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2017-04-19 at 9:51 PM UTC in Living in the pastSure, but the idea of "the first people" is not a very good one. We've really always been here, just changed over time.
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2017-04-19 at 9:43 PM UTC in Living in the past
Originally posted by Sophie Which species of hominid would you consider the first people?
Is there a specific point in time when Homo Sapiens stopped being something else and "became" H.Sapiens? Because as I understand it the evolution of a new species from an older version is very slow and involves some overlapping. It's not like modern people just appeared one day spontaneously with a complete vocabulary. -
2017-04-19 at 9:30 PM UTC in Living in the past
Originally posted by mmQ As in a long time ago, say the 400s or 700 BCs or whenever grunting cavemen were around.
Do you ever really try and envision what life would have been like then? Movies set in these times just show you the "entertaining" parts of the day, not the other 99% where they sit around bored out of their goddamn minds.
You can read , write, talk, draw, sew, play cards depending on if they were invented by your time. What else? Just keep cleaning your house and staying busy that way?
No electricity ever. I mean I understand that if you grow up in certain conditions you are much more acclimated to them, like obviously people can't be frustrated with no electricity if they don't know electricity exists, but just the same it just seems like things would get really repetitive and dull. Reading the same ass books over and over.
What do you think? Thank you.
Remember when you were a kid and when you weren't watching TV or playing with some toy? You were imagining stuff, creating stuff, lost in "your own world" or in your mind. I imagine it would have been a lot like that, except most people probably didn't really get to sit around and "be bored" like that, they were probably too busy living / surviving / learning. -
2017-04-19 at 9:26 PM UTC in Living in the past
Originally posted by Sophie They didn't grunt noob. Homo Sapiens(Us) talked.
Communication via spoken language probably started in a very basic way. One of the first "words" was probably a sound our ancestors made when something scared them, and over time we associated that sound with a more specific meaning like "danger!", "tiger!", or something like that. -
2017-04-17 at 12:44 AM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshin
Originally posted by Malice Marrying someone and driving them to suicide 2+ years after they sign up for life insurance (I read that it actually does pay out if you suicide, but it has to be after 2 years. Didn't confirm.), if they didn't already have a policy they could add you as a beneficiary to. That or simply making it seem like they committed suicide. The absolute perfect plan, with perfect trust and control of the environment. free access to it. So many possibilities.
This would be the height of psychopathy and parasitism. But, if it was a good payout (I am such a modest man that as little as 1.5K per month would be enough to life what I consider a good life), mmm, the emotional equivalent of the scent of good barbecued meat being carried towards you on a warm wind during a pleasant day, rousing your desire in a manner that causes you to feel warmth expanding from the inside of your core outward towards your extremities.
It would also be relatively simple, easy to get away with. Yes, it would require some investment, you could choose someone you truly enjoy spending time with, ideally that seems eager to marry quickly. And if they planned to have children, that alone would be enough to fully justify the murder, in my view.
Yeah but you would probably have to have sex for that to work. -
2017-04-15 at 10:22 PM UTC in You can't have it all. (Intelligence)
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2017-04-15 at 4:43 PM UTC in You can't have it all. (Intelligence)
Originally posted by Captain Falcon That's exactly what a low intelligence dummy would say when they're made to look a fool.
The riddle has a simple logical answer within a mathematical framework. But without even introducing the meaning of the concept of a growth plate, the other answer is, by time, at the mid point between its designated full growth and smallest point. I don't see your issue with this answer.
Post last edited by Captain Falcon at 2017-04-15T07:12:20.424277+00:00
Both answers were pretty obvious, bro. -
2017-04-15 at 4:41 PM UTC in You can't have it all. (Intelligence)
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2017-04-15 at 4:38 PM UTC in Captain Falcon Explains Everything: Science Edition
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 4:34 PM UTC in my dad is a total asshole
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2017-04-14 at 7:56 PM UTC in Captain Falcon Explains Everything: Science Edition
Originally posted by Captain Falcon Of course. At its most basic level, all this stuff is energy differentials within the 19 fundamental fields in the Standard Model. That is all.
What do you think are the philosophical implications of this on concepts like life and death, individuality, consciousness, "I", etc. -
2017-04-14 at 5:09 PM UTC in Captain Falcon Explains Everything: Science Edition
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2017-04-14 at 5 PM UTC in You can't have it all. (Intelligence)Different people can be intelligent in different ways. For example, most people will admit that Tesla was an intelligent man, maybe even genius. He invented alternating current and it changed the world when he did; yet he died poor, alone and crazy, thinking pigeons and Martians were communicating with him.
I do hope and believe that as we continue to advance technology, we will be able to enhance our natural abilities and create beings that are capable of super human intelligence. -
2017-04-14 at 4:38 PM UTC in Captain Falcon Explains Everything: Science EditionWould you say Conways Game of Life is analogous to life and the universe?
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2017-04-11 at 11:04 PM UTC in Can water be as cold as ice without being ice?I don't know for sure, gut feeling is that it probably can but it would have to be at a different pressure.
Pretty sure drinking anything that cold would hurt. -
2017-04-11 at 6:18 PM UTC in Banlist
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2017-04-11 at 12:25 AM UTC in Interesting original things to take videos of.Make a porno.
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2017-04-10 at 9:08 PM UTC in Interesting original things to take videos of.
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2017-04-10 at 10:52 AM UTC in Interesting original things to take videos of.
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2017-04-09 at 6:57 PM UTC in Anybody who "hates the police" is either retarded or a total fucking poser
THATS real poverty. Poverty in the US is by comparison, pretty fucking cushy.
That's kinda like comparing having a broken leg to having terminal cancer, and then saying having a broken leg is pretty cushy by comparison.
If being poor in the west is so fucking cushy why don't you give everything you have to someone who has to deal with REAL poverty in another country, then you can kick back and relax on your cushy concrete slab, try to catch some sleep before the police wake you up, and try to deal with untreated mental illnesses that plague most of the poor and homeless people of the West. After all, you seem to think it would be pretty fucking cushy to live that way.
