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Panpsychism is what it drew to mind for me. Also, wasn’t elan vital brother to gore vidal? It’s literally impossible to exist anywhere else.

Do you believe the way rudeness gets measured and classified (and who defines those classifications) has no bearing on the ethics of any research into it? Who are you again?

In any sense One is more immersive So perhaps in that sense

You’re the one proposing we research rudeness. I asked by what measure and told me nothing in reply. It’s your study idea, not mine. To be frank, I’m comfortable with ignoring it and flushing it down the drain. You should consider reading up on it. We’ve been doing it for decades.

The quiet in a house cannot be equated with the quiet of underwater.

I think the rule that players on the baseball field are allowed to wear gloves and mits and better catch balls I hit their way with the bat is unfair. It’s sports. It’s literally a set of arbitrary rules than can be arguably changed. I also think it’s unfair that hockey players get to rest on a bench when lines change and penalties occur. The rules should say they must do pull-ups while they wait, otherwise it’s not fair. Fairness will never be absolute, but that doesn’t mean that some choices aren’t more fair or less fair than others across the most number of people. This is all an awful lot of handwringing and panty twisting for all 11 of those trans athletes out there actually trying to compete.

Perhaps learn that an autodidactic may learn things in parallel, not just serially.

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It may be as simple as the deep concentrated focus it brings. All noise goes quiet when you dive and otherwise fall into a meditation doing something about which you’re passionate.

What is your metric for rudeness? Is it binary yes/no, or does it have different intensities along a scale? Who gets to decide these ratings, and how is bias removed or minimized before averages and analyses get conducted? It needs to allow consent to be informed. These aren’t new questions (see also previous comments about reinvented wheels) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5980471/

Neither

As our experiences change, so does the information we must transmit to fellow members of our pack or tribe. New words evolve to align with those new experiences, and the words which work best and most efficiently get selected for.

It may be beneficial to learn more about what has been previously and what is already being done today so you may better focus your energies into remaining gaps (instead of wheel reinvention)

What if we do both? It depends rather a lot on how we do it as well as why.

Seconded

Risk is so negligibly small IMO as to be dismissed and disregarded. Main risk seems to be fire from heat. If your device is getting so extremely hot while it charges as to ignite any items surrounding it, then case or no case will result in similar outcomes. It’s time to replace. The only time it makes sense to remove a case for charging IMO is if you’re using a wireless induction pad and the case interferes with successful transfer of power.

Happiness is the wrong metric, IMO. Healthiness, specifically mental health, is the way to go. You lose your job and have an entire family counting on you for survival? Don’t worry, be happy! Your spouse get raped leaving work? Don’t worry, be happy! Your child die in a fire? Don’t worry, be happy! You got diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 14? Don’t worry, be happy! Did warring tribes raid your village and slaughter everyone living there? Don’t worry, be happy! Can’t afford food or shelter and living in squalor for decades at a time? Don’t worry, be happy! Nonsense. Feeling the reality around us and dealing with it in a healthy authentic manner needs to be the goal, not some bumper sticker “turn that frown upside down!” childish cartoon view of goals for existence. If feeling better is your goal, then science has shown charity and helping others, finding meaning in our actions, spending time outdoors, and getting consistent quality sleep tend to be the strongest levers…. But disappointment and failure will be your primary outcome if you try to prioritize happiness over healthiness.

Droughts are worse and wild fires are extinguished to protect dwellings. This creates more tinder and sparks from human activities and power lines love jumping into kindling like that.

Yes, most everyone of these issues is solvable. No doubt, but you do your argument a disservice by ignoring the costs, time, effort, and lost opportunities elsewhere that come with solving some of these challenges. At some point it’s simply wiser and more mature to accept that it’s not worth it and begin exploring different solutions (or accepting some of the solutions already in place to address these same needs). ETA: You're also ignoring new problems this approach would likely create. Solving engineering problems on cars might create social problems and accessibility problems in neighborhoods, for example.

We humans try to put things into neat little categories. Boy girl. White black. Hot cold. Yummy yucky. It makes our feeble ape minds happy, but the universe doesn’t care about our word and category choices. It’s all on a spectrum, and it differs based on your perspective. Two people looking at the exact same thing might have two totally different interpretations. It’s all relative, you might say… and what is alive versus what is not is no different in that regard… and viruses really laugh at us when we’re trying to decide whether they’re alive or not.

Depends on how you define manifestation. Is it like the placebo effect?

Sure… Together, because then you can argue! We all have biases. Pointing out errors and biases in the work and comments of others is sort of at the heart of what science is. Science is a method of removing/minimizing human bias while finding better and better ways to model the cosmos. Everything we learn is only provisionally accepted, then immediately replaced when a better version comes along. Science is a blood sport where we assassinate bad ideas wild abandon. You don’t get extra credit for trying hard. If you can’t grow a thicker skin and can’t take unending criticism and keep wanting to sing kumbaya with everyone, then you may not be the most ideally suited person to practice science.

Slower rain would be welcome and better. Drought makes dirt like concrete and much of it will just flash flood runoff when it comes down so violently and fast.

Ok

You tell me. You’re the one who asked why autonomous vehicles can’t be designed to go as fast as Japanese trains. See also: Relationship between velocity, perceived speed, vestibular response, and passenger comfort: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559987/