Except that an event that happened 150 years ago seems more likely to occur again in the near future than an event which happened 65 million years ago, or an event that hasn't happened since the formation of our solar system.
I remember playing wolf3D on a 386, and i seriously don't believe ultima underworld would have run correctly on this machine.
Ultima Underworld came out before Wolf 3D. According to mobygames, the requirements were 386 & 2MB Ram. Wolf3D - 286 & 640KB ram. I remember playing Wolf3d on a 286 tho - not recommended. But how many people had a 486 in 1992? Seems strange that one would be needed for it to be playable.
Mathematics / logic can prove and disprove everything that's pure mathematics and logic. As soon as you try to apply these to the material world, you will have tons of assumptions (i.e. "Given"s) that you have to make.
If I could read every digitized eBook in existence, and analyze them, and truly understand the material, over the course of a week instead of a lifetime, I'd like to think I would be much more knowledgeable and able to use the inherent capacities of my brain to much better degree. For me at least, making better use of my brain (i.e. learning more, analyzing more, considering things more) is a factor of available time, not lack of desire.
You'd also have to be able to turn off boredom. If your brain works 1000 times faster, you get bored 1000 times faster. That's what always bothered me about superheroes like the Flash. To everybody else, he can run around the world in the split second. To him, it should be like running at normal human speed for over half a year, while everyone else is frozen in place. Unless he can compartmentalize his mind or something....
suppose a normal person like you(most probably) and me had a brain 1000x faster than normal. we would learn faster, understand faster. we would achieve in a week what would take even a genius decades to accomplish.
We'd be able to achieve that much on a slow tuesday night. (looks like page has broken CSS or something, but any slashdotter worth his username should be able to find a way around that).
To make any sort of paranormal assumptions based upon our current scientific perceptions is a bit... premature.
Nothing "paranormal" about it, it's all perfectly normal as far as the universe is concerned (not to say that the universe is capable of feeling concern).
What you're saying, in a very secular way, is that there is a god, and god is a physical law which we cannot perceive.
To me, the term "god" implies a sentient being, and any sentient beings would be subject to the same physical laws as the rest of the universe. Laws themselves are not sentient, so should not be considered "gods". But I guess it's all semantics. The "laws" are simply "the way things work", nothing more and nothing less. No anthropomorphizing needed.
That's no more valid than saying there is a god for which we cannot perceive!
If they're laws that we cannot discover, then for all intents and purposes they're not physical laws of the universe. The scientific method does not dabble in things which are not falsifiable.
I think of a physical law as "the way the universe works" not "something we can use." I truly believe that the absolute core law of the universe, the 100% correct unified field theory or whatever you wanna call it, is impossible to discover or verify in the same way that you cannot fly by picking yourself up not matter how much upper body strength you have. However I'm sure we can come a lot closer to understanding the universe than our current state of scientific knowledge. For example, Newton's laws were one step towards the truth. Einstein's relativity was another step. There are plenty more steps we can take, it's just the final step that's out of anyone's reach. Now further discoveries about the physical mechanics of consciousness are most likely still within the future steps. Will we take those steps? Who knows.
Of course you do. It's just that you aren't doing decisions randomly, you have reason to choose the way you do.
The reason is either predetermined, or random, or a combination. My actions based on that reason are the same. In effect, I do not choose what to choose, I do not decide on what decision to make, my personal control is not under my personal control.
Classical determinism states that it is possible to know all your reasons - everything that might influence your decision in any way - to arbitrary degree, and thus it is possible to predict what you will choose with an arbitrary certainty.
I disagree with that. I believe that in order to know all the factors in a deterministic system, one must be outside the closed system looking in. And there is nothing outside the system. Basically, the truth is out there, but it is unknowable.
Or, to put it in another way, determinism simply means that one thing leads to another in a logical fashion. You ate because you wanted to eat because you were hungry because your stomach was empty. Nothing forced you to eat against your will; it's simply that someone who knows the state of you and your environment can predict exactly when you will want to eat.
Nothing forced me to eat against my will because my will itself was predetermined. It is not a case of you wanting to do one thing while your body does another. It is a case of you having no control over what you want. The the sequence of neurons firing in my brain etc. directly resulted in the perceived decision to pick up the apple and take a bite.
It's easy to label animals and other people as machines with inputs and outputs and look-up tables, but what about your personal perception?
Basically you're asking for how consciousness/sentience works. However it does, I'm sure it follows the laws of physics just like everything else in the universe. It may be laws we have not discovered yet. Hell, it may be laws we will never discover.
Either way, the source of our decisions boils down to three options:
1. 100% deterministic. Set in stone at the beginning of time. 2. 100% random. Roll of dice. 3. Some combination of the above. Roll of dice weighted by factors set in stone at the beginning of time.
Personally, I don't see any room for free will there.
I tend to notice little in the line of "stuff in between".
There are people who know how to utilize animation to break constrictions imposed by live action, who use it to exhibit both visual and literary skill, and there are those who don't get it but are trying to pass things off because its a trend.
And there are people who just make a relatively entertaining cartoon (which happens to be Japanese). Easy example - Naruto and Bleach. They're not great shows by any measure, but neither are they "utter, utter, crap." There are good episodes, and bad episodes, and painful filler episodes, but it's not terrible. Unless of course you're the sort of person who thinks every woman less attractive than Jessica Alba is an ugly hag.
Their Ani-Monday block has had some good shows (and some not so good ones). And I've been watching Moonlight because... um... it has vampires and stuff? And in the last episode this one vampire totally decapitated this other one, and it was, like, badass.
Slashdot Mirror
Dude, the cake's a lie.
Except that an event that happened 150 years ago seems more likely to occur again in the near future than an event which happened 65 million years ago, or an event that hasn't happened since the formation of our solar system.
Seriously? The one place where you could use "irony" correctly, and you choose "paradox"?
I remember playing wolf3D on a 386, and i seriously don't believe ultima underworld would have run correctly on this machine.
Ultima Underworld came out before Wolf 3D. According to mobygames, the requirements were 386 & 2MB Ram. Wolf3D - 286 & 640KB ram. I remember playing Wolf3d on a 286 tho - not recommended. But how many people had a 486 in 1992? Seems strange that one would be needed for it to be playable.
Wolfenstein 3D was not the first FPS, but it started the trend as GP said. Then Doom exploded the trend.
Besides, it is not even big.
It is when you consider that's the limp state.
Mathematics / logic can prove and disprove everything that's pure mathematics and logic. As soon as you try to apply these to the material world, you will have tons of assumptions (i.e. "Given"s) that you have to make.
Any school official, who strip searches a child, for any reason, is a child molester.
Why are they not being treated as such?
Why?
There, fixed that for you.
If I could read every digitized eBook in existence, and analyze them, and truly understand the material, over the course of a week instead of a lifetime, I'd like to think I would be much more knowledgeable and able to use the inherent capacities of my brain to much better degree. For me at least, making better use of my brain (i.e. learning more, analyzing more, considering things more) is a factor of available time, not lack of desire.
You'd also have to be able to turn off boredom. If your brain works 1000 times faster, you get bored 1000 times faster. That's what always bothered me about superheroes like the Flash. To everybody else, he can run around the world in the split second. To him, it should be like running at normal human speed for over half a year, while everyone else is frozen in place. Unless he can compartmentalize his mind or something....
suppose a normal person like you(most probably) and me had a brain 1000x faster than normal. we would learn faster, understand faster. we would achieve in a week what would take even a genius decades to accomplish.
We'd be able to achieve that much on a slow tuesday night. (looks like page has broken CSS or something, but any slashdotter worth his username should be able to find a way around that).
To make any sort of paranormal assumptions based upon our current scientific perceptions is a bit... premature.
Nothing "paranormal" about it, it's all perfectly normal as far as the universe is concerned (not to say that the universe is capable of feeling concern).
What you're saying, in a very secular way, is that there is a god, and god is a physical law which we cannot perceive.
To me, the term "god" implies a sentient being, and any sentient beings would be subject to the same physical laws as the rest of the universe. Laws themselves are not sentient, so should not be considered "gods". But I guess it's all semantics. The "laws" are simply "the way things work", nothing more and nothing less. No anthropomorphizing needed.
That's no more valid than saying there is a god for which we cannot perceive!
Sure, but it's fun to speculate.
If they're laws that we cannot discover, then for all intents and purposes they're not physical laws of the universe. The scientific method does not dabble in things which are not falsifiable.
I think of a physical law as "the way the universe works" not "something we can use." I truly believe that the absolute core law of the universe, the 100% correct unified field theory or whatever you wanna call it, is impossible to discover or verify in the same way that you cannot fly by picking yourself up not matter how much upper body strength you have. However I'm sure we can come a lot closer to understanding the universe than our current state of scientific knowledge. For example, Newton's laws were one step towards the truth. Einstein's relativity was another step. There are plenty more steps we can take, it's just the final step that's out of anyone's reach. Now further discoveries about the physical mechanics of consciousness are most likely still within the future steps. Will we take those steps? Who knows.
Of course you do. It's just that you aren't doing decisions randomly, you have reason to choose the way you do.
The reason is either predetermined, or random, or a combination. My actions based on that reason are the same. In effect, I do not choose what to choose, I do not decide on what decision to make, my personal control is not under my personal control.
Classical determinism states that it is possible to know all your reasons - everything that might influence your decision in any way - to arbitrary degree, and thus it is possible to predict what you will choose with an arbitrary certainty.
I disagree with that. I believe that in order to know all the factors in a deterministic system, one must be outside the closed system looking in. And there is nothing outside the system. Basically, the truth is out there, but it is unknowable.
Or, to put it in another way, determinism simply means that one thing leads to another in a logical fashion. You ate because you wanted to eat because you were hungry because your stomach was empty. Nothing forced you to eat against your will; it's simply that someone who knows the state of you and your environment can predict exactly when you will want to eat.
Nothing forced me to eat against my will because my will itself was predetermined. It is not a case of you wanting to do one thing while your body does another. It is a case of you having no control over what you want. The the sequence of neurons firing in my brain etc. directly resulted in the perceived decision to pick up the apple and take a bite.
It's easy to label animals and other people as machines with inputs and outputs and look-up tables, but what about your personal perception?
Basically you're asking for how consciousness/sentience works. However it does, I'm sure it follows the laws of physics just like everything else in the universe. It may be laws we have not discovered yet. Hell, it may be laws we will never discover.
Either way, the source of our decisions boils down to three options:
1. 100% deterministic. Set in stone at the beginning of time.
2. 100% random. Roll of dice.
3. Some combination of the above. Roll of dice weighted by factors set in stone at the beginning of time.
Personally, I don't see any room for free will there.
Come on, everyone know's it's Universes all the way down!
it's convenient (but unnecessary) to justify it by claiming freedom of choice.
And of course we have no more choice in the way we justify anything, than in any other "decision" we make.
So I take it you demand a carbon copy of your paper ballot before you drop it in the box?
*pssst* dude... ya gotta try some of these photons. premium stuff, straight from Columbia!
Similar thing happens whenever I try to log into my virginmobile account. https://virginmobileusa.com/ has a certificate for www.virginmobileusa.com
So then you calculate that the number of pirates is 1 billion times the number of people who checked the box.
Simple. In the install "registration" screen, add a checkbox for "I have pirated this game" and a disclaimer that all info is kept private.
I tend to notice little in the line of "stuff in between".
There are people who know how to utilize animation to break constrictions imposed by live action, who use it to exhibit both visual and literary skill, and there are those who don't get it but are trying to pass things off because its a trend.
And there are people who just make a relatively entertaining cartoon (which happens to be Japanese). Easy example - Naruto and Bleach. They're not great shows by any measure, but neither are they "utter, utter, crap." There are good episodes, and bad episodes, and painful filler episodes, but it's not terrible. Unless of course you're the sort of person who thinks every woman less attractive than Jessica Alba is an ugly hag.
has gone from Athiest to American Indian
"American Indian" is a religion now? Or is Atheism an ethnicity?
Their Ani-Monday block has had some good shows (and some not so good ones). And I've been watching Moonlight because... um... it has vampires and stuff? And in the last episode this one vampire totally decapitated this other one, and it was, like, badass.