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Absolutely! The ONLY thing a standardized test can tell you is how good the individual is AT TAKING A STANDARDIZED TEST. It is the WORST criteria for intelligence. And I'm not saying that out of bitterness - I'm stellar at taking standardized tests - that's how I know it's a poor indicator of...

you taking a Psych test tomorrow or something? :) I'm not an expert on the subject - if you google some of this stuff, you should be able to find a decent answer. Good luck!

pessimism (unfortunately) rob, pessimism tends to be a sign of intelligence if only the really intelligent people, like you, would focus their energies on something constructive, rather than on deconstruction ;) -cyborg girl

You're dead right about that, rob. I didn't mean to say that I thought we'd 'progressed' or come any kind of distance. I just meant that blaming biology for "the way were are" is kind of a cop-out, in my opinion.

I think trying a parliamentary system in the US would at least be a step in the right direction (though of course I'm in favor of a more radical change). At least under parliamentary systems there are actual CHOICES - you know, parties that are DIFFERENT from each other! In America we have two...

RIGHT ON, MAN!!! Nothing pisses me off more than my co-workers shaking their heads and saying "the world has changed". Fucking wake up! America has been 'protected' for so long - we haven't had to endure "terrorism" or any kind of battles on our own turf - and now we got just a teeny tiny...

sorry my posts are so "behind" we're all writing a LOT I hate biodeterminism - we're past that, even though it seems like nothing's changed. It's too easy to blame biology. Things aren't the same as they always were. There is a much greater disparity between the rich and powerful and...

Okay "incredible" maybe wasn't the right choice of words to describe the journal. I didn't mean that its not credible. :)

reply to Salty I'm not interested in votes at all. There's no one to vote FOR. As I said before, even with different people in the White House, the same SYSTEM is still in place, and THAT'S the problem. Your "interest groups" are also a major problem. I'm a big supporter of gay rights...

I don't think that saying I'd die to end America/Capitalism's reign of terror is disregarding human life - I'm sorry you took it that way. I just think it's naive to say you want a revolution, or a regime change, but you only want it if it will happen "nicely". People with lots of power don't...

I was involved politically for a while - going to protests and weekly meetings with a socialist group for a while - but it's so hard. You're not able to make your bills, so then you can't afford to take the Metro into DC to meet with people. You can't afford to take a day off from work to...

If you've never read any Samuel Delany, you don't know what you're missing. William Gibson and Neal Gaiman are my favorite writers - but DHALGREN by Samuel Delany is the best book I've ever read. William Gibson writes: "Samuel Delany's DHALGREN is a prose-city, a labyrinth, a vast...

According to Freud (who is full of shit)? The id. (definitions below taken from a quick google search that landed me on http://www.psych.nwu.edu/~coriat/theories.htm) Id- Unconscious part of the mind which consists of natural instincts, urges, and drives that are repressed. It includes...

Yeah, and I mean a REAL regime change - not a democratic president that'll just do the same things as a republican one but with a softer "people's party" image. Politics don't even rule this country any more - money does. Corporations buy us a president (consistently, whoever has the most...

Have you noticed that the higher education expectation keeps getting HIGHER? Like, jobs you used to be able to get with a Master's degree now require a Ph.D.? Man, my fiance was looking for a job in publishing, and they wanted a person for an ENTRY-LEVEL position to have 10 YEARS of...

In order to make those kinds of arguments, you really have to subscribe to the idea that people are born with inborn traits - i.e., that Judy Garland was born to be "the" Judy Garland and that Saddam Hussein was born to be a dictator. I actually think it's much scarier that a doctor has to fear...

Oh, I agree with you. Besides, what would be the POINT of creating something EXACTLY like a human? What would be the value in creating something with all the same flaws? To be able to create any kind of intelligence would be remarkable - a carbon copy of human intelligence would be kind of ...

my thoughts exactly - i'm on another thread with someone about quantum computing in relation to the theory of parallel universes put forth by David Deutsch, and I agree that a linear system can't emulate a nonlinear system (which I believe the mind to be) - but what about quantum computation...

i completely disagree with you. a cyborg is simply a being that requires both technological parts and biological parts to survive. there are many people who can't survive without medical technologies - whether they be physical or chemical, etc. not only that, but cultural influences...

so is algae, mold, bacteria . . . but i'm misrepresenting myself. i do value human life more than bacteria. i don't think it's "kinder" to bring an unwanted child in the world and put them into the - well, let's call it "imperfect" - adoption system. I think THAT'S cruel. If you want...