I couldn't be bothered to read the 10 pages of response to this, so please forgive me if this has already been discussed. There are a few very good...
Now this a point I was hoping would be brought up. The point of contention I have with this is involuntary racial tribalism. It doesn’t make one more...
Surely the irony is not lost on you that your claim is also racist and likely xenophobic towards western culture. Historically racism has always...
It's not though — there's some serious defining of the term immortality needing done here. Human immortality cannot be expressed by a single...
Not trying to stir the pot, but if you can't differentiate the entire body of human cells and bacterium from HeLa cancer cells — the entire concept...
That's where I would argue that Libertarians have failed themselves -- some ground should be ceded toward social safety nets. Certainly there is...
To the contrary, the definition of a public good is "Non-rivalrous and non-excludable." I assume you're being sarcastic, but obviously it is...
To the contrary, a lot of their proprietary software is the industry standard; it’s why they can still sell Mac computers at ridiculous price points...
How much of what is mentioned is a public good? The space program is certainly not non-rivalrous. A good chunk of government spending can be...
Without getting too much into detail, pretty much every assertion made here is false or at a minimum has no supporting evidence. It’s intellectually...
What a fascinating experience that must be.
That would make sense, I don’t happen to know much about invasive brain surgery or how it’s performed, but wouldn’t a patient being conscious create...
I believe this theory as to why brain size reduction has been happening is quite mainstream among biologists. The reduction has been observed...
All the external features of the face and head are quite pain sensitive however, though you are correct that the brain lacks nociceptors (which I...
Size has little or no bearing on intelligence Brain Behav Evol. 1979;16(4):253-70 ; R.E. Passingham
There’s a disconnect between gene expression and literal genetic information. We call the former the phenotype — genetic expression that can be...
Bahaha vague* sorry I confuse the two.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a dream I can remember; perhaps I do have them but they are far too vivid and particular to remember. Never recurring to...
A few things, the poster who remarked about the speed of the bullet relative to the speed of neuron signals: This is based on the assumption of...
RNA (in all its sorts tRNA, mRNA, RNAP) codes portions of genes by translating their bases in order. An enzyme accesses a gene by breaking the bonds...
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