27 JUL 2018 by ideonexus
Heritable IQ is Boosted by Environment, Just Like Height
hough it’s not easy to pinpoint the causes of the rise in IQ scores, it’s no paradox that a heritable trait can be boosted by changes in the environment. That’s what happened with height, a trait that also is highly heritable and has increased over the decades, and for some of the same reasons: better nutrition and less disease. Brains are greedy organs, consuming about a fifth of the body’s energy, and they are made of fats and proteins that are demanding for the body to produce. Fig... 1 
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notes29 NOV 2016 by ideonexus
Earthseed 11-20
11. The Paradox
Why is the universe?To shape God.
Why is God?To shape the universe.
∞ = Δ
12. A Tree
A treeCannot growIn its parentsʼ shadows.
∞ = Δ
13. The Destiny of Earthseed
Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.
∞ = Δ
14. Consequences
To get along with God,Consider the consequences of your behavior.
∞ = Δ
15. Power Struggles
All strugglesAre essentiallypower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strug...Folksonomies: earthseed
Folksonomies: earthseed
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notes23 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Paradox of the Universe
I am afraid all we can do is to accept the paradox and try to accommodate ourselves to it, as we have done to so many paradoxes lately in modern physical theories. We shall have to get accustomed to the idea that the change of the quantity R, commonly called the 'radius of the universe', and the evolutionary changes of stars and stellar systems are two different processes, going on side by side without any apparent connection between them. After all the 'universe' is an hypothesis, like the a...
1 It's radius VS the behavior of stars and stellar systems. Makes one think of the paradox of an expanding universe and one in which galaxies are drawn together through gravity.
09 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Science is Conservative
A discovery in science, or a new theory, even when it appears most unitary and most all-embracing, deals with some immediate element of novelty or paradox within the framework of far vaster, unanalysed, unarticulated reserves of knowledge, experience, faith, and presupposition. Our progress is narrow; it takes a vast world unchallenged and for granted. This is one reason why, however great the novelty or scope of new discovery, we neither can, nor need, rebuild the house of the mind very rapi... 1 notes
notesIt only reveals a very narrow part of reality, and we must accept that we cannot understand most of it, but we can know more and more.
29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
The Paradox of Crying Babies
Crying is the earliest and most compelling of infant signals," writes Ronald Barr, and surely there is no sound on earth more piercing than the cry of an infant. The ability to cry was hard-wired into human babies long ago as a potent signal to get adult attention. Like other primates, human infants needed to be able to send a message of distress to motivate action on the part of someone more able. The same kind of vocal signals are found in Rhesus monkeys, for example, which have very distin... 1 notes
notesThe alarm compels the mother to care for the child, but it can also push them to abuse it.
29 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Evangelism isn't a Bad Thing
Evangelism has kind of a bad name in some circles. The paradox about evangelism is that in addition to being the mechanism used to spread mind viruses, it's also the main way people can have a positive impact on the world. You can have the world's greatest idea, but unless you shout about it, crusade-evangelize-it has no impact. 1 notes
notesIt's that we associate it with zealotry, but in reality nothing get's promoted unless it is evangelized.
