22 year old, Systems theory junkie, INTP, Grey-A, Transhumanist, and Feminist.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The problem of additivity in life as well as in mathematics, where it is called ‘linearity’, is of great antiquity because it was the simplest. The mathematical formulation of additivity (linearity) is f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y). One of the most striking consequences of additivity is the predictability from the characteristics of the elements to those of the results. It is obvious that when we combine elements, and the results have new characteristics absent in the original elements, the new problems are structurally no more an additive character, and the synthesis must be different. If are attitudes are limited to the additive principle alone the results in the most fundamental issues of science and life are bound to be false to facts. For example, one pound plus one pound in weight results in two pounds, but one gallon of water ‘added’ to one gallon of alcohol results in less than two gallons of liquid because profound inter-molecular issues enter which are not additive, and so 1 + 1 ≠ 2. Similarly, one atom of mercury ‘minus’ one electron becomes one atom of gold. And so the results are not predictable by the principle of additivity. As Graicunas shows, the ‘addition’ of a sixth assistant by a supervisor may add 20 percent to his human resources, but adds approximately 100 percent to the complexity and difficulty of his task of co-ordination. And so it goes.
Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American philosopher, scientist, engineer, mathematician, linguist, logician, author of Science & Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, and is remembered most for developing the theory of general semantics (1879-1950)
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Marriage, infidelity and divorce: [B]irds deal with them as well. Now researchers have found that avian infidelity is more common in severe or uncertain weather.
from “Changes in Weather Add to Birds’ Marital Woes” by Sindya N. Bhanoo in The New York Times (Feb. 20, 2012), describing results reported in “Fluctuating Environments, Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Flexible Mate Choice in Birds” by Carlos A. Botero & Dustin R. Rubenstein in PLoS ONE (February 2012)
Why Sexy Is Sexy
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Hank delves into the scientific reasons behind why we are attracted to the people we’re attracted to. It’s complicated.
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Girlfriend tells me Chivalry isn’t completely dead in response to my behavior. I respond by telling her chivalry never existed and that Knights were murderous brutes and rapists; not gentlemen who courted the affections of a woman. Something is wrong with me.
frites & fries: Relationships: The Foodie and the Non-Foodie
Can a
foodiegastronome and anon-foodienon-gastronome be in a relationship? The Wall Street Journal investigates the struggle between the heart and the stomach:“When a foodie and a non-foodie fall in love, cooking and eating aren’t always a shared experience. “Non-foodies feel left out…
To be honest I would never date a staunch grammar nazi. My grammar is fine, I just don’t like people who nitpick.
I can date 17 year olds? ehhhhhh I’ll pass.
