1. Chimps beat humans in memory test

Comment #93736 by nepeta on December 4, 2007 at 4:03 am

I read some stupid comments in other blogs about this article saying things like our predecessors had a better memory, but chimps aren't our predecessors, we have common predecessors with them. I also don't agree that chimps can help us necessarily to understand our predecessors because how can we know if our common predecessors were more like chimps or more like men?
The idea that men are the top of evolution of the primates is completely wrong, we are the top of the evolution of our line, chimps are the top of their line, cats, dogs, flies and mice are the top of their respective lines.
Men are arrogant and believe that they're the best, but not only monkeys but other species can also outperform humans in other tasks.

I also think it would be interesting to repeat this experiment using human children to see if human also lose the memory wit the age.

If I take myself it wouldn't be necessary to do this experiment because my memory is degradating more and more with my age

2. The God disunion: there is a place for faith in science, insists Winston

Comment #35174 by nepeta on April 26, 2007 at 1:31 pm

I agree that religion limits the knowledge, freedom and other important issues, but I think religion was a good strategy to create civilizations, if limits people to think, you can control them better and make they work, go to war, conquer places (I don't think all this violence is positive), but maybe without it we wouldn't have developed our modern technology, because if we don't have adversity evolution goes slow.
I wish we still lived in simpler communities with less conflicts, but time doesn't go back.

3. Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?

Comment #33525 by nepeta on April 20, 2007 at 1:41 pm

oh my god! (interjection)

4. Atheism isn't the final word

Comment #32542 by nepeta on April 17, 2007 at 10:42 am

I don't think religion makes people bad or good, it makes people close-minded and stupid.

5. Mozart doesn't make you clever

Comment #32537 by nepeta on April 17, 2007 at 10:27 am

I'm also often considered elitist because of my music taste.
But how could I like TOP 40?
It's pure garbage.

6. Mozart doesn't make you clever

Comment #32536 by nepeta on April 17, 2007 at 10:25 am

music is math, if you pay attention in the melody and rhythm of complex music like classical music and some kinds of jazz and progressive rock, your brain will be exercising to find patterns on it.
Surely that Mozart, Bach or Miles Davis will make you more intelligent than Madonna and Michael Jackson.