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Captain Falcon Explains Everything: Science Edition
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2017-04-14 at 8:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Open Your Mind What do you think are the philosophical implications of this on concepts like life and death, individuality, consciousness, "I", etc.
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2017-04-15 at 7:08 AM UTC
Originally posted by Open Your Mind What do you think are the philosophical implications of this on concepts like life and death, individuality, consciousness, "I", etc.
Hmm, I'm not really sure. I suppose it just reinforces the point that this state of being is not permanent, or even important. We are some sort of an island of subjective meaning within a sea of, I don't know, arbitrary noise I guess.
There is a concept called gauge symmetry that I've been trying to grapple with recently. It's very tough to fully understand for me. But my understanding is, to put it simply, that if we were looking at us from, for lack of a better word, a god's eye view... We would look like nothing. When we look at it as some sort of a data stream, it is just nothing. The best analogy I can make is to look at the binaries of a computer program. It looks like jack shit. It requires some sort of a framework to contextualise it and turn it into something meaningful and functional.
So all of this is an interesting pattern and interaction within a crazy sea of constant noise. That's it. But more importantly, it's also possible that we are perceiving an incredibly narrow bandwidth of reality, so to speak. There's no reason we are any more or less real in this context, than if we were to interpret the same soup of noise with another framework. It's possible that we are just one of an infinite number of ways to interpret the same raw data.
This xkcd comic might give you some perspective on this:
And this will tie into my post about multiverse theory. -
2017-04-15 at 7:32 AM UTC
Originally posted by Captain Falcon There is a concept called gauge symmetry that I've been trying to grapple with recently. It's very tough to fully understand for me. But my understanding is, to put it simply, that if we were looking at us from, for lack of a better word, a god's eye view… We would look like nothing. When we look at it as some sort of a data stream, it is just nothing. The best analogy I can make is to look at the binaries of a computer program. It looks like jack shit. It requires some sort of a framework to contextualise it and turn it into something meaningful and functional.
What? You mean physicists have finally gotten to the existentialist phase like 60 years after the rest of the world? Wow, good for them, gold star. -
2017-04-15 at 8:15 AM UTC
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2017-04-15 at 10:52 AM UTC
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2017-04-15 at 11:10 AM UTC
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2017-04-15 at 11:14 AM UTC
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2017-04-15 at 11:18 AM UTC
Originally posted by NARCassist do this experiment
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5891740/quantum-suicide-how-to-prove-the-multiverse-exists-in-the-most-violent-way-possible
Not sure why anyone would even theoretically try that, considering the Copenhagen interpretation​ is the de facto standard of modern physics. The Many Worlds interpretation has no evidence. Plus you could also do this experiment without actually killing a nigga. -
2017-04-15 at 11:21 AM UTC
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2017-04-15 at 11:52 AM UTC5 sigma means that it is incredibly unlikely that the results of an experiment were a matter of chance.
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2017-04-15 at 11:54 AM UTCThe easiest example would be if you took 1000 six sided dice and threw them, and they all came up 6 50 times in a row, you would probably be way, way beyond 5 sigma of certainty that the dice are fucky.
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2017-04-15 at 3:50 PM UTC
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2017-04-15 at 4:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by Captain Falcon Hmm, I'm not really sure. I suppose it just reinforces the point that this state of being is not permanent, or even important. We are some sort of an island of subjective meaning within a sea of, I don't know, arbitrary noise I guess.
There is a concept called gauge symmetry that I've been trying to grapple with recently. It's very tough to fully understand for me. But my understanding is, to put it simply, that if we were looking at us from, for lack of a better word, a god's eye view… We would look like nothing. When we look at it as some sort of a data stream, it is just nothing. The best analogy I can make is to look at the binaries of a computer program. It looks like jack shit. It requires some sort of a framework to contextualise it and turn it into something meaningful and functional.
So all of this is an interesting pattern and interaction within a crazy sea of constant noise. That's it. But more importantly, it's also possible that we are perceiving an incredibly narrow bandwidth of reality, so to speak. There's no reason we are any more or less real in this context, than if we were to interpret the same soup of noise with another framework. It's possible that we are just one of an infinite number of ways to interpret the same raw data.
This xkcd comic might give you some perspective on this:
And this will tie into my post about multiverse theory.
I don't see a comic. -
2017-04-15 at 5:17 PM UTC
Originally posted by Take it as it comes... are you kidding me
sigma is used to refer to standard deviation, not p value
5 sigma is the 99.9999712895%th percentile
No, you fucktard. It can be used to refer to both standard deviation and probability distribution. The concepts are related but entirely separate. -
2017-04-15 at 5:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by Open Your Mind I don't see a comic.
https://xkcd.com/505/
Sorry, must have forgotten to paste.
