Why do some people talk / write about "consciousness" like it's an actual thing that needs to be explained by science instead of an abstract fiction that only exists as a convenience of language? Of course finding something that doesn't exist would be a very hard problem.
>>8441647
Ah, but since you have invoked it, it is now a something. The thing that which exists as not a something is still something :^)
>>8441647
It's as real of a concept as a liver is. The nervous system is divided by conscious and unconscious systems from muscles to reflexes and this can extend to cognitive processes in the brain as well. I fail to see you point whatsoever.
>>8441664
>The nervous system is divided by conscious and unconscious systems
No, wrong sense of "consciousness." This is the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
Why do normies think we have a human overpopulation? Do they even realize that
>only the few cities that exist in the world is where most population is concentrated at
>food isn't a problem, we have the technology to sustain way more than 7 billion people, the starving countries are like that because of humanitarian aid corruption within the country
>if human population were to drastically reduce, the economic system would collapse and the survivors would have it really hard until it can be stabilized again
Have you ever encountered one of these individuals? I don't even try to argue.
>>8433886
People like to imagine we are heading off some sort of cliff. Y2K scare, Mayan Doomsday, etc.
I think it's a lot of different emotional reasons. One is a secret desire to want to kill lots of people.
retards the lot of them
>>8433886
Isn't in 2050 the human population suppose to become aged and begin to drop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4RGqzaNEtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yhiGj-252k
>>8440059
>>8440061
>>8440063
Buzzwords that make you cringe.
>Machine learning
>Superintelligent AI
>climate change
>guns, germs and steel
>microaggression
>white privilege
Anything with the word "cyber"
The worst for me will always be those snooty articles for soccer moms warning about how common things you thought were safe may contain "chemicals" that you can't pronounce.
Can someone explain the fucking Monty Hall problem, I know it's true in practice that you're twice as likely to get the car if you switch doors but it makes zero sense to me intuitively. After the reveal you have two unknown doors and you have zero new information pertaining to which of them is the car and which is the goat, so it should be a 50/50. All the explanations I've read about "picking two different doors total makes your chances 2/3" just seems like a matter of perception. I hate this problem
>>8438414
the prize (car) exists, total prize probability = 1
initially you choose one of the 3 doors, the probability that the prize is behind it is 1/3
Monty opens a door, revealing a goat, the probability that the prize was behind that door = 0.
1 = 1/3 + 0 + x
x is the probability that the prize is behind the unopened door which also was not the initially selected door
x=2/3
It would be 50/50 if there was no outsider influence (someone other than you knows which door has what. They open a bad door for you). It's simple, senpai.
scientifically, what would the best way to stop a gunman who covered himself in 360 degrees of babies without any casualties?
>>8441259
Shoot him in the head. Him falling over probably isn't going to kill any of the babies.
Fabian tactics
>>8441259
Wait for babies to piss and shat themselves.
Are you pretentious? Do you browse /sci/ while sitting in the front of your calc 120 lecture because it makes you feel smart?
Step right up and see if you can score better than your fellow colleagues on the Wechsler IQ practice test! Take either a 30 minute practice test or a 15 minute quick quiz and attempt to one-up each other like never before.
>>> http://wechslertest.com/ <<<
>>8440711
I got 34/95th percentile but I've got a D in Calc II for lack of motivation, so your test is irrelevant
I don't think this test is terribly accurate...
Dunno if this test is truly accurate, but the score is at least compatible with both the Wechsler tests I took(WISC and WAIS).
It's application season, let's have a grad school thread. Discuss research, practical questions relating to applications, funding, etc., or just vent.
How much more competitive is applying to grad school with a masters than just a bachelors?
>>8431976
Applying to grad school is like getting a job. Not only grades matter, but also prior experience.
>>8431973
I have a question about something not quite in my field and want to ask a professor who gave a lecture on a that topic when I was an undergrad.
What are the chances he will actually care about it and answer?
Why don't the protons repel each other? Don't like charges push each other apart? Science is literally a meme
>>8435543
0/10
bad bait
>>8435543
>being this new to physics
just in case you're serious
google: strong nuclear force
>trolled hard
What category of nobel prize should be added?
>Computer Science cannot be added as it not real science nor does anyone care about it except autists.
what?
Alan Turing had more practical contribution than any so called "pure mathematician" of the 20th century
there is already the "turing award" for computer science which is already has the same prestige as a nobel prize
i would add a category for "sucking the most black cock in a single year" in which your mother would be a clear favorite, every year, even after her death
Biology seems pretty obvious.
Prove me wrong that 97% of climate change scientists are not in fact suffering from the bandwagon effect, peer pressure and group think in order to push this global warming meme.
>>8434188
prove me wrong that god doesn't actually exist.
>>8434188
Prove me wrong that 97% of biologists are not in fact suffering from the bandwagon effect, peer pressure and group think in order to push this evolution meme.
>>8434188
shrinking glaciers etc.
it's called evidence
How many people on /sci/ actually do research? What fields do you work at?
>>8434865
Personally I investigate sRNA regulation networks in bacteria, anyone else in the field?
I started a PhD focused on Raman microscopy
>>8434865
Astrophysics, neutrinos, cool shit.
How many of you have taken the Energy Red Pill and realized that Renewable Energy is going to save the World?
>https://www.iea.org/bookshop/734-Medium-Term_Renewable_Energy_Market_Report_2016
If you listen carefully you can hear the cry of the nuclear shills, maybe we will get a few fascinating specimens to start shilling in this thread itself.
I just had an epiphany today that I could help the world by becoming an environmental engineer. But i can't even give one fuck about material science and there's like 3 courses of materials and a course on statics i would have to take. Maybe in another life.
>>8436946
To be honest, material sciences are kind of key to technological advanced in pretty much every area of science, not just environmental engineering. Only 'Software Engineering' gets a pass.
>>8436930
>Renewable Energy
No such thing.
Scientism = counsiousness. I'd like to know how you guys think about counsiousness in science.
We can explain most things with science. I trust science in every way but there's always something missing. You can scientifically explain why you dont feel anything if you cut your hand off. The nerves aren't connected to the brain anymore. Simple and very much true. Then there're thousands of explanations of many things, but to me at least it always comes down to one thing: One, possibly two. Everything is created by energy. If you break down anything to its core it will be energy. So how do we explain our world, well, through our counsiousness.
For example, an animal may experience the world completely different from a human. Very likely a human experience the world completely different compared to another human. You can never escape reality, because reality is in our mind, but you can change reality, just like energy which can only be changed. This works in both a physical and psycologic way. Physically you can change the world into something better, and mentally you can do it, this is why people enjoy different things, some might think playing football is the worst, others dont. It's all in our mind.
Biocentrism by Robert Lanza (leading stem cell researcher) and Bob Berman (astronomer) is regarding this issue.
What do you think about my thoughts and biocentrism?
>>8440116
>Scientism
stopped reading there
>>>/x/
>>8440120
counsiousness = scientism as well. What's making you feel like stop reading. Don't be afraid to debate. Even Stephen Hawkings is one of the proponents of multiverses which is supported by biocentrism. So I don't get what your problem is.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1612292
Why is this allowed?
Mass delusion.
Google "Jamestown" for analog.
>>8440030
Should read "Jonestown"
>>8440013
so Op-eds make you asspained or what?