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If a human brain is associative, the nerve impulses have to go in one direction at a time, even if much parallel processing goes on. Neurons in our brain are associated with a huge cluster of 10K other neurons. Yet, the directional travel of each impulse is still linear. The impulse may come...

Or could it be a evolutionary form of stress testing your weaknesses? A bit like the urge to suck on a cut you have on your arm. Get that saliva in there to heal the wound.

This is where it gets difficult. As you age, kidneys decline while absorption of vitamins also decline. In order to get your required dose, you need to take more. It becomes a vicious circle of straining your kidneys more and more in a vain attempt to get your daily requirement.

Perhaps playing too many video games turns our perception into dog years. While playing the games, you are so "in" them that you have no idea that those 7 hours have flown by. You only experienced the 1 hour, if using a non-video game playing benchmark.

My understanding is that if someone is aged 10, an IQ of 130 would mean that kid had a mental age of 13. I am not quite sure how that scales with age, but that is at least some kind of benchmark. Doc, did you feel you were "different" to others, perhaps not even knowing why? Or did you feel you...

If you do decide to get it, I would love to hear your comments. Maybe you can relate to the material and get insights you have not yet considered.

Hahah, nice quip there Doc! :D

This is interesting. A discussion on the morality of killing fish has turned into a culinary gastronomique affair. :p

If I understand you correctly, that means that through strict logic you can prove that a God does not exist. Yet logic does not allow a universal negative to be proved. Therefore, through logic, you can both prove and not be able to prove God exists. If there are only condition A (he exists) or...

Let's face it, back in the day we didn't live very long. In 1800, life expectancy was typically around 36 years, with most of us dying of infectious disease, and we all had pretty bad teeth too! If you got married at 18, you would be with your partner for on average 18 years. Actually, my math...

If we bang enough heads together, we might come up with an answer. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one!

You're welcome. The real risk is the opportunity cost of your time. Sometimes there is solace in the comforting words of your cohort.

Nice to see you here Diggers. Get stuck in there with your first post! :ROFLMAO:

We all have them. How often do you get them? What are the triggers?

The book I started reading was called, "Curse of the High IQ" - Aaron Clarey. You might find it interesting reading as an outlier yourself, nodding in agreement as he lays into all sorts of things. It can get quite dark!

Does political correctness do more harm than good, by stifling opening minded debate, suppressing unpalatable truth and creating division where no division existed before?

Insane_AI, that is a huge IQ, whatever the scale used. Is that why you chose the name AI, because you are like a new type of supercomputer but in flesh form? I started reading a book about life for people with outlier IQ's. It was stating that everything in the world is built for those around...

Ah a fellow foodie! I do love my food too. My best mate when I was younger preferred the cigarettes to going out for something to eat. He did enjoy the local kebab van though! (Ahem, I am guilty of that too!) I started going through a cookery course online recently. Learnt a few good things and...

Yes, they were telling me that too, but I used to say it to wind them up. It was their delicacy, while it was my fun. I remember going to a Michelin star restaurant in London where they had foie gras and a host of other strange sounding things on the menu. I chose the "veal sweetbreads" as I...

There was a book written about EQ. The idea pushed forward seemed to be that it doesn't matter if your IQ is not up there, because EQ is the important thing. However, there are some psychologists who argue that IQ is correlated with "success" while EQ is not.