Mind Definition and 285 Threads

When you begin your transitional period from student to professor. I bet most of you will say during your graduate studies or even beyond that stage of learning

Would it be possible to say that the brain in some aspects has nothing to do with the functionality of the mind? For me personally, I don't care how my brain works, it's totally irrelevant for me living my life, but what does this mean? To me it seems obvious that we have to separate the mind...

Hi I was wondering if you guys know any VERY cool labs I could use? I want to demonstrate the lab to my student body and i want it to interest them very much so we get more students interested into sciences.

Perhaps someone can offer me some opinions; I don't really know what to research at this point. My mind absorbs the world like a sponge and I have a photographic representation of my entire life going back to 5 years old, with a few memories going back to 2 years old. My memories are as...

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"] How can I Improve my problem solving skills using my mind only?

Are mental phenomena such as experience, thought and qualia just an epiphenomena? The "exclusion argument" per Yablo: Ref: Yablo (1992) "Mental Causation" To put it even more simply, the cause of a switch in a computer changing position is due to the local affects of voltage on that...

Im curious if anyone knows if it is theoretically possible to place the human mind into an infinite loop in a similar manner to the placing an electronic computer into one. If not, why? What is principle physical/neurological process that prevents this from occurring?

is there a technical term for when the mind cannot distinguish between what is real, and what is not. I've read many stories of people doing mental training for basketball, vs those who did know training, and those who did actual physical training, and those who did the mental training, actually...

can we only remember a certain amount of information, after that we can't remember more no matter what? is the capacity of mind limited?

I'm new here and I am dumb as rocks in physics. I need a couple of semesters of physics for my degree. By the way my name is Jon. I am extremely happy I found this site! I never had a Physics course before last semester! Guess what happened? I failed it! It was only introductory physics...

I am aware that establishment opinion is that a persons mind forms as as a consequence of the brain. But i was wondering how do we know that for sure? could it be possible that the mind actually gives rise to the brain? as nueroscientists still do not know how the computer modeled brain actually...

Law of Magnetic Attraction??Power of mind over matter?? Hello all you brainy people :-) I am new to the forum and not a physicist. Can you all please explain how this could be achieved even under so much scietific scrutiny? http://www.magneticman.org/ (please do think about it...

Anyone seen this show? This guy is a mentalist/hypnotist who goes around doing apparently remarkable feats of suggestion and hypnosis. It's reminiscent of David Blaine in format, but very much more interesting for psychological reasons. The two remarkable feats he performed on the episode...

Hello! I wonder if anyone here that can communicate with the subconscious mind. I have tried many times but i don't get any signs. I have bought the book thegeniewithin Harry W Carpenter. I wan't to know if someone here can communicate with the subconscious mind that can help me.

Can the way we perceive time be explained by time dilation? When you think of our consciousness as being the motion of the spark(s) moving around on the circuit board we call our brain, the only part of ourselves that is moving at near c. Add a little adrenaline which increases the...

In terms of the brain why is it that the vast majority of legendary artists are men?

The New York Review of Books got Lee Smolin to do a 10-page review of a handful of recent Einstein books. It's definitely stereoscopic (3D). with a sense of the complex personality. nice to see the oversimplified popular images countered http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20279 Mark Trodden of...

Is this a valid thing for society to aim for? Would this do more harm than good? Technology is capable of taking us towards this.

I have two convolution problems, that I would like to be sure are right. If someone wouldn't mind the fun job of checking these, that would be great. QUESTION: Compute the convolution of x(t) and h(t) where: 1: x(t) = u(t) h(t) = e^{-at}u(t), \,\,\, a>0 2. x(t) = u(t) -...

Very interesting clip about a scientist who mapped neuron cell firing patterns in a monkey's brain while the monkey was playing a simple video game. The scientist then makes a breakthrough discovery that you will see...

Everytime i write down something the thing that is in my mind is right, but what i wrote down is completely different. For instance, if I wrote down two plus two and stopped and thinked thinking it is four I would write down two instead of four for some odd reason. It's like I'm lingering off...

Meet Daniel Tammet, a 27 year-old math and memory wizard. He can do things with numbers that will truly amaze you. He is a savant. . . with a difference. Unlike most savants, he shows no obvious mental disability, and most importantly, he can describe his own thought process. Join correspondent...

Let's keep this about the subject. This isn't about religion, but about people believing in one thing (creationism) and pursuing an advanced scientific degree. Some say it is for carrying the "legitimate" degree in order to give credibility to creationism and shouldn't be allowed if they...

H e l p m e I want code for gauss elimination by C++ for solving my homework

My mind has gone fallow, and I can't quite understand factoring a number into two coprime numbers. What happens if the number of divisors is odd?

What are the prerequisites for great new scientific ideas? Intelligence and creativity? Assuming these two variables-feel free to add more if you wish-does the mind ever peak at a certain age in either of these two areas, be it physically or simply subjectively? It seems the true geniuses do...

Let's share some stories about math things that are interesting enough to tell somebody about, even if it's just to sound smart at parties. My head exploded when I learned that dropping the compound period for growth to 0 increased growth by a factor of "e". Up until then I had no idea why...

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/16/mindreading_hea.html?category=health&guid=20060816103000 Very interesting article. This could be the beginning of something big, the way I see it. The reason why I found this article so interesting is because it seems to be the first time we have...

[img=http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/2332/untitled2bj9.th.jpg] Hi everyone! I am mind boggled by this tension problem. Here's what I grasp. If the clown pulls downward, the rope exerts an opposite force with the same magnitude upward. I don't understand how exactly the tension going upward...

Seriously, it seems like the cannabis plant is built for the intelligent, inquisitive, imaginative, ect. mind. Not only do my senses, reason, intuition, and imagination expand on marijuana, I also understand science so much more. There is something it does to your logical faculty that makes you...

Try thinking about measuring the expansion of the universe based on relativity. That is to say that depending on where you are located in the universe you might measure expansion or you might measure contraction! Think about this. The observer is placed anywhere inside of a giant ball of...

Hi guys, I'm a high school student at a private high school in the LA county called Bishop Amat Memorial. I'm currently in Honors Physics, so far I've been have a smooth and fine time until my teacher hit us with a project concerning scaling... His philsophy of teaching for this project is...

Key ideas: Our minds are the emergant property of interations between two fundamental forces, reason and emotion. Our minds don't need to exist within space-time. The mind is the interaction of two forces, reason and emotion. Or maybe I should say that our minds exist in two "environments" at...

Is reality created in the mind or is there an objective reality outside of the mind? It almost seems like an absurd question and most people would say the latter but some philosophers are skeptical. If you have a candy bar in front of you, you assume that it exist because you can see it. The...

How on Earth some of people are always interfering in everything!:bugeye:(am I interfering here?o:) ) So I don't know what's strange about me that my coworkers always talk about me more than anyone else and have lots of questions about me. :confused: They talk about my way of speaking...

Can people really use yogic powers/their mind to levitate? How do they do this?

x^2-6x-7/2x^2+3x +1

How we think is a question for science, but it's also relevant for philosophy of mind. In this thread I want to see how science reflects certain ideas of the philosophy of Kant. That's why I put it in the science forum, I think this is the most appropriate place; if it is not, I apologize...

Ok, simply put, i am 21, working in a warehouse that i am not even closely challenged, and i feel as if i am getting dull. As unfortunate as it may be, when in high school learning was low on my rank of importance, and as you can imagine, i don't feel i learned much... Despite it being one of...

Hi, I saw a documentary of what string is and how small it is. But, what's the point of knowing that there are strings in every atom. I don't know the quantitative ratio of it but the documentary says that if an atom was the size of a solar system, a string would a tree on earth. No experiments...

I am struggling to decide on a major, and I have two years left. I want to go into computational linguistics and AI. I cannot decide between linguistics, mathematics, computer science, and cognitive science. I'm sure about cognitive science, with a concentration in computation and AI, but I...

never mind. sorry :)

http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/wftw.pl How would "q" represent "thank you" in the case of p's and q's standing for "please" and "thank you"?

When i was a kid i read the first book on hitscock the 3 investigators Bob Pete and Jupiter the castle of terror where everytime they would go to the castle they would be terrify, in the end an old movie star would have been hiding in the castle and scare people by using a certain no audible...

The images below are scanned images of work for one of my assigned problems in Calculus 2. Right now I am only concerned with integrating in order to find a position function (ignoring the constant of integration for time being). How does it look? I am checking my work with Maple 10. I do...

My teacher for Physics hns proposed an extra credit bonus if anyone could answer this question dealing with a pendulm. Why does the pendulm move as if it had a mind of its own. Refering to the circular motion the pendulm starts making after a couple seconds. When the pendulm is released to go...

Can any of you out there explain how this works. I tried it a dozen times. It seems to always work! Click here: http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf

Which theory of mind do you like best? Please provide an explanation.

http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf

is it possible that the universe has a mind of it's own, is it possible that it thinks in it's own way. we know that information passes thru energy and the universe is full of energy. we may never be able to tolk to it, just like a tree will never be able to tolk to us, but i believe that it...