Suppose you have two entangled particles, and you put one in a space ship which travels at relativistic speeds for a while. The ship comes back, and 100 years have passed for the other particle. Would the particles still be entangled? If so, what would happen to the other when one's state changes?
Seriously. How can a choice a person makes possibly be "a free [choice] unconstrained by external agencies" (Google search for "define:free will")? Name one single thing we do which is unconstrained by external agencies.
I do this....I write a lot of notes or play witrh my phone to an extend during meetings.
I find that catching bits and pieces forces me to try harder to put things together and understand them, and so I end up understanding things better.
Also, if I try too hard to pay attention, I worry about paying attention more than what I am supposed to be paying attention to. When I do other things, it puts my mind at ease, and I can relaxedly listen.
That, I think, is the problem: people do not want to progress (which is why we would focus on usefulness)--they just want their "truth." People these days just want their happy little families and to sit on their asses, watching their TVs. We no longer care about progression, and we are happy with our middle-class lives. The religious types put their hope in their god, others, like many on this site, put it in the future. There is less of the latter. To me, putting hope in a god seems like a solution to keeping the masses happy and dumb.
Perhaps after the shock, whenever one of the mice tries to recall the old memory, the memory of the shock is returned instead of the old memory? Since (AFAIK) memory-recall is based on weight, the new one (shock) may be more easily accessible than the old.
True: one could argue that both religious types and scientists rely on faith to individual degrees. I think many would agree, however, that religious types often rely much more on faith than do scientists--at least the majority of the time.
In my city, traffic lights have been so successful in stopping red light runners that the city is going to have to take them down due to losses in revenue from tickets...
I am not sure whether this was due to cameras handing out tickets or a psychological factor...
...straining to see a moving light in the sky and hoping that a slip of the finger on the stopwatch does not delete an entire night's work. And for the adept, there is math. Lots of math.
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From his balcony, or the 32nd-floor roof of his building, Molczan will peer through his binoculars at a point in the sky he expects the satellite to cross, which he locates with star charts. When it appears, he measures the distance it travels across the patch of sky over time, which he can use to calculate factors like speed and direction.
Could a computer not be used to do much of this work (record, compare star charts, do the math)?
So, only certified apps could be allowed to run on the target system, and some sort of security measure could be put into place--like, say, an md5 sum comparison.
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Suppose you have two entangled particles, and you put one in a space ship which travels at relativistic speeds for a while. The ship comes back, and 100 years have passed for the other particle. Would the particles still be entangled? If so, what would happen to the other when one's state changes?
Seriously. How can a choice a person makes possibly be "a free [choice] unconstrained by external agencies" (Google search for "define:free will")? Name one single thing we do which is unconstrained by external agencies.
"Free will," in my opinion, is nonsense.
I do this....I write a lot of notes or play witrh my phone to an extend during meetings.
I find that catching bits and pieces forces me to try harder to put things together and understand them, and so I end up understanding things better.
Also, if I try too hard to pay attention, I worry about paying attention more than what I am supposed to be paying attention to. When I do other things, it puts my mind at ease, and I can relaxedly listen.
That, I think, is the problem: people do not want to progress (which is why we would focus on usefulness)--they just want their "truth." People these days just want their happy little families and to sit on their asses, watching their TVs. We no longer care about progression, and we are happy with our middle-class lives. The religious types put their hope in their god, others, like many on this site, put it in the future. There is less of the latter. To me, putting hope in a god seems like a solution to keeping the masses happy and dumb.
Perhaps after the shock, whenever one of the mice tries to recall the old memory, the memory of the shock is returned instead of the old memory? Since (AFAIK) memory-recall is based on weight, the new one (shock) may be more easily accessible than the old.
What do you people think about this idea?
True: one could argue that both religious types and scientists rely on faith to individual degrees. I think many would agree, however, that religious types often rely much more on faith than do scientists--at least the majority of the time.
In my city, traffic lights have been so successful in stopping red light runners that the city is going to have to take them down due to losses in revenue from tickets...
I am not sure whether this was due to cameras handing out tickets or a psychological factor...
...like going to hell, right?
Fucking 'A.
I am happy to know there are others who feel the same way I do.
Come on man, we all know the government was instituted by god...it's wrong to speak out against the government!
Could a computer not be used to do much of this work (record, compare star charts, do the math)?
Running this under Ubuntu Feisty Server, I just get a Segmentation fault. Have not tried running under an X session.
we drive ourselves mad by annoying the hell out of people with stuff like this (ads).
Creationist nonsense...marked interesting???
Will this be possible with this technology combined with OLED? That would be totally cool...just like the science fiction books.
Mathematics? The expanding universe? http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/astronomy/bigbang.html ?
Where is the evidence for your god?
I was wondering whether you'd think that...
Hmmm...I guess this means your mind sees this as a threat...
I believe the app Navizon has triangulation which links into the Google Maps app.
(I already posted this, but I F-ed up the post title...)
I am NOT a creationist; just wondering...
I would call these new sequences of DNA, but, what about insertions? Shouldn't "new" nucleotides occasionally have been found as well?
damnit...the title should have read something like "Insertions." I'll probably just post again...
I am NOT a creationist; just wondering...
I would call these new sequences of DNA, but, what about insertions? Should "new" nucleotides have been found as well?
...anyone?
...but not contradictory.
So, only certified apps could be allowed to run on the target system, and some sort of security measure could be put into place--like, say, an md5 sum comparison.