/sci/ - Science & Math

>overdevelopment of intellectual skills
>overdevelopment

GTFO

This is.... true.

>Spiritual atrhopy
Who gives a rat's ass?

>emotions
Who gives a rat's ass?

>Implying it is possible to overdevelop your intellect

Oh boy, someone who's afraid of intelligence!

Agreed, OP.

>>1236006
>>1236006

Fuck you! I'm a wizard.

This is bullshit and stereotyping.

> ITT: HERP DERP CAN'T DO SCIENCE WITHOUT BEING RONERY MARTYR FOR THE GREATER GOOD

>implying science cares about your development whatsoever

>>1236006
>implying spirituality is necessary for a healthy human being.

>"a scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone"
>Charles Darwin
Goddamn it

>>1236006
0/10

>>1237021
Yeah well its obvious Darwin became depressed after he found out about evolution and how it contradicted with his previous beliefs in God

>>1237092

Actual Darwin was pretty annoyed at how unemotional he had become.

By the end he had trained his brain to be able to instantly recall any scientific work he had read and devoted all his time to SCIENCE. He also noted that he no longer enjoyed poetry or art and regretted it. (although he considered it an acceptable trade off)

>>1237113
citation? i would like to read more about this

>>1237127

New Scientist... I don't remember the issue soz.

>>1236006
OP! Post the pic of that one girl w/ the short black hair. I'm in love w/ her and idk why.

>>1236075
oh come you haven't read Flowers for Algernon?

>>1237188

This one?

>>1237209
Yeah! Thanks. Something about her, idk. Probably because she has no make up on or anything so she's so organic. Not some fake, dolled up bitch like Paris Hilton.

Society typically encourages underdevelopment of intellectual skills at the price of emotional and spiritual atrophy.

>>1236006
someone should tell you that your emotional systems are ever prevalent and critical for dynamic learning.

don't gimmie no emotional intelligence bullshit, either

>>1237426
why?

Emotions are retarded anyway. They lead to irrational decisions.

>>1237454
Well I think if we had no emotions we would have no motivation to learn for one
Also we tend to learn the things that invoked the emotions in us the most

Everyone works toward emotional goals. A person with no emotions would not work at all. Logic can tell you how to get places and maybe even where you ought to go, but the underlying motivation - the drive - is from emotion.

Children's shows which encourage you to 'follow your heart' rather than thinking are still peddling bullshit - there is such a thing as being too emotional, but no such thing as being too intelligent - yet it still must be admitted that emotions are necessary, even if they need to be kept under careful watch.

>>1237473

>>1237454
From 1997 on, Damasio et al. demonstrated that patients with VMF or amygdala damage, two areas critical for emotional response, did not learn to behave properly in a particular gambling paradigm. All neurotypical participants in the same study did learn to behave properly in the same gambling paradigm.

In follow up studies, it was found that in similar dynamic game/gamble paradigms, somatic emotional measurements acted as a predictor for normative behavior