Audiophile demographics?

It is the other way around...

The 2 hemisphere of the brain play their part in all activities, be it music, maths or poetical tought and critical thougth... But one of the hemisphere can be dominating in each one of us, never mind the field....But we need the 2 at all times....

If not, we will loose what we called "reason"...Reason is not rationalism or exclusively some critical thought process located in the left hemisphere... If you think about the concept of "reason" think about sanity first then some balance must exist between the 2 hemispheres...

The poet William Blake is one of the most profound critic of his time, he was a very astute observer of industrialization and his link with technology and science...And he is a poet...

The mathematician Cantor singlehandly founded modern mathematic with a mystical vision....And he is a mathematician...

We can see the function played by the 2 hemispheres in each one of these 2 geniuses; in each one of them one hemisphere is the " inspiration" for a field where usually it is the antagonist hemisphere that is dominating....

« I became a cosmetic seller and a successful audiophile because i am too short to play chess»-Groucho Marx

Thanks focusd....One of the best first post i read here...

For easy reading on statistic and the illusory logic induced by Bell curves  superficial analysis the many books of the serious but funny Nassim Nicholas Taleb....

More accurate would be there is brain activity before we are able to communicate an intention.

Your formulation is more accurately formulated indeed.... :)

Libet himself would say it your way....

Sometimes it is difficult to resume a controversy in 6 words.... But most people after his experiment interpret it like a proof of the non existence of free will....Not Libet himself for sure....I wrote the distorted intrerpretation to illustrate my riddle about consciousness and the general opinion about Libet at the time....

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But my riddle takes the sea anyway.....



« Dont you know that you are a robot? For sure but i am also the programmer... »-Groucho Marx

Are you sure about that? Have you tried hanging out with those above 120 and below 80?

I said means "little" not means nothing....

No need for IQ test at all to feel and know these large differences....i advised students about reading in all fields for 35 years.... :)

But true intelligence in life is not IQ related....It is consciousness related....

What is IQ ? Pattern solving, thats almost all it is.... Then do you think the A.I. that just solved the protein folding problem is intelligent? Wolfram think that but perhaps his IQ is not all there is about intelligence...And no need to test to see that his score exceed 140.... :)


Beware, any machine can now discuss with us, hiding his indefinite memory to us, without being recognized on the spot....🐵


True intelligence for me is linked to the capacity to feel and perceive the living interconnectedness of all that exist.... Spiritual and moral experiences has nothing to do with IQ....

We live on 2 plane simultaneously, machine dont.....Consciousness for me is the working relation between 2 simultaneously living planes of experience...Think about your dreams for example or about your innate moral imagination....

«For sure the one who said "I" is another one» -Mark Twain reading Rimbaud

« 2 planes of existence? Yes, the time perceived and the imperceptible one...»- Myself reading Dostoievsky "the dream of a ridiculous man" one of the cleverest book ever written....

« Your brain know milliseconds in advance what your conscious I will do next»- Benjamin Libet neurologist after his well known experiment...

My citation of Libet is a riddle....😊

And yes, quantum mechanics shows that matter really does conform to statistical probabilities.

What do you do with the reduction of the waves probabilities? is it "matter" that operate it?

Complex design is not synonymus with religion my dear....

But it is more simple to drown the fish this way is not it?

Ok i will not derail the thread no more....





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A crowd conform to statistics, individuals not so...

Numbers are not only a human construct but reflect something that is not a cultural human construct...an objective discovery is not an invention ...

At his beginning and at his end matter dont conform to statistics no more...Matter is not only a crowd but also a qualitative geometry....

Funny thing is statistic apply to crowds, and to nothing else.....

If you think that ribosomic machines are the results of chance yes indeed life is only the results of statistic....Then indeed....Your life is simple but it seems we dont live in the same universe....

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https://www.wired.com/2016/03/mathematicians-discovered-prime-conspiracy/ With the same IQ you can be sceptic or gullible in some activities or aspect of life, in particular or in general....Personality traits or personal history is not linked to measured intelligence.... Intelligence or stupidity is not linked to a hobby, even to the audiophile hobby, and being an engineer is not a warrenty against gullibility in audio at all because audio is a complex phenomenon linked to many different sciences and dimensions that may exceed the limit of expertise of a particular engineer... This is very simple evidence....

IQ means little anyway.....And i dont think that men and women can be distinguished by different location on a Bell curve of IQ distribution....

Universe dont comply to statistical laws anyway even the thermodynamical one because universe is not only allegedly "dead" matter like we know it.....Prime numbers distribution and galaxies ignore them at the end...Life ultimately dont obey statistic and cannot be reduced to statistic....

For example we use statistic to study prime numbers distribution because we are ignorant of the ultimate reason behind their distribution....Recent work in this field explode the powerful statistical method in his capacity to explain their distribution....It seems that prime numbers had biases like life had bias..... All that are in the sky then are not only rain or light....
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