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2191
« on: January 16, 2015, 09:40:40 AM »
I'm sure you guys have heard of my suspicion that I'm actually retarded and people are just being polite and not telling me. . .
Edit: tfw turkey liked this post and I can't tell if he's agreeing that I'm retarded or if he just feels the same way
2192
« on: January 16, 2015, 09:19:43 AM »
Nope.
"Good religion" is an oxymoron.
what about useful religion?
2193
« on: January 16, 2015, 09:07:18 AM »
A world where humanity takes its proper place. . .at the feet of the machine gods of course.
2194
« on: January 16, 2015, 07:59:12 AM »
A scientific law is a verifiable statement
No.
OT: That was actually incredibly interesting. Is there any evidence for black-hole production efficacy correlating with life production efficacy? Could you explain the link some more? I'm no physicist.
No? If you'd like I can link you a non technical paper after class. In the most general of terms, spacetimes that have laws that allow for maximal black hole production over their lifetimes also allow for stars, so nuclear physics and chemistry. Biology tends to follow from there. What would it mean in such a reality if it were possible for sufficiently advanced intelligent life to be able to create artificial black holes?
2195
« on: January 16, 2015, 07:51:25 AM »
The reaction didn't happen because the action caused it, it happened because it was just the next part in the previously determined sequence.
Is that supposed to explain quantum physics? When electrons seem to move in funny ways even though nothing has pushed it in that direction?
And as far as the second law of thermodynamics goes, shouldn't space and time have an equal opposite? What exactly could that be? Gravity? Matter?
quote author=Dustin xLilD link=topic=23132.msg459442#msg459442 date=1421404724] The reaction didn't happen because the action caused it, it happened because it was just the next part in the previously determined sequence.
Is that supposed to explain quantum physics? When electrons seem to move in funny ways even though nothing has pushed it in that direction? And as far as the second law of thermodynamics goes, shouldn't space and time have an equal opposite? What exactly could that be? Gravity? Matter? [/quote]No, at least that's not how I conceived it but that is an interesting way of looking at it, it was just showing how causality breaks down when considering a universe described by the block theory of time. Not saying one or the other is correct just pointing it out. To my, incomplete, knowledge quantum mechanics preserves causality in a way(a particle can only do something which it possesses the energy to do unless it borrows from the rest of the universe) but trades complete determinism for a probabilistic determinism.
2196
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:50:40 AM »
I actually abused DPH once, got the idea from visiting Erowid when I didn't where to get good shit. . .never again, not pleasant at all. Think waking fever dream but clear as day, drowsy but wide awake, super hangover next morning.
Ugh, taking too many deliriants. . . I don't even want to think about it. Should have just went for DXM if you wanted to try something.
I didn't know no better. Had a bunch of Benedryl in the cabinet.
2197
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:29:07 AM »
I like quotsa
2198
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:19:54 AM »
btw
Isn't that a savanna cat? I thought Bengals were more tabby like.
probably, I just grabbed a random picture of Google. It's head is the wrong shape now that you mention it
it's also a good bit bigger/longer than bengals
2199
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:18:59 AM »
I actually abused DPH once, got the idea from visiting Erowid when I didn't where to get good shit. . .never again, not pleasant at all. Think waking fever dream but clear as day, drowsy but wide awake, super hangover next morning.
2200
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:12:35 AM »
Gorilla dick for 10000+
2201
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:09:14 AM »
Liberty is a waste if you are reliant on (read, beholden to) others for too much.
So self reliance.
2202
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:03:32 AM »
>not buying a pet that can kill you
>awesome tiger friend >risk of death or serious disfigurement after being mauled by a wild animal I'm stumped.
2203
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:02:11 AM »
btw
Isn't that a savanna cat? I thought Bengals were more tabby like.
2204
« on: January 15, 2015, 11:51:19 PM »
Pick one up from the pound.
2205
« on: January 15, 2015, 11:47:38 PM »
That's a bit subjective, no?
Self betterment, pursuit of knowledge(arguably in pursuit of the first one but I'll leave it), occupation and enjoyment.
2206
« on: January 15, 2015, 11:26:20 PM »
>Christians: Handout book directed at malleable children's minds and tell them they'll go to hell of they don't believe it
>Satanists/Atheists: Handout book directed at malleable children's minds and depict the Bible as a rapist
Seems legit.
Let's be completely straight up here.
2207
« on: January 15, 2015, 11:19:06 PM »
Everyone is plugged into machines, these machines allow people to have their own dream world. Everyone is perfectly content in their machine worlds.
how lame
2208
« on: January 15, 2015, 11:07:21 PM »
Hear me out here guys. I hate it but I'm about to sound like a crackpot.
A scientific law is a verifiable statement about regularities in behavior of some aspect of existence. Clear?
Essentially, what we do when we do physics is we partition off some aspect of existence and study and try to describe it in a mathematically precise way, if we don't make this partition we quickly become bogged down due background and interference. Its physics in a box. Locally this is fine but maybe thinking that this applies globally is fallacious. There's, to my knowledge, no particular reason laws should be eternally unchanging as most people conceive them to be. The math we use to describe them doesn't change, is eternal, but I'm not the Platonist I used to be.
Wait a minute, what about relativity? How can laws change if there is no globally agreed upon sense of simultaneity which can be referenced, no flow of time as it were. If you know anything about the conception of time in general relativity you know that it is essentially a complex-valued dimension. This gives you a block universe, complete determinism. This complete determinism could in some interpretations violate causality. . .
ie. The reaction didn't happen because the action caused it, it happened because it was just the next part in the previously determined sequence.
This brings me to a new classical theory of gravity that may very well be more fundamental than GR and prove to be more amenable to quantization. This theory is called shape dynamics, it's been developed and worked on by several groups of theoretical physicists including Lee Smolin.
WARNING: What follows is a rundown of my very incomplete understanding of a difficult theory, bring your salt shaker.
It's in agreement with the ADM formulation of GR when it comes to experimental tests(so far, phenomenologists should be hard at work)but allows for some space times that GR doesn't and vice versa. Especially enticing is that it allows for singularities found in GR to be smoothed out, in which case they become wormholes(including the one we run into in the early universe). This is achieved by trading global relativity of simultaneity for conformal invariance(relativity of size) in which case Lorentz invariance should emerge. While the phenomenon of time dilation should be locally preserved this should allow for, at least in some sense, a globally preferred time.
OK that, possibly solves the issue of the absence of a needed a flow of time when it comes to laws that can change. How might they change. . .I don't fucking know, but I think Lee Smolin's idea of cosmological natural selection is on the right track. Essentially posits that every black hole spawns a baby spacetime(remember those wormholes from earlier and yes I'm intentionally avoiding the term universe). When this happens perhaps the laws in the resultant spacetime can mutate or change from the ones in the parent. Spacetimes that make more backholes produce more offspring, making it statistically likely that most of the spacetimes in existence are right for maximal backholes production(fun fact, this could explain the fine tuning problem w/o reference to anthropic principle because as far as we can tell our universe fit for maximal backholes production which coincidentally makes good at producing life).
How those laws change, I don't know. . .you could posit metalaws but then you run into the same question of "why should this metalaw be unchanging?"
I am of course ever aware of the fact that I could be totally full of shit here.
2209
« on: January 15, 2015, 10:00:15 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch
The problem with the Big Crunch idea is that it forms an infinite regression. It has to acknowledge a start-point, because if not then there would be an infinite amount of time prior to our being here--which would necessitate our not being here.
It's certainly an interesting hypothesis, though.
The infinite regression isn't the main problem w/ classical big crunch cosmology By thermodynamics, entropy would build up in resultant universes because there is no way for the entropy to go back to zero, requiring them to get larger before reversing. Going backwards in time the universes would have to be smaller and you eventually end up w/ the exact problem you try to solve.
2210
« on: January 15, 2015, 09:55:01 PM »
"Faith is insulted"
This is just dumb sounding to me.
2211
« on: January 03, 2015, 08:55:55 PM »
Hmm, it basically says that an individual is actually the same "individual" as another with the same physical pattern. Essentially, yeah. I don't entirely understand how it's supposed to work to be honest, especially at the atomic and cellular level. And, when you are recreated, at what point in your life is the replica "you" recreated from? Would you still have the experiences you otherwise wouldn't have had by that age.
It seems to my eyes that such a theory engages in some sort of quasi-Platonism--it assumes some sort of egoistic Form or Substance in which the properties of an individual agent exist. I'm much more partial to the Humean bundle theory, and its conclusion that the togetherness of the properties themselves engender a sort of "substance".
I assume it would be from the point at which the data from which your pattern can be copied was gathered. I suppose it could imply a sort of platonism but I've always sort of thought of it in the context of software, which is probably entirely wrong, where, barring anomalies, every copy is just the exact same software.
2212
« on: January 03, 2015, 08:37:39 PM »
pattern-identity hypothesis.
elaborate
Hmm, it basically says that an individual is actually the same "individual" as another with the same physical pattern. Pattern referring to relations of physical components and OS. Based on computer science and neurology. When you've got two "copies" they differentiate due to experience over time and are no longer the same individual. Allows for things like resurrection, mind uploading, and the like without appealing to non physical souls. It's a conclusion commonly reached when considering the swampman/teleporter paradox.
2213
« on: January 03, 2015, 07:52:07 PM »
So simply put, and I promise that I will revisit this after my honeymoon is over, the resurrection body is not the same one we had before, but a brand new one, one that is incapable of death and sin -- basically Human 2.0.
Sounds very similar to John Hick's Replica Theory (we don't have souls, God creates essentially creates an exact replica of our physical selves in the afterlife), which I have my own problems with >.>
And that sounds like it implies pattern-identity hypothesis.
2214
« on: January 03, 2015, 07:42:01 PM »
2216
« on: January 03, 2015, 04:06:34 PM »
Is bombing North Korea a good idea?
Okay, okay, how exactly can North Korea become stabilized?
collapse of the current regime w/ the proper people in place to replace it not really what this thread is about tho
2217
« on: January 03, 2015, 03:39:13 PM »
DXM
that's not a question
?
2218
« on: January 03, 2015, 03:34:22 PM »
DXM
2219
« on: January 03, 2015, 03:30:38 PM »
2220
« on: January 03, 2015, 03:26:40 PM »
I made it a general rule that my expensive education should always come before some shitty part time job I probably hate.
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