Jews Asians Whites and Blacks… I.Q myths and racism.

The “racial intelligence” bulldozer that James Watson set rolling a couple of weeks back is still whirring in our backyards as the new row over superior Jewish IQ scores is begging media attention.
This time the perpetrator is the Bell Curve fame Charles Murray and his American Enterprise Institute. I am not going into [...]

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Watson… Watson… where is your proof?

 
 
The past week saw the greatest controversy in a year ignited by the seemingly racist comments of the 79 year old Nobel Laureate James Watson.
Watson who shared his Nobel with Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins for the discovery of the Double-helical structure of DNA, had always been at the helm of controversies mostly b’coz of [...]

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Can’t Take My Eyes Off You !

A recently published Florida State University study is pointing at the evolutionary psychology of attractive faces.
The paper, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Attentional Adhesion to Mates and Rivals,” by Jon Maner, an assistant professor of psychology at FSU, is one of the first to show how strongly, quickly and automatically we are attuned to [...]

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Quantum Consciousness ( Part 2)

Gravity, Relativity and Quantum experiences: searching for a consensus.
“Quantum Mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One…I am at all events convinced that He does [...]

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Quantum Consciousness ( Part 1)

Non-computability – Gödel, Turing machines and brain
 
This article is a subsection of the main article
How physics changes the way we look at mind
The current (and almost universally) accepted view on consciousness is that it is an emergent phenomenon arising from the complex interconnections and communication among neurons. Artificial Intelligence researchers latch their idea of a [...]

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