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>>8937661
I do not think so, there are millions of brainlets out there right now who are unable to recognize faces

I'm faceblind. It fucking sucks. I recognize people by their gait and their voice. If someone changes their hair or makeup, I can't recognize them. There have been times that I wasn't sure if a girl was my GF or someone who looked similar.

>>8937896
shit that never happened

We literally already have done that, with the engineering method known as "selective breeding".

A lot of pets have been bred to have features that resemble humans more so that people like them more

Selective breeding for high intellegence has also had some very good results for certain breeds of dogs and birds.

As for using something like CRISPR to make a super smart racoon who can talk, that's a really long way off

>>8937337
>furry

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>>8937346
I mean beyond that, where they are actually bipedal and can talk and use tools and fly spacecraft and consent and things like this

>>8936246
>t-Zn-H2O
trans-Zinc monohydrate?

>>8936246
Doing any STEM subject right now is pretty hit and miss whether you'll be employed directly in that field.

here in Mexico it's one of the best major to study

Art has always stayed on a subjective side of things, no matter the formalities we impose on it. Unlike physical strength, physical attractiveness, games, intellectual disciplines, and other human activities which all can easily have a sense of competition imposed on them, it seems that art emerged purely for the sake of art. Seems like it cannot have any sort of competition imposed on it at all, without destroying the initial idea. Which seems very weird and unproductive for our Darwinian universe. Consciousness also seems to serve no evolutionary purpose, and since there is no reason to objectively value art in an evolutionary sense, we commonly associate two together, like it was commonly thought that "robots are incapable of creativity".

Why do we, as a species, have this nag to create that which cannot be used for inter and intra-species competition, and attribute immense value to it? Why do we think of it as of a hard intellectual activity?

pls respond

>>8935966
it derives from useless aristocrats jerking each other off

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>>8935921
Under the hood? Next to the battery? The soul begins and ends with the brain.

right behind the eyeballs and in the sinus

>>8935921
What is your definition of soul?

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Consciousness is the subjective experience of the mind(sensu biosemiotics) made possible with a symbolic memory.
The mind exists in sign relations.

cogito ergo sum

>>8934883
We don't know our brains well enough to come up with definition of consciousness that would be usefull outside of philosophy. As we know, philosophy is useless itself, so we can't have a usefull definition of consciousness yet

>>8933746
and the people who survived forgot how to write and read?
no it's not possible we would have records of that and of such a cataclysmic event.

>>8933753
I think the event happened more than 10,000 years ago so even if they did write something down on some paper, or clay tablets it just didn't survive that long to reach us. However, some of that knowledge could have been saved grom generation to generation into antiquity but didn't reach us. Also languages change fairly quickly, even if they wrote something on a wall and it survived out linguists would not be able to read it.

We would know if there was a civilization destroying nuclear war at any point in the past. The sudden increase in the concentration of uranium isotopes and the products of their fissile decay, or the decay products of plutonium would be instantly noticeable in the soil layer.

Literally who cares nerd lmao

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>>8933409
My question seems to BTFO'd the nondeterministic fags.

>>8933414
learn about pilot wave theory you faggot.

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>>8931567
If your school has an iGEM team, get involved. I started out as a chemfag for undergrad. I got involved and picked up the tools of the trade for genetic manipulation, plus I got a paper out of it. I'm starting my PhD in this shit in the fall. I also got to go to the conference in Boston, which was dope af
>hooked up w qt biochem girl from Scotland
>tfw we'll never meet again

>>8931667
what was your degree in?

Microbio here

Depends on the level of genetic engineering

>>8937757
>redpill
Fuck off

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>>8937757
Read one of his books.

He discovered a lot of important and fundamental physics concepts which you've never heard of because you're a brainlet

It's kind of pointless to try to just explain quickly because if people list off what he discovered you would just be like "what's that? huh? what's that?"

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>>8935969
>paying money to be forced to take some bullshit sociology elective
>not doing a double major and replacing that with something actually interesting

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>>8935969
Stop using the teenage LoL-player definition of "tryhard".

>>8935969
>tfw I know someone who dropped out of calc 1 but they're double majoring in math and chem

i like it
if you are lack toast and tolerant you should buy lack toast free milk

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>>8934670

Nothing goes better with cookies than cold milk.

Does your body shit out on it? If yes then go with one of the various alternatives if not just skip it all together.

Now is it healthy? Depends, the shitty thing with medicine is they usually can't agree on anything and to be honest you have to realize that despite the fact that they look at national averages your unique situation (racial background, where you're from, diet, lifestyle, etc) will make you very different from an "average".

So just figure out how your body reacts to it.

>>8934438
>chinese cartoon poster
kys desu senpai

>>8934444
desu senpai

>>8934447
Holy shit why cant I post "t b h" "f a m"

How is that anything like philosophy?

>>8928048
philosophy is just a bunch of made up garbage, but math is real

>>8928058
this

7 races

this is a fucking easy question you dumb Amerilard

you just time them dumbass

>>8937642
It actually not.

You're assuming that the horses in the first 5 races who didn't place first aren't faster than the horses who placed first in other groups.