Recent content by j0nis0n

sorry late response but yeah i got a few questions how are you liking the major at ucla? (tough/easy/not bad if you love the subject) cause i applied to ucla and ucsd. they both have pretty good cog sci programs i heard. what is it generally about? i looked at all the course descriptions but...

if aliens from an advanced civilization came to Earth and tried to communicate with us using math, do you think we will be able to understand? for example: being shown on the history channel, an astronaut brought back footage of an object in space catching up with the space shuttle, stopping...

is anyone here majoring in cognitive science or know a little about it? i know it's a new area of study. it is my second choice in a major (following astrophysics), so i have a few questions to those who know about it.

thanks dave. that's the answer i wanted to hear. now i know the answer and then some more info. but yes, i know a little about quantum mechanics that electrons are measured by the probability they are in a certain area rather than the path they follow around the atom's nucleus.

doesn't the iq test measure a person's ability to interpret patterns rather than to actually measure his iq? i think the max score on the tickle iq test is higher than 144. i got a 160+, not legitimately of course. i also wanted to know the upper limit score.

is there an answer? i doubt there is one. it's like determining which of the statements is true and false: The statement below is true. The statement above is false.

(my first post) so i was watching a video on einstein's general theory of relativity when i realized that every solar system diagram shows the planets revolving around the sun on a two dimensional plane. do they really revolve at all the same level of say..a flat zero degrees, or do they...