GENIUS FORUMS

Kelly, But I think his inventive mania was a form of madness, like those eco-warrior freak-men who go mad with details on environmental solutions. Very useful to society, like brain slaves, but nevertheless almost totally insane. madness maybe, or he may have had so many interests as a polymath, tha...

Diebert, Thanks for your response, as you have proved to be quite knowledgeable on the subject. Some of these biological ideas have always eluded me. Natural selection just selects by reproductive success the traits already present. This is not the same as having mutations or with genetic drift, and...

I'm currently taking a history of psychology course at a local university, and the course introduced me briefly to a fellow named Francis Galton. He was a pioneer in many ways. Galton coined the term eugenics, and pioneered the first statistics tests that could be used to compare traits and qualitie...

mensa-maniac, I wasn't implying by that post that men are superior to women. Both genders have deficiencies in different areas. I was implying that many men have such an inflated sense of ego that they already believe they are celebrities or on their way to becoming a celebrity. It was sarcasm. Seri...

Most men are already celebrities, at least if only in their own minds...

80% of men in a survey reported that if they had to marry again, they would choose the same woman. The same demographic of women were also polled, and only 50% of the women reported that they would choose the same man again if they were given the chance.

What do you think this data suggests?

just a comment on detachment: Detachment happens when you stop identifying with the group you were born with. For instance: man, woman, and so on, and simply examine without any identification. Identification is bias because it is based on an egotistical attachment to the thing in question. For inst...

Diebert,

It has become obvious from your answer that there are quite a few side concepts and processes that directly relate to natural selection that I fully hasn't understood yet. I will take some time to research these, and post some additional questions if they arise. Thanks for the response.

I generally believe in natural selection as the mechanism driving evolution, but the devil is in the details so to speak. There has been a nagging question I have had for years, a question I have asked many professors, and even members here, and I have never been quite satisfied with the answer. Per...

I don't think many of the posters really understand what Nick is trying to say. For the most part, women distract men from their higher purpose, which is to create order in society, and create order within their own minds, and the minds of others. Women easily become a distraction to men, because a ...

There's been a lot of generalizations proposed here, but I think there is quite a spectrum of behavior for both genders, and I myself am guilty of making some generalizations that may not have the merit I think they do. Cory, A man rarely abandons a woman, but a woman often abandons a man. Most brea...

I would just like to comment on the Child Support comment Cory made earlier. I agree with him that child support has evolved to favor women, much more so than men, and men often get the crappy end of the deal. Now if child support laws favored men, I think we would end up with more chaos than presen...

Nick, Yeah that's true. I heard some where that when a woman is the breadwinner in a relationship, both sexes tend to feel less satisfied with the relationship. I also think that the increased interest in romantic love is a result of traditional sexual roles having less practical application in a te...

It is important to note that as women evolve in the present, the dynamics change as well. For instance: increasing numbers of women in the developing world are becoming more independent, meaning they are focusing on careers, female friendships and relationships with family. The result of this dynami...

Tomas, The new world order is a fiction only valid in your own paranoid imagination. Noam Chomsky has openly criticized governments and officials from every party, in almost every region of the world. He considers himself more liberal minded in ideology, but he doesn't seem to favor or show bias to ...

Prince, you have a point, but I bet humans will do both - meaning use the human body as a template to improve upon, thus enhancing the human species beyond recognition, but also engineers might create an entirely electrical machine consciousness that will have a 'nature of its own'. Both are in the ...

Cory wrote: It stems from the sense most of us have that mind and matter are distinct. It becomes a philosophical and scientific problem when we ponder the causal influence one has over the other. How can the natural processes we observe in the body and brain generate this experience we have of our ...

Cory, ok I see your point now. Moreover, one might also ponder if technology inevitably evolves into new novel ways of doing old things, until those very foundations have become eroded and replaced... For instance: Could commercial agriculture ever be replaced by something better that can handle lar...

Kunga, can you explain to someone the taste of honey ? no, but you can explain to them what is not the taste of honey, or where to find honey, or where not to find honey. Suppose you thought you were tasting honey, but the truth is that you were actually tasting hardened urine pellets. Wouldn't it b...

Kunga, His whole point was that we simply cannot have views about the ultimate. Any teacher who states that the absolute or ultimate cannot be discussed or one cannot take a view on it is full of bullshit, and they are selling you a load of crap. This allows the fake teacher to keep the student spel...

Jufu, Is it true or not to operate within anything, there must be an infiltration into the fibers and mechanics of that something which does not separate that which has been infiltrated, but use the house which that which infiltrates is hosted by? Reasoning from the outer primeter is another story i...

Laird, Reasoning operates within duality, meaning we automatically divide reality up into things, and try to understand how the world works by describing how things appear to us, and how they seem to relate to each other. Dualistic thinking divides the "Me" from "everything else out t...

Beck is becoming increasingly neurotic with the number of contradicting theories, conspiracies and ideas that he gobbles up, and tries to incorporate into his worldview. He didn't seem as insane and illogical when he first got into talk radio, probably because he didn't know anything. Jon Steward do...

I agree Nick, Chomsky is a great moral historian, but a bad philosopher of the infinite. It is almost as if he put far too much energy studying the particulars of the small, and not enough time studying the big picture of things. For instance: He can cite from memory any atrocity committed in remote...

what is meant exactly by the mind/body problem? is it the idea that the mind is somehow distinct and separate from the body? isn't it the flawed imagined idea that the mind is immaterial and the body is material, and philosophers create unnecessary problems for themselves such as how does the materi...