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Let's discuss this Bill Krozby.
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2015-09-17 at 3:57 AM UTCSince when i posted it in your other thread you all but ignored it lets discuss this now since you want some interesting content.
Sophie's post of scientific inquiry
The branch of physics that deals with the microscopic Universe instead of the macroscopic Universe is called quantum mechanics. A number of important discoveries have been made in this field over the years, one of them being that matter at the smallest scale can act as both particle and a wave at the same time. This is referred to as the wave-particle duality. In one notable experiment electrons were fired one by one through a screen with two slits, the thinking was that if electrons behaved as a particle they would hit the detection screen in two distinct stripes. What was noticed however was a diffraction pattern on the detection screen which would indicate the electron's acted as a wave as they passed through the slits as illustrated by the picture below.
The scientists being scientists however decided they wanted to see how the electrons behaved at the moment the passed through the slits, so they set up detectors to find out. However once the detectors were placed and the experiment was run again the results were very surprising indeed. Instead of a diffraction pattern they actually saw the two stripes they were expecting in the first place. This means that because the detectors were placed where they were the electrons suddenly started to act as particles. Would this mean that the very act of us observing a system would physically change it's properties?
Well, it turns out it's not quite as cool as that. After more experiments and a lot of study it was generally understood that the instruments used to measure the electrons had to interact with the quantum system in order to make the measurements, thereby thermodynamically changing the properties of the system causing the electrons to act as particles instead of waves.
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2015-09-17 at 4 AM UTCThis is how we know plants don't have feelings.
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2015-09-17 at 7:11 AM UTCBrings to mind this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism
And this does an amusing job of describing the mentality: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2010/09/08/134-the-ted-conference/
The vast majority of people don't have anywhere near the cognitive style I've noticed ancaps in particular tend to have. Even Chomsky noted the commitment to rationality. It brings to mind large lists of "facts" I saw online and how I later realized, through rigorous attempts at verification and searching for rebuttals, how little information people validate. But since nearly everyone else does the same, as a strategy for giving the illusion of intelligence and understanding, it works. Then there's the issue of bias confirmation, other forms of bias, and emotionalism, most having massive problems with them. The vast majority of people simply don't have the predisposition, they aren't capable of or willing to develop the strict mental architecture for attempting to rationally understand the world, do the kind of reading and thinking that's required, as people generally avoid things they find difficult and aren't very good at, that make them realize the limits of their cognitive ability and feel inadequate. They seem terrified of saying "I don't know/I don't feel I have enough of an understanding to have a position or make a judgement." and unfortunately empty confidence and superficial posturing absolutely work for the vast majority.
I realized long ago the enormous complexity of these subjects and that I wouldn't come close to being qualified to comment on anything before what would likely take years of dedicated studying. -
2015-09-17 at 4:40 PM UTCI'll give sophist one thing, he has the discipline to actually learn useful skills as a hobby.
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2015-09-18 at 1:51 AM UTC
I'll give sophist one thing, he has the discipline to actually learn useful skills as a hobby.
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2015-09-18 at 8:33 PM UTCDo the saturn hexagonal hurricane.
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2015-09-19 at 12:30 PM UTCI will when i get a minute, i've got social functions today and i'm working on learning more programming with Python by means of a book and i got normal work so i've been busy lately.
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2015-09-19 at 3:58 PM UTCokay... =(
