What's the most unscientific thing you believe to be true?

OP sucking dicks daily

>>8589912
Things based of branches of philosophy.
Also that Misato is best girl.

>>8589912

Supernatural stuff.

Fungi are ancient aliens and true masters of the Earth. They are capable of mind-reading and weak mind-control and have been using this for millennia to manipulate the course of human race development for own profit and well-being.
I'm totally serious on this.

>>8589912
I love my wife

>>8589912
That reality is everything ever

>>8589933
Fungi are one of the most important things in the ecosystem. You lost me with mind control though

the Earth is flat

>>8589966
Ever seen a ship disappear into the horizon?

Mathematics is a discovery and not an invention

>>8589970
Is there any meaningful difference?

>>8589912
psychology

>>8589976
It's all the difference in the world

>>8589912

Hell is real

>>8589979
4u

>>8589912
strings theory

>>8589912
Evolution

anthropomorphic climate change

>>8589961
Incorrect. Plant/algae doing photosynthesis in oceans is the most important thing.

>>8589912
>at /sci/
>supposed to be serious discussion
>everyone just memeing and being a funny-boi

So why don't mods just give bans to these comedians?

I'll contribute:
>That there are many universes besides our own, and they each work differently than our own, so the "natural laws" we find in our universe are just subjective to us and there's nothing essential or fundamental in them
>That humans must have some amount of free will, otherwise life just feels so strange

>>8589912
I'm halfway convinced aliens are about, but they aren't really doing anything and don't much matter. The idea that their apparent technology is possible at all gives me hope for the future, however.

love is important
universal human rights are valuable
freedom is overrated

infinitesimals

>>8589961
Cordyceps fungus.

god

>>8589977
Psych gets a bad wrap. All of medicine is laced with unscience that justworks(tm).
>I'm going to count your breaths by hand and hope you don't notice
>Let's take a look at this picture and eyeball a conclusion
>You'll recover in 6-8 weeks, but only if you really want it
>Sometimes this pill works, if it doesn't we'll try another one
>This pill just has sugar in it, but it makes the other pill stronger. No idea why

>>8590054
>at /sci/
>expecting a serious discussion without memes

The second statement is true because life actually feels really strange so freewill doesn't exist.

>>8589912
I don't personally believe it, but lots of people believe in a algebraic field called "Reals", which are clearly unscientific.

>>8590219
wildberger pls go

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>>8589912
meme magic

its some collective quantum physics manipulation of reality itself

say many ppl meme for something it fuking happens

>>8590219
Hello papa wild, when are you going to disprove the Riemann hypothesis for us? i'm waiting for that delicious proof.

>>8590266
Easy m8, once you get rid of R and C and numbers over 10^300 the proof is trivial

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>>8589934
cute

>>8589918
All of science is based on philosophical inquiry.

>>8589933
Do you believe the bibels forbidden fruit was a fly agaric?

Memories can get passed on through gene expression and this manifests itself on a mass scale in a form of collective unconsciousness.

>>8589918
Rei is definitely best girl.

>>8589918
>alcoholic pedo slob with daddy issues
All NGE girls a shit

>>8589912
Extracorporeal entities

I know it's bullshit, but I believe it

>>8591435
Rei looks like a sock

Global warming

>>8591483
you whore

>>8589961
Check out behavioural modification in a number of micro-organisms. Even some schizophrenia has been suggested to have a viral origin.

>>8589912
consciousness

We live in a field of subtle energy which gives life to everything.

I don't need a herpes test.

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>>8591431
>>8591642
Neat

>>8589912
>believe to be true
Believing anything to be true
is as unscientific AF, retard

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>>8589912
Probably the power of the mind (as in willing things to happen)

Plato's forms.

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

math

>>8589912
You're able to increase your intelligence. Maybe through some method involving making yourself more curious and spending more time each day studying to satiate that curiosity or something. Not sure.

AI will never happen using currently available types of semiconductor.

Sentience isn't a function of complexity.

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>>8592158
Any proofs?

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>>8591660
>question is about unscientific things
>he points out it's unscientific
einstein

>>8592174
Nope, because this >>8592233

>>8589912
eternal recurrence

>>8589918
FUCK OFF CUNT! Asuka masterace eliminate der untermensch!

>>8592254
K.
Just wondered if there were because the topic is interesting.

Holocaust didn't happen but I wish it happened again.

>>8590242
When Donald Trump was elected, I gave my life up to the glory of meme magic.

>>8589912

Some form of reincarnation.

>>8589912
I could sill get a girlfriend at some point

RNA self replication

>>8589912
Meme magic is totally a real thing and Kek actually exists

>>8589912
I believe in an objective truth. Silly right?

>>8594145
Science is kinda pointless if there is no objective truth

>>8589912
Tulpas.

>>8592091
Underrated

>>8594152
Silly right?

>>8594152
Uh no, it just needs to be valid to humans, doesn't have to be "really" valid.

I have a chance.

>>8594152
There is no objective truth. Proof: measure the length of your table exactly.

tl;dr everything in science is approximation

>>8594492
There is an objective truth. You simply cannot measure it. All your imperfect measurements are part of it.

>>8594654
Whatever helps you sleep at night

The "Great Filter" is economics. It never is cost-effective enough to scrounge up enough money and labor to build an interstellar space ship, and then resources decline and your species deindustrializes or goes extinct. The universe is littered with the tombs of penny-pinching species that fell victim to the tyranny of small decisions.

>>8594654
If we cannot measure it, can we imply it from our faulty measurements? I would suggest not. Which only leaves perceiving it, which does not meet the criteria of science. Therefore, as scientists we can not say with certainty that objective truth exists.

"Philosophise with him, Bill."

>>8590242
This

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I care.

>>8589912
UFOs are alien craft and they abduct people for reproductive medical experiments.

>>8595594
The objective truth is not implied by measurement but deduced from logic.

Scientists don't assert objectivity, philosophers do.

>>8589912
Empiricism

Or maybe that other minds exist. One of the two.

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>>8589970
This is the holy pinnacle of mental retardation and bigotry.

>Oh wait my arbitrary HLL concept thinking recognises this a little bit
>It is absolute truth and not my high form interpretation

You're everything that's wrong with science, good job. This is exactly why people thought we were the center of the universe. Our fucking ego.

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>>8595863
I have absolutely no idea what you're projecting right now but it has nothing to do with my post

Cthulhu exists

Astrology is ultimate binding force of the universe.

>>8595742
Science does not accept perception as reliable, yet is itself founded on intellectual premises which ultimately all find their source in human perception. Philosophy can never be objective. Some philosophers will disagree.

"All we are is dust in the wind, dude."

>>8589912
That with enough time and effort, you can achieve most things.

>>8589968
Yes, very sad

That autism is actually beneficial to the human race.

Some types of pseudoscience and supernatural stuff.

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>>8596010
wat

>>8589912
>Principle of locality is absolute shit and we will find the key to teletransportation

>We overestimate the effect of our decisions in what happen us in life, the complexity of events in universe its overwhelmingly high for our simple minds to understand so we end up just being in a random walk. We could take random decisions and end up even better than with "rational planning"

Every single event and process in our universe can be accurately modelled mathematically

I honestly believe ESP is real and some people have it

>>8589912
Memetics
Everything is a discovery and not an invention

>>8589912
Contrast is necessary for our reality to exist. Everything can be broken down into two extremes. Thing vs nothing. Life vs non-life. Existence vs non-existence. Yin and Yang. Black and white. Positive and negative. Up and down. 0 and 1. It's all the same shit.

>>8594107
Why do you think it's unscientific?

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>>8590242
That's retarded. There's no way mind over matter can be true. R-rIght?

>>8589912
Meme magic
/thread.

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>>8594122
I also unironically believe in Him. Wtf is going on?
t. physicist

I believe in god.

>>8589933
yeah, that's some unscientific fuckery right there.

>>8594745
Thanks for giving me a new theory. Though how do you think species that go beyond this Great Filter operate? Luck of the draw, or turning into a Banks-style post-scarcity society?

>>8589912
luck

Karma. Literally you earn what you sew.

>>8590011
>anthropomorphic
Climate change is my OC do not steal

>>8589912
white people are superior to all other races and the only way to civilize/intellectualize others is to mix some white into them. Also secretly all races want to be whiteish

>>8597163
Okay, that decides it. Humans are slightly magical, and when we all believe something strongly enough it becomes true. Like the orks of 40k.

>>8589912
The existence of God and an afterlife, alongside demons, angels, and ghosts.

>>8596696
10/10 shitposting I would give you an award if I had one

An undiscovered species of upright walking ape lives in the forests of North America

The pyramids are older than we think

I believe it because I don't believe in free will or god or meaning so let me have this one at least

>>8597098
Because that's not how it fucking works you fucking nerd

t. Guy studying math

>>8590204
>Psych gets a bad wrap. All of medicine is laced with unscience that justworks(tm).

The reasons that medicine has "justworks" in it is because it does work.
It's difficult to draw similarities between medicine and more "theoretical" studies such as physics or math because medicine is more of an industrial science. Discoveries in medicine have one goal: to better people's lives (and pad the pockets of CEO's)

A physician is not a scientist, he's a worker who knows a bit about physiology, pathology, pharmaceuticals and the basics of biochemistry.

Friday the 13th is unlucky.

>>8589933
Super Mario

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>>8597564

How old do we think they are and why?

>>8597482
>sew
KEK

>>8591435
Well, that's right, Rei is best girl. If you take awau misato, that is. And Misato is actually best girl, if you take away asuka, that is.

>>8589912
niggers are not the same species as the rest of us

>>8594745
Because the 1400's were just a meme, right.

>>8589912

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>>8589912
Blacks are less capable than Whites, and it has something to do with genetics.

>>8589912
Climate Change is anthropogenic in nature despite all the blatant proof against it.

I just wanna fit in with the cool kids...

>>8597095
Mind and matter?