Personal (stupid) theories

Here's mine:

Every room in a building has a finite amount of "computer knowledge". When someone who claims not to know much about computers is alone in the room, often they are able to use the room's knowledge to figure out computer problems on their own. If someone who "knows more" about comptuers walks into the room, the majority of the computer knowledge gets channeled into this new person.

This immediately causes those in the room who are less familiar with computers to ask the computer geek all kinds of questions, even about things they have done before, should be obvious by now, or things they could just as easily find out themselves.

Anyone have any stupid theories of their own?

The amount of intelligence in the world is constant.
The population is rising.

Ahh, a very good and very simliar theory.

I wonder if there's a "Unified Intelligence Theory" we could use to link them together! lol Even Einstein couldn't figure that one out!

Well actually, there kinda is. I think. I didn' really understand it all, cuz I think my intelligence quotient got lost in the post somewhere.

But anyways, the very exciting 'A Survey of Cognitive and Agent Architectures' talks of the 'Unified Theories of Cognition'

I tried to read it but it says things like



and



and that's just far too many big words in one sentence for me. So if you really were interested, I suggest you go have a look at Theories and Hypotheses Related to Cognitive Architectures

and if not, please continue with your theories

(Yeah, I really am THAT bored)

Translation for you!



If you're going to prove a theory of unifed cognition you have to be able to get the results of any tests you do to produce the same results more than once. If you manage to do this, you've created a blueprint for how human's think, analyze and solve problems.

Translation Number two:



The reason the dudes and dudettes at the universities decided to create unified theroy of cognition is because they want to be able to prove that a person can create a system that proves certain truths about intelligence in people.

That's all I got out of five years of grad school. The ability to translate much like that into normal language. I dunno if that is good or bad .


As far as my personal theroy goes:

I believe that people are so subsconicously influenced by narrative that they reinact stories they have seen/heard/read and don't even know they are doing it. That's why it's true that there are "only so many stories in the world" and why they all boil down to: a stranger comes to town OR someone goes on a journey. That's also why you have to shoot your gun you introduced in the first act by act three, cause if you don't, the viewer is going to say "hey! That's not the story!" because they actually know the story in their bones .

There's some high class deep thinkin' for ya!

Zana

Actually that's just alot of big words to make the stuff look complicated. lol "Codification" is the only really weird word...

That's pretty weird though.

maybe you could enlighten us on the "second shooter" theory as well....hmmmm???

Zana,

<<If you're going to prove a theory of unifed cognition you have to be able to get the results of any tests you do to produce the same results more than once. If you manage to do this, you've created a blueprint for how human's think, analyze and solve problems.>>

You can't help wondering why they didn't say that in the first place.

PS: Actually, I work on the principle that if someone has to couch their ideas in such a tortured, multisyllabic parody of English then those ideas are probably not worth much anyway.

Whoever wrote that is obviously a cognition hoarder, and is probably over his cognition limit.

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Maxx,


... story of my life!

Uh, because if they say it in simple language it will be clear that they may in fact be some kind of intellectual fraud and therefore wouldn't be able to keep that cushie tenure-track job they got!!

Let's hear it for clear, precise langauge . Give me a C! Give me a L! . . . .

And it brings up another theory -- the more important you think you are, the more important you think you should sound .

Zana

I believe there are no such things as coinsidences, and, when a person is faced with a controlled event, it is possible to predict his exact actions. In relation, it is possible to predict the future in the course of human events without any paranormal ability simply by understanding how our brains, and the brains of others, work. I believe the world could have been created as a sort of controled experiment, knowing exactly what will happen. So, you DO have free choice... in fact, you have to have free choice, and by developing yourself to your fullest exetent, you can find your destiny.

Or maybe that's just me

Oh, and I also believe that psychic ability is nothing more than an increased awareness of the actions of other people.

My personal theory involves reincarnation. I theorize that when you die your soul isnt entered back into a pool of other whole souls but rather is broken down into soul bits and recycled. So, when a new person is born their soul isnt the whole of another person but rather bits of many. Otherwise there is no way to account for increases in population. It does however account for large populations becoming less soulful since there are fewer bits to go around.

Women are evil.

Proof:

We all know that women take time and money, so:
WOMEN=TIME*MONEY

And of course time *is money, so:
WOMEN=MONEY*MONEY

Simplified to:
WOMEN=MONEY^2

And since money is the root of all evil:
WOMEN = ( sqrt(EVIL) )^2

Simplified:
WOMEN=EVIL



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Not really mine but heck it cracks the geek inside me up everytime i think about it.
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Over millennia, the development of therapies to allow human beings to survive despite inherited disorders/illnesses has greatly weakened individuals and put our "species health" at risk. The survival of humanity is a race between our ability to completely manipulate our body chemistry and structure and the ability of nature or other humans to find ways to wipe us all off the face of the planet.

I do not know if this is a known or popular view, and come to think of it I'd rather not know. And it's a bit too serious for the thread. Oh well.

Yes, we are. Only just figured that out? But there's more to be learned from this exercise.

You stated that MONEY is the root of all EVIL:
MONEY = sqrt(EVIL)

But EVIL is a negative value (GOOD being a positive value). So MONEY is the square root of a negative value; therefore, MONEY is imaginary.

And since TIME=MONEY, TIME is imaginary too.

I think I just proved Buddhism.

Does this mean women are imaginary too?

All things have an equal or unequal balance...

Humanity trying to preserve and keep its weak body going>

<Humanity trying to kill itself and every other living thing

Inteligence>

<Stupidity

In order for things to stay equal they must be pased from one thing to another. This applies for pretty much everything.

Actualy you could use the theory of preservation of energy in appliance with Inteligence/Stupidity... it never seases to exist, it just passes on in form to someone/something else.

Same as in Evil/good... and preservation of life/self destruction.

Think... Duct Tape

Blimey Garoad, that was a good theory and makes perfect sense if you ask me

(It's mainly to do with computer fear I think... computers really aren't difficult to deal with, and most people know much more than they realise... but they put on an image of cluelessness because they're afraid to do anything themselves)

A theory that I read about and liked:
Nature goes by the rule "survival of the fittest"... the last in a stampede of buffalo dies off, making the rest of them more efficient.

Well, if beer hurts your brain cells, then it's killing off the weak brain cells, therefore making your brain more efficient.

Therefore, Beer = good for you!

Another theory I liked was that electronics are not enabled by electrons, but by smoke. Once all the smoke starts leaking out, the device is f***ed!

As for a theory of my own...
Got plenty, but can't think of em. Drat.

The one Michael Small posted is awesome....complete truth!!!!!

Yes Darwin.....the I Ching teaches that there is no such thing as luck...luck is when the best prepared mind meets opportunity. Yes I agree on your prediction of actions....but you forgot something "Law of Average"........if you do the same thing over and over exactly the same way, prediction says you will get the same result everytime.....but the law of average says that at some point you will not.....

hehe.....devils advocate cus i love to pick Darwins brain.....

Statistically, 50% of all people are below average intelligence. But I suspect the real number might be higher.

Scary isnt it?

To quote my favorite comedian:
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of them, are stupider than that." -- George Carlin.

Ultimately, nothing is important.


...and no, i'm not a pessimist

...actually, i'm an optimist

...and i usually find that many things feel important

...i also think that any theory will eventually be de-bunked
...by another theory, usually by the same person

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...of course, none of that is important