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Originally Posted by avandonk
Craig if I told you all you see is a fabrication of your brain and is in reality a bunch of infinite wave functions that collapse to your reality for your time and place, you would doubt my sanity.
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In the past … yep.
Now, I'm beginning to understand it .. its a very real and cool concept .. and weird … and it all came from conversation and knowledge acquisition (reading lots).
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Originally Posted by avandonk
Science is not about TRUTH. It is about emperical evidence to formulate some structure of perceived reality. The fact that mathematics works to describe that reality is still amazing to me.
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Absolutely .. me too !
Why/how does mathematics do this ? Is it because it describes the reality which conceived it in the first place ?
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Originally Posted by avandonk
We humans do have this strange adaptation of abstract thought where a concept is as real as reality.
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I recently read someone arguing that Einstein's Relativity was all a thought experiment turned into reality by other evil scientists who attempted to follow in his footsteps !!
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Originally Posted by avandonk
I have seen the noise on the interwebs where people scream at each other to be heard above the din of the ignorant. A bit like the rabid mobs of old!
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I think I read the same noise (see my comment immediately above).
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Originally Posted by avandonk
The most mind enhancing vision I ever had was after climbing through thick cloud near sunset (in a light aircraft) and after clearing the cloud it was a sea of pink cloud to the 'horizon'. The Sun was on the 'horizon'. It could have been the surface of another planet. It was very disorienting but I managed to fly the plane. All my preconceived inputs to my senses were wrong! Fortunately I had an instructor with me that knew far more than me including how to get back to the airport through 100% cloud cover from eight thousand feet.
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Hmm a mixture of the physical reality of impending doom .. countered by knowledge … that's cool.
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Originally Posted by avandonk
If we did not argue we would never learn the other point of view. I think it is healthy we have differences. I never feel threatened by someone who knows more than me such as sjastro or even craigs.
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Be afraid .. be very afraid .. of being led by CraigS !!
His perspective changes everytime he reads something new (and he's starting from scratch most of the time … a self-starting-repeater !)
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Originally Posted by avandonk
I will be long gone while they are stil interacting!
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I do wonder how long I can keep this effort going … is there a limit ?
I'd like to think its called 'death'.
By the way … I bought myself my Christmas present … "Godel, Escher and Bach" !! It's a big book … look out if I actually understand any of it, though !
I still don't know what its about .. and yet I bought it !! Strange.
Merry Christmas & have a Happy New Year, Bert !!
Cheers