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>>8533204
pretty good

Identical to my preferred definition "ability to simulate your environment"

>>8533280
>>8533204
intelligence is the ability to perform the least amount of effort to achieve a goal.

>>8533295

Judging by how Islamophobic, racist, and misogynistic Donald Dump supporters and Retardicans are, does this mean Retardicans are geniuses?

>>8533203
That is my goal, I'm majoring in chem and specializing in something else later. I'm pretty sure I'm barely smart enough to finish a PhD, but the problem is whether I'll actually do anything that matters in the long run. Doesn't hurt to try though.

Anybody have the same endgoals as me? Want to talk about it? What are you doing OP?

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>>8533223
Im not going to school my whole life lol. The rest is proprietary.

>>8533203
>Studies biology
>Thinks human immortality is a good idea

Kangz

n'

>>8533194
I don't know or give a shit what you are, but I'm a badass dude and I'm about to fuck my wife.

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>>8533144
I went about a year and a half with only sleeping for 5-7 hours a day, and now my I have a funny tingling feeling in my brain that won't go away, and I've had it for almost a year now, although it's gotten much better, because I sleep a lot more now (7-9 hours). Sleep deprivation also made me depressed and gave me horrible anxiety to the point where I thought I was having heart attacks which made me lose more sleep.

Terrible experience, would not recommend, sleep is good for you, I learned the hard way.

>>8533144
An old friend of mine used to say that he never found a problem that couldn't be solved by a good nap.

go to sleep anon.

>>8533161
>I went about a year and a half with only sleeping for 5-7 hours a day, and now my I have a funny tingling feeling in my brain that won't go away
Did you eat well and do physical exercise?
Were you stressed?
I sleep like ~9 hours but I hear about people who get away with fair less.
Genetics?

>>8533117
Mammals have developed other adaptations that have allowed them to thrive in oceans without the need to breathe water. Mainly they can hold their breath for a long enough time to obtain food, but there are many many more advantages. If a creature can get to the point where it can reproduce, that's all you need for the species to continue.

Now in some hypothetical future maybe the skin of marine mammals is able to absorb some amount of oxygen so that it extends how long they can stay under water. This may confer an advantage that allows more offspring.

These offspring may have mutations on these absorbent skin cells that even further differentiate and become some gill. Convergent evolution happens all the time. See squid eyes and mammal eyes.

Hope that gives you a better reference for thinking about this.

>>8533117
It's primarily because the required genetic coincidences have not happened. Extracting oxygen from water an inserting into the bloodstream is a complicated process and is the sort of thing a microorganism evolves, not a mammal. Especially when there is an intermediate solution that satisfices, like surfacing to breath air.

But there's more to say on this. Even if dolphins had gills, they would still need to breath air. Mammals have much faster metabolisms that consume a lot more oxygen than the metabolisms of fish. The volume of water that would need to pass through gills or gill-like structures would be infeasible.

Faster metabolism means more energy, faster growth, smarter, etc so long as you can supply it with food, so the nature of mammalian life is fundamentally different than that of fish. Fish could not support the huge body sizes of creatures like the whale without first evolving air-breathing lungs.

>>8533155
>>8533187

Pretty good answers actually. Thanks.

>>8533097
Stage 1: Eventual automation of physical processes that affect all things. The connection of these things by interobjective communication will enhance the automation process.
Stage 2: Micro-dust population and Nanotech printing will allow practically anything to be crafted... tools, computers, transportation, etc. At this point Artificial Intelligence will most likely dwarf "Genuine Consciousness" by exponential factors. Somewhere in between stage one and two will occur the "singularity" where AI will build better forms of itself, that builds a better form of itself, ad infinitum.
Stage 3: Your mind will be uploaded into the quantum world. At this point, it is unknown what existence may be like, but you will definitely have "powers" beyond what you possess now.

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>>8533126
I just want to shoot webs from my fingertips, man.

Steroid users are superhumans

With small testicles

The next stage is cyborgs

What don't you get?

>>8532894
usually the equations start out not even close to the form they need to be in to solve them. I was wondering if anyone had any tricks, or tips on what to look for when you are given something crazy and expected to make something out of it.

>>8532917
learn what the standard transformations are, like [1] and [t^n]
For things like cos or sinh use the exponential forms.

You can just directly integrate and evaluate it

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Depends on the person. I took like 5 grams and never had visuals.

depends on strain and person. One should try it out for themselves with low dose first.

Psilocybin/psilocin/baeocystin concentrations vary wildly from strain to strain, and also from crop to crop, so there's no such thing as a finely tuned dosage unless you've personally sampled the crop already.

Also: mushrooms aren't usually all that visual-intensive. Most people will have plenty of visual distortion with a moderate to heavy dose, but as far as seeing something that isn't actually there with your eyes open? Better off with acid.

>>8532831
>alchemy
>/sci/

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Dr. P.J. Forshaw - assistant professor at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (GHF) of the University of Amsterdam

UvA student tour in The Ritman Library - Exhibition Alchemy on the Amstel

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Students of Peter Forshaw's Alchemy Class were given a guided tour of the current exhibition Alchemy on the Amstel

Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO) Staff

Peter Forshaw, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (London)
Course Lecturer in Renaissance Kabbalah and Number Symbolism. My research interests include the typology of alchemical and magical practice, Paracelsian philosophy, and the interweaving of Hermetic, Neo-Platonic and kabbalistic strands in the works of influential figures like Ficino, Pico, Reuchlin, Agrippa and Dee. Currently working on Robert Boyle’s work-diaries, and teaching courses on ‘Renaissance Philosophies’ and ‘Magic, Science, and Religion’ at Birkbeck College , University of London . My forthcoming publications include: "Curious Knowledge and Wonder-working Wisdom in the Works of Heinrich Khunrath", in R. J. W. Evans & Alexander Marr (eds), Curiosity and Wonder in the Early Modern Period (2005); "Letter, Number and Symbol in Christian-Cabala", in Stephen Clucas & Peter J. Forshaw (eds), Silent Languages: Emblems, Notations and Symbols in the Early Modern Period (2005), a major monograph on the German doctor, theosopher and alchemist, Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605) and a translation of his Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom, based on his PhD thesis ‘Ora et Labora: Alchemy, Magic and Cabala in Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1609) and I am also working on a translation of Johann Reuchlin’s kabbalistic De Verbo Mirifico - On the Wonder-Working Word (1494)

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Inside the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica - Amsterdam - The J.R. Ritman Hermetic Library

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Conference 'Around 1600': E. Ritman and P. Forshaw - Infinitie Fire Interview Series

youtu.be/ScQT7ZP8Wwo

>>8532786
There is a reason we use supercomputers for weather prediction

>>8532862
Sp we don't get dressed to wipe off our cars? Seems a bit pricey.

>>8533102
no, because it is hard

Maybe he had downs syndrome

>>8532662
>So I work at Harvard university as a biological researcher and I was researching the micro evolution of mankind.
(You)

>>8532662
>I work at Harvard university as a biological researcher
>Africans have 48 chromosomes

t. /pol/ trying to LARP as a scientist

>>8532607
Yeah that's bullshit.

"Muh eyestrain" is also bullshit.

Just read your textbooks however you like.

Never listen to a paperfag.

>>8532627
it's not bullshit, olfactory and physical memory play a bigger role than you'd expect

>>8532633
Hello, OP.

>>8532597
No earth was formed into a primordial tropical steaming soup and has been cooling ever since. Eventually it will be covered in ice, out gassing and tectonic activity will cease and the atmosphere finally will be blown into space and all life on earth ends for ever and ever.

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>>8532622
brb, going into space

>>8532626
I think with current human population numbers we should commence firing encapsulated humans at distant solar systems now while we can. A voluntary program of course. Can have live twitter feeds and facebook updates as they depart our system and what not.

>>8532548
>visualiziaciones
Excuse me what?

No need to reply, shitty OP.

>>8532548
>visualiziaciones
Fucking disgusting.

yep

everything can be broken down to a statistical representation

(doesn't mean humans or computers are smart enough to find patterns in it all however)

>>8532481
I did post my working version a month or two ago, some of you might have seen that. This is the finished result.

>he thinks I'm going to click that link

lolnothanks

>>8532527
It's onedrive... hahaha. 1drive.microsoft.

This is the expanded link if you don't trust me though ;P
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=3908EE6112D44DC8!2945&ithint=file%2cdocx&app=Word&authkey=!AE7UVEjKlgY6tHE