Suppose that someday, when humanity gets advanced enough to do stuff not imaginable today (reviving dead people, building simulations), they also make up some new method/machine/whatever that can design a brain down to even the atomic level (thus, even your memories are remade). And suppose that, after you have died, they arrange a brain that just so happens to match your exact brain, at this moment, by random.
Do "you" come back to life? The same "you" that is reading this post right now? What are your thoughts on this?
>>8400535
piss off, philosophy and psychology was killed by science
Although I think all the brain can be segregated down to atomic level and memories and events can be bought back by neurology and stuff, Consciousness may not be created because it has no physical, atomic presence, How can Consciousness be recreated in this method? If not then I cannot,after my death perceive the present as I am right now.
I'm pretty certain I die every day.
>Those few sweet moments when you wake up and don't know who you are before your memories and personality load up
What are the thinking man's games?
Pic related is Spacechem by the way.
Bioshock Infinite
TIS-100
Khan academy
How do we prevent this?
>inane shit children say
>profound
kek
we lose curiosity when we stop thinking about our surroundings and start carring more about things like our career or similiar. But maybe we don't care about those "silly" questions and they start to feel disappionted when asking those. Maybe it's not only the gap between first and twelth class, maybe it's the way we look at our world.
>>8399762
I fucking love and miss Sagan. Great man and scientist. He's what got me into cosmology.
Why is math so difficult for the average person? From the starting point in a math problem, there is only one, or at most a few ways you can go and one you get started the next steps follow logically. Like, if you paid attention in class and understand the rules, you should be able to see what symbols to write write where even if you don't have an intuitive understanding of what it means. I'm not talking about topology or stuff that requires visualizing abstract geometric objects, I mean the classes a typical person takes; the average person struggles with Calculus I, which is nothing but new ways of applying algebra.
I would expect English (or composition in any language) to be the hardest subject to do well in, since every assignment requires original, self-generated thought, but that isn't the case.
They think it's a waste of time so they can't be bothered to actually pay attention or try to make connections.
Most students memorize steps instead of understanding concepts.
>>8397880
Because normalfags are stupid as always
They are pretty much the low 50% of the world's intelligence, so they do rather study psychology or education because they can't do shit
But sometimes there are exceptions when there are good people that have high intelligence but they stay on psychology and education and do nothing important to themselves or their intelligence
In a few words: what you said is true plus FPBP
What pens/pencils do you /sci/entists use? Just ordered the Uniball Kuru Toga & Uniball Vision Elite. Both seem pretty /comfy/ to use.
>not working in your head
>>8394281
this is the only acceptable answer.
>>8394283
>submitting thoughts for grades
>“I’m convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket"
We Space Race now?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-04/boeing-ceo-vows-to-beat-musk-to-mars-as-new-space-race-beckons
>corporate space race
just goes to show you that the history of the future will be written by non state actors.
how tragic.
he's referring to the SLS huh?
This is like some lie they are pushing, that the SLS is a "mars rocket"
>>8392298
>SLS
Who wants to be stuck in an oversized apollo capsule for the 3 month trip to mars?
At least Musk is making his Mars ship BIG.
http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-super-smart-children-1.20537
>The research emphasizes the importance of nurturing precocious children, at a time when the prevailing focus in the United States and other countries is on improving the performance of struggling students
>In Europe, support for research and educational programmes for gifted children has ebbed, as the focus has moved more towards inclusion. England decided in 2010 to scrap the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, and redirected funds towards an effort to get more poor students into leading universities.
>These kids often don't need anything innovative or novel,” he says, “they just need earlier access to what's already available to older kids.
>“The education community is still resistant to this message,” says David Geary, a cognitive developmental psychologist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, who specializes in mathematical learning. “There's a general belief that kids who have advantages, cognitive or otherwise, shouldn't be given extra encouragement; that we should focus more on lower-performing kids.”
why are we wasting so much potential?
>>8391240
>>8391206
Careful not to respond to the bait, guys. We can actually have a non-retarded discussion about education if we DON'T ENGAGE THE SHITPOSTERS.
>why are we wasting so much potential?
It's a numbers game, there are more "non-gifted" people than "gifted" people. Also from an economic point of view while it is advantageous to have as many talented people in employment, there really isn't enough available positions to properly satisfy (high paying jobs with good benefits) those talented/high IQ/etc. people who is out there. So you're kinda stuck with a talent pool filled with wasted potential regardless.
There’s also the fact that since those "non-gifted" people make up a large portion of any given population the economy would tank if they didn't have some form of buying power (which means you need a decent job).
>>8391259
wouldn't talented people be more effective at creating jobs though? I think we have plenty left to innovate/discover.
the article also says the top 1% and 0,01% affects society much heavily than its numbers
1. imo we don't have resources to nurture/identify all talented children and who are stuck together with less talented peers are fucked, because class dynamics go for the lowest common denominator e.g. it is frown upon to leave others behind
2. I agree on the numbers game in a different context though. Politics/popularitics works by the majority, one person accounts for one vote. By definition the top 1% will always be a minority thus the focus on quantity over quality
What's your career /sc/entists ? Wich field of science have you choosen and why? Also, have you done one or two years in another discipline before your final choice ? Sorry for my poor english.
>>8401719
I'm studying mathematics and specializing myself in computational mathematics, following the steps of Papa Wildberger.
I chose mathematics because my passion is taking any real world problem and turning it into a solvable mathematics problem and group theory, graph theory and game theory have my fucking back on this.
I would never EVEN THINK of wasting my time in an inferior field. Mathematics for life.
>>8401733
why do you think that other fields are inferior ?
>>8401743
Other fields are just applications of mathematics. Mathematics is at the top of a long hierarchy of fields and everything mathematicians do end up slowly trickling down to the fields below it.
But in the end if it was a matter of perspective. Do you want to be the master of the universe? Then you study mathematics. Are you fine with being just the master of the galaxy? Then you do you and study physics. Maybe you want to be the master of the solar system, so you study chemistry. You may also want to be the master of the earth, so you study biology. Maybe you want to be the master of only society, so you study psychology. Or perhaps you want to be the master of nothing and be a waste of oxygen, so you study sociology.
Should popsci be banned? If you could go to jail for writing popsci articles that mis-represent research, the plebs would be forced to read Science and Nature to get their science news, and we would have the added benefit of punishing dishonest journalists. What do you think?
>>8401617
>the plebs would be forced to read Science and Nature to get their science news,
FTFY: The plebs would not give a shit about science at all.
>Should popsci be banned?
On this board? Yes.
>>8401617
Should popsci be banned?
Yes.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Tens of millions of cows are killed each year and only 40,000 are tested for the disease above. What is the chance that thousands of people have contracted this disease, but they die from other causes before the prions can be identified.
Makes you think
>>8401206
I stumbled on some way back field while wandering around the woods years ago. There were decapitated cows everywhere, but in my limited surveying of the immediate area, more bodies than heads. There was likely blood on the ground, and I had no shoes and open injuries on my feet. Thought of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and left.
Makes me think.
The prion cannot be destroyed by most methods of sterilizing. It is close to indestructible due to its shape and it replicates itself until it kills its host.
It is not a bacteria, virus, or fungi.
>>8401214
>wandering around the woods
Can someone explain this to my tiny little brainlet brain?
How can z be mapped onto (the cross product) z*z?
Aren't z*z and z mapped onto z essentially the same thing? Is this talking about a three dimensional graph?
I understand how to get the answers to the given problem, just not the concept of z mapped onto z*z and google only turns up complex analysis discussions and this is a little below that (2xx level discrete)
pls halp my tiny brain comprehend this
>>8401176
off yourself my dude
there's being a brainlet and then there's being a fucking retard.
>>8401184
does that mean you dont know the answer?
>>8401189
That's what it means.
Seriously retarded question coming in. Be warned.
How would I foil this using the first outer inner last method to achieve the result x^3-x^2+x-1?
(x-1)(X-1)(X-1)
Yes, I am in college but school has always taught a common factor method. Just curious.
>>8400620
Brainlet.
>>8400620
Easiest way is to break that shit up:
1) Deal with this only (x-1)(x-1)
2) You will get something along (ax^2+bx+c)
3) Then distribute, (ax^2+bx+c)(x-1) you should get six terms, some of which will combine
>>8400624
But at least I have the quadratic formula and understand complex numbers. Half my class cannot memorize the QF. Admittly, I'm still grasping Cramer's law.
What's the selfish gene equivalent of math/chemistry/physics books?
Link pdfs.
http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/Richard_Dawkins_The_Selfish_Gene.pdf
>>8400353
Fuck off >>>/trash/
popsci is popsci
>>8400362
>has probably never read the book
>believes if he echoes the opinions of retards who've disguised themselves as intellectuals enough their perceived intelligence will eventually rub of on him.
Brainlets these days.
Do we live in a multiverse? What would you say the odds are we live in one?
>>8400265
50%. Either we do or we don't.
>>8400265
define multiverse
>>8400271
More than one universe.
Apart from the "practice until your brain bleeds", how does one improve mental calculations?
never use paper
>>8400193
Jump off a sufficiently tall structure so you become fully paralysed neck down.
>>8400193
Learn better methods of doing the same operation. Practice serial processes until the rhythm is natural and intuitive. Favor general methods over specific ones, but don't ignore methods that work very well in specific cases.
eg
9555354354390093290888343 x 5 = ?
In a general case you just move from right to left and track carries as you do so. But more deficient in a multiplication by 5 is to just add a 0 on the end, then separate out each set digits that form even numbers, and divide by 2.
9555354|354|390|0932|90|888|34|30
4777677|177|195|0466|45|444|17|15
= 47,776,771,771,950,466,454,441,715
etc. There are a lot of methods for a lot of tasks. Have to also bear in mind which ones work best for your own neurological machinery. ie, if like me, you often have subpar working memory capacity, you might want to hold any carries in a different way, else you will lose elements of the whole.