i never said they were lying or stupid. We teach children to pretend from practically day 1. hell, if they are lucky they fall asleep each night to pretend stories being read into their ears. We pretend santa claus is real (and the children go...
The Zimbabwe schoolchildren were not lying or stupid. They likely experienced something unusual and genuinely believed what they reported?
But children are highly suggestible, especially in groups, and their interpretations are strongly shaped...
The Zimbabwe schoolchildren were not lying or stupid. They likely experienced something unusual and genuinely believed what they reported?
But children are highly suggestible, especially in groups, and their interpretations are strongly shaped...
The weird thing about any species developing civilization is that nature keeps remaking its greatest hits like a film studio that ran out of ideas a billion years ago. Pretty-much-whale terrestrial tetrapods have been returning to the seas since...
If it's from last weekend, there was a fireball over Minnesota and surrounding states - https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2026/612
A Chinese Long March 4C stage came back down after 4 years in orbit. Launched an Earth-obs...
Well put. Survival at the species level is about the time it takes to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Biological species each adapt the time scale of their reproductive cycles. DNA transmits survival data from one generation to the...
The idea that we have been able to reach that exit and forge off on our own, seems in some ways analogous to the development of a generalized AI from what we have now. Perhaps a crow could fly through that exit too, with certain mutations and...
Well put. Survival at the species level is about the time it takes to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Biological species each adapt the time scale of their reproductive cycles. DNA transmits survival data from one generation to the...