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Its about time we got rid of Fianna Fail and let Sinn Fein in. This draconian psychoactives bill bullshit would never have happened if Sinn Fein was running the show.

This lab coat is 65% polyester, 35% cotton. Would that make much of a difference? Yeah if I was wearing just the t-shirt, I'd probably have a nice acid burn on my stomach right now.

I got some concentrated H2SO4 on my lab coat on monday and when I left the lab there was only a brown stain on the lab coat so I put it in my locker. The next day I noticed an acid burn on my t-shirt, obviously caused by some acid that seeped through the lab coat. I can't walk into the lab next...

I have no internal dialogue. I've read about people training themselves to shut off their internal dialogue so that they can meditate better. Does this give me a big advantage for meditating? If it does I'll definitely start practicing meditating in order to take advantage of my situation.

It wasn't that easy. I studied chemistry in my own time before doing the course but I still had trouble with it. Then again I only went to about 3 lectures throughout the year. The chemistry lab was a separate module. Its gonna get a lot harder next year. I'm majoring in chemistry and the second...

Have you heard of BrainGate? http://www.braingate.com/ I think if enough neuroscience hobbyists obtain their own EEG machines and start experimenting we can really further mankinds knowledge of the electrical activity associated with altered states. They do lab studies involving this kinda...

Its real hard to word things like this out. All my OP was about was the use of the various sensory representation systems (vision, sound, taste, smell, touch) in forming, analyzing and connecting concepts. I'm well aware though that no matter which of these one is most inclined to use, logic...

Yeah you're right I shoulda said contrary to mainstream scientific belief, which if I'm not mistaken implies that thought and consciousness is purely a product of neuronal connections of the brain. I don't have any direct solid evidence but heres a few things that come to mind. Supposed NDE...

Contrary to popular belief I believe thought is something ulterior to any physiological process. I believe it is beyond any neuronal processes. A good analogy is vision. We use our eyes to see but what we experience as vision is independant of our eyes, its something our brains feed us to...

Yeah I've heard all that. I don't understand it though. Emotions are things I feel in my abdomen, how anyone could mistake them for thoughts is beyond me. What I'm saying is everything is based on logic. If something makes you happy its only because your logic leads you to conclude that its...

I live in Ireland and although English is the official language, in some areas of the country people speak Irish as their first language. I used to think it was pointless to learn Irish as nobody else speaks it but thats precisely the reason I think it would be fairly cool to speak Irish. If all...

Ah right thanks. Since those assignments are worth 20% thats 18.52%. Did my chemistry test today it was pretty hard so I'd say I needed that 18%.

"Sometimes" think in logic? I'm fairly sure anyone who isn't completely insane uses logic to think always. In dreams sometimes I use bizarre altered logic but its logic all the same. I use pictures combined with the other senses to reason and manipulate logic. I never use words though. I think...

Problems with thinking in pictures come in when I'm learning stuff like chemistry because everythings in words I have to spend ages looking for visual tutorials. Pisses me off because I waste loads of time just looking for pictures. Same goes for physics and biology when I read the words I don't...

The masteringchemistry assignments are worth 20% of the marks for my chemistry class this year but I can't figure out what they mean. Heres my scores page anyone have any idea what in the hell that means? I did fairly well and 93% would make sense but I'm not sure if thats what it says I got or...

I'm no sadist but i do like seeing bullfighters get whats coming to them. In this case a bull haha. Bullring poker has the danger aspect without the animal abuse aspect. Its funny too. The first time I saw bullfighting was on TV in Spain and it was a sad sight seeing the bulls gradually get...

When I word out things I'm thinking, if I'm angry they sound a whole lot worse than they look. I'm always surprised by how callous they sound. Actually I pictured you as your avatar lol. I thought of that little 3D man automatically assuming the way he thinks is the way everyone else thinks...

Nice one thanks a lot. Those TED talks are brilliant. I heard of Temple Grandin but I didn't know she did a TED talk. Interestingly enough when I start hallucinating after staying up too long on speed I don't see things, ironically I hear voices lol.

Probably shoulda mentioned that I'm autistic. According to the psychiatrists at least. That may have something to do with my thinking style. I'm up the high functioning end of autism though I can function in society and all that. Wrong I think without words. Its funny this, you're not the...

No narration or labelling no, I only label things with words when I'm learning them because its helpful to know what things are called so I can google them and communicate them to others. Yeah the smell part of it wouldn't really be of much aid in devising a solution for me either. I do it out...