consciousness emerges from self reference.
Prove me wrong
In addition, physicality emerges from self reference. Physicality emerges immediately. Consciousness technically does too, but doesn't emerge in any meaningful way unless intelligent mechanisms create meta-physicality about the current physical environment.
You're retarded.
Provide and proof at all that you are right.
>>8644168
literally just think about it for a minute
theres literally no other solution. All other attempts end up contradicting themselves at points or not fully explaining everything, or both.
Are there any other substances that help u focus other than coffee, amphetamine and omega 3 fish oil ?
>>8644112
Just eat as many variety of mushrooms you can and hope it does something?
No need for research
the warmth of god in your heart
nicotine, -afinils, anxiolytics/gabaergics if youre naturally anxious
but for me the absolute best thing was low dose opiates, nothing else has come close. people tend to associate them with lazing around and nodding out, but they actually provide a really clean energy and focus at lower dosages
so if quantum mechanics makes it that we can't know the position and velocity perfectly for a particle, why is it that we can when we're dealing with a shitload of them AKA us?
you are a bunch of these heisenberg/fermi/pauli rule ridden balls yet you are able to utilize classical mechanics to determine your trajectory.
where does it stop working and why the disparity?
The uncertainties are pretty fucken tiny compared to our scale so they basically average out when you're dealing with macroscopic objects.
It's similar to why your speedometer doesn't account for relativistic effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_limit
None of our functions are based on single QM events.
>>8643995
What do you mean tiny though? If you cant tell position perfectly without losing velocity then how does scale matter? Youd judt have more samples of the same issue no?
I lightly hit my head and had photo-sensitivity and mild nausea/vertigo but otherwise was fine and then a couple of months later, I woke up and suddenly had lots of visual snow, stripes in vision, after images, and other visual oddities as well as what feels like a pressure in my forehead/behind eyes sometimes and mild headaches. After going to a doctor for a CT, MRI and blood tests, apparently nothing is physically wrong with my brain at all and I appear perfectly healthy. Does anyone else have this problem?
>>8643881
I'm afraid you're suffering from autism.
>>8643881
Autism?
No I don't have that problem.
just overall better scientists than other races?
>>8643465
Genetic predilection toward higher intelligence.
they're not really- they just give themselves nobel prizes to keep that illusion up
>>8643468
only verbal intelligence.
http://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf
>trees don't die of the old age
>the oldest tree is only 4,800 years old
What happened to all the trees?
Something is bound to happen. Even if humans didn't die of old age I would hugely doubt that there would be many left after 4800 years.
fire happened
Trees can still die of disease, thirst, nutrient deficiencies, predation, physical damage, fire, etc. You can kill a tree by girdling it (peeling the bark off I'm a ring,) because it destroys the pathway of the phloem. Trees aren't invincible.
>Long March 934 coming in 2021: 66,000kg to GTO, 140,000kg LEO.
Didn't they hear that old saying, "don't count your chickens before they hatch"?
These projects are almost never on time, and by 2021 Musk may already have an empire of reusable heavies.
>>8642922
>140 tons to LEO
who fucking cares? Elon is making a 350~500 ton to LEO rocket while you chinks are more worried about some sand patches in the sea
>>8642922
>EVER believing Chinese claims
daily reminder that their shit tier space station is falling out of orbit and they have admitted that they can't do anything about it
>We need more women in science
>But we're never going to force Emmy Noether into world recognition as an example to inspire said women
Why do the pro-diversity people in science bite the hand that feeds them? Is it because Noether's Theorem is too hard for brainlets to understand? I had never heard of her until my 3rd year as a physics undergrad.
Don't you have work to do
>>8642571
>I had never heard of her until my 3rd year as a physics undergrad.
>Calls others brainlets
[math] \mathcal { W } \varepsilon \omega [/math]
[math] \varepsilon [/math]
[math] \omega [/math]
>>8642586
more than one type of brainlet
Fellow anons, I have a dream. A dream in which you and me speak the same language.One that is not the meme language we are currently speaking.It is known that it is the most spoken language as a 2nd tongue.But we need something way edgier. Could you imagine if we all spoke latin,like it should have been in the first place. I'm from Argentina, so my native language is Spanish. I do think it fulfills the 2 most important things for a language.1.Sounds Edgy ,2. Latin-derived ,3.Conservative (In the sense of not creating new words all the time out of nothing) .I like it ,but I know Americans only associate Spanish with mexicans so they might not want to learn it. What do you propose?
So like Esperanto?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
Here's a list of constructed languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages
Latin
>>8642535
Instant, automatic translation seems like it is getting very close to being viable.
A square bottomed pyramid is placed inside a sphere. What is the ratio of the volumes, assuming that the pyramid has the highest volume possible?
I enjoyed this one. Thought I'd share it here.
>>8642320
Wasnt as hard as I thought it would be
>>8642320
>square bottomed pyramid
That is just called a quadrilateral pyramid.
>>8642320
>how to find function maximums
So while pondering infinite energy sources it dawned on me that I wasn't creative enough think of any practical uses for theoretically infinite sources.
It's easy to say you would drop energy bills to strictly maintenance fees but that's boring.
Operating under the assumption that this is electrical energy what would /sci/ do with an infinite energy source?
Of course in practice there is likely no such thing, but it serves as a fun thought experiment.
>>8641679
>(((what could you possibly gain from not having to pay an electric bill)))
>>8641679
Desalination and hydroponics could be practically costless in such a situation, changing geopolitics. Cargo ships would see a cut in their transporting costs, meaning price drops throughout the world, until demand is met.
>>8641686
Cargo ships are also one of the biggest sources of pollutants, so, potentially, that situation would be improved as well.
did atomic technology really lead us to any progress?
Nuke power sourses is only way to explore outer solar system
>>8641559
Pic related is a counterexample to that
We haven't got there yet because everyone's pussy about nuclear.
Taking a GIS class this semester and want to get myself a good book to study with cause the teacher is shit
Any recommendation?
I was looking at "GIS for dummies". Are "...for dummies" books usually good?
>>8641269
Was considering this one too, more recent but like 3 times the price of the other
https://www.amazon.ca/Getting-Know-ArcGIS-Michael-Law/dp/1589483820/ref=pd_sim_14_2/159-0037280-8877419?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JY8MAXDP69TG4Y618KXE
Why do you need a textbook to use Google?
>>8641281
I like reading things on physical format rather than digital. Reading notes on a computer I get distracted and start browsing other shit
What area of physics can I study time? Is it a part of astrophysics or quantum physics? Pic unrelated
All of them.
>>8640046
Start with relativity.
>>8640046
Special Relativity and General Relativity
>The universe is a closed system, and it will not expand forever.
>Eventually it will collapse into black holes, and there will be a new singularity.
>Given that it is a closed system, the following big bang will produce exactly the same universe down to your current brain chemistry
>Your parents will always meet
>You will always be born, just as you always have
If this is true, how does it make you feel? Nietszche believed that most men would not be able to hand it, but I believe that his philosophical ideas based on ancient knowledge will eventually be a leading theory on the fate, and past, of the universe. Free will is an illusion, but it is also just a mind game we play with ourselves. We are just like the motion of the cosmos, revolving through our life. Will you fight to make this eternal life of yours the best it can be? Will you find love that is truly eternal?
>Given that it is a closed system, the following big bang will produce exactly the same universe down to your current brain chemistry
I need this part explained to me.
>>8639824
>The universe is a closed system, and it will not expand forever.
Your entire argument rests on this being true and we don't know if it is.
>>8639828
there is as much evidence pointing towards a Big Crunch/Bounce as to a Big Freeze. The universe has gone through different rates of expansion, and you should rule out that it will eventually collapse, or that there is no boundary and eventually the matter gets trapped in black holes that then, (after an unimaginably long time) come together. Do you deny that the universe is a closed system, though? This I actually want to know if it makes sense.