Recent content by Kilyke

Intriguing, but what does this say about purpose? Sure, we have desires, but those desires are no more our purpose than it is our purpose to survive. This is confusing what something DOES with its "purpose". Purpose isn't an action, its the goal of the actions. The purpose of working isn't to...

At the risk of exposing my ignorance, what exactly is string theory? I'm not talking about the idea that everything's made of tiny multidimensional vibrating "strings"... that part I got (though didn't really understand)... and, arguably, that's just speculation. But even if the "theory"...

Hmm, maybe I ought to read the article again. Actually my questions really had less to do with biocentrism and more to do with questions of consciousness. At least, that was my intent. But since people felt inclined to comment on biocentrism, I suppose I'll reply to those comments. First of...

The subject-object dualism seems inescapable, ingrained in our science, our language, and our way of thinking about the world. Some would even go so far as to say it "created" our world. Biocentrism (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31393080/ns/technology_and_science-science//) postulates that...

I really like what Victor Frankl says about happiness: "If there is a reason for happiness, happiness ensues, automatically and spontaneously, as it were. And that is why one need not pursue happiness, one need not care for it once there is a reason for it. But, even more, one cannot pursue...

Huh, good call on the AP books. But, if you want, there's also: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/notes.shtml ... Good site to explore if you're interested in basic chemistry... someone else on this forum suggested it.

Chemistry 101- If you're interested... Orbitals= the likely location of an electron in an atom... kind of like if you pluck the guitar string and you see the blur of vibration and you know the string is (likely to be) somewhere in that blur... its all probabilities when it comes to...

High School Chemistry 101- If you're interested... Orbitals= the likely location of an electron in an atom... kind of like if you pluck the guitar string and you see the blur of vibration and you know the string is (likely to be) somewhere in that blur... its all probabilities when it comes to...

I'm not sure what it is you're asking so maybe I shouldn't be replying... I'm only in high school level chem So you know that violates the octet rule, right? Carbon would have to form a quadruple bond with another carbon in order for it to be right in terms of the octet rule... but according...