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What's your favorite science? (pg. 5)
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| enydo |
| Definitely Biology. I just think living organisms are amazing and I love reading, learning, and hearing about them. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I've got a similar feeling, but I'm way more inclined towards sociology, anthropology and the so-called soft sciences in general. I love human things :D |
The human body is very very mechanical. Even in its fluid motion, it its immensley mechanical. From the way the way the muscles interface with your bones, to the way the heart beats. Most people just don't think of the human body as a mechanical device.
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Yep.
That's what I really like: knowing how things work. From chemicals to cells to animals to stars. |
omg same. I can't even begin to explain how engrossed in programs I get when they get really in depth on how things work.
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
big +1
I love all sciences.
My field of study is psychology, but it wasn't an easy choice. It took me almost 5 years after I finished high school just to pick which field I'd be going into. I'm also interested in other social sciences (seeing as they're all tied together in one way or the other) - sociology, economics. But I am also very interested in physics. I have several friends who study in that field and they always explain some pretty mind-blowing stuff. Also as a child I was obsessed with marine biology. While other kids were in the school yard playing ball I was in the school library reading up on the migration patterns of fish. :wtf: |
haha it has taken me finally till I am almost 25 to finally decide I am going to finally start college (college in the USA = ALL post secondary education) in the Mechanical Engineering field. I love so many things about the different sciences, it is really hard for me to nail someting down.
Lira, You also don't know how much I love to people watch, and really understand what makes people do the things they do, how they do it, what influences their decision, etc. I really love psychology in depth. Not just the people who do it for s and giggles to get a degree. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
i bet you stick your dick in robots. |
only if you are the robot that I get to stick it in. ;)
lol :p |
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| Meat187 |
| I have a diploma in electrical engineering, but I can't really say that, or anything else is my "favorite" science. Every field has a lot of interesting to offer, like medical stuff, cosmology, anthropology, quantum physics, etc. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
The human body is very very mechanical. Even in its fluid motion, it its immensley mechanical. From the way the way the muscles interface with your bones, to the way the heart beats. Most people just don't think of the human body as a mechanical device. |
I didn't mean "human" as animals, but "human" as human-made, i.e. ideas and concepts. That isn't exactly mechanical.
My field of study, for example, is as abstract as possible: you can't touch language, can you? Sure, there's a physical as well as a psychological aspect inherent to it (reason why you can analyse sound waves and study perception within linguistics), but still... that's just the tip of the iceberg. I certainly don't subscribe the the Chomskian claim that linguistics is just part of psychology (which would get us on that back on that "purity" graph :D).
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Lira, You also don't know how much I love to people watch, and really understand what makes people do the things they do, how they do it, what influences their decision, etc. I really love psychology in depth. Not just the people who do it for s and giggles to get a degree. |
Hehehe, yeah, I can relate to you on that one :) |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I didn't mean "human" as animals, but "human" as human-made, i.e. ideas and concepts. That isn't exactly mechanical.
My field of study, for example, is as abstract as possible: you can't touch language, can you? Sure, there's a physical as well as a psychological aspect inherent to it (reason why you can analyse sound waves and study perception within linguistics), but still... that's just the tip of the iceberg. I certainly don't subscribe the the Chomskian claim that linguistics is just part of psychology (which would get us on that back on that "purity" graph :D).
Hehehe, yeah, I can relate to you on that one :) |
But even language is mechanical. The execution of each sound, the structure of the words and setences, the production of ones thoughts orally. |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
You also don't know how much I love to people watch |
Holly I was made for psychology. I can probably sit the whole day in some crowded place and just watch and chill. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
But even language is mechanical. The execution of each sound, the structure of the words and setences, the production of ones thoughts orally. |
Like I said, there is a inherent physical aspect to it: there are sound waves that are interesting to phoneticians just like there are memory constraints that are inspiring to the generative grammarian. That is all mechanical. But, although all these (sonic) symbols are processed in a "material plataform", i.e. the body, the software is not the hardware.
| quote: | Originally posted by d-miurge
Philosophy. |
Granted, philosophy is the queen of the sciences, in my opinion... but it isn't a science itself, is it? It's more like a couple of stoners addicted to sex spawning spoiled brats that go on to systematically study just one particular branch of knowledge while their parents are bewildered frowning upon the nerdy and dirty youth :p |
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| kadomony |
whatever the kind of science this is |
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