Recent content by C. Bernard

Innate meaning, i think, born with: we are born with certain reflexes. The question is are we born with certain abstract ideas rigth or wrong such as, but not necessarely that one, geometric shapes. An experiment to prove an innate idea? That was my question: has it been attempted? Succesfuly...

Are innate ideas scientificaly proven?

A machine with self-awareness is a oxymoron, or is it? Yet scientists study self-awareness in human and in animals, don't they?

Thanks for helping me understand. I hope that does not mean animals are some sort of a bio-chemical machine. For it would make us just a more sophisticated one, would it not? How evolution caused such a quantum leap in brain development or a progresive one over 2 millions years, is another...

No animal can do that. Well, yes, may be. How can we know for sure that animals when they emit a sound without apparent reason, are not doing just that: retriggering a memory of an event for their own use?

I have read somewhere that dreams have the same function in animals and human: to strengthen and inprint memories in a learning process. If this true, it suggest a somewhat partialy similar apparatus of use and recovery of memories. Since we cannot at this point know exactly what we experienced...

The origin of language is still unknown. My question should have been: are there any studies linking dreams to the origine of language. The fact that aninals dream without the benefit of words suggest to me that they also think without words and even may have some sort of consciousness. Animals...

Animals dream and have no word, so articulate language is not necessary to dream and may be to think. Since one preceded the other, may be there is a relation.

Non-locality is really fascinating. What would happen if two entangled particules were subjected to Einstein's twin paradox theoretical experiment? What is the state of the research on explaining the phenomenon?

Thank you Dr Chinese, Indeed, in itself it does not. However, I understand that Entanglement operates outside of time and space paradigms and therefore it may suggest that, so to speak, there is a void in the space-time continuum where it can do its tricks. A void in space being tantamount to a...

Does entanglement means that space-time is not a continuum after all?

Thank you Demystifier, so if i understood you ,according to the Bohmian theory,in the case i described, using a photon, the particle aspect would go through one slit and the wave aspect through both? So that they would be separated. Could this be verified experimentally?

If the 2-slit experiment is modified by adding apartition between the barrier and the electron detector screen, forming 2 compartiments, the particle willgo in one of the slit, but what about the wave? If it slill goes through the 2 slits,will the wave and the particle be separated? If not, how...

Well, i may have been overly optimistic when i wrote i got it.I sure don't get it anymore. Magnetic fields are function of a volume, but magnetic forces of a surface. But both gravity forces and field are a function of a surface. It seems gravity is a function of "v"/c. What is v: the speed of...

Many thanks to everybody who has intervened in this discussion, i think i get it. As for the magnetic attraction being the inverse of the cube of the distance, i found on wikipedia article "magnet", paragraph "fields of a magnet", so it is not entirely reliable. Still it is amazing than a...