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Is there a limit to how much emotion one could theoretically feel, considering emotion is based entirely on chemicals? Could there be a hard cap to how much chemicals your body can produce to make you feel whatever emotion your brain decides on?
For example, dopamine. Is there a certain concentration you could reach to where any more would stop affecting you, or to where your body cannot produce more?
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>>8504000
How can you quantify an emotion.
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Dopamine ins't just used for emotion. It is also used for mechanical functions such as postural stability. this gives rise to the thought that these neurotransmitters are only associated with emotions, and not actually responsible for emotions themselves.
Also, if you take into account that people faint from severe stress, then yes there is some sort of limit to emotions, but each emotion may have their own limit.
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I don't think concentration of neurotransmitters necessarily corresponds to 'intensity' of emotion (if such a thing could even be measured) - and I don't think you can reasonably say that emotion is entirely based on chemicals.
Is the existence or not of free will a scientific question?
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>>8503975
It's only science if you can come up with a testable hypothesis.
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>>8503975
no it's a completely meaningless circle jerk question
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>>8503997
Are you just a Popper fan?
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Why is the human brain so shit /sci/? 2016-11-29 07:06:32 Post No.8503863
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Why is the human brain so shit /sci/?
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I have a math exam in the morning and Im cramping like crazy but I just figured out by seperating ideas into ridiculous things it makes it easier to remember the stuff. Why is the human brain so shit that you have to do this just to remember things constantly?
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>>8503863
The average human brain is in fact not shit, but you on the other hand, your a different story...
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>>8503868
>cant remember logical equations
>easily remembers any stupid emotional bulllshit
Yh the human brain is real efficient.
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>>8503877
It's optimized for survival of the species, kid.
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I am have a really hard time with this. I am supposed to correct and explain what I did wrong but I have no idea what I did wrong. Can anyone help?
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The lack of image focus is giving me a headache. Also sideways
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Shit. Sorry. Is this better?
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Also there's a back. That's that side I did the worst on.
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>doing just fine in core classes
>lowest grade is in my stupid architecture class that I'm taking for an art credit, might get a B
Why do universities make us take these stupid liberal arts classes?
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>>8503767
It goes deeper than just getting credits and expanding your knowledge, and once you get older you will see the truth. Even seemingly pointless classes have their place.
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How could you possibly not get an A in what's basically a very limited scope art history class.
also
>gpa
are you considering graduate school or something otherwise who gives a fuck.
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>>8503767
Did you have to take an art class or could you have done any humanities course?
Also why didn't you just take computer graphics?
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Please help! Im trying to help my little brother with this final equation, but I have no idea what is going on
Question: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 29 inches. The lengths of the two legs are given by two consecutive integers. Find the lengths of the two legs.
Smaller Value:
Larger Value:
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>>8503734
You can't even solve that?
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>>8503734
(You)
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>>8503734
What famous Greek mathematicians loved right triangles?
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So, I have a suitemate who I have to dorm with for 3 more weeks. Seeing as I am moving to an apartment and that this dude is a complete asshat, I wanted to do a harmless prank before I left. I was thinking along the lines of a small amount of contact explosive, like Nitrogen Triiodide, but I've made that before, and it stains everything. Are there any /sci/ themed pranks out there that won't get me expelled? Thanks.
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>>8503647
shit in his bed
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>>8503647
Cooking meth and diluting it into a cup of tea/coffee you make him?
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Dead Hooker in his trunk.
Always good for a laugh.
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Can someone tell me which variable is dependent and which is independent please? Thanks a million
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>>8503573
I will, if you turn the pictogram horizontal, merci.
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>>8503576
here you go
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/math 4x+3 / sqrt(8x+2)
5x^2/7x
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extra-terrestrial life 2016-11-29 03:07:45 Post No.8503551
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Hey /sci/
I'm not a science fag, but I was thinking the other day. Since we have discovered most the naturally occurring elements, wouldn't other advanced life look like us, or at least similar?
Assuming there is only carbon-based life, how could life advance to the point we have reached without relatively resembling us in some fashion?
Also drunk as shit right now, but thought this made sense.
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All life on EARTH doesn't even "look like us". An octopus doesn't look like us, and they're pretty surprisingly intelligent. A bird doesn't look like us, but some of them are pretty damn smart.
If any body shape or morphology appears on Earth, as long as it's physically large enough, there's no reason it couldn't end up as smart as a human if it somehow had selective pressure to become smarter. If advanced alien civilizations existed, they could very reasonably be squid things, or plants, or slugs, or a superorganism like a manofwar.
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>>8503551
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry
TL;DR: Maybe, maybe not.
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>>8503558
Could they though? Could squids build skyscrapers, do abstract maths etc etc.
Hard to say I guess Idfk
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“There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”
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True. I remember i wanted to kill myself a while ago but i didn't because I didn't want to die without knowing everything first.
Funny part is no matter what i do i will never know everything, but for some reason i still view it as a valid reason not to off myself.
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>>8503354
"The SF created us to enjoy our suffering. … The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans."
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>>8503373
This
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Why is Civil engineering stuck 100 years in the past and building cities like picrelated isn't a fully automated process yet?
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>>8503312
>Why is Civil engineering stuck 100 years in the past
its not. your perception of technology is retarded. you have been reading to many pop-sci click bait articles and think we are more advanced than we actually are. you are like every freshman mechanical engineering major who think he is going to build an iron man suit and be Tony Stark.
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Civil engineering is probably impossible to fully automate because basically every project is its own prototype. Nothing is ever the same because of changes in geography, demography, budget, resources, needs, time constraints, climate, etc...there's so many factors totally out of our control.
Construction, on the other hand, is on its way to being partially automated, but even then there will probably always be some people necessary.
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>>8503319
>literally pilling wet sand and praying it to not fall
Civil engineering is a meme, thank god I live in a patriotic wooden house.
What the fuck happened here?
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>>8503245
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>>8503245
TRIPFAGS
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>>8503245
flooded river delta
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So...
How does one operate a distillery in zero gravity?
I understand fluid dynamics change.
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I don't know but now I want to blow a week's worth of semen in zero gravity.
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>>8503187
Why is that man drinking his own pee?
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I don't think you can make traditional whisky in space..
So how do I do it?
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Absorbing information more effeciently? 2016-11-28 23:27:33 Post No.8503124
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Absorbing information more effeciently?
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Hey /sci/, I was going to post this in /adv/ or /g/, but I figured that you guys would probably know more about this topic and provide better answers than any of the people in the other two boards.
I am a very weird reader. I'm also kind of a slow one. When I read something online, I can skim through it and absorb shit easily, but when I sit down to read a book or a tech document, I read much slower and it's more difficult for me to absorb the information. It's almost like I treat reading completely differently in these two different scenarios.
My question is: How can I more efficiently absorb information while reading in general? Why can I read bullshit things so easily but when it comes to wanting to read something serious, I have to struggle with it?
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>>8503124
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Stop reading and switch to audiobooks
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>>8503381
Most audiobooks I find have the following problems:
1: The person reading them sounds like a fucking robot.
2: The person reads slower than I do.
3: The microphone is shit.
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What?
Some people seriously value animal life above human life?
Explain this to me.
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I personally value human life more than animal life.
However, I think that the stance they take is due to the idea that animals can be seen as more "innocent" than humans. Humans have the ability to be "evil" to some degree, while animals are simply doing what animals do.
I disagree with their point of view because as animals ourselves, any kind of "evil" that we commit is simply because that is what we do.
I value human life over animal life because I understand that a single human has the potential to amount to more in society than most animals ever will.
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>>8503106
>valuing """human""" """life"""
I shiggy
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>>8503118
It's an internally broken argument. Yeah, animals are incapable of being "evil". Guess what, they also are incapable of being "good" or "kind". They aren't innocent. Being incapable of commiting crime doesn't make you innocent, it disqualifies you from being both innocent and guilty.