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Let me save you from the pain.

It's impossible to prove simulation and free will is physically impossible.

>>8150639
I don't get this argument at all. Pain is no different from any other sensory inputs. A strong enough neural impulse will kick in a hardwired instinct, you don't need to "learn" pain. If you design a machine to feel pain, it will feel pain.

Can you explain the accounting for a subjective experience part a bit more?

I'm new here, so please don't sage me.

>>8150639
>If everything can be simulated by Turing machines
I haven't found any information about it. Can you explain it further?

>>8150642
>free will is physically impossible
I don't understand that, is it still science or it is now philosophy? Can you explaint to me how (and why) free will doesn't exist?

>>8150548
fucking shit, they screwed us over for eternity

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I think we just like to get high because sentience is a real burn sometimes.

>>8150556
meh probably...
everybody likes to smoke a little weed

>>8150432
Because shoehorning particles for everything is retarded

>Could it turn out that this picture is mostly a mathematical fiction?
All models are "mathematical fiction", more or less by definition

>>8150432
Could it? Yeah. Is it? I dunno, that'd be a breakthrough if someone found that our model is seriously flawed.

39/331

>>8150421
About 50%

if we assume there's another civ at the opposite side of where we are then it takes 200,000 years for us to communicate. That doesn't mean it's impossible just really difficult.

*complex organisms such as humans
Sorry about that.

>>8150353
Competition from limited resources.

Complexity arises from biotic stress, e.g. competition between organisms. Limited resources "force" organisms to use same resources more optimally or find new resources. Finding new resources and new ecological niches requires often more complex behavior than just reproducing every 20 minutes.

A two-trick pony is more likely to gain more resources than a one-trick pony. A three-trick pony will beat them both at gaining resources. Increasing the organism's ability to make more complex structures and functions demands cooperation between cells, and that's why multicellular organisms evolved.

Bacteria and humans have different ecological niches, and are both as "optimal" in these niches as they currently can.

>>8150343
are you fucking retarded

>>8150349
Is that a no or you are just trying to be edgy like a 12 year old?

>>8150343
I think the concept of "thing-in-itself" is bullshit.

>>8149649
Ain't gonna happen, sorry bro.

>>8149653
Why not? Surely we can achieve that level of technological advancement

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>>8149649
Perfect regeneration of the all the body cells.

>>8149427
sum of the squares of coordinates.

>>8149429
It's supposed to be R^n --> (0,\infty) but the sum of squares is zero at the origin.

>>8149430
please restate the question. I still dont understand.

inb4 300 replies

>>8149248
nope

there's only 1 race, btw

>>8149248
Yes, that's likely.
Further research is needed though, we don't have a lot good data. It doesn't help that psychology is so soft, so data is likely to be pretty noisy. Remember the crisis of replicability.

>NASA says that because the asteroid is so far away it can't be considered a natural moon, or satellite. Instead, they're calling it a "quasi-satellite."
>quasi-satellite

Fucking damnit, NASA, do you have to ruin everything ?

THAT'S IT

THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE HIDING

>>8148927
>THAT'S IT
>THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE HIDING
Nazis?

>>8148254
By shoveling dark matter into it equal to its volume.

>>8148254
Throw your brain into it
Black holes aren't really holes. They are objects (probably a sphere) of super dense material. By throwing anything into it, you are just adding the mass. One could destroy black hole only by starving it of matter, until it evaporates by Hawking radiation

>>8148285
>sphere
Ball. Faggot

Because in the wild it represents power and might. Also they look majestic, time to grow a beard anon.

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coz they're just big cats

humans liked lions for thousends of years ( since the roman empire)
Its just a popculture thing

>"Where's the Flux?"
>Not "What the Flux!?"
Missed opportunity

>>8146541
I science in America so underfunded that they need a kickstarter to make an observation campaign? It's really that bad?

>>8146560
It's not that science is underfunded, even though it might be, but the telescopes have lots of other places to look at and using them aint cheap. So they pretty much gathered enough budget to rent the telescope to look at KIC for a year.

they will be good at biology, straightforward chemistry, and theoretical physics. Apart from that, Indians are shit tier at problem solving. From my experience in academia, the only successful indians are the ones who grew up their entire life in the states. The ones from India can work all day and night but they dont have any critical thinking ability and can't solve practical engineering problems.

>>8144413
so like rote memorization... how is that different than the usa education system?

>>8144687
something the us does must be working because they see a lot more entrepreneurial success on an international level

>>8158646
>product of our culture and has no real meaning or value
Elaborate

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>>8158650
I mean that if we were not a 1st world society or whatever we are, then no one would give a shit about the concept or human rights or maintain the whole "Dignity above all" attitude.

>>8158656
Oh, I see. You're asking if it's just a social construct (like race).

The things you mentioned have somewhat nebulous definitions. I don't think we can rule out the possibility that some components of those traits are just social constructs and some components are not.

Personally I don't believe pride is anything more than a social construct. Dignity is somewhat more complex. I think that even if it is a social construct, it may also be a theoretical cultural ideal. This would mean that while it isn't inherent to humans, it may be inherent to human theory about culture.