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by zDarby
Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Reason vs. Emotion.
Replies: 75
Views: 14054

However, what I would suggest is that there may be more to be added to your thesis. A conclusion, of sorts. Your post is hilarious! And it makes a fun point! My objection is that the fight is not out there somewhere: "homo geekensis" vs "homo musclehead". It's internal to every human being: do I le...
by zDarby
Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: Reason vs. Emotion.
Replies: 75
Views: 14054

1) On Logic vs Emotion. Evolutionary processes allow for things that make no sense as long as they do no damage. (Consider the duck's penis.) However, they do not allow for things which get in the way of survival. To my mind this would include most emotional behaviors. Which is to say that most (tho...
by zDarby
Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:11 am
Forum: Implications
Topic: Tesla's Dream
Replies: 17
Views: 38447

I hate to resurrect this thread as my first act on this forum, but I've been studying Tesla's "World System" of wireless power and signal transmission recently. From what I've gathered, it was more capacitive than inductive. You needed a tuned capacitance circuit, where one side of the capacitor was...