Salutations!
I’ve just realized that the classes that I am most interested in are the classes I have earliest in the morning. Both my Psychology classes are at 9 am, followed by my biology and philosophy classes on their respective days. This leads me to believe I should spend a lot more time studying the other two subjects since not only do they have the advantages of being later in the day, but have the added weight of subjectively different information than the other two classes. I have studied with a ratio of 2/6ths of my time to Psychology Research, 2/6 History of Psychology, 1/6 Biology, and 1/6 Philosophy. If I just made the classes into the categories of A and B, where A is Major focused classes (classes I will have the information repeated an unparsimonious number of times throughout my career) and B is my required classes/minor (classes I will only hear the subjective relationship with specific information a few times) I come to see A=2/3’s of my studying and B=1/3. Okay, so that was a very long winded way of saying I need to rethink my studying to maximize my time, but I really wanted to use the word unparsimonious(which was then immediately added to my dictionary after checking the spelling on a reputable science dictionary site).
My classes today were reviews of material previously covered, with the introduction of determinism in my philosophy class. For those of you who don’t know, determinism is the idea of cause-effect relationships determining everything. If it is an effect it had a cause. I find this “philosophical view” a little trite, since it is only the development of basic inductive method into a law and thus is more of a scientific observation dressed up in a toga, prancing around yelling “eureka, thy name is Newton” referred to by people who do not wish to philosophize, i.e. “It is in their nature”. I will now step off my pedestal.
Time for the thoughts of the day!
Would scientist’s work out more if they were expected to wear togas?
If you have read this was it of your own free will or was it already determined?
If you have read this was it of your own free will or was it already determined?
PS I know the toga is Roman, but I have a feeling that most people would make the mental leap to greek and for those who would complain about the toga, you are just whiner and knew exactly what I meant, so I shall NOT say the name for the Greek bath towel.(if you want to actually know the name, it rhymes with thiton.)
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