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