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Asked by sarahhalls to Cesar, Emily, Jamie, Kate, Philippa on 17 Jun 2011.
Question: Whats the biggest question you speciphically would like to know the awnser to?
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Kate Clancy answered on 15 Jun 2011:
I would like to know the evolutionary history of humans — I mean the full, 100% story, not just what we get with whatever fossils we are lucky to find. I want to know how many species they were, how they lived, what they were like, why we chose to get up on two legs, why our brains got big, what happened to the Neandertals… all of it. That is what I would want to know!!!
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Philippa Demonte answered on 16 Jun 2011:
@sarahhalls I would like to know what the inner Earth is really like. Using seismology, geophysicists have been able to determine that the Earth is made of a crust, mantle, and inner- and outer core, but we can’t physically see inside the Earth. There’s a film called ‘The Core’ which speculates what the inside of the Earth might be like (in a Hollywood style), but no drill has been able to go any deeper than the crust.
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Jamie Gallagher answered on 17 Jun 2011:
the theroy of everything! this is the theory that if all 4 of the fundamental processes can be linked together we can therortically tell what would happen in any experiment. It competes a very big scientific jigsaw!
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Emily Robinson answered on 17 Jun 2011:
I think for me it would be to answer exactly what is consciousness and how it works!
In these terms I am talking about consciousness meaning your individual awareness of unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment. Your conscious thoughts are shifting and changing all the time. For example, one minute you could be concentrating on this answer, then the next you might shift to thinking about an old memory and then jump to thinking what you want for dinner… Therefore you are zig-zagging from one thing to the next but your experience of these thoughts are smooth and effortless. Aswell as being able to think about thinks in the past, present and future too!
Some people describe consciousness as like being like a stream …’unbroken and continuous despite constant shifts and changes’.
Have you ever thought about consciousness before? Do you find it interesting how easy your brain makes this seem in everyday life? And did you even realise this is something that we didn’t know much about?
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