Cognition and Decoherence?

Many thinkers reject the idea that large scale persistent coherence can exist in the brain because it is too warm, wet, noisy and constantly interacts, and consequently, is 'measured' by the...

10 November 2018 5,774 39 View

Is this Darwinism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uFmLG51NkE If a significant percentage of this type of bacteria's genetic make up is consequent upon this behaviour can it be regarded as an example of an...

08 September 2018 6,053 0 View

Is the following finding relating to the Golden Mean (1.618...) trivial or significant? Has this been discovered before?

Any value that results from raising the power of the Golden Mean by an integer > 1 may be exactly expressed in the following form:- (GM * a) + b - where both 'a' and 'b' are integers! e.g...

05 June 2018 5,013 0 View

Can atmospheric bacteria and clouds be used to tackle the growing CO2 problem?

08 September 2014 1,678 29 View

Given that large scale BEC's can be created at room temperature, would their emergence be facilitated by providing a fractal scaffold?

I am trying to understand the nature of Bose-Einstein Condensates and the possibility that they may be associated with living processes. My intuition tells me that they must be scale -free...

04 May 2014 4,286 3 View

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04 May 2014 4,266 2 View

We are creating a world that provides a rich soil of structure to fuel cognition and consciousness. Can technology create a leap of creativity?

It seems to me, that we are on the very verge of some great change. The world is heating up and each technological and scientific leap that we make ushers in the next. This is the time of the...

09 October 2013 3,150 4 View

Given that if you want to know how the brain works you should first ask 'What do brains like?', what does aesthetics tell us about the brain?

When the brain finds a solution to the problem of the locomotion of an animal - say a cheetah, the solution often appears to us as beautiful or graceful. Does this suggest that all brains work the...

08 September 2013 1,716 20 View

Is consciousness the "fire in the equations"?

I can't remember where this quote comes from - surely Kitty Ferguson wasn't the first - anyone? Anyway, can we build a universe from mathematics alone? If not, then what is the ontological...

08 September 2013 3,753 24 View

Can neural re-mapping provide a new treatment for people with tunnel vision?

The attached file is a proposal that shows how neural re-mapping maybe able to provide a simple non-invasive treatment for people suffering from the effects of glaucoma (tunnel vision) and other...

08 September 2013 3,828 7 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

How can plant phytochemistry be included in discussions about whole plant traits?

I am using the concept of plant functional traits (Cornellisen et al., 2003) in a paper. Considering descriptions for whole plant traits (life history; life form; growth form; plant height;...

24 February 2021 6,831 5 View

Do you kow of any database containing data on retention time, log P and polarizability for a large number of molecules?

Hi, I am a chemistry undergraduate doing my dissertation project on HPLC. In my project, I need to predict the HPLC retention time of 20 aromatic molecules, the calibration set. To do this I will...

24 February 2021 2,602 1 View

How to run raise regression in R?

if anybody know how to run raise regression in r, and raise parameter selection, please help me

24 February 2021 8,199 1 View