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StringJunky

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  1. Have you tried talking to yourself via a large mirror? That might help you home in on your self-consciousness by seeing yourself and may help find a strategy to alleviate it in social situations.
  2. Strictly speaking, it's a subject matter concerned with the transition from non-living molecular systems to ones that make up a living system or organism. It, therefore, contains hypotheses about the advent of life but is not a hypothesis in itself. When you talk about the advent of life, 'abiogenesis' is where you put it, as a category.
  3. You are clearly emotionally wedded to this subject and it's the best thing to do sometimes. We have people with psychiatric issues frequently and we treat them the best we can but we don't try and be what we are not and it's not allowed.
  4. Because motivations precede actions. The action needs to agree with the motivation. The contrary is putting the cart before the horse.
  5. Yes, it also applies if it affects those around you as well.
  6. No drugs are side-effect-free. It's all relative to your own experience what is bad and what is not. It's all about weighing up the benefits vs adverse effects.
  7. If a persistent behaviour or thought process, that is not easily within your control, affects your life pathologically it's an illness.
  8. And they will use a reference source to obtain that definition...they don't de facto define words...but still...
  9. I think you read what he wrote in the wrong way. " And all treatments, for all disorders, have side effects. Even something as simple as aspirin." (my bold)
  10. I don't think dictionaries define words as much as record common usage of the day.
  11. Somoeone here once said: "When you open your mouth, your brains are on parade".
  12. StringJunky

    The Wall

    Concerning the OP: the tit-for-tat reversals are ridiculous.
  13. StringJunky

    The Wall

    Yes, but the lyrics I quoted are reminiscent of republican intolerance to minorities.
  14. Could the rate of growth/ reproduction be enhanced in the environment with music simply due to increased access/distribution to nutrients caused by the vibrations? Replenishment is quicker. The vibrations reduce or remove the nutient's concentration gradient around the colony.
  15. StringJunky

    The Wall

    Your title reminded me of the Floyd album. Remind you of anyone?
  16. A behavioural disorder can be a symptom of a mental disorder but not the other way round, which is pretty much what tkadm30 is saying. A mental disorder has involuntary consequences whereas the other could be either voluntary, involuntary or somewhere in between.
  17. Unconscious decision/process = predeterministic action. This is what I meant. I could have put it better.
  18. By what process, in that circumstance, if an unconscious decision can't be made?
  19. it's got a solid glass electrolyte so I would guess it could run hotter than 80-90C, which is about the safe limit of a good lithium-ion isn't it? I found this 2014 paper that seems to bear this out:
  20. Most of the time, but there will be occasions when ambivalence occurs, then an extra conscious step is needed before engaging which action to take, I think. By ambivalence, In this context, I mean when internal demands are of conflicting but equal importance. That's part of the freewill bit.
  21. Free will is an emergent property of a whole bundle of signals; it's a specific kind of information. Do the meaning of the words I've just written exist; the meaning/content is an emergent property of the set of signals that come from the text.
  22. Cutting down to the essence: any aspect of mind is a bunch of signals working in a concerted manner and the substrate matters little, be it biochemical, electrical wiring, or anything else, other than it needs some thing to produce the signals and a network to carry them.
  23. He's a four-letter word. He's the type you see leading some African or Eastern European countries. In more favourable circumstances he'd be a Kim Yong-Un. There's going to be some serious navel-gazing by by America and the other NATO countries as well, probably. He's narcissism gone rampant. In my opinion.
  24. I imagine it would be a feeling that you were at the centre of universe; a point of perfect stillness.
  25. Is the direction of gravity the key signal that determines spatial orientation and the brain adjusts to that?
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