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Title: Scientists ready to present their evidence of �God particle'
Category: Science
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2012-07-03 06:48:34
Canadian

[Prof_Chomsky]

Chalk another one up for science!
What a shame the US stopped funding these kinds of fundamentally important types of science. Every wonder why we are here and what it all means? Well, this is the first step in knowing. What could be more meaningful or important than that?

[Tricks]

I'm fucking excited about this.

[ShepherdsDog]

Do I have enough money to cover all my expenses for the month? Is my family healthy and happy? Lots of other things are more important.

[Zipperfish]

You need to climb higher up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

[bootlegga]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

You need to climb higher up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

I haven't seen that diagram since university!

[raydan]

Prof_Chomsky Prof_Chomsky:

Chalk another one up for science!
What a shame the US stopped funding these kinds of fundamentally important types of science. Every wonder why we are here and what it all means? Well, this is the first step in knowing. What could be more meaningful or important than that?

Very expensive project...

I can see something like CERN where there are 21 member states (countries) with more on the way... as an America (North and South) project maybe. Mind you, CERN is pretty much international now... the USA has observer status and quite a few countries including Canada are non-member states currently involved in CERN programs.

[ShepherdsDog]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

You need to climb higher up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

I thought the Kubler Ross thing and Freud's psycho sexual (masking his own incest issues) theories were bullshit too. Only good for boosting the GPA because all you had to do was regurgitate nonsensical crap when discussing them.

[Zipperfish]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

You need to climb higher up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

I thought the Kubler Ross thing and Freud's psycho sexual (masking his own incest issues) theories were bullshit too. Only good for boosting the GPA because all you had to do was regurgitate nonsensical crap when discussing them.

I admit, I don't know much about psychology. Took an Abnormal Psych elective in school--it was awesome.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs always strucjk me as kind of intuitive. I didn't get the whole Freud thing.

Robert Pirsig had a great line in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Something to the effect that, in high school you regurgitate everything you've been told. IOn college, you regurgitate what you've been told, but in a manner of sophistication that both you and the prof can plausibly deny that you're just regurgitating.

[andyt]

$1:

Hustvedt then points out, however, that modern neuroscience is starting to validate some of Freud's "outmoded" ideas. "No neuroscientist today would say that the unconscious does not exist. No one working in the field would argue against primal emotional drives in human beings either. Freud is no longer dismissed as quickly as he once was."

Modern neuroscience really is validating Freud. A new paper by R.L. Carhart-Harris and K. J. Friston, published in the Oxford University neurlogical journal, The Brain, posits that Freud's view of how the Ego (the conscious mind) is designed to monitor and, if necessary, suppress impulses coming from the Id (that is the more archaic parts of the mind, or the "unconscious"), is, in fact, grounded in actual physical brain structures, as well as the types of brain waves that different parts of the brain, such as the limbic system (which controls emotion) and the pre-frontal cortex (the seat of executive function) use as part of their operating systems. They write, "Freudian concepts may have a real neurobiological substrates [that] could be usefully revisited in the context of modern neuroscience." They go on to say that new advances "allow us to recast Freudian ideas in a mechanistic and biologically informed fashion."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/my- ... ing-part-i

Most of the information we take in and the processing of that information is unconscious. Initiation of any action we take seems to be unconscious.

[Tricks]

Odd, my Psych profs, and indeed it seems most psychologists, consider Freud's theories to be shite.

[Prof_Chomsky]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Do I have enough money to cover all my expenses for the month? Is my family healthy and happy? Lots of other things are more important.

That’s subsisting. Not much of a reason to live if you ask me. Bacteria subsist.
If everyone thought like that we’d still be eating bugs, berries and leaves in a dank cave.