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“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert these are perceptual illusions. Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of the real world.” Vernon Mountcastle

Quote from YouTube Video: Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture – The Restless Brain

The Home Renovation Planner

The Floor Plan:

Simple floor plans like the aerial view above are all that is needed for you to plan your renovation. Draw on the graph paper provided in this section or use blank sheets to roughly draw the floor plan. You do not need to be exact or to scale, just the basic outline of your walls and their length is enough for calculation of materials needed.

 

Kitchens:
If you are planning your kitchen, bring in the floor plan of that room into any of the major home improvement centers or kitchen cabinet suppliers and they will draw you a 3D perspective and help you decide on what cabinets to use. Make sure to mark down where the fridge, stove, sink and any other major appliances are to help in the lay out.

Most full size fridges 30ex60¡± and stoves are 30¡± wide but if you have odd size appliances make sure to measure their height and width as well. Then you can look at the hundreds of choices of cabinet styles, door packages, pantry’s and other accessories that make kitchens efficient and effective.

 

Floor covering:
Because carpeting is usually calculated in yards you would measure the area of that rooms floor to get the square feet then divide by 9 to get the yards of carpet needed. Example: The above master bedroom is 13.4¡¯x12.10¡¯ which equals approx. 162 square feet divided by 9 equals 18. You would require 18 yards of carpet to cover that room wall to wall.

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Science-fact-theory-hypothesis

Definitions key to discussions:

  • Fact: A fact is a statement that is true and can be proved with evidence.
  • Hypothesis: A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested by the scientific method. A hypothesis has not been tested.
  • Theory: Scientific theories are distinguished from hypotheses, which are empirically testable conjectures, and from scientific laws, which are descriptive accounts of how nature behaves under certain conditions. Theories have been rigorously tested and widely accepted by the scientific community who agree the theory best explains the observations or phenomenon we experience.
  • Scientific Method: The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.
  • Empirical Evidence: Empirical evidence is the knowledge received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation.
  • Reality: Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
  • Delusion: A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
  • Insanity: Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.