Showing posts with label Social sciences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social sciences. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Neo video games: mind controlled or mind control? - National Worldview and Science | Examiner.com

Mariano has posted an interesting article on mind controlled video games. I think he raises some valid points. I think that is a human mind can be read and manipulate a computer, I see no reason why it can't go the other way to some degree. Given the technology companies like Google are working one like Google's Glass, there is some evidence that things are going to be going this direction more and more..Some film-makers have created a short-film about how such technology would eventually look like. I would like  to point out that like all technology, this doesn't have to be evil or used nefariously. It can be used to help people and move us forward...provided we don't do with it as done at the end of the film.

Read Mariano's article here:

Neo video games: mind controlled or mind control? - National Worldview and Science | Examiner.com

And watch the short film I referenced here:


If you would like to know more about Google Glass check out this link and videos.
Project Glass: what you need to know




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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Gender, A Helpful Infographic | The Angry Black Woman


 This is an interesting infographic. Gender should not be equated to sexual orientation. However gender is not a continuum it is something you are born with and is determined by your chromosomes. Two "X" chromosomes equal female. An "X" and "Y" chromosomes makes you "male". There is no between when everything goes normal. Cases of hermaphrodites and the extremely rare case of having neither genitalia are not  different points. Gender is biological. You have no more choice over your gender than you do over what anyone else does. Or who your parents are.  Or where and when you are born. You can't change any of these things, why do you think you should have the right to change your gender?

Gender, A Helpful Infographic | The Angry Black Woman
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Debunking Christianity: What Best Debunks Religion: Studying Science Or the Humanities?

John Loftus has pointed to a news article suggesting that students who major in Humanities are more likely to walk away from religion than those who are into the sciences. I'm not surprised by that. The humanities have men and our natures as the standard and relatively equal. However, in the sciences we can see objective truth. There are absolutes. There are well defined and predictive description of nature outside of opinion and emotion. When it comes to history, psychology, sociology, and the like they drive on emotion and one can argue about what is right and wrong and you can't really pin down truth because outside of God you have no rule brick and standard to examine truth claims. I think this is why I like science and engineering better. The truth is you need all the disciplines to understand our reality. If you try to apply sociology to Physics you miss a lot but you also miss much the other way. You need both. If anything in such of things as history, I can see the hand of God just as well as I can physics. I don't really see how people can deny design of the created order and how can people also deny that in order for the world to be just as it is today - billions of choices were made that made things happen as they are. Do we really think that it was by happenstance - that it's not going somewhere? I think that takes more faith.

Debunking Christianity: What Best Debunks Religion: Studying Science Or the Humanities?
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

TimeTravel Experiments, Parallel Universes, Stargates, 2012 and New Revelations


Here is a documentary trying to combine science and science fiction. Take a look and see what you think. I think that they tried to combine too much stuff and tried to tie things together that aren't really related.




TimeTravel Experiments, Parallel Universes, Stargates, 2012 and New Revelations

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