I don't think I could even make a dog igloo...

Thing is; I've been studying subjects like neuroscience and while I can read through the chapter on CSF flow that of itself doesn't mean I understand the role the choroid villi play in the production of CSF or the role the arachnoid granulations play in percolating CSF into the superior saggital sinus. It actually takes me a couple of months, on average, to really wrap my head around this kind of material.

On the other hand, I read and understood Animal Farm in about 3 hours. In the last month I haven't completed any books. The closest I've come is within 100 pages of the end of a Bathroom Reader.

But I watched this video on youtube last night that sent me back to the chapter on CSF because they had said that the arachnoid granulations produced CSF and my understanding was that the choroid plexi of the third, fourth and lateral ventricles were responsible, so I had to confirm my understanding by going back to it, now for about the 5th time.

Good stuff! I shared this with all my new age friends who believe QM validates their belief in "The Secret".

It is specifically; a brass head from a french cross staff. Also known as a "Winkelkopf" in German.

I tried standing like that; it was awkward.

Generally bikes, skateboards and roller blades are not allowed in buildings.

The Eye of Providence existing before the social fiction known as "the illuminati"

Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky. It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvYRqsRZ7vE

Fundamental Attribution Error (aspect of human self-aggrandizement a habit few seem to avoid).

Doesn't saying that most women "dress like women" imply a stereotpyical female attire. Even if you think the modern liberal western female is the true measure of a woman - what if that woman in all her self-determining power decided to curb her figure, desexualize herself and devote herself to Truth. The "habit" is meant as a religious device but is rather pointless if it is not worn for any genuine purpose.

If I found that the world had been taken over by zombies I have one simple solution; wake up.

Good casting. Kutcher will do a good job portraying Steve Jobs with his brand of self-aggrandizing pseudo-spiritual corporate philosophy.

I guess this is a form of conceptual causation. The concept of night is caused by the concept of day and vice versa. This view of causation takes into account a two-way influence of simultaneously existing "objects". Where the "objects" (i.e. causes) are actually just arbitrations and do not represent the "thing-in-itself".

This is a point which Salmon and pretty much everyone else seems to forget. What we call "causes" are not strictly noumenal, nomological or ontic, they are finite abritrations extracted out of our experience and cast into a cognitive framework (i.e. noumenal, nomological, ontic)and may share a relative identity with something else in our experience (actually our entire experience).

I'm reading a book on the subject of "Causality and Explanation" (same as title) by Wesley C. Salmon. In it Salmon makes reference to this fact by saying that night follows day and day follows night with a statistically high probability (100%), but this does not mean that night causes day and day causes night. Rather it is the rotation of the earth on it's axis that causes both day and night.

But this is also incorrect; the rotation of the earth on its own axis is not a sufficient cause (nor does it antecede the event but is contemporaneous with it). Especially when we consider the role played by the observer. The human brain habituates to light intensities and perceives light and dark only in relation to each other. A human who had never any conception of night would likewise never have any conception of day. That is; if the earth was smack dab in the middle of three or more stars and there was never a dark period on earth it would be utterly senseless to talk about "night" and conversely senseless to talk about "day". No one would say "It is daytime" because the concept of day is entirely relative to night. In that sense, night and day cause each other (at least in the human brain).

But this fact is even expressed by Aristotle in his Law of Identity. He is not simply saying "A thing is what it is" but he is also saying "A thing is what it is by virtue of what it is not." The Identity of any particular thing is caused by that which it is not and more directly its opposite. Up is relative to Down. Inside is relative to Outside. If there were no "inside" then it would be utterly senseless to talk about "Outside". This perceptual duality is how the brain/mind works.

I started studying neuroscience about 5 years ago as a hobby and have never thought of it any other way. Even the books I read 5 years ago said that the cortex was arranged in columns consisting of six layers, some connections project up a layer, some project down a layer and a few project "side-ways" out of the column and synapse on another structure. This is pretty much the same as "sheets with the fibers running in two directions in the sheets and in a third direction perpendicular to the sheet". Where a "sheet" is a "column".

"Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder." I mean, she didn't draw all of the eyes but that is definitely a Beholder. Look at it's devastating glare.