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>>8252323
Since it was made in God's image it's perfect the way it is.

>>8252329
Try saying that with trigeminal neuralgia and allergies to most common foods.

>>8252323
Since it was refined by millions of years of evolution, it's perfect the way it is.

just classical mechanics

No jokes, physics 1 was my hardest class. About 50% failure rate.

Once I got to upper division, the classes were more work but the profs are bro tier at that point.

>>8248244

Once I got to upper division, the classes were more work but the profs are bro tier at that point.

This is every major if you're doing right

>>8252585
set theory

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>a branch of mathematics that can be used as a universal language
Logics and Type theories can be used to express frameworks like set theory and cateogry, which are rich enough to incoorporate essnetially all of mathematics.
This is however not the full scope of natural language. A notion like
>I feel afraid to go to school tomorrow because Bobby is angry that I kissed his girlfriend at a party
is hard to express faithfully in mathematics. And if you take a reductionist approach and say
>well in the end it's all deterministic and if we take brain functions into account that give rise to notions like "shame" then we can also express those
then, even if you're right, you'd deal with a system of too many parameters to work with.

Claiming everythng that makes sense (can reasonably be talked about) can already expressed in formal logic - this is what Wittgenstein/Russel claimed a little more than 100 years ago (Logicism).

If you want a natural language that's more oriented in logic than e.g. English, look at stuff like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
(which never take off)

If you're interested in analyzing natural languages formally, that's done in e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar
Those subjects are e.g. the reason why you find linguists names like Chomski in fields like computer science / math.

>>8252615
(PS if you use second order logic or type theory and include numbers, then you don't even really need sets of cats)

>>8241820
Why those creatures have scrotum like things in the top of their head?

>>8241820
It's just a prank alienbros

Space is very big.

There is insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

What else needs to be known?

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Laptop's circuitry fucks up, and the desktop automatically shuts itself

>>8255550
...what are you planning to do to Mongolia?

>>8255586
It just an hypothesis.

In my opinion, these new seas would reduce the temperature of that area of the world. Of course, in an imaginary world where never existed Mongolia or Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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Siberian steppes are very cold because they are far from oceans or seas which maintain a moderate temperature.

>chopra
>right ever

i don't understand is he saying that "natural laws are ephemeral and don't appear in reality but must be inferred"? I mean the laws of thermo-dynamics is evident in every fireworks display. Is he saying thought is a transcendent realm where we the truth of the universe is expressed cause if so that sound like a lot of circle logic. "We know truth is vast because its entirety is incomprehensible" My example of a notion that has no meaning or value but might look good in a fortune cookie.

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I didn't know how retarded Derpack until I saw this video and got exposed to his infinite pit of autism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwLrxPb1fE

i donut get it :V

>>8255373
Point proven.

>>8255369
But remember to also not overdo it, lest it becomes a part of your identity and worldview in a way that Descarte's demon is a real worry that causes you anxiety attacks. Skeptisism is helthy, but too much can make you a little off. I would know, I'm a little off... even though I chose to forget most of the doubt.

What a retarded fucking idea.

>>8255257
well I think it's fun

>>8255249
The variables and symbols you use do not matter for shit as they represent whatever value is relevant in the current situation. The reason we have certain standardized symbols for certain occurances like W for Watt is because then you don't have to explain what your variable represents every time you calculate something.

>>8255081
Its elementary particle for a reason

>>8255087
We thoughts atoms were elementary particles too. Until we got curious whats inside of them and read the bible to find out.

The D.

>>8255056
το μουνί της μάνας σου.

>>8255056
An expression

>>8255056
1+1 + 1+1

>does the absence of dark matter prove the presence of aliens?
Yes it does. Someone give this man a nobel prize

Dark matter exists

We don't know what it is

Could dark matter be aliens? Yes.
It could also be God.

>>8254832
>it is my understanding that observation of the nearby galaxies led us believe that dark matter exists, since if it didn't our observation wouldn't make any sense.
Yes

>so would it possible that the whole universe is filled by an enormous quantity of alien empire that harvest a good chunk of the energy produced in their galaxies and make our observations unreliable?
Take this to /x/

>does the absence of dark matter prove the presence of aliens?
Absolutely not

It's really the same. If you sleep less, you live fewer years.

>>8254682
If you have deep and interesting dreams then it is not wasted time.

And you kinda need it so do it and get good at it.

https://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/overviews/uberman-2/

Try not to die

>>8254375
The joke is that poisson is fish in french.

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fuck yeah it is

>>8254375
according to the image, poisson distribution is not even a function.

>>8254162

What would be the point of said mental activity to reach such a conclution? I find it dumb to think that such a construct would reach self-awareness.

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"Someone once asked me,
Why do you believe in free will?
I replied,
Because I cannot choose to do otherwise."
– James Champagne

>>8254194

Got the exact same fucking problem.