passing thoughts
A SMALL COLLECTION OF CURIOSITIESCally’s Lab

All thoughts

  1. Why do people prefer books to movies?
  2. I think that if we could ask the dead who died for freedom what they think, they would say it’s better to be alive.
  3. How many different people can a human brain remember?
  4. Why are the street levels of Rome and other ancient cities underground?
  5. Do different parts of our consciousness exist in different parts of the brain?
  6. I was not, I was, I am not, I fear not.
  7. Is it possible for someone to feel energized by having responsibility, like being a manager at work?
  8. Do lesser IQ minds preoccupy themselves with assigning blame?
  9. How are humans still evolving today? What appendages are going away or developing?
  10. What's a foil in a story?
  11. Doxastic involuntarism—talk about that.
  12. Will general intelligence AI be constrained by its power and hardware?
  13. Is a black hole flat or a sphere?
  14. Will the universe expand forever and die, or will it collapse?
  15. When will the Earth die, cosmically?
  16. Do female octopuses die after raising their young?
  17. Why do sawsharks have saws?
  18. Was the T. rex evolving away from needing arms?
  19. Why would we assume that Troodon was intelligent for an animal despite never seeing a live one?
  20. How come when I hear a really good singer it makes me tear up?
  21. What are human brains made of?
  22. When did agriculture start?
  23. Did ancient Rome have police?
  24. Can we zoom down with a microscope to a single transistor on a CPU?
  25. What does one transistor equate to in bits?
  26. What was the largest animal ever?
  27. What are the deeper meanings in Medusa’s story?
  28. Can a virus that is not very transmissible but very deadly evolve to become less deadly and more transmissible?
  29. I’m trying to understand Marshall McLuhan’s idea of hot vs. cold media.