Recent content by peter

Perhaps you knew it because you sensed the moisture content, or the "feel" of the wind - in combination with the tone of the light (it being affected by moisture content), and subconsciously computed the last time this combination occurred and made a match with the last time it rained under...

I think that one aspect of intelligence is that intelligent people are able to tell us what we already knew. From what I see of intelligent people on forums, they seem to be able to generate that "aha!" moment by rendering our subconscious perceptions conscious, through language and metaphor...

Interesting article for its focus on the development of intellect and moral independence/culture-innovation: Both Vos Savant and Zietsman are Mensans. In describing the meaning of specific IQs, Zietsman gave Johannesburg Mensans the following analyses which, because of pressure of space, have...

Yes. While some are lucky enough to have a constitutional maturity that manifests something like the definition FA just gave, for those less lucky, brutal self honesty is an essential prerequisite; real growth can't occur without it (to state the obvious). And it can require courage too. I...

I think introspection requires a particular talent for transposing between the interface of feeling and language. I've found that there is an almost inverse relationship between the intensity of an intrapsychic feeling and its amenity to linguistic identification, and I've found this to be...

The first, second and third decades of my life are behind me.

I can be gullible with beggars, but I'm not sure if it's out of pity or the need to not feel bad about myself. Conspiracy theories usually meet with an inward groan of "here we go again....

I think the first gospel is now thought to have been Mark, which may have been written as early as AD50-ish. It has the roughest, most immediate style and lacks the narrative embellishment of Mathew and Luke.

Agreed.

My own; it always baffled me.