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Hear me out on this:
If it feels so real in our dreams - is what makes us conscious in reality active in our dreams?
In other words - are dreams in a certain sense 'real' ?
I think I'm convinced that dreams are another form of a real reality, and in the future that will be a theory that'll eve tally be proven and will be a part of education discourse.
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If you subscribe to solipism, sure.
But the fact I know I'm not so retarded to give this the actual thought to reply to I know you're a real person far away from me, so that can't be the case.
I think you're just dumb.
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>>8903353
Look into qualia.
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>>8903360
>I'm too stupid to think in a three dimensional perspective
Ok, thanks for the bump.
Bottom line is that if our dreams feel real, that's because there has to be a reason for it.
What makes us perceive our current base reality has got to be activated while we dream, and if that's the case then there's no difference in a certain type of way
This is ripe for a guy smarter than me to make a theory that'll land him a Nobel Peace Prize. Believe it.
>tfw just spent the last 10 hours straight studying for my Calculus (integrals) exam tomorrow
>primed brain for maximum stimulation
>tfw reading brainlet posts on /sci/ doesn't stimulate me in the same way they used to
Any other /smart/bros here getting bored of /sci/ and 4chan in general? It doesn't provide the mental stimulation I need.
>tfw literally too smart to post on 4chan
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>>8903290
fuck off
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>>8903290
>be me
>freshman year
>see the proof of the irrationality of sqrt(2)
>don't even really understand it, but know I have elevated beyond /sci/s collective intelligence
haven't posted for 3 years (since that happened) because it's just depressing knowing how boring the people here are, compared to me
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>>8903290
What's your specialty in calculus? Mine is the product rule.
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Genetics: The Ultimate Slave Holder 2017-05-12 01:31:38 Post No.8902792
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Genetics: The Ultimate Slave Holder
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When will the day come when we are no longer enslaved by our genetics?
What do we have to discover in order to begin altering our DNA into the person we see ourselves as?
This isn't just related to those dialogized with gender dysphoria, but for anybody who has ever gone through plastic surgery to, say, make their eyes more or less round or even to change their features to display traits of other ethnicities.
It's like we as humans want to be enslaved by our genetics. We have religions and political movements and /pol/ to encourage us to stay the way we are. Fuck that. We're slowly controlling our own evolution so why shouldn't we one day break out of our bondage to our genetic code?
Liberals even try to preach tolerance based on the notion that we should accept the way things are in terms of ethnicity. Yet if we were able to say, turn a white man into an asian man, and do this several times over then wouldn't this make race obsolete and racism utterly pointless when anyone could have been anyone?
Given this would never happen within anyone's current lifespan, could such things be possible for the future?
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>>8902792
CRISPR
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>>8902792
search for the "mediated patent equities" article and cry on the reality of biotech research
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>>8902792
>We have religions and political movements and /pol/ to encourage us to stay the way we are. Fuck that
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Where did you guys study?
Also if it's not top 100 don't even post.
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Stony Brook
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>>8902775
/sci/
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Harvard
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Post spooks
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Is it possible to cum so hard you fly backwards?
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yes. im black so while i was banging your gf i ended up being sent back to the dark ages. needless to say i was quite kangly.
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>>8899773
>posts on /sci/
>has a gf
Pick one and only one
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>>8899779
i think i have one. im not sure though. what's a big indicator?
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Do you like it?
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No. It's a cult.
>>>/x/
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>>8898991
more like MoreWrong
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It's a fedora given website form
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What are your thoughts on this rigorously constructed ranking?
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>>8897262
Rankings are gay and lead to shitty threads.
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>>8897262
>Reposting garbage
The quality of /sci/ posts have declined in months.
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Let's get an IQ thread going.
What's your IQ?
What are you majoring in?
What is your current GPA?
What is your gender and race/ethnicity?
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RESOURCES
Raven's Matrices test (the best on the internet):
iqtest.dk
Wonderlic test:
http://wonderlictestsample.com/wonderlic-test-sample/50-question-wonderlic-test/
Wonderlic-to-IQ conversion table:
https://www.us.mensa.org/join/testing/scoreevaluation/testscoreconversion/
Mensa Workout (be sure to self-time):
https://www.mensa.org/workout/quiz/1
Repeating any of these tests lowers their score validity, so try to do your best the first time through. Once you're done with the Raven's Matrices, Wonderlic, and Mensa Workout, calculate your average score to get a reasonable approximation of your IQ.
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>tfw IQ dropped from 134 to 122 in past year due to adderall usage
>tfw did same iq test both times so if anything should have got a higher score the second time
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>>8895399
Which test was it, and has the IQ drop affected your personal life?
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>>8895402
iqtest.dk
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How do l learn math notation? Each time l go into wikipedia l feel like seeing moon runes
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>>8904104
you learn it along the way
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>>8904104
you open a math book
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>>8904104
I'm right there with you. Literally google "math notation" and then just run down the google rabbit hole from there.
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Is intuitively understanding math a meme or are we just stuck saying something is true because we can prove it?
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>>8904001
You can have an intuition for math but it has to rely on proofs as that is the only way to evaluate the truthfulness of your thought.
It's like having an intuition for programming. If the program doesn't run, then your intuition failed you
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>>8904001
Mathematics also requires poking the edges of knowledge. Theoretical physics does this in a way.
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"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
-- janos neumann
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whats with the whole "mars = JELLO BABIES" meme here? why does /sci/ insist that humans cant develop properly in mars gravity when not a single study on human development has been done in mars gravity?
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>>8903951
because reality is not your idiotic sci-fi media
JELLO BRAIN
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>>8903954
not really a valid answer. youre a tool
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>>8903951
Even if that was the case, you could also easily build a rotating hab with a slanted floor which would increase the downward acceleration to earth's and have pregnant women spend most of their time in those
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Metric vs Imperial. Lets settle once and for all. 2017-05-12 07:55:20 Post No.8903467
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Metric vs Imperial. Lets settle once and for all.
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In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.
Also all the prefixes like Mega-, Giga- and Terra are metric. This all makes sense for sience, even in the vastly outdated US uses the Metric system.
In Imperial on the other hand: One gallon of water weighs 8.345404 lbs, occupies 231.28 cubic inches, requires 8.34 BTU's to heat it up by 1° F which is .5555555555% of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. And it kills astronauts. And puppies.
Choose your weapon. And I'm talking to you as well Brit Bongs and Canadicucks. Ameritards are just too indoctrinated by their Jewish masters so they can't look past it. But you surely can??
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>>8903471
This one's funny. Never seen it before
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USA already signed the Treaty of Metre ages ago and all US units are simply conversions from metric. As in they're derived purely from relation to metric units.
So I guess metric won, it just mercifully spared your lives.
What the fuck is the point of learning trig sub for integrals unless you're going to become a mathematician? It's not necessarily hard but it can be a long pain in the ass. And I have rarely seen it used outside of calc II. I've had to use partial fractions more. What's the deal /sci/ ?
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>>8903392
that's not the kind of thing that's important for a mathematician at all. that's just a plug and chug method, and a simple one at this. so memorize it like everything else and keep chugging, my homosexual friend
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>>8903396
I'm not saying it's important but if you're a mathematician I'd expect you to know how to do almost anything math including this. If you were a physicist I would have expected you to have learnt it too but maybe not have kept it memorized.
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>>8903405
a mathematician would probably plug the integral into mathematica or something, and that's if you ever needed to calculate
it's a very simple trick though, and can be deduced if you're familiar with the technique of completing the square
in any case, what's the point with the thread? you didn't complain about memorizing menial shit up to this point, so keep going
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Maxima (Computer Algebra System) 2017-05-12 01:10:42 Post No.8902746
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Maxima (Computer Algebra System)
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>full Computer Algebra System (unlike Matlab)
>Lisp backend
>so easy that can serve as a learning aide
Why are you not using Maxima anon
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looks like some matlab + mathematia, but shitty
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just use mathematica. your school pays for it
stop shilling
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>GPL
Nope.exe