Harmonia Philosophica

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    Smart, stupid, IQ, categories...

    At 10 a.m. Monday morning of March 3 (2014), while most of Washington, D.C., lay quietly under a blanket of snow, the U.S. Supreme Court rang with nerve-wracking arguments over the fate of Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall. The question at hand was whether Hall, who in 1978 helped assault and murder a…

  • Wisdom, brain speed, Godfather...

    The older you get... the fuller mind you have. Old people seem to think slower simply because they access a greater volume of stored information! (1) Would you laugh at the Godfather while he was thinking what to do? Wisdom is not compatible with hastiness. Remember that you ignorant brat! He who laughs last laughs…

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    Brain correlations, full cups, thinking...

    Suppose you heard the sound of skidding tires, followed by a car crash. The next time you heard such a skid, you might cringe in fear, expecting a crash to follow -- suggesting that somehow, your brain had linked those two memories so that a fairly innocuous sound provokes dread. MIT neuroscientists have now discovered…

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    What is Science, Prophecies, Peer review, Free thinking.

    Harold Camping died recently. In case you don't remember, Camping, the president of evangelical Family Radio, predicted that the world would end in 2011. Twice. He made these prognostications on the basis of numerology, which sounds like it might be a sophomore-level math subject, but isn't. The data for the calculations Camping used to forecast…

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    Listen to stupid people you Science!

    For centuries people have observed strange phenomena before large earthquakes, such as light emanating from ridges and mountaintops. These reports were once dismissed by many scientists, in part because they are often entangled in unscientific theories. For example, some who reported the lights thought they were produced by UFOs. But the lights are not (necessarily)…

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