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Science babby here, does free will scientifically exist?
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No, your thoughts are determined by chemical and electrical signals.
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>>8273492
If you define free will in a certain way, it does. If you define it in a different way, it doesn't. There are even ways to define free will in such a way that we don't (yet) know whether or not it exists.
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>>8273502
Not the answer I was looking for, but I guess I walked into this by poorly wording my question
Is the fate of the universe or what I am going to do already predetermined?
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How do religious /sci/ons reconcile science with spirituality?
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>>8273629
By the simple fact that the two aren't mutually exclusive.
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>>8273629
How do religious /sci/ons NOT reconcile science with spirituality?
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>>8273659
I asked HOW DO, not just DO.
My reasoning is that a lot of current scientific goes against many currently held beliefs in major world religious, mainly but not limited to the Abrahamic faiths.
>Inevitable heat Death of the universe
>Free will is a very foggy concept
Are some examples.
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EARTH-LIKE PLANET DETECTED AROUND PROXIMA CENTAURI!!!!!!
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-scientists-unveil-earth-like-planet.html
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I'll bet you believed No Man's Sky was going to have multiplayer, too.
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4 light years away, holy shit
we can literally communicate with it, with only 4 years of delay
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This is exciting but depression because 4 light years is a crazy long distance and we'll likely not be able to see if it has life or not
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Well /sci/, what is it?
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A bait thread.
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Why are people shocked that it equals 1?
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>>8274750
3 * 1/3
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What happens when an unstopabble object colides with an unmovable object?
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>>8274698
a shitpost
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>>8274702
hahAA
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The unstopable force goes around the immovable object.
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Can someone please identify this?
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a brown recluse
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>>8274342
Its a bug. That will be $463.00
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Looks like a common house wasp to me
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i was smoking a cigarette today and started wondering... what is it thats pulling the air into my lungs? contraction of muscles? who knows.
but then i started thinking deeper, how does a vacuum cleaner work? then I researched...
this is what i found, that it creates sort of a "whirpool" of air that sucks air in.
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You've cracked the great mystery of the diaphragm.. We're made of spinning blades anon.
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But the reason I am here on /sci/ is because...
well... i still don't understand
if a fan BLOWS air >>>
how can a fan SUCK air <<< ?
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is it like...
if you take a blanket or towel and spin it really fast and let it hover an inch above the floor all the dust would move around...
and then if u apply glue (vacuum filter) all over the blanket the dust that would rise would stick to the blanket?
ayo /sci/enc nerds
why all of a fucking sudden is the northeast getting hella thunderstorms for no damn reason?
It wasn't like this last year or the year before that.
hello?!
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Climate change. Weather has been fucked up for the last 5 years or so in Vermont.
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>>8274158
so like what would be like the long term forecast for each for the northeast based on climate change?
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>>8274148
Happened all the time in the 1980s. Was pretty awesome to watch on the porch of my parent's house.
How do we stop heat death, /sci/?
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>>8274147
this is a question that actually bothers me
of all things I fucking hate entropy, fuck that shit. gives me actual nightmares.
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>>8274147
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
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move to a new universe once this one is dead
we should be able to figure out how to
do that by then
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why is gravity only noticeable on the largest of scales while the other three forces only work on the smallest of scales?
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Nobody knows why, but you came to the right place, since this board is full of retards who think that they have objectively correct answers to important questions in physics. They know that their answers are right because they call everyone who disagrees with them a 'cuck' or 'shill'.
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>>8274080
barely anybody does that here
why did you even comment if you don't even browse this board
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All the quantum weirdness is perfectly compatible with classical mechanics under the Bohmian interpretation
>This little realization will make you free
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>>8273874
Yeah but it doesnt let physicists believe in free will so we have to ignore it
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>>8273874
If you are willing to accept action at a distance then sure
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>>8273874
Except that it violates Lorentz invariance, making it difficult (potentially impossible) to apply to high energy phenomena covered by QFT.
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All right /sci/, it's 2016, we have huge rockets and advanced labs, we can simulate pressure, temperature, everything, so why couldn't we figure out abiogenesis yet? shouldn't it be simple since the fist lifeforms were simple? What are we missing?
Any advancements in the last few years?
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>assuming life originated on Earth
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>>8273692
> assuming you're not a huge faggot
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>>8273736
Instead of a rational discussion, you throw out ad hominem attacks. Real class act op.
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what would happen if I fly a spaceship to a gas planet and light a match?
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This is actually how Suns are made; a huge meteor or something makes it through the atmosphere and hits the gas, and then it ignites and condenses into lava.
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>>8273665
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute you.
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Long March 2D launches world’s first quantum communications satellite
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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/08/long-march-2d-quantum-communications-satellite/
>The Chinese have launched the first satellite that can achieve quantum communications between space and Earth. The launch of the Quantum Science Satellite – called Micius – took place at 17:40 UTC on Monday using a Long March-2D (Chang Zheng-2D) launch vehicle from the 603 Launch Pad of the LC43 complex at the Jiuquan space center.
>The new satellite is dedicated to quantum science experiments. The Quantum Space Satellite, (or Quantum Experiments at Space Scale) will test the phenomena of quantum entanglement.
>Operated by the China Academy of Sciences, this 500 kg satellite – announced as the name “Micius” in honor of a fifth century Chinese scientist – contains a quantum key communicator, quantum entanglement emitter, entanglement source, processing unit, and a laser communicator.
>QUESS will relay transmissions between two ground stations (one in China, and the other in Europe) transmitting quantum keys.
>During the mission, Chinese scientists will implement a series of science missions between the satellite and quantum communication ground stations.
>QSS will operate on a Sun-synchronous circular orbit with an altitude of 600 km.
>One of the major objectives of the mission is to set a Quantum Key Distribution from satellite to ground, setting an ultra-long-range quantum channel between ground and satellite with the assistance of high-precision acquisition, tracking and pointing system, implement a quantum key distribution between the satellite and the ground stations, and carry out unconditional secure quantum communication experiments.
HUMANITY FUCK YES
WE QUANTUM NOW
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>The new satellite is dedicated to quantum science experiments.
What a waste
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>>8273421
>ching chong ding dong
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>>8273472
>ching QUANTUM chong ding dong dang chong jin kung don QUANTUM wu zhou dang QUANTUM
ftfy
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What's the posibility that humans were genetically engineered by some alien race from a native hominid species.
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>>8273303
why?
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>>8273723
It either happened, or it didn't.