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Its all very easy for men to take the moral high ground where such issues are concerned

No evidence for a collective consious ? when an audience claps or cheers or boo's. Mass grief and mourning of an individual. This week £60 million donated to the Asia earthquake by the people of one nation.

Is there any evidence that the contraceptive coil IDU can cause an increase in symptoms or provoke premenstrual tension?

I'm not sure that its so straight forward. To begin with, there is no real definition of what it means or what it is to be conscious and therefore the sub conscious is also a bit of a mystery too. We have knowledge of how we process thoughts and about how some behaviours are more likely than others in a given situation , however it would be useful to know what we are really dealing with when we refer to the conscious and sub conscious and then there’s also collective conscious which Im sure we all accept exists but what’s all that about? My views I'm afraid steer away from logic when looking at consciousness because I believe logical thought although a necessity in our quest to discovery the meaning of everything, inhibits the sub conscious which is part of the life force that makes up this universe, so in some respects yes I believe that the sub conscious drives us but that the conscious mind limits us. Am I nuts or what !

Its the non moving observer who does the measuring.

I thought I understood this not so sure now. Do you mean this, motion has the effect of distorting time. The distortion varies and is not exact This can only be detected by the still observer because the nature of time is relative. therefore its not just the clock which slows down but everything. Have I just made myself look foolish

I depends how much bleach is involved. The ratio of bleach to individual stands of hair along with the length of time left of the head will produce varying degrees of blondness. Those at the full headf of white frizz end of the spectrum are with out doubt dumb. The rest are probably good looking and therefore incite jealousy, which is probably the root of the debate ( ever been to Sweden )

I was involved in a study about drug abuse some years ago. The aim was to understand the nature of addiction by abstaining from our usual soft drug of choice ,then noting reactions. It was interesting to note that the coke drinkers among us suffered more than the coffee drinkers . The symptoms including those already mentioned with a bit of hysteria thrown in. My drug of choice , tea came in at number 4.

No................. In science our observations are given meaning by what are know and predictable patterns of behaviour of what ever we are studying There are no such rules to predict human behaviour. We continue to attempt to do this but really apart from the very basics there’s no clear way of predicting how individuals, groups or societies will act. Psychology has a go at understanding behaviour at the level of the individual, but to my mind this is inadequate because it negates outside influences like social grouping. Sociology is great for explaining the behaviour of groups within particular settings and takes account of important factors such as political systems , social class , religion and wealth, however the behaviours of individuals can not be adequately predicted or accounted for. It appears that we are better at predicting and understanding the behaviour of everything else and that we are still a mystery to ourselves. This, I don't feel is a bad thing.

Rasori, as I get older, It's more apparent to me that common sense is not common. They're more likely to pick those with loads a money. The result , a population dominated by stupid rich people. Hang on a minute, that sounds familiar, maybe its already happened .........

Hi what a pleasent and freindly thread. I'm Michelle, hello

I vote for outside this system because I reckon the chances of finding "life as we know it" twice, within this star sytem are limited in the context of a relativley small system. Our very limited understanding of the science of life may also hinder us in that we are only just begining to grasp the basics of our our own existence, identification of other forms of life and a definition of what constitutes life could prove difficult ! HAPPY NEW YEAR to those who go along with the imposition of GMT

Hi, my first post on this site. A good argument for reproductive cloning is infertility, thats if you believe that infertile couples should be assisted to make new people. In these terms the same sort of " messing with nature " debates went on and there were fears for the health of the first test tube baby, now a healthy 20 something year old. I would envisage that once the technology is available, the problem for reproductive cloning will be who to reproduce, the mother or the father.