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    Uncovering the Influence of Genetics on Favorite Color Choices in Humans

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=colour+preference+innate&meta=" have innate colour preferences, but I woldn't say human's have though. I do believe that we MIGHT have an innate tendency to like the sparkling and luminuos, like jems the sun and stars, but I could be wrong. Maybe a desert...
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    Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist

    "I" didn't write that. It was copied and pasted from another source - the MSN science and technology dept. I thought that "everywhere" was the centre of the universe, just as everywhere/ anywhere is the central point on the surface of a sphere...
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    The 'random' in random mutation

    Random means occurring according to a probablity distribution, not 'arbitrary' or indeterminable. It also means without purpose within the present context.
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    Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist

    The universe is about 13.7 billion years old. Light reaching us from the earliest known galaxies has been travelling, therefore, for more than 13 billion years. So one might assume that the radius of the universe is 13.7 billion light-years and that the whole shebang is double that, or 27.4...
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    Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist

    % of causes. Now the mass of the universe is 3 x 1055 g , and my average weight throughout my lifetime is about 50,000g (50kg). My proportion of the total is therefore 5 divided by 3*10 to the 51, or about 1.7 * 10 raised to minus 51...% of the total. Now I have been around for 30 years...
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    Medical Alcohol and Drug Abuse: Causes of Sexual Dysfunction

    Sexual dysfunction can be caused by antipsychotic medication. Such medicines affect the dopamine pathways in the brain. They are the mesocortical, mesolimbic, the negrostriatic and the tuberoinfundibular. The first 2 are thought to be important in medical therapeutic effects of the medicines as...
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    Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist

    Light cone? Yhankyou! I'll look into it/them. After a brief scan of wikipedia etc I get the concept but not the calculations. Butterfly? Yes, I think you're reffering to chaos theory there, the basic premmises of which I have a grasp of. Infinite. Yes. I take that as meaning without...
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    Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist

    Hello, I am a new user here. Before I go any further I would like to say "hi" to all members. Now on with the post (and I hope I have chosen the right forum). I am a bit of a philospoher and am a "determinist" ie. believe that my actions and thoughts etc are basically a product of the forces...
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