I don't agree with your conclusion. You can (atleast I could) just look and see that the second series is shorter than the first one. That does not involve any counting, just a good sense of distance and proportion.
What you are saying is that one could not see whether one stick is longer than the other, without in your head do some form of counting (of what? Atoms? Centimeters?), which is utter nonsense.
What stops the King from always making sure that the head prisoner always sees the chalice in state 0 (step 6) ? The King can at any time set the chalice to any state. Thus, as someone else already said, the chalice cannot be used to convey information.
Do you have any URL or article that supports this ?
If you are right, then people living in the north (Canada, Sweden, etc) should be far more sick than people living further south. I am fairly certain that is not the case.
I recall a test done where they had two groups of people being exposed to cold wind and rain (and one third control group). With one group there was known bacteria that make people catch the cold, the other group had nothing of the sort. After having run the test, only the people that was given the bacteria got sick, the other group not get more colds than the third control group. Thus, cold weather per se did not make you sick.
Could it be Oliver Sacks' An antropologist on Mars?
His main problem was that all he saw was coloured blobbs moving about. He could not understand objects, and correlate them with his previous experiences. For example, when they removed his blindfold, he was just sitting there. Then the doctor asked 'well?' and only then did he realise that the blobb he saw was the doctor. He had pretty bad sight after the operation, and it was not made entierly clear if it was due to his eyes or his brain not making any sense of the input.
Excelent book, for the rest too!
If 500 people read a book through the library, doesn't that cost the author 500 sales?
Not necessarily. Here in the EU the author gets paid each time his book gets lended at the library. I remember having read that the same system exist in the US, but I might be wrong.
And then when you need to shake hands, open doors etc, just pass your germs on to everyone else ? Do you like to shake hands with someone you've just seen sneeze all over his hands ? If so, you wouldn't be bothered about a few germs floating in the air. The grems are going to float around in the air even if you sneeze into your hands. Using your elbow might a be better practice.
If you look at the upper left image, I have the impression he's pointing his gun at the person in a higher degree, than in the latter manipulated image. Here he is turned toward the civilian, and the gun obviously pointing inward.
Since that is a real image, the gun is there "pointing toward" the civilian already, in non-manipulated form.
In the manipulated image, you can see the soldier is fairly much larger than the civilian in the centre, thus I get the impression that the soldier is in front of the civilian. Since the gun in the manipulated image is parallel with the plane of the image, the gun cannot point at the civilian, even less his head.
If you look at the top, left, original image, the gun could likewise be said to already point at the civilian's shoulder, almost his head.
The event obviously happened, or are you saying that the two photos on top are fake too ? I wouldn't say that there's that much new in the combined picture that implies more than the two other images already imply. THat doesn't ofcourse justify manipulating images, but my point is that there isn't much new in the manipulated image.
Not correct. If you had read the article, it says: "Only after the altered photo appeared Monday did editors notice that some civilians in the background appeared twice".
That means, the interaction did occur. What the photographer did, was to add a few more civilians than was already present. No substitution occured, nothing major new stuff entered. A few people got cloned, that all.
Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony? Terrorists turning in each other to fund more terrorism with the reward money... Talk about a viscious circle.
Well, USA did, for example, pay and train Osama Bin Laden, when they wanted help againt the russians. Then Bin Laden turns against USA (surprise!). Then USA turns against Bin Laden... I see a circle forming.
Whether USA are 'terrorists' or not, is a matter of taste.
Really not a good candidate for Hollywood treatment; they should have picked "The Invincible" instead, which has a comparable philosophical payload and the added bonus of cool gear and kick- ass alien-battling (they win, we lose)...
And if it wasn't for the fact that them Hollywood ppl are scared of making movies where we loose, they probably would have.
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I don't agree with your conclusion. You can (atleast I could) just look and see that the second series is shorter than the first one. That does not involve any counting, just a good sense of distance and proportion. What you are saying is that one could not see whether one stick is longer than the other, without in your head do some form of counting (of what? Atoms? Centimeters?), which is utter nonsense.
What stops the King from always making sure that the head prisoner always sees the chalice in state 0 (step 6) ? The King can at any time set the chalice to any state. Thus, as someone else already said, the chalice cannot be used to convey information.
Do you have any URL or article that supports this ? If you are right, then people living in the north (Canada, Sweden, etc) should be far more sick than people living further south. I am fairly certain that is not the case.
I recall a test done where they had two groups of people being exposed to cold wind and rain (and one third control group). With one group there was known bacteria that make people catch the cold, the other group had nothing of the sort. After having run the test, only the people that was given the bacteria got sick, the other group not get more colds than the third control group. Thus, cold weather per se did not make you sick.
Could it be Oliver Sacks' An antropologist on Mars? His main problem was that all he saw was coloured blobbs moving about. He could not understand objects, and correlate them with his previous experiences. For example, when they removed his blindfold, he was just sitting there. Then the doctor asked 'well?' and only then did he realise that the blobb he saw was the doctor. He had pretty bad sight after the operation, and it was not made entierly clear if it was due to his eyes or his brain not making any sense of the input. Excelent book, for the rest too!
If 500 people read a book through the library, doesn't that cost the author 500 sales?
Not necessarily. Here in the EU the author gets paid each time his book gets lended at the library. I remember having read that the same system exist in the US, but I might be wrong.
And then when you need to shake hands, open doors etc, just pass your germs on to everyone else ? Do you like to shake hands with someone you've just seen sneeze all over his hands ? If so, you wouldn't be bothered about a few germs floating in the air. The grems are going to float around in the air even if you sneeze into your hands. Using your elbow might a be better practice.
If you look at the upper left image, I have the impression he's pointing his gun at the person in a higher degree, than in the latter manipulated image. Here he is turned toward the civilian, and the gun obviously pointing inward.
Since that is a real image, the gun is there "pointing toward" the civilian already, in non-manipulated form.
In the manipulated image, you can see the soldier is fairly much larger than the civilian in the centre, thus I get the impression that the soldier is in front of the civilian. Since the gun in the manipulated image is parallel with the plane of the image, the gun cannot point at the civilian, even less his head.
If you look at the top, left, original image, the gun could likewise be said to already point at the civilian's shoulder, almost his head.
The event obviously happened, or are you saying that the two photos on top are fake too ? I wouldn't say that there's that much new in the combined picture that implies more than the two other images already imply. THat doesn't ofcourse justify manipulating images, but my point is that there isn't much new in the manipulated image.
Not correct. If you had read the article, it says: "Only after the altered photo appeared Monday did editors notice that some civilians in the background appeared twice". That means, the interaction did occur. What the photographer did, was to add a few more civilians than was already present. No substitution occured, nothing major new stuff entered. A few people got cloned, that all.
Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony? Terrorists turning in each other to fund more terrorism with the reward money... Talk about a viscious circle.
Well, USA did, for example, pay and train Osama Bin Laden, when they wanted help againt the russians. Then Bin Laden turns against USA (surprise!). Then USA turns against Bin Laden... I see a circle forming.
Whether USA are 'terrorists' or not, is a matter of taste.
It was already posted here
Really not a good candidate for Hollywood treatment; they should have picked "The Invincible" instead, which has a comparable philosophical payload and the added bonus of cool gear and kick- ass alien-battling (they win, we lose)...
And if it wasn't for the fact that them Hollywood ppl are scared of making movies where we loose, they probably would have.
As Josef Stalin said: "The death of one is tragedy, the death of a million is statistics."