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>>9025071
self preservation

we have the luxury of being smart enough to seek, construct, and experience meaning, purpose, etc.

there was a period when we were smart enough for these things, but collectively not knowledgeable enough in the world to explain a lot of phenomena, like the seasons, weather, natural disasters, astronomical events, these types of things.

couple those two together and you have a group of beings intelligent enough to seek meaning in things, but unable to find it in a lot of cases in the world. easy to see why gods would be created.

You'll notice as history goes on, gods in religions interfere less and less with day to day life, and now, take the christian god for instance, he's only around as the guy who created everything and sometimes causes kids to survive cancer surgeries. That's a lot harder to disprove than some god is the king of the sea and causes tsunamis on people who anger him

t. armchair everything

>>9025071
Linked to the human ability to make sophisticated abstractions. Believing in things that arent really there is essential for being able to think about anything at all.

>>9024554
What's the evidence they did? At the time, they thought light was a particle but I'm not aware they had a model of physics built around that.

How exactly were the Egyptians going to understand relativity when they didn't even have an understanding of Non-Euclidean Geometry which didn't come around until the 19th century?

>>9024566
they didn't even have a understanding of Euclidean Geometry that well

Ancient Egypt is obviously one of the most overrated ancient civilizations

their mathematics and science were generally less sophisticated than the Greeks, focused more on practical reasons, not much for the theoretical stuff Greece was

Greece was the first civilization to introduce mathematical proofs and an axiomatic deductive system.


>in b4, but the greeks were influenced by egypt

accelerometer or force sensor

>>9023008
probably illegal to put an accelerometer on any kind of rocket, for the same reason your phone's accelerometer turns of during high altitudes/speeds

>>9023013
take the engine place in fixture it against force sensor start engine

Why is OP so dumb? Whats the evolutionary benefit of it?

What is the evolutionary benefit of being retarded and a faggot? Why do you exist?

>>9018416
The evolutionary advantage is that it's fuckin sexy.

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I don't think Mcdonalds has chefs, nice try tho

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Born into upper class

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17,000 United States Dollars per Calendar Year (within the world-historical 97th percentile)

why is it that you're such a faggot

>>9025726
not an argument

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>Of the class of Guardians Plato writes that women and children should be ‘held in common, and no parent should know its child, or child its parent.’

This is quoted from Revolution from Above by Kerry Bolton

The first line made me think this would be an interesting thread, but the second made me realize it was made by a 18 to 20 year old idiot who wants career advice instead of talking about cool /sci/ stuff.

>>9025223
Could be, or I'm an 23 year old loser who sits in his room all day and want to get into interesting stuff.

>>9025216
By reading the fucking sticky, Jesus Christ!
How does everyone miss the sticky?
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But you're probably a dumbshit and will need to work from the high school material beforehand.

>>>/x/

>>9023900
Sry I'm a /sci/entist, I'm way too smart and important to engage in horoscopes

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Rate me, /sci/.

My favorite math is probably the IQ difference between blacks and whites.

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>>9023625
Really good.
>>9023629
Do you have any particular kind of blacks in mind?

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>>9023625
A+ image

>>9023234
>-dreaming about people and things you haven't yet seen, but end up seeing not long after

The mind is not purely a physical device.

>-disemboweled dead cows with cuts achievable only by laser surgery

Edgelord med students.

>-UFO sightings by trained aircraft pilots, including from the military
>-Roswell incident

Secret air force shit.

>>9023249
>The mind is not purely a physical device.
Are you suggesting there is a "soul" or some immaterial, metaphysical quality to our minds?
>Edgelord med students.
Spoiled teen agers who decide to miss parties, risk jail for stealing top notch medical apparatus, and drive to some deep south farm in the middle of nowhere only to prank redneck farmers seems as believable as aliens wanting anything to do with the cows in the first place.
>Secret air force shit.
Doesn't explain the "including from the military" part, neither the midget corpse found along the weather balloon in New Mexico.

>>9023263
Also, you didn't even mention the back from the dead part.

if you're so smart why did you design a thread that would get only one reply?

thunderf00t is ok but i'm pretty sure he's actually autistic

>>9023157
That guy is literally insane. Watch Sargon instead

>>9021487
>WHY ARE PEOPLE SO FUCKING STUPID WITH THEIR DENIAL OF GLOBAL WARMING
Because most people are able to read a climate "science" paper and notice that it has no predictive power and is just used as an excuse to establish carbon taxes

Also one hot day has nothing to do with global warming, please learn how science works before posting again

They're just like you OP, they can't even comprehend the idea that they might be wrong

moshi moshi, beito desu

Logic is 'correct' within the logical framework you're working in

If you change frameworks your old logic might not be correct anymore

>>9021350
So logic is correct if we assume that certain assumptions are correct? If we assume some of them are not correct then logic is not correct, or we need new logic?

>>9021361
Those are called axioms. Those things when we cannot deconstruct anymore and come to what we must accept as truths.

They are like the atoms of logic and reasoning.

>>9020402
>here
If you're not counting stats, then maybe not.

Not going to roast some pure mathfags today.

>>9020402
>good math job
>not academia
as a mathematician going back to industry with the tail between your legs means you failed

300k
starting

Brainlets will be brainlets, there's not much that can change that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-DXFXZr8s

>ITT: Alan Fedora thinks evolution is a relevant science and gets triggered at people who propose a very rational interpretation of evolution with a picture of a dumb irrelevant scientist who knew nothing about even the composition of cells
Let me guess. Gender is a spectrum too?