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Has there been any psychological study on music with relation to cognitive abilities while one learns?
In short, do you feel like learning but you learn nothing when you work with music on?
>>8194987
Yes, anon.
>>8194987
Depends on my frame of mind. Because human logic is largely binary, but can recognize the absence of either state, one of three things happens.
-The music adds to what I'm doing and directs thought accordingly, or creates such that the logical framework I'm forming in working memory, or whatever region, is readily tied and integrated with already existing frameworks in long term storage. It gets sorted better later, and is more fluidly retained.
-The music becomes background noise. It doesn't seems...
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>>8194987
Bump
Let's talk about computablity and complexity theory.
Beginner: Go to http://rajk.me/static/busybeaver.html, toggle instructions, and find the 2-state Busy Beaver (start with 1-state).
Advanced: Recently Stephen Wolfram's 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine was proved to be universal. Does a 2-state 2-symbol one exist? Additionally, Wolfram's machine is not a decider; it never halts. What's the smallest universal Turing machine that does halt?
>>8194524
Nice riced desktop dude how many chicks has that gotten you
>>8194533
Not as many as you might think. I should start hanging out in coffeeshops more often.
no one /compsci/ here?
Aren't you guys worried about the western open border policy fucking up humanity last hope for greatness ?
>>8199010
We still have Eastern Europe and China.
>>8199010
Intelligent individuals still select intelligent partners.
/pol/ doesn't understand that all the evil (((media))) and border policy in the world won't make intelligent men/women pick partners two or more standard deviations of intelligence beneath them. The people that pair up willingly with those sorts of people weren't doing your gene pool any favors, anyway.
This is a good thing.
Why?
Because it will cause implementation of eugenics and reproduction laws.
Also graphene.
Ok, so... Global warming.
Changes in climate really do occur, but are the reasons for it really as global warming theory says?
Because to me 99.999% of the shit said for Global warming seems so stupid that it can not possibly be true. Can it?
So my question is: Is this just an unproven, fallacious theory or is it actually true?
>>8197069
they do occur.
currently, we're warming up.
human activity is in all likelihood speeding the process.
there's more to this (co2 levels and such, effect of warming on humans, etc), but this is more or less the gist of it. global warming activists are arguing that we should exploit cleaner energy to lessen our impact on the warming. i agree, but not necessarily because i care about the warming; i see it as a chance for more awesome technology. because, you know "burning shit" doesn't...
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>>8197070
forgot to add: the amount of human "help" to global warming should really be, if anything, at the center of the debate. scientifically, this is the case; politically, not so much. people tend to deny that the climate is changing at all, but then again, much of the same public would probably also agree that the earth is 6k years old, so yeah. democracy.
>>8197070
but look at this for example, how do you go about this:
>www . friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=3
debunks global warming theory completely and on top of that it has evidence for every piece of info provided.
things like this are the reason why I have trouble understanding if global warming is just a fallacious theory or if its actually true.
What's the consensus on whether or not it will ever be possible to transfer a human consciousness into a new carrier - either by somehow 'uploading' it to a computer (either with or without a robotic body) or by transferring the brain into a new body?
>Consensus
>2000+ year old philosophical dilemmas
Lol.
You're also muddling a number of topics together.
>>8194775
Uploading will never, ever happen. It just doesn't even make sense when you think about how neurons work.
Brain transfer might happen, though. I think they're supposed to attempt a head transplant next year in Italy on some paralyzed Russian electrician.
>>8194776
>philosophy
>producing anything useful
>ever
It's a field that's better left ignored.
How can science dismiss subjectivity when everything we know is subjective?
Can you give an example of science dismissing subjectivity?
>>8193800
>miracles don't exist
>>8193803
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. All you have are platitudes.
Now an hero before someone else catches your stupid.
High IQ combined with Autism is like a fire of human endeavor burning inside of you.
Hie much AQ points do you get /sci/?
https://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/
What is your potential to contribute greatness?
>>8173951
IQ: ~130
AQ: 30
Humanity desperately needs someone with
IQ: ~180
AQ: ~40
>>8173951
I have sex on a regular basis
>penis envy
>castration anxiety
>interpreted the subjective responses of patients as scientific evidence that they may or may not want to fuck their mother/father
The more I read about this fuck and psychoanalysts, the harder it is for me to see how they contributed to any field of science, let alone psychology.
>>8196510
Penis envy is most certainly real.
You need to bear in mind the era and environment Freud grew up in, which was relatively sexually repressed. This formed his means to unravel and model the psyche.
>>8196512
>penis envy
what the fuck is that? I have 6.5 inches of meat and I'd trade 2 inches just to touch a chicks boobs
>>8196510
I seriously hope modern psychologists don't actually take any of that Freud shit seriously.
What is a good tattoo idea pertaining to math?
I've alwasy really wanted one and I've thought about maybe just getting e^pi(i)+1=0 since it contains 4 cool points of math being e, pi, i , and 0.
thoughts?
Smith chart would be a pretty neat whole back tattoo imho.
>>8191063
platonic solids and their graphs
sine table
So /pol/ says that internet porn has quite a few negative side effects
Is this true? I'm not asking for any political reasons, but for personal ones. I want to know if the negative effects of porn (shpuld there be any) outweigh the pleasure I derive from it
So, what studies have been conducted on this?
>>8198436
Do your own research instead of listening to shitposters and /pol/tards on a "science" board.
>>8198514
/thread
/board
/site
It removed my ignorance of the human form, let me see the human body as bones being forced around each other by constructing tendons and muscles. It opened my eyes to the similarities between the male and female body and how interchangeable they are when you void the reproductive organs.
Note while i am in public, it is easy to tell how people look naked through their clothes, because everyone generally looks the same, with extra scar tissue along the edges of their skin that rub against things more often. This makes me not notice that i am constantly looking men and...
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This is a medically oriented question.
There's a certain vitamin supplement that when I take it leads to a mental clouding
(almost crippling), and a sharp elevation in heart rate and rhythm.
My guesses are I'm either severely vulnerable to sharp elevations in certain nutrients and my dietary patterns otherwise mask this, or my gut bacteria (SIBO) rapidly generate toxic compounds that cross the intestinal wall.
This is it, so you can read the ingredients.
http://www.pureencapsulations.com/multi-t-d.html
Haven't taken any for years....
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>>8198291
Sounds like an allergic reaction. Recent tests have shown that many supplements don't contain what they purport to contain. You might be allergic to some of the 'filler' shit that they put there.
Try different brands and see what happens.
Yes, you're my guinea pig. Do it for /sci/ence.
>>8198299
I have allergies, yes. Soy, corn, whey, peanut, blueberries and cranberries, certain mushrooms. This supplement claims it contains none of these things, at least in a form that would be reactive. But yes, it does resemble a manner of allergic reaction, though an oddly specific one I haven't quite experienced otherwise.
I was my own guinea pig for years. Consistent failure historically probably would have meant suicide. At present I was drinking this juice "Vitajuice", but unfortunately like most...
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Yep. Reading the bottle it claims "free of corn, soy, shellfish, peanut, etc", but reading the product information sheet, most of its contents are derived either from soy or fermenting corn. It's not inconceivable something reactive, or a residual, is present as a contaminate. It does feel just like eating corn or soy.
Well that ruins my today / tomorrow.
Can we get an objective thread about dogs. Most other boards when people post about dogs they start meming doges or pupper bullshit.
What does /sci/ think of dogs?
Personally I despise dogs of all kind because I think they are unclean (shit on the floor if you dont let them out/trian them and lick/drool on shit)
>>8198102
>not having a mind control virus
>>8198102
You want an objective thread about of opinions?
Dogs are remarkably intelligent.
Look at this one helping out his doggy buddy.
http://imgur.com/gallery/BwRjsbT
They are temperamentally almost human.
Computer science Vs Economic degree ?
What is the pay gap and job growth, also the level of intelligence.
>>8197919
If only there were websites specifically built around and researching the viability of various degrees...
>>8197921
I read that, CS degree is becoming like a Law degree, many people with the degree and not enough job
>>8197919
>intelligence
>Computer science
pick one
>have genetic stutter whole life
>have genetic baldness by age 21
>have genetic-disposition hernia at age 22
How soon will humanity find a way to "disable" these genes with science? I want to have kids but won't if it means they'll be subjected to this hell
>>8197886
Stuttering may have a genetic component but it is treatable. Google "stuttering treatment."
Baldness does not matter. Shave your head. If your hair is going to leave you, get rid of it first. Embrace the shaved look. Grow some facial hair like a goatee and see how it looks.
I have no idea about hernias. Can't help you there, bud.
2/3 aint bad, I suppose.
We're not going to have genetic solutions for a long-time because genes interact in a clusterfucking way. You're going to have to take care of it yourself.
