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Eggman
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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:05 am Post subject: science rules! |
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| i love science! |
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donkey
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me too, what kind of science do you like?
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Landaree
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| I love the foundations of science. |
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khelben1979
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Scientists are cool.
The Boinc projects is one of those things which I myself and others can contribute to, without basically knowing anything about what it is or what it does, still it helps the scientists. |
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Fnord
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"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." -- Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx "Max" Planck, German physicist, founder of quantum theory, and one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century, quoted from "A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers", c. 1949.
When all the conspiracy theories have finally died from embarrassment and shame, only Science in all its purest glory will remain.
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twoshots
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For every scientific truth, there's a cargo cult that doesn't get it but won't be deterred.
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Eggman
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| Quatum physics never made me frown |
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chever
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Yeah me too
Though I'm not sure computer science really counts as a 'science'. (It's really more like a branch of math.)
Biology, economics and electrical engineering definitely rule though. Chemistry, too, but I don't know so much about it.
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geniuskid
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Science is great but there's lots it can't explain, like metaphysical stuff. We need to delve into the depths of our own minds to figure that sort of thing out.
| chever wrote: | | Though I'm not sure computer science really counts as a 'science'. (It's really more like a branch of math.) |
It's more like engineering. |
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carturo222
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| There is no such thing as metaphysical stuff. The contents of our minds are emergent phenomena that biochemistry is fully able to explain. |
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Phagocyte
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I totally agree. I'm particularly fond of biology and mathematics.
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chever
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| geniuskid wrote: | | chever wrote: | | Though I'm not sure computer science really counts as a 'science'. (It's really more like a branch of math.) |
It's more like engineering. |
Computer engineering is more like engineering. But computer science is not computer engineering.
| carturo222 wrote: | | There is no such thing as metaphysical stuff. The contents of our minds are emergent phenomena that biochemistry is fully able to explain. |
LOL
What are the units 'anger' or 'green' are measured in?
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carturo222
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Anger is regulated by hormones and transmissors in our lymbic system.
Green is a fabrication of our brain from the reaction that a specific subset of retina cells have to a specific wavelength of light. |
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chever
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| carturo222 wrote: | Anger is regulated by hormones and transmissors in our lymbic system.
Green is a fabrication of our brain from the reaction that a specific subset of retina cells have to a specific wavelength of light. |
That's like saying the configuration of electrical charges in computer memory that represents the number 42 is the number 42 ... it's an extremely shallow (and incorrect) interpretation.
Until someone can slap units on things like 'anger', 'green' (and I don't mean wavelength), 'confusion', etc., I will continue to LOL at physicalism.
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