Comments by "Misty Culous" (@mistyculous9644) on "Thoughty2" channel.

  1. Researchers who love historical facts are fascinating, thanks
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  2. Do you have "techniques" to help you remember your dreams? Figured out a way to remember longer dreams back when there were video tapes. I practiced remembering dreams by looking at the last scenes of movies I had previously seen when awake, but didn't remember these movies very well. Watching movie ending scenes allowed me to practice to "reconstruct" the whole movie - because obviously the memory of that movie was in me somewhere. It Then I'd watch the movie to see how I'd done. Doing this today with digital movies has been useful for dream recall now. So I often look at the last few ending scenes when re-watching a movie I've seen previously. By doing this, I've been able to remember almost "movie length" dreams, even dreams that were very non-sequential - which has been really interesting.
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  3. An old friend admitted to me that he never saw green in a sunset previously to me pointing it out to him one time. Now he sees greens all the time in sunsets!
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  4.  @SilverKnight16  I think this word "camaraderie" that came to your mind matches the best. What came to my mind in Spanish was: Afficionado
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  5. A friend used learning a new musical instrument as a way to recover his considerable intelligence quotient after a serious accident where a head injury limited his brain usefulness.
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  6.  @daxincarnate9381  Perhaps read the really old book: Language, Thought & Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf ? Did you learn music notation? Music is its own language, especially when played with others who must listen to play with you harmoniously. Different cultures have different symbolic meanings, so the translation is interesting - for colors, animals for instance. Purple means "royal" in Western culture, whereas in Asian it's golden yellow that means royal.
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  7. I'm dusting off my old SciFi novels. Anyone have recommendations of awesome prophetic stuff or authors they have read?
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  8. As Edward de Bono was proud of coining a new, useful concept: "lateral thinking." Meaning there is a whole category of thinking strategies and practices that were different from logic. (But lateral thinking practices are just as effective and useful as logic.)
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  9. Pre-crime exists in Los Angeles, CA in the form of a relationship map for street gangs that have police stopping "possible" miscreants just because they know each other.
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  10. now you can go into selling water catchment tanks, LOL
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  11.  @raymondrainwater9803  Learn about them firsthand by coming to Hawaii, where many, many people use them.
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  12.  @AngelaMerici12  yes, education really sucks in the USA
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  13. Yes, great author - (sometimes lousy translations.) Many classic SciFi predictors could not be mentioned: Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. Van Vogt, Robert Heinlein, Phillip Jose Farmer, Rodger Zelazny, Alfred Bester, Ursula LeGuinn, Frederick Pohl, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Niven & Pournelle, Philip K. Dick, David Brin, Poul Anderson, Jack Vance, Olaf Stapleton...and I could just go on for another three paragraphs...
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  14.  @MrYoungzay  exactly why geniuses need to study communication, negotiation and presentation skills. They might benefit from forgoing historic content - because our culture is now changing so fast that books print what's obsolete
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  15. by Bickerton: "Adam's Tongue"- discusses how language began and the various theories involved. Also the same author wrote another book that's sort of a travel log of Creole languages called: Bastard Tongues
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  16. After reading "Language, Thought & Reality" by Whorf... It was the first book where I could understand the words, but it took me much study to wrap my head around its content. Hopi verbs have TWO forms of their tense, named: "Objective" and "Subjective." The 1st "Objective" verb category means: What people together can witness moment by moment. (So if you can see something behind your friend, you had to use the Subjective tense.) What you personally perceive doesn't exist for everyone just because you perceive it - as "Reality" does in English. 2nd: The "subjective" verb form: Whoever listens will have to believe your report - despite what you say not existing for them. With this "scientific objectivity," Hopi might seem like a serious language of physicists and mindfulness...But in everyday life, I heard that Hopi people often laughably tease each other by saying entertaining, wild stuff they supposedly verify is true for them. If you wonder...how do "tenses" happen in Hopi? Huge categories of verb modifiers - modifiers that Whorf said gave a unique sense of relative time - not "factual time." Example: (as I understood the book) if you wanted to say: "Usually, I intend to run every morning for my strength, please join me," A Hopi literal word-for-word example translation with Hopi sentence structure would be: (subjective form:) I'm intending, I'm running, (then verb modified words:) daily, rhythmically, strongly, dawning and (still subjective form) we are running (verb modifier:) together. For awhile I tried to use English words and re-order them the way I understood Hopi does - it really stretched my brain!
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  17.  @brianjeffrey1913  Try speaking/listening to people from New Mexico, USA. They speak slower Spanish than anyone else, IMHO.
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  18. Guessing you're goal oriented. I'm not sure if you really want the attention span of a goldfish?
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  19. yes, I heard that Einstein's first wife was also responsible for many of his theories too. She didn't want the limelight - in that era, women weren't recognized anyway.
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  20. Yes, people can legally lie. Unless they put a contract in writing, they don't have to keep their promises.
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  21. yes, the way your tongue rests or pushes upward in your mouth has something to do with how wide your cheeks end up, etc.
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  22.  @davidp2827  That color thing you described - it's called the "Stroop test." Yes, commonly, a bunch of people get freaked out because they reflexively READ the color the word says and IGNORE the color the word is. The Stroop test proves that responses slow down when the color of the word doesn't match what the word says.
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  23. The best book on this gender differences in speaking style that I've read was: "Talking 9-5" By Deborah Tannen, Ph.d Linguistics. So - there are exceptions to every categorical generalization, of course. As a female, I physically I did not "fit into" any group because of being much taller. The "female" style of speech wasn't my only choice. What shaped that in my upbringing is that most girls are programmed to be trained to pay attention to future children who need their attention by being routinely interrupted by their parents. I was allowed to focus and not interrupted as a child - like a boy. Plus, I had lots of time with a retired father. As I matured, I got that men had another speaking style culturally. So if I wanted to get along with a man in an intimate relationship and be able to communicate with him, I had better learn this male speech culture. It's tricky to know and get practice articulating what you think, when your female role is to listen to a man. A guy who constantly controls the auditory space with their own determination of topic, pace and a "ranting" sort of speaking style - challenging. How do you ever get a chance to speak when your conversationalist's speaking style forces you to make an awkward interruption to say anything? You'd tend not to talk at all. What helped me most was joining a David Bohm style dialog group (30 people or so) - During the dialog I took notes to help me remember what I wanted to contribute on the fly. This helped me learn continuity of memory - so I could be a better listener and I wasn't just repeating to myself what I wanted to say so I didn't forget it.
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  24. I heard that Edison, on his deathbed, declared that he should have cooperated with Tesla instead of fighting with him.
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  25. I've heard that either you spend time "ordering" your things or you spend time looking for them, LOL
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  26. He has Zucked all who use his platform, LOL
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  27.  @desmondwatson9079  You might enjoy a book called: Bastard Tongues By Bickerton or Bickerson. It's about how many different "Creoles" evolved in divergent places with similar simplified linguistic structures, spontaneously.
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  28. It's more than that. In the past ten years, engineers attended SciFi Conventions with the motives to conceive of new "tech" ideas that were originally invented by authors - who were termed "Imagineers." Engineers weren't so effective at imagining, but were great at logistics. To figure the logistics, you need the idea first.
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  29. I had a cat named: Needles because...well, you can imagine.
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  30. Nobody has mentioned yet who profits when people have children who cannot afford to pay for them. Urging people to have kids, even though they KNOW their kids will be in a bad situation, just ask, "Who benefits?" Strangely enough, it's the prison system that gains benefits. Eventually as an adult, prison systems profit from bad parenting, bad situations for kids and bad environments for kids to grow up in.
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  31. When I was given the intelligence test, to the tester at the time, I complained that the test involved EDU that there's no way I could have be exposed to yet because I was seven years old - which wasn't fair. My observation invented the concept of "mindware" that that point, LOL Smart people really need to learn communication and negotiation skills - otherwise, they won't be able to convey their special interests or get support for continuing their interests. How old were you when your intelligence was measured?
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  32. How can humans imagine they could understand aliens, when we can't even communicate very well with canines & felines, cetaceans, elephants, crows & octupus who are already here? Yes, I'm fascinated with the "world building" of SciFi universes. Really enjoy it when an author invents multiple languages for their characters and worlds. The solution of being shot with a 'translation vaccination" was really cool in Farscape. If there was a vaccine that could offer that now - I'd definitely want it!
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  33. yes, Bernie Madoff - yes, he made off with their money and burned it! LOL
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  34. No wonder Irish language was replaced by English then - if you couldn't say "yes," you can't agree to a contract! All of the English world runs on contracts - actual contracts and implied contracts.
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  35. You might enjoy the personality descriptive system called the "Conative Index." It calls those (who you say are "high inductive") people who want to act quickly "Quick-Start." There are three more categories of how people tend to want to do a job; people are a mixture of these four types & so are the profiles of jobs. Match the job to how someone naturally wants to do it and there are many benefits. If you teach thinking skills (not merely critical logical thinking, but parallel, lateral, strategic, design & creative thinking ability) to these highly reactive "delinquents" who don't know how to use impulse control - these "Delinquents" stop reacting and start problem solving.
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  36. Does Wren count how many children someone spawned in their computations?
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  37. Yes, it's objectionable to me also. The technology that allows these devices to "hear the wake-up word" do this by recording everything said within earshot- including everything others say in your own home, etc. Paying to have recordings made of everything I say to everyone I speak with on the phone? That's a bit much. I learned the tech behind technology that interferes with data privacy from the channel Rob Braxman Tech. He's a good teacher and has some practical solutions.
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  38. yeah, "language, thought & reality" is still an interesting book by Whorf
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  39. yes, like a "con-game. Also, remember how doctors "practice" on their patient patients.
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  40. Good point. As a shy child, my strange name gave me something to start a conversation with. Now, I imagine having an unusual name as an "Awareness Test." Using humor, I often out loud conversationally rate people on whether they passed or failed on noticing my name is "unusual" - or not. When they fail the test, their brain simplifies my name to another, more familiar, similar version of a name...which requires their assumption that I spelled my own name wrong. So, I agree with you - that's where the repeated accusation of "you're wrong" originates, and that's why I inform them when they do so that they "failed" the awareness test by assuming I'm wrong about my own name.
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  41. we already have credit scores. To add "social" to that score isn't much of a stretch.
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  42. "not going to the hospital" or " going to the hospital" are the phrases
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  43.  @mixinthebisquic1238  It's from dreams that authors imagine and get original story lines for movie scripts. Everything else is "derivative."
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  44. I think we need more words for the many unique relationships that we've evolved since we've had access to online interactions. Such as: "acquaintanceships"
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  45. What's your "flying style"? Meaning, describe how you fly - put your arms out? How do you take off up into the air?
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  46.  @daviedood2503  There's many poor people who are really smart, but they don't want to be in charge for various reasons, (some physical limits?) or they were born into a situation where it was pretty much impossible to get the necessary education, etc. to get put into the position of authority.
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  47. ​ @alaindubois1505  A potential for new friends is there - as you remember the fuzzy past of when and how you met & bonded as friends. When starting from a state of being a hermit, teaching ESL or learning a new language has put me in touch with nice people again. So many unknown, subtle elements of language include the rapport of bonding rituals, (the timing of repeating contact for instance.)
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  48. Please tell us more about how your tribal language is structured...?
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  49.  @peanutbutter9345  You might want to check out the book that offers "templates" for multi-talented people called: "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher. Also the term "multi-potentialite." Specialization happened around the 1950s - around when generalists (such as Thoughty2) became "out of style."
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  50. ​ @MrYoungzay  ...then your invention will be bought - and shelved by the competitor of your invention who has much to lose if the invention is successfully manufactured and distributed as it was designed. Your patent is only as secure as the money you can invest to defend it, unfortunately. But I don't think these sorts of injustices are limited to the USA. The French had long-term ongoing activist demonstrations every weekend in 2018-19 protesting large corporations being paid by public taxation for transitioning to "cleaner" manufacturing. This is why the "Carbon Tax" is going to happen in the USA - a similar solution. It's also why the reasons for these ongoing French demonstrations were kept out of the US news. Carbon Taxation is a corporate scam splendidly justified by pseudo-environmentalists who say it's a "Climate Change" solution - people aren't going to realize what Carbon Tax really represents because of this "doublespeak." Essentially, the Carbon Tax will be paid by the public in the form of "subsidies" to the Corporations who stand to lose out as alternative energy is developed and implemented. The Corporations who benefit, will then pass on their (subsidized) increased costs to their buyers as a business expense - so the Corporations will get double benefits. Those corporations believe they need to get paid to make the transition to "green" energy solutions. Otherwise, these big companies aren't going to allow the progress of environmentally cleaner power and manufacturing to happen. Just as they have been buying and shelving any invention threatening their business...for decades.
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