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>>8535146
>being a nigger

>>8535146
>Will grad schools do a background check on me?
no
>How screwed am I?
it's not a felony, so not at all

I'm just going to finish my post by judging you hardcore for being a piece of shit. Good luck m8.

>>8535172
>>8535166

Give him some slack. He understands it's wrong and won't do it again. Youthful stupidity is necessary.

>>8535080
lol fag

from a fag to a huge fag. nice

>>8535102
I have another year after this one, anon.

>>8534790
gas is a state, under pressure it becomes a liquid.

vapor is gas, water is its liquid

>>8534790

Hm I guess you could get a hydrosphere if there's a moon small enough that could maintain water but at the same time have a planet surrounding with strong enough gravity that would pull the water from it. If the forces cancel out at one point perhaps the water would float in a "hydrosphere". Pulling ideas out of my ass btw.

>>8534790
There aren't any gases denser than liquid water

I made this reply before and I'll do it again.


The hard problem of consciousness is that we don't have a physical explanation for the subjective phenomena of consciousness. Consciousness is a streaming event while the brain is an organization of discrete and disjointed events(neurochemical reactions). Consciousness is not only a unity but a substantial unity, because we retain our identity even through experiences of unconsciousness(we go to sleep at night and wake up as the same entity the next day). The information structure in the brain is insufficient to properly explain the substantialy unity of consciousness. The events in the brain are more akin to bouncing billiard balls against one another in a chain reaction as they are connected but only in a one-to-one relationship and lack a relationship with the whole in a continuous manner.
There is also the phenomena of the electromagnetic field which hypothetically could connect all of these events. However, we run into a similar problem because the electromagnetic field is quantized as discrete entities, electromagnetic waves. How is one part(current of electromagnetic force) informed of all other parts? It isn't. We run into a conundrum where our current understanding of science can not produce a physical system which adequately explains the phenomena of consciousness.

However, we can use the flaws of the brain(and EMF) argument to produce what we should expect from a physical system that explains consciousness. Consciousness is a self-refrential knowing, that is to say, you know that you know. Much like how computers know certain programs or are informed of them, your consciousness is a process that is informed of its own informational processing. This informational processing is integrated harmoniously. Looking at it from a reductionist stand point, a single act of knowing is informed by a congolmeration of knowing, and simultaneously informs a congolomeration of knowing of itself.

>>8534809
This process is also physically unified through a substratum.
Investigating this substratum produces a knowable physical system that explains consciousness. Trying to use current known phenomena, we can try to invent a new phenomena which possesses the qualities we are looking for. It could be a super-imposed wave of quantumwaves which are all entangled non-locally (as posited by Karl Pribram) or could be a sublte-energy field which unifies all of the electromagnetic waves into a seamless whole, possessing the integrated informational processing we have come to expect. Finally, we can use another new phenomena, which we will call the soul. The soul would be a monad(simple physical unit) with an abstract nature of awareness much like how electrons have the abstract nature of a negative charge.

When we come to a crossroad of hypothesises, we often turn to Occam's razor. Normally we try to use old phenomena to explain new phenomena but as the phenomena we are analyzing are all new physical phenomena, occam's razor doesn't help much yet. Then we try to use the most simple and elegant explanation and in my opinion that would be the soul. I think it is a simpler structure (but would require another mental monad to connect it to the brain), and it is certainly the most elegant which fits the greater design of the universe.
What is the purpose of the brain then? The brain could be a manner of empowering the soul with energy.

That is why I believe in the soul.

>>8534811

>That is why I believe in the soul.

I sure am glad i read that line before disregarding all that block of text.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Smale

>Smale entered the University of Michigan in 1948.[3][4] Initially, he was a good student, placing into an honors calculus sequence taught by Bob Thrall and earning himself A's. However, his sophomore and junior years were marred with mediocre grades, mostly Bs, Cs and even an F in nuclear physics. However, with some luck, Smale was accepted as a graduate student at the University of Michigan's mathematics department. Yet again, Smale performed poorly in his first years, earning a C average as a graduate student. It was only when the department chair, Hildebrandt, threatened to kick Smale out that he began to work hard.[5] Smale finally earned his Ph.D. in 1957, under Raoul Bott.

>>8534724
>any great scientist or engineer who failed classes or didn't care about his grades

if you can't comprehend science, then how the fuck do you imagine being a great scientist.

it's like asking does anyone know a good writer that didn't know how to read.

>>8534749
THIS MOTHERFUCKER GOT A FIELDS MEDAL

HOW THE FUCK.

What happened?

I am not even going to ask. I bet that motherfucker lost his virginity in his sophomore year and just started doing hard drugs and fucking prostitutes and shit. I would bet on this shit.

Yourr 25 or something and the doctors told you youre fine right

Oh fuck. Is this pancreatic cancer-anon again?

>>8534727
yes, but you potentially highlight my problem exactly, they don't assume cancer in someone my age. every 25 year old cancer victim began as a hypochondriac

>it's taken this long
medical researchers truly are brainlets aren't they?

>>8534705
And? Why does his race matter you cunt? He's a more worthwhile human being than you ever will be, fucking kek.

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>>8534720
>And? Why does his race matter you cunt?
You happen to hear once in a while that some African scientist offered a dubious proof to a conjecture and stuff like that.

Einstein invented more important stuff

>>8534693
Who? What's his greatest work?

>von memenn

>>8534675
Do you like programming problem solving?

>>8534753
and*

>>8534757
I have never actually programmed anything. My brother is majoring in computer science, and it seems pretty interesting. I have taken trigonometry and pre-calculus at my university, and I was able to get As in both of them. I do enjoy math. I just feel insecure about my career prospects after college.

>>8534536
>Reverse image search produces nothing
Well shit

>>8534536
Looks like something exploded

They found Musk's weed stash

>>8534518
electricity obviously.

>>8534518
Obviously make all transportation electric. If we aren't burning it, we can use current reserves for plastics for a very long time.

>>8534626
electricity makes plastic cups and polyester shirts, etc?

I haven't heard of a scientist who doesn't believe this.

Well.. actually yes, a couple. But they invariably had conservative upbringings.

>>8534499
That's why scientists are retards and should study philosophy.

>>8534499
I'd almost argue that any non-centrist upbringing leads to the denial of ANY form of genetic or behavioral determinism and that anything humans do is totally "randummm and not at all quanitfiable cause that's against god cus muh bible sed Adam and Eve and duh earth is six hunded yeers old or das' racyst cus whitey tryna opreshun us wit heez numberz".

Military already has bases there.

>>8534473
Post some pics

>>8534477
It's classified.

>>8534418
I think you meant peer review spaz

>>8534418
Pier review is the science of categorizing and analyzing piers. The different styles of piers, their attributes, rates of decay, etc. It is one of the most well respected sciences which is why pier review journals dominate the publishing landscape.

My city has a great pier. Tons of sea lions, a boardwalk, and even a roller coaster. If you don't think those have anything to do with science, you've never scienced.

I am considering giving up on STEM.
Right now I am going for an associates in CS and it's ok.

But at the same time I feel like I want to be a piano player and make good music.
I will get a job as a minimum wage programmer, learn piano, then once I am certain I can live off playing piano I will quit programming and completely forget about STEM.

STEM as a whole is really just a meme.

>>8534440
>STEM as a whole is really just a meme.
Can you give me more specifics anon?

>>8534446
Basically anon all of STEM is purely knowledge based.

So your ability to do STEM shit just depends on how much you know. Colleges make money by regurgitating shit you can learn by yourself but don't have the motivation to do so.

The problem with this is that knowledge becomes outdated and shit that was useful before won't be useful in the future. Thus it's a meme.
You can learn all the programming languages you want, then some new tech comes out and you will have to learn that stuff too.
Consider how much better it would be to simply study logic. If you can create logical systems, you will succeed with any programming language because logic is not a meme. You can always improve your ability to create bigger and more efficient logical systems.

So essentially, for something to not be a meme, I believe it must have some sort of measurable skill involved.
This may not be the most financially secure way to go about things in the short term, but I think learning something that has actual skill involved makes you a much more valuable candidate for job slots.
Being a good public speaker or a good leader is a skill. If you can learn these things, and are willing to hustle, you will get a job literally anywhere.