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Primary psychopathy (1.9 / 5) was higher than 41.76% of people who have taken this test. Secondary psychopathy (2.8 / 5) was higher than 63.38% of people who have taken this test.

Your brain is roughly: 15% Interpersonal 10% Visual 20% Verbal 55% Mathematical

W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein: (88%) There is no provable absolute truth. The way you see things is dependant on your language. Truths exist only within a language, and change as the language does. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer. Sartre/Camus (late existentialists): (48%) Immanuel...

What I had meant is that the asteroids constituted everything in the universe, thus, yes, you would have to know everything about the universe. Original post: Will do – glad to hear that others have an interest in this matter. :) I haven't done extensive research on determinism, as I...

Any more help I can get from someone?

This just about summarizes how I feel about the meaning of the universe. :)

Can you explain how the "why" is my emotion? I disagree. Your argument is paradoxical. You say that the "why" (i.e. the reason) is my emotion, yet you posit that the reason I ask why is because of my emotion.

This is a rather satisfying self-referential concept: the idea that nothing matters, and thus that it doesn't matter whether or not it's true that nothing matters. This is exactly the type of thinking that I'm getting at. However, I don't agree, nor disagree, that an ultimate answer cannot be...

While that may be a typical and expected approach to dealing with these questions, that is precisely what I'm not doing. My questions are meant to point to the the paradox of the universe's existence, including human reason's existence. Meaning is just an emotion? I disagree. I believe...

I agree completely with that. :)

This is the point I thought you were trying to make, but I still disagree. Perhaps my point was unclear. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that I don't understand how the "why" of anything could be "pointless." What does pragmatism have to do with existence? Pragmatism doesn't cause...

This is based upon multiverse theories, though. I'm looking to the root of the question. Why does anything (e.g. life, our universe, every universe, possibility, reason, chance, etc.) exist? Exactly. :) I don't seek answers. I seek insight. Similarly, as I do believe physicalism...

To what claim? I disagree. I think we assume the reason to be unimportant because we can guess with a satisfactory amount of accuracy what the cause was: the bill dropped out of someone's pocket or wallet. In a world where no one ever dropped or lost money and where bills appeared randomly...

nihilism (as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary): a : a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless b : a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths Those of the INTP personality are...

After a quick Google, I have found that originally, the meter was defined relative to Earth's circumference, but later it was defined by how far light travels in 1/c seconds. That's somewhat helpful, but I have a feeling that they just decided to find how long it would have to take for light to...

Why do we respond to these questions with the same answer (either with yes or with no, depending upon your opinion). John: "Do you agree?" (Dave agrees.) Dave: "Yes." John: "Don't you agree?" (Dave agrees.) Dave: "Yes." As opposed to this, which makes more sense: John: "Do you...

I've always loved the elegance of physics, but, as I have had no professional instruction in the field, there are many questions that I find difficult to grasp. Currently, I am having difficulties with understanding special relativity. More specifically, I am having difficulties with...

Why do we say "it is" and occasionally "'tis" as their own independent clauses, yet we do not say "it's" as its own independent clause? Why do we say "Why don't you..." but not "Why do not you..."? Why have we so skillfully acquired the second-natured use of "Ouch!" upon being hurt, and...

Exactly right. The integral can only be expressed with a non-elementary function, the error function. 1/2 erf(z/√2)

∫(xe^x)dx Since the integrand is the product of two nonconstant functions, x and e^x, the integrand must be integrated by parts. ∫(xe^x)dx = x∫(e^x)dx – ∫(e^x)dx = x(e^x) – (e^x) + C = xe^x – e^x + C

This one's an interesting one. Find the indefinite integral.

That's exactly correct. :D Nice job.

Ah, I see. I hadn't even realized that the formula you gave for p(x) is defined recursively. This makes a lot more sense now. Thanks for the explanation. :)

Exactly. :) This goes along with my reply to Frankie regarding physicalism: Wow, I'll have to ponder that one for a little while. :p

While I agree with these statements in themselves, it would not be possible for said "changes" to occur in the first place. If the weather were to "change," what causes the weather to change? A number of factors of course, all of which can be traced back to prior events. There wouldn't be...

Buffon's Needle Problem You have a needle that is one inch long. On the floor, many parallel lines are drawn spaced one inch apart like so. ..... ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— ..... What is the...

I think that this problem requires the use of summation, or at least something derived from such, but I would not know where to start. [H] — | — x — | — | — [B] 0 1 2 3 4 5 Since the probability is solely dependent upon the starting position, I've been thinking about...

I just noticed that technically an asteroid's trajectory is only known based upon past information because derivatives of position are observed over time. So to revise that, it would be more accurate to say one can calculate where the asteroids will be at any given point in time if the observer...

Causality / Determinism / Physicalism / Free Will / Time Travel Here's something that I was thinking about... Everything happens in one particular way, every single time, for any particular set of events. For instance, if there are ten asteroids floating around in space (in an isolated...

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting this (which isn't unlikely :p), but wouldn't the probability of making it to the bar given a series of coin flips depend on how you get to a position, and not just the position itself? You could have an infinant number of flips before you reach either location. You...

I definitely agree that there are traits in the MBTI system that are not fundamental to an individual's personality (and that only fundamental traits should constitute a typological system). However, I do propose that it would not necessarily be erroneous to have traits that could give rise to...

I used to do something quite similar to this. I would pretend that I was watching myself (in third person) running alongside the car leaping and acrobat-ing from lightpost to sign, or on top of other cars, etc.

–counting lane markers and tapping my teeth in sync -tapping (slightly grinding) teeth to the rythym of a song or just a random repetitive rythym I made up in my head -consuming meals in this exact order nearly every time: entree, side (if multiple, in this order: starches, vegetables, salad...

I'm slightly familiar with them, but certainly not familiar enough. Now that I've considered what QT and Yellow have to say, it makes more sense to reconsider MBTI entirely, and, like Yellow, to devise a new system. I'll try to do some research on SLOAN and Big 5 sometime soon, and hopefully...

That's very interesting. I hope to hear more as you develop your theory. Thanks to this, I've recalled a thought that I have occasionally pondered. (I really should just write this stuff down so my ideas are readily available.) I'll do my best to organize my Ne (it can get pretty messy)...

As you've accurately alluded to, my purpose in posting this was primarily to brainstorm several ideas. I have attempted to answer these questions single-handedly before, so as to acquire unique insight, but I typically end up deciding that any of my theorized traits are already determined by...

The four MBTI traits are: – Energy (Extroversion / Introversion) – Information (Sensation / Intuition) – Decision (Feeling / Thinking) – Lifestyle (Perceiving / Judging) – Trait (Categories) While 16 MBTI types summarize the human population rather elegantly, I've often wondered if 32...