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According to Wikipedia, mathematical psychology is an approach to psychological research that is based on mathematical modeling of perceptual, cognitive and motor processes, and on the establishment of law-like rules that relate quantifiable stimulus characteristics with quantifiable behavior.
There followed a long page filled with blah, blah, blah, and various forms of gobble, gobble, gobble de-gook, concluding with: "While the first three laws are all deterministic in nature, later established relations are more fundamentally stochastic. This has been a general theme in the evolution in mathematical modeling of psychological processes: From deterministic relations as found in classical physics to inherently stochastic models."
Well Good God Almighty! According to Wikipedia, the word stochastic is an adjective that refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non- deterministic, sporadic and categorically not intermittent.
Oh well . . . I don't think I really expected to learn anything about mathematical psychology anyway.
Mark my words: there are basic flaws in mankind's overall conception of mathematics which will someday be exposed, and; that is inevitable.
In my opinion.
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WORD FOR TODAY
frisson
noun
a shudder or shiver; thrill
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Born June 11, 1910
Died June 25, 1997
Died June 25, 1997
Jacques Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.
Born June 11, 1933
He is 78 years old
He is 78 years old
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Born June 11, 1959
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
--Bertrand Russell
what about the Asimov book .. Foundation ?
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