors of proven worth [Seneca] Absolutely. The few authors that I love the best are streets ahead of the rest. Reading other authors is for me really just a search for the Next Big Thing. As time marches on, re-r
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by roceasta 9y ago
So parents pick suitors and daughters have the power of veto. That way parents filter out bad boy thugs (who may damage her face) and those of lower economic/social classes (who may reduce her to penury). Daughter filters out people sh
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by roceasta 9y ago
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream. A dream with error correction . When error correction is faulty due to being irrational, or asleep, or on certain drugs, all sorts of st
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by roceasta 9y ago
Well I would tend to agree but I think in many cases the alternative wasn't mother's milk exactly but that of a wet nurse. Perhaps they thought this was a vector for infection.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Sure. But bear in mind that all these benefits existed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, before the higher education bubble. When there was no web and little or no student debt. Yet there are more people in higher education now. Heavy drinking an
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by roceasta 9y ago
I find it almost incredible that while the motivated autodidact can learn almost any theoretical topic for almost no money via the internet we simultaneously have millions of students getting into heavy debt at university. (Also into heavy
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by roceasta 9y ago
The truth isn't obvious. In the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, it was 'obvious' to many people including doctors that bottle feeding with evaporated milk or formula milk was more scientific, more hygienic, and better all round. https:
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by roceasta 9y ago
The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation. So something resembling natural selection must be going on in our brains. http://www.the-rathouse.com&
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by roceasta 9y ago
Why not unbundle the task and give the conscious thinking to the computer, and the mindless grabbing to the human?" Reminds me of Daniel Dennett's example of the coffee machine that both makes the coffee and drinks it for you.
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by roceasta 9y ago
What's the opposite of a Pratchett novel? If it were a matter of losing this then Pratchett fans and experts would presumably not mourn. However now consider the case of an almost-but-not-quite Pratchett novel. Though this is not-a-P
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes. The realistic alternative to pivoting isn't beating yourself up in a press conference or something like that: it's self-sabotage. People self-sabotage so they can pretend they never tried and thus avoid seeing themselves as f
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by roceasta 9y ago
>intonation and emphasis just right. Yes. The emphasis carries a lot of information in addition to the simple text. I find it hard to do when reading aloud from a book I haven't myself read before. In fact I think it's one re
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by roceasta 9y ago
Fortunately for us all regular free shipments of rare earth metals are now available: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ Simply deflect onto the approval-pending lunar crash site! Friendly robots will construct an Ore-some(TM) plant for proce
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by roceasta 9y ago
Makes sense. Apart from the ground, it's harder to collide with other objects in 3 dimensions than it is in 2 dimensions.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Interesting. >They can’t conceptualize that there could exist a mind of thoughts and feelings outside their own. Presumably they don't have a concept of their own mind either. And this is despite being quite sophisticated and host
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by roceasta 9y ago
I don't. It's a guess. But I do think our ability to explain things comes not just from our genes but from our culture, and culture is something animals haven't yet developed.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Another example: we ask whether animals are 'conscious' or not, or we declare ex cathedra that certain animals are conscious, all the while without being able to explain what consciousness is, or what qualia are, or how these
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by roceasta 9y ago
Here is the sense I mean to convey. When a fridge light comes on, does the fridge 'understand' anything? Does it know anything? No, the process is just automatic. Objects such as books can contain knowledge without understanding
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by roceasta 9y ago
Couple of things about dancing: (1) it's easier to think because you're moving about, (2) dancing partners are usually of the opposite sex. Both these factors seem like stimulants for learning and rejuvenation.
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by roceasta 9y ago
>Chaser, a border collie, knows over 1,000 words. She can pull a named toy from a pile of other toys. This shows that she understands that an acoustical pattern stands for a physical object. I don't think it quite shows this. Coll
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes. To be fair I think most people here want animals to be able to think (and for other humans to think that animals can think) because they want animals to be protected from humans.
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by roceasta 9y ago
You're trying to explain why you think animals can think. The desire and the ability to explain things, and not thinking per se, is (I guess) what distinguishes humans from animals.
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by roceasta 9y ago
My guess is that 'low-latent inhibition' plus a great memory plus long practice make for mastery. http://www.lowlatentinhibition.org/what-is-lli/ (And those who force themselves to practice are going to
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by roceasta 9y ago
Does the love of death make one more left-wing? https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-... http://www.scottmanning.com/content/communist-body-count/
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by roceasta 9y ago
>You could also be able to shrink the suffering and enormous expense that accompanies cancer, heart disease, dementia, and all the other plagues of growing old. No. It could at best defer the health costs. We need to stop being passive
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by roceasta 9y ago
Imagine you're a boxer and you get into fights all the time, outside as well as inside the ring. You only feel safe with your fists up, but you can't control your arms directly. They only go up when you're facing an opponent.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Dying of cancer, David Hume wrote some notes about his life. The final paragraph is rather moving because he speaks of himself in the past tense: >To conclude historically with my own character. I am, or rather was (for that is the styl
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by roceasta 9y ago
Fantastic that resources like this now exist. In some ways it seems to be reminding us about how we used to learn. Children spontaneously go back again and again to things that delight them (spaced repetition) and they switch activities w

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