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What do you mean by "less conscious"? I have an intuition about what you mean, but I am curious how it has been defined in the research you are mentioning. Perhaps something related to the use of the pre-frontal cortex (where our ego exists) and amygdala (emotional response)?

Yes, sorry for not distinguishing between different types of information a thing can process. I entirely agree that humans are better at certain tasks over your typical computer (e.g. obviously motor functions, assuming the computer even has arms and legs), and typical computers are better at...

Hi, I’m an undergraduate student interested in cognitive processes. I’m about to ask a very interdisciplinary question, and so hopefully I can find a physicists that can take on the challenge. What is the fundamental reason behind why modern electronic computers (transistor computers) are...

Well there's the kinetic energy coming from the collision, which then gets changed into internal energy (since its an inelastic collision)

My question unfortunately does not fit in the Homework template, so I hope this is okay. I attached a question below which involves multiple parts using the concepts related to energy, work, impulse, and momentum. Under the "Simplify and Diagram" section (you will notice it is in bold text), I...

Oh wow -_______- sorry about not turning my head properly side-ways... I'll be more careful next time before I make a post.

Hi, I'm trying to attempt the "Try it yourself" on the bottom-right corner of the image attached, but I am struggling. As you see in the other image I attached, in one scenario I took into account the kinetic friction (which did not lead me anywhere since I needed to know the velocity of the...

Oh I think I understand what you mean! The co-efficient of kinetic friction is just determined by the contacting surfaces (rubber and concrete in this example) and so the mass of the object does not affect this value. I believe I was under the impression that the co-efficient of kinetic...

Hi, I just started learning physics at university and so I'm looking for help on a simple energy conservation problem. On the bottom right-hand of the image I attached below, you should see that it asks whether the initial speed would increase or decrease if the object was of a greater mass...

Hi, I hope someone can help. I'm wanting to get a better grasp on the connection between the row picture v.s. the column picture of linear systems and their solutions. In the picture below, the row picture are the three graphs on the top and their corresponding column pictures are below them...

Okay. Then what is instantaneous velocity?

Hi, I'm just beginning to learn physics on my own. It seems that instantaneous velocity and acceleration are the same thing. Is it reasonable for me to be confused about the two? If acceleration = final velocity - initial velocity / change in time ... then how this any different from...