Talk:Outline of self/Former talk:Self (disambiguation)

Self in Mathematics and Science

There are many notions of self that occur when dealing within Mathematics and Science (or, rather, notions that are subjective). For example, concepts of mathematical beauty, what happens when someone states that one result derives 'naturally' from another (though, it has to be said, that it is not uncommon for one man's concept of natural deduction can often not be in total agreement with anothers).

Another place where the concept of self crops up is when one often looks at a mathematical results (perhaps as far up mathematically as algebraic topology or statistics) and finds that the result is obvious to one person, but often other people don't agree as to the obviousness of that results (even though those others may be of the very self-same level of intelligence as the given individual pointing out obviousness).

This is certainly due to individual differences in intelligence (the given individuals may themselves have the same IQ scores - but their distinct individual abilities lean more towards one area than towards another, so that one individual finds algebraic topology results more obvious than another individual who finds statistics results obvious). Would it be the case that, if I were to clone these individuals and place them into different life situations/circumstances - but then go onto teaching them on the same course - that the above observations would hold true? That would be an interesting experiment. It would depend on the circumstances into which the clones are bought up in (ie; peace-time versus living hell war zone?)

This may indicate the strength of the genetic basis of self (though the level of meaningful genetic difference between any 2 humans on earth is of arguable magnitude).

It has been proposed that List of basic self topics be renamed and moved to Self.

For discussion, see Talk:List of basic self topics#Requested move. Ewlyahoocom 08:48, 23 October 2007 (UTC)