Yet most of the researchers who show those findings do not discount free will. How it works (and yes, I am a neuroscientist) is that our brains prepare for a particular response - you called that coming to a decision - sometimes seconds before our conscious awareness of the decision. This is because our brain is efficient and works automatically on many tasks. We do however, almost always have the ability to stop a particular decision at the last moment (I said almost always because sometimes we have reflexive responses that we can't suppress). Some may argue that that changing decision was also determined but eventually as people keep making that argument they end up in an endless loop of circular logic. In short, none of those experiments negate free will (although a few - and very few - researchers argue that they do).
Here's one reference to a paper, if anyone is interested: Soon, C., Brass, M., Heinze, H., & Haynes, J. (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain Nature Neuroscience, 11 (5), 543-545.
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And your belief is why we end up with many books that are basically the same formula. Authors should be able to do whatever they want to. If they do it well, their books will sell (in an ideal world).
Sorry but mathematics != science. Math is used in science but math is not science. Just because "upper-level mathematics and upper-level physics...[have] significant points of convergence" does not mean they are the same. Making that argument is like arguing that statistics and psychology are the same, or at least "belong together", because almost all psychological research relies heavily on statistics.
Mathematics is a field but it is also a method. Physics (and most other sciences) incorporates mathematics as a method. Mathematics is one of the main languages of science but it is not "science". That's good though because science is fickle but mathematics is much more solid and pure (although it certainly is not perfect or infallible).
Or you can buy it for the iPhone or iPod Touch, if you have one.:)
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The F-22 will always be more expensive because the U.S. is only buying a few of them relative to F-35s. The fewer you buy, the more they cost per plane because you have to recoup development costs. The same thing happened with the stealth bomber - the $2 billion plane. It was only $2 billion because the government cut back on how many they would buy - down to 21 from almost 200. Overall, the government spent less money on the planes but per plane costs were through the roof because they purchased only a sixth of what they originally planned.
The F-35s are less expensive because many nations helped develop them. That means that the R&D and dev costs to the U.S. were quite small. However, it also means that many nations have access to the planes, which could put the U.S. at a disadvantage (I'm not saying it will but theoretically it could).
And of course now that we have such a "green"-friendly president we are now going to build a few new nuclear reactors!
[Yes, that was sarcasm]. It is unfortunate that our current president and Congressional leadership are so anti-nuclear. You'd think they all still believe the lies and exaggerations of 1960s and 1970s environmentalists. We need to build many more nuclear plants, recycle spent nuclear fuel, and figure out and build better electric cars. That should help out our economy and environment.
Actually they are pretty close to 2 billion downloads!:) I don't know how many of those are free - probably most of them but still that's a lot of people using iPhones and iPod Touches.
We don't go nuclear because the people doling out government money today grew up or at least lived in a strongly anti-nuclear generation. It hasn't been until the last few years that it became acceptable in the U.S. to start talking in a positive manner about nuclear power. Even so, most people still have a negative view of nuclear power, which is unfortunate.
With our current government in the U.S. there will be even less incentive to develop nuclear power because those in control are still steeped in the nuclear myths of the past.
Many criminal psychologists believe that O.J. was not convicted because the prosecuting team did not want to go through the process of picking jurors correctly. If they had been systematic about it instead of haphazard, the case would have been different.
Your sentence is not really ironic but I'll use the word ironic.:)
Anyway, in some writing styles it is fine to start a sentence and/or paragraph with a numeral. I haven't read his report though so I can't agree or disagree with your statement that the report is an "unreadable mess" - it very well may be a mess.
Just write it on your wall but either include a couple extra characters that are not part of your password or leave off a couple. I do this and it works quite well. For example, say I have a random password (e.g., 2Wst&4GiM09$a), I could write it down as 2Wspt&4GiM09$qa (a "p" in the 4th character spot and a "q" in the second to last spot); that way it's very hard for anyone to actually get your real password out of that but it's simple for you to remember that your password does not have a p or a q in it.
Or, you could write that password as: 2Wt&4GiM9$a) and know that you left out the s and the 0. I prefer writing in extra characters though just for simplicity.
When you create a new password just create a new extra character rule as well (e.g., instead of taking out the p and q, add in an h and c instead and make sure your password doesn't have those letters already).
True, religion has destroyed so much; however, much much more has been destroyed by the anti- or non-religious (e.g., Stalin's Communism or Nazism {even though Nazis called themselves Christians, the atrocities of the Nazis were not done "in the name of religion" other than trying to eliminate those of particular belief sets and/or religions [most prominently Jewish]}).
Modern democracy is based on Judeo-Christian principles. I'll quote from an insightful essay on the matter:
"It is this point that I wish to make, and it is also one of the points made by Nietzsche in his Master-Slave morality, that the concept of equality, of legal, political and social equality is derived from Judeo-Christian morality. As Nietzsche puts it in Section 202 of his book Beyond Good and Evil, 'the Democratic movement is the inheritance of the Christian movement.'" (http://quantumleap42.blogspot.com/2009/06/religious-origins-of-our-democratic.html)
For every bad thing done in the name of religion, I can counter with many more good things done in the name of religion. We shouldn't resort to straw man arguments.
I do not live in Denmark but I too am glad that the Danish government did not bow to pressure from extremist Muslims. Besides, Islamic terrorists hold a very twisted view of Islam that very few other Muslims hold. What the few do that's negative in the name of religion should not reflect on broader religious beliefs. That's like focusing only on what America "destroys" while completely ignoring all the good that comes from America (this example holds true for Denmark as well).
Great post. I belong to a Christian denomination that is denied "Christian" status by Evangelical Christians. Their view of Christianity is so narrow sometimes that I don't really care whether or not they think I am Christian.
While my various sites (blogs) are all relatively low-traffic, I consistently run at about 56% IE with the rest dominated by Firefox and Safari (although some sites have a lot more Firefox traffic than IE traffic).
Science is extremely biased (e.g., based on materialism and reductionism and so forth) but that's a philosophical discussion for a different time. Scientists are biased too, like you said.
How is this insightful? The parent wasn't bashing Microsoft and slobbering over Apple or UNIX or Linux.
Seriously, their edition simplification is nice, although they do have a Starter Edition too! Of course, why don't they just make one version of their OS like a company I will not name does with their OS?
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You can also use correlation to demonstrate causation (e.g., with a regression equation). Correlation neither implies nor denies causation.
Yet most of the researchers who show those findings do not discount free will. How it works (and yes, I am a neuroscientist) is that our brains prepare for a particular response - you called that coming to a decision - sometimes seconds before our conscious awareness of the decision. This is because our brain is efficient and works automatically on many tasks. We do however, almost always have the ability to stop a particular decision at the last moment (I said almost always because sometimes we have reflexive responses that we can't suppress). Some may argue that that changing decision was also determined but eventually as people keep making that argument they end up in an endless loop of circular logic. In short, none of those experiments negate free will (although a few - and very few - researchers argue that they do).
Here's one reference to a paper, if anyone is interested: Soon, C., Brass, M., Heinze, H., & Haynes, J. (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain Nature Neuroscience, 11 (5), 543-545.
And your belief is why we end up with many books that are basically the same formula. Authors should be able to do whatever they want to. If they do it well, their books will sell (in an ideal world).
Sorry but mathematics != science. Math is used in science but math is not science. Just because "upper-level mathematics and upper-level physics...[have] significant points of convergence" does not mean they are the same. Making that argument is like arguing that statistics and psychology are the same, or at least "belong together", because almost all psychological research relies heavily on statistics.
Mathematics is a field but it is also a method. Physics (and most other sciences) incorporates mathematics as a method. Mathematics is one of the main languages of science but it is not "science". That's good though because science is fickle but mathematics is much more solid and pure (although it certainly is not perfect or infallible).
It is in AT&T's interest, not Apple's. How is it in Apple's interest?
Related to that - Autoduel (although it is not a series). It's one of the greatest games ever.
Or you can buy it for the iPhone or iPod Touch, if you have one. :)
The F-22 will always be more expensive because the U.S. is only buying a few of them relative to F-35s. The fewer you buy, the more they cost per plane because you have to recoup development costs. The same thing happened with the stealth bomber - the $2 billion plane. It was only $2 billion because the government cut back on how many they would buy - down to 21 from almost 200. Overall, the government spent less money on the planes but per plane costs were through the roof because they purchased only a sixth of what they originally planned.
The F-35s are less expensive because many nations helped develop them. That means that the R&D and dev costs to the U.S. were quite small. However, it also means that many nations have access to the planes, which could put the U.S. at a disadvantage (I'm not saying it will but theoretically it could).
And of course now that we have such a "green"-friendly president we are now going to build a few new nuclear reactors!
[Yes, that was sarcasm]. It is unfortunate that our current president and Congressional leadership are so anti-nuclear. You'd think they all still believe the lies and exaggerations of 1960s and 1970s environmentalists. We need to build many more nuclear plants, recycle spent nuclear fuel, and figure out and build better electric cars. That should help out our economy and environment.
Actually they are pretty close to 2 billion downloads! :) I don't know how many of those are free - probably most of them but still that's a lot of people using iPhones and iPod Touches.
We don't go nuclear because the people doling out government money today grew up or at least lived in a strongly anti-nuclear generation. It hasn't been until the last few years that it became acceptable in the U.S. to start talking in a positive manner about nuclear power. Even so, most people still have a negative view of nuclear power, which is unfortunate.
With our current government in the U.S. there will be even less incentive to develop nuclear power because those in control are still steeped in the nuclear myths of the past.
Many criminal psychologists believe that O.J. was not convicted because the prosecuting team did not want to go through the process of picking jurors correctly. If they had been systematic about it instead of haphazard, the case would have been different.
We would also have global warming (or is it "climate change") on the moon due to increased human activity.
Reading the headline you'd think that was a good thing. Yay! Our park is now free from those nasty tigers!
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Hopefully the tigers just went elsewhere (other than to the great big tiger preserve in the sky). No, I did not read the article.
I hate finding grammar or spelling errors in anything I write, no matter where it is posted! I'm the biggest critic of myself.
There's [sic] punctuation errors, capitalization mistakes...and subject-verb agreement problems.
Your sentence is not really ironic but I'll use the word ironic. :)
Anyway, in some writing styles it is fine to start a sentence and/or paragraph with a numeral. I haven't read his report though so I can't agree or disagree with your statement that the report is an "unreadable mess" - it very well may be a mess.
Just write it on your wall but either include a couple extra characters that are not part of your password or leave off a couple. I do this and it works quite well. For example, say I have a random password (e.g., 2Wst&4GiM09$a), I could write it down as 2Wspt&4GiM09$qa (a "p" in the 4th character spot and a "q" in the second to last spot); that way it's very hard for anyone to actually get your real password out of that but it's simple for you to remember that your password does not have a p or a q in it.
Or, you could write that password as: 2Wt&4GiM9$a) and know that you left out the s and the 0. I prefer writing in extra characters though just for simplicity.
When you create a new password just create a new extra character rule as well (e.g., instead of taking out the p and q, add in an h and c instead and make sure your password doesn't have those letters already).
True, religion has destroyed so much; however, much much more has been destroyed by the anti- or non-religious (e.g., Stalin's Communism or Nazism {even though Nazis called themselves Christians, the atrocities of the Nazis were not done "in the name of religion" other than trying to eliminate those of particular belief sets and/or religions [most prominently Jewish]}).
Modern democracy is based on Judeo-Christian principles. I'll quote from an insightful essay on the matter:
"It is this point that I wish to make, and it is also one of the points made by Nietzsche in his Master-Slave morality, that the concept of equality, of legal, political and social equality is derived from Judeo-Christian morality. As Nietzsche puts it in Section 202 of his book Beyond Good and Evil, 'the Democratic movement is the inheritance of the Christian movement.'" (http://quantumleap42.blogspot.com/2009/06/religious-origins-of-our-democratic.html)
For every bad thing done in the name of religion, I can counter with many more good things done in the name of religion. We shouldn't resort to straw man arguments.
I do not live in Denmark but I too am glad that the Danish government did not bow to pressure from extremist Muslims. Besides, Islamic terrorists hold a very twisted view of Islam that very few other Muslims hold. What the few do that's negative in the name of religion should not reflect on broader religious beliefs. That's like focusing only on what America "destroys" while completely ignoring all the good that comes from America (this example holds true for Denmark as well).
Great post. I belong to a Christian denomination that is denied "Christian" status by Evangelical Christians. Their view of Christianity is so narrow sometimes that I don't really care whether or not they think I am Christian.
While my various sites (blogs) are all relatively low-traffic, I consistently run at about 56% IE with the rest dominated by Firefox and Safari (although some sites have a lot more Firefox traffic than IE traffic).
Further, if we warm up the earth enough maybe we can flood LA and give it a good old ocean scrubbing. :)
[I'm only partially kidding].
Science is extremely biased (e.g., based on materialism and reductionism and so forth) but that's a philosophical discussion for a different time. Scientists are biased too, like you said.
Well, at least not directly.
How is this insightful? The parent wasn't bashing Microsoft and slobbering over Apple or UNIX or Linux.
Seriously, their edition simplification is nice, although they do have a Starter Edition too! Of course, why don't they just make one version of their OS like a company I will not name does with their OS?