/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3215770

Probably a case of short-term or temporary plasticity involving oscillating stimuli, basically a correlated network of neurons that will keep a memory in the short-term memory "bank" until the stimuli disappears or is changed. Most likely located in the hippocampus.

Ah the passions :)

For me it's children (ib4 loli jokes)
I spent 8 years working with children, their parents, and their teachers, and I realized that there are so many children who do not get the help they need to become all they can be. Many children with problems will simply just blend in with the shadows.
This provoked me so much that I decided to do something about it.
I have studied early childhood education, and have "taught" preschool, and now I study development and neuroscience.

But originally, I was going to be an engineer. Go figure.

Maybe you're looking in the wrong places? Maybe physics and math just isn't the thing for you?
If you really like maths and physics, there are still nearly endless possibilities in related fields and in applied sciences.

Hope this helps. Good luck

>>2642086
> more complex chain of events
*more complex chain of actions

>>2641991
I see.
I'd stay and argue with you all, but i'm going to bed.


I'll leave with this

In the days of John Bowlby, this was considered as characteristics of instinctive behaviour:
a. it follows a recognisably similar and predictable pattern in almost all members of a species (or all members of one sex)
b. it is not a simple response to a single stimulus but a sequence of behavior that usually runs a predictable cource
c. certain of its usual consequences are of obvious value in contributing to the perservation of an individual or the continuity of a species
d. many examples of it develop even when all the ordinary opportunities for learning it are exiguous or absent
-Bowlby (1969)

a. says for it to be an instinct, it must be universal, i.e. independent of social context.
b. says that it is not a simple reflex, but a more complex chain of events, triggered by some stimuli
c. says that instincts must have some evolutionary benefit, obvious or obfuscated, and must follow evolutionary logic.
d. says that instincts must present themselves even if there have been no prior stimuli

Ethologist sometimes use the term "fixed behavioural patterns", and Bowlby later differentiate what he calls instinctive behaviour, from what he calls goal-corrected behaviour.

Today, this is a bit dated as, as >>2641997 says, there is semantic drift over time, but still, the core remains. Very little of what we can call instincts are present after the earliest phases of childhood. Our nervous system reorganizes several times through ontogeny, and even after, building layers of complexity. In the end most of our behaviour that once were instinctual, is complex and goal-corrected.
However, some basic, things remain; fight or flight, fear of the unknown, spiders, darkness, heights, the need for social interactions with other human beings, etc.

>>2641922
how is writing not language?
And what are these "dedicated mental organs" you speak of?

>>2641894
Doesn't this only apply to interacting particles?

If it is valid on a macro scale, then I don't see how there could not be another you somewhere, or some rule of nature that prevents it that we don't know of.

>>2641747
which was sort of my point

>>2641736
hm... I concede

then the reverse is also true, if it does not exist, there must be some reason, some rule against it existing, no?

>>2641679
That only works in the many-worlds interpretation of QM
and only in one of the infinitely possible universes

>>2641607
Well, as I understand them they are related.
The radiation would be easy enough to detect. It's plain old photons. Gravitational waves are a little harder. Gravitational waves are essentially ripples in spacetime. Some people have argued that it should be possible to detect the existence of tachyon over large distances in this way.

see
dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02722230

>>2641604
The behaviours that facilitate the learning of language might be innately motivated, but a baby-in-a-box does not learn language.

http://ilabs.washington.edu/kuhl/research.html

>>2641594
A better term would perhaps be "intrinsic motivation", or "behavioural, biological predisposition"

>>2641572
They should emit radiation when they travel faster than light. That would mean, however, that they would have to emit radiation all the time, since they can't go slower than light. Furthermore, they should get faster and faster as they loose more energy. It's also possible that they will create gravity waves that can be detected.
/speculating

>>2641556
Superbradyons might be observable in particle accelerators eventually, since they are of real mass, but I wonder what energy levels we would need since we haven't even found Preons yet...

I wonder if superbradyons are to quantum physics what tachyons are to string theory.

>>2641527
>implying ... samefag
no. I'm accusing you, all, to be spamming. If you want to fight over black holes, make your own thread.
However, since you're here, and, I assume, more knowledgeable then I am on this subject, what would happen if a subparticle with imaginary mass and v > c, like a tachyon, were to pass the event horizon of a gravity well such as a black hole. Would it be possible for it to escape?

>>2641474
>>2641465
>>2641450

Stop spamming, you have added nothing

>>2641447
so how do we solve this?
If they exist you would think that they at some point will occupy the same spacetime as a sub-c particle, no?

Do they not exist in our spacetime?
Also, could we detect the gravity waves they surely must create? Or would they to travel at c+?

>>2641436
> v<c
*fixed

Simple question /sci/
If a tachyon cannot have v>c, can tachyons interact with bradyons at all?
What would happen if they collided?
Could the tachyon overcome the inverse light-speed-barrier and give its momentum to the bradyon, making it a tachyon, and the tachyon a bradyon?

>>2640361
>U MAD
No, pumpkin, I could never be mad at you.
If there's anything you would like to know, I'll be here for you, okay?

I love you!
*hugs and kisses*
(^･ω･^=)~

>>2640300
I don't mind beeing trolled.
Sometimes you can troll them back, simply by keeping your cool


It's getting late, or rather, it's getting early.
I'm gonna go and watch some animu.
have fun

>>2640264
That's funny.
psychic powers would of course violate the laws of physics. We can't have that, now can we...

>>2640217
>I cant help but facepalm a little
That's okay

>>2640222
>I'm not English BTW
Well, neither am I.

>>2640216
>I get what you're saying.
No. You don't.

It's not that using more than 30% triggers a seizure, but only a seizure would trigger a use of more than 30%. There is no usecase for using more than 20-30%. Try running, jumping, stick your tongue, stick your tongue in again, blink your eyes, lift your feet all at the same time. Even if you could do it it would be pointless.
There's also a question of bandwidth.