tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post1222100094282653230..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Feynman's cognitive styleSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-32382518093563201932015-06-29T20:37:54.956-04:002015-06-29T20:37:54.956-04:00One thing I found interesting about Feynman's ...One thing I found interesting about Feynman's cognitive style was his discussion in Surely you must be joking... of learning techniques to pickup women. An expert in pickup gives him some pointers like: never buy a girl a drink before she has agreed to sleep with you and means it. Rather than simply applying the advice, which is also how modern primers on pick-up would teach it, Feynman Nat Philosopherhttp://whyarethingsthisway.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-47818304990693515132013-12-05T04:16:37.547-05:002013-12-05T04:16:37.547-05:00and you do know savages, like schneebaum?
as conw...and you do know savages, like schneebaum?<br /><br />as conway said, "the romans reached as far as hot baths without the fatal knowledge of machinery. the only thing the east should take from the west is plumbing."<br /><br />"People who obsess about death are stupid."<br /><br />true. and about health too. orthorexia is apparently a real disease. <br /><br />BUT 1000 YEARS Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-75922144793471229312013-12-03T22:57:57.262-05:002013-12-03T22:57:57.262-05:00People who obsess about death are stupid. Death is...People who obsess about death are stupid. Death is the greatest mutational change. As always, nature is more creative than humans will ever be. The only choice left for Westerners is to depopulate, justify their history by expanding into space or some other equally preposterous adventure, and the return the Earth to those who can live on it in peace (minimal mechanization). Speak not of savages, Haciendanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-84059689779942244912013-12-03T19:03:12.486-05:002013-12-03T19:03:12.486-05:00(n)aked (m)ole (r)at
all such concerns are prema...(n)aked (m)ole (r)at<br /><br /><br />all such concerns are premature. it may be that a human living to 150 would be like a human flying or living underwater. that is, for these the human would have to be a bird or a fish. humans already live 3x longer than would be expected from their body size and basal metabolic rate. <br /><br /><br /><br />BUT i think this IS an open question.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-74891396221030226962013-12-03T11:11:18.004-05:002013-12-03T11:11:18.004-05:00nmr?nmr?5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-64524959669584887012013-12-03T10:56:28.560-05:002013-12-03T10:56:28.560-05:00Aren't you worried that if avoiding death beca...Aren't you worried that if avoiding death became easier than it now is, people would take cowardice, cruelty and egotism to heights they can never reach even in our world?5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-78519754247759850882013-12-02T21:07:21.163-05:002013-12-02T21:07:21.163-05:00when i was 12 i was concerned i was like winston s...when i was 12 i was concerned i was like winston smith, "a minority of 1" (except for the biochemist quoted in the omni article which made me a minority). but then my japanese exchange student at 13 told me this was HER interest. a guy in hs told me it was HIS. he went on to become a dentist, couldn't get into med school, i guess. she couldn't pass the entrance exams in japan.<Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-56766855493465853982013-12-02T20:47:21.897-05:002013-12-02T20:47:21.897-05:00yes. lord something continues to "develop&quo...yes. lord something continues to "develop". as man is like <br />an ape which never fully develops, he turns into an ape eventually. i even listened to it on tape when i was very little.<br /><br />the answer may be that aging is so complex that the only way man can live <br />longer is to become a bowhead whale, so to speak. BUT the evidence so <br />far is that very simple Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59275821796073044862013-12-02T16:21:50.653-05:002013-12-02T16:21:50.653-05:00"I have always felt that Feynman was cognitiv..."I have always felt that Feynman was cognitively a bit "lopsided" -- much stronger mathematically than verbally."<br /><br />Feynman is perhaps the most verbally articulate of all major physicists bar none. While Einstein may have a catchy quote or two to his name, Feynman's fame is as much as product of his voluminous non-professional writings as it is from his ohwillekenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-69315496660186698802013-12-01T20:51:27.329-05:002013-12-01T20:51:27.329-05:00Kierkegaard was extremely funny (and not that hard...Kierkegaard was extremely funny (and not that hard to read when you already speak the language).peterlundnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-51538786198915786732013-12-01T04:19:53.566-05:002013-12-01T04:19:53.566-05:00I think that he just presented himself as a plain ...I think that he just presented himself as a plain guy to emphasize his genius. He disguised his work and efforts. Feynman was an artiste. "He was more of a clown than he was a scientist sometimes" (Gell-Mann)Sagredonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-45668121477580472112013-12-01T01:38:59.857-05:002013-12-01T01:38:59.857-05:00Did you ever read Aldous Huxley, "After many ...Did you ever read Aldous Huxley, "After many a summer"?5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-42204819818076945082013-11-30T20:19:30.698-05:002013-11-30T20:19:30.698-05:00the factors are given whatever name the person doi...the factors are given whatever name the person doing the analysis likes. they don't mean anything by themselves, but looking at the subtests with the highest loadings for a given factor one can decide for himself what aspects of cognition these factors correspond to if any.<br /><br />for the sb, passage memory is another attention loaded subtest. and attention is a rather "large" Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-61551954310217215542013-11-30T17:36:37.965-05:002013-11-30T17:36:37.965-05:00A lot of our views on intelligence are arguable ca...A lot of our views on intelligence are arguable capricious and arbitrary...<br /><br />http://thefurloff.com/2013/11/30/when-its-not-obvious-you-dont-need-to-know-something/Hal Swyersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-52152662580616156002013-11-30T16:53:09.021-05:002013-11-30T16:53:09.021-05:00Feynman was a genius, but he was human too, meanin...Feynman was a genius, but he was human too, meaning, his genius was limited to various domains that he applied his efforts and attention. Supposedly his papers had heavy editing on their English. Einstein's English compositions were banal, and they were probably highly polished by other, and his understanding of non-physics was pretty poor. Like athletes, experts in everything are expertsefalkennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-41289347421160646102013-11-30T10:55:24.740-05:002013-11-30T10:55:24.740-05:00Interesting. Thanks for that link. You don't...Interesting. Thanks for that link. You don't happen to have a link to free full text (I could not find any)?<br />I agree with you about the importance of attention/focus. I also think that, if it is possible, the best way to increase g in children/adults is to address this dimension.<br /><br /><br />I had noticed attention in the subtest details of my link, but thought it was too Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-40060330095760333252013-11-30T10:45:17.674-05:002013-11-30T10:45:17.674-05:00@Luboš Motl you make many excellent points in your...@Luboš Motl you make many excellent points in your blog post, but I think criticizing Steve for ad hominems against Feynman is a bit rich given the number of them against Steve that appear in your post. I think everyone in this thread would agree Feynman was a genius (whatever that word means precisely). However, I think it is valid to discuss how his genius differed from that of many of his Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89495118145664049842013-11-30T06:20:46.237-05:002013-11-30T06:20:46.237-05:00Williams syndrome sufferers have low IQ across the...Williams syndrome sufferers have low IQ across the board, but they have large vocabularies and well developed communication skills. Their extremely high motivation to interact with people may have more to do with their communication skills than their V IQ does.<br /><br /><br />I think of domestic dogs as having the equivalent of Williams syndrome in canines. They are dumber than normal canines, Corneliusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-14620429009761491502013-11-30T06:12:43.315-05:002013-11-30T06:12:43.315-05:00"The M threshold was set at a fairly anemic 5..."The M threshold was set at a fairly anemic 500 when looking at the high V types..."<br /><br /><br />The averages for SAT V and M among college-bound students were 430 and 500 respectively. A score of 500 for a 12-year-old is quite high. Only one student scored below 500 and we don't know if that individual scored 490 or 400 so let's neglect that outlier for now. If we take 500Corneliusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-83755656000002664752013-11-30T03:40:02.551-05:002013-11-30T03:40:02.551-05:00An interesting topic but I disagree with your view...An interesting topic but I disagree with your views, Steve, see:<br />http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/11/was-feynman-cognitively-lopsided-and.html?m=1Luboš Motlhttp://motls.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-57206886193213684992013-11-30T01:28:44.089-05:002013-11-30T01:28:44.089-05:00High V low M? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...High V low M? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndromeMatthew Sternnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-27603122641945622182013-11-30T01:06:46.044-05:002013-11-30T01:06:46.044-05:00Of course, Feynman like Einstein, etc had uh other...Of course, Feynman like Einstein, etc had uh other sources of inspiration as well...<br /><br />http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/the-feynman-behind-the-myth/<br /><br />"While a professor at Caltech, and after winning the Nobel Prize, Feynman would frequent a Pasadena strip club to work on his calculations, stopping to look at the girls when he was having difficulty. It is obvious from his Yan Shennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-91025425023960957662013-11-30T00:18:57.010-05:002013-11-30T00:18:57.010-05:00Feynman was one of the great storytellers in Ameri...Feynman was one of the great storytellers in American culture.stevesailernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-91765411965014739692013-11-29T23:12:17.085-05:002013-11-29T23:12:17.085-05:00but the bigger point is that when 90% of people in...but the bigger point is that when 90% of people in the developed world die from age related diseases and the correlation between income and life expectancy is so small, why does any really smart person not pursue the very simple question, put metaphorically, "why does a man live 7 x longer than a dog?"<br /><br /><br />one reason is that there is no funding for it. less than 1% of the Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-39479951908888672852013-11-29T23:05:53.120-05:002013-11-29T23:05:53.120-05:00iirc, one great who couldn't read music was da...iirc, one great who couldn't read music was dave brubeck.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.com