I appreciate many of the things already said; some are quite good. And were it two years ago or more, I’d likely not make this post; I rarely post now. However, as I’m currently writing yet another book, this one on the nature of love, I’ve made quite a few discoveries in the last two…
“The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”Rumi (Coleman Barks translation) An early discovery in my work on personality (2003) was the realization that we humans have but two ways we can sense time. Before age seven, we can only experience scene-at-a time based time. Only at about age seven do we…
First, thank you, Fineas, for asking what is surely one of the least understood questions currently facing all of technology. Most answers people offer make the same mistake the authors of all eight diagnostic manuals make, and for the same reason. When it comes to human technology, we make it in our likeness and image. So if we make something which is supposed to augment our minds, we unknowingly build in the same flaws as those which exist in our minds.
When I was writing my 2016 book, The Science of Discovery, I chose in one whole chapter to explore the nature of deafness and hearing. One of the sources I used was a brilliant book by the mother of a child who became deaf early in life. Her book, I Can Hear You Whisper (Lydia…
Of the close to 200 answers already posted, most claim you should expose yourself to as much of the world as you can. In truth, inundating yourself with information will only result in feeling more overwhelmed. This points to the deceptively brilliant way the OP has posed this question. And the key to seeing this…
Answering this with proper science would easily take many books. Except in rare cases, simple answers cannot address the true nature of anything this dense. And yes, I realize I sound like a world-class know-it-all who is talking out of my butt-hole. Fair enough. So how would I look to answer these questions? Start with…
Does a higher FM radio broadcast frequency (specifically, the carrier wave; e.g 98.5 versus 106.7) indicate content which is more intelligent? You’re referring to carrier waves, not content, and IQ refers to the ability to recognize patterns in content, not carrier waves patterns.
Any science based on hypotheses inherits myriad flaws. These flaws include the idea that hypotheses, by design, drastically reduce the field and scope of exploration. In doing so, they fatally skew experimental results, so much so that they guarantee these results will translate poorly to individual, real world cases. A separate but equally problematic assumption…
Like all things in human nature, arriving at a true and useful answer to this question begins with knowing the nature of people with majority personalities. In this case, I’m referring to the process whereby most children develop language. Specifically, how it occurs in an increasingly complex way. For example, at first, to most children,…
At their core, philosophically, NLP and Sedona Technique are a pair of opposites. This oppositeness resembles the core difference between Hindu vs. Buddhist styles of meditation. Hindus believe we can change only between lives. Buddhists believe we can also change within lives. Because of these differences, Hindu styles of meditation tend to focus on transcending…
Liberal application of the red hot poker would likely fix the problem.
Nobel prize winning physicist, Earnest Rutherford, once said, if something is true, you can teach it to the bar maid. Certainly this analogy passes that test. But while it does touch on one aspect of the fragility of an ecosystem, in no way should this analogy be considered a proper hypothesis. What’s missing? In truth,…