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| Meekl:
--- Quote from: GhostOfBetaTapes on October 09, 2009, 04:21:53 PM ---I was thinking, one day a while ago, does everyone see every object the same, or does each person see everything completely differently and their brains just edit the image so that it works with our brains? Then, I went on and thought "how would we know that we're not just being secretly controlled?" Then I read "1984". So, after that, I questioned mathematics and the possibility of infinity, and why, when every other number can be perfectly organized and displayed, why can't there be a rational number at the very end of it all? Finally, I just thought about the contradictions of religion and the quandary that religion has placed itself in by trying to show that religion is completely correct. --- End quote --- I have actually thought about something similar to this. I was thinking more along the lines of time and physics, and the personalities of others. All things come to an end sooner or later right? Well then how can there be an eternity? And if "What comes up must come down" what about the things in space? When, where and why will they come down? And for that matter, there is no down in space. And, what if everyone I know turns out to be some kind of AI? Meekl maded his own head splode. --- Quote from: A.R.C. on October 09, 2009, 05:05:50 PM ---Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics which studies the behavior of certain dynamical systems that may be highly sensitive to initial conditions. This sensitivity is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect. As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of error, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. That is, tiny differences in the starting state of the system can lead to enormous differences in the final state of the system even over fairly small timescales. This gives the impression that the system is behaving randomly. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully determined by their initial conditions with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos. Chaotic behavior is also observed in natural systems, such as weather. This may be explained by brown townysis of a chaotic mathematical model which represents such a system. Quantum chaos investigates the relationship between chaos and quantum mechanics. [/Ian Malcolm] Hurp Derp Wikipedia --- End quote --- Also this. I knew the butterfly effect in 4th grade. Meekl is slowly being crushed by his ever-growing intellect, and is slowly being driven mad by these questions. |
| A.R.C.:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 09, 2009, 05:07:17 PM ---The question as to whether people all see the 'same' colors has been around forever. I thought about it before I was 6, and I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't really matter. An object that's blue might not be 'blue' for another person, but we both see it as what we have defined as blue. --- End quote --- Indeed. |
| MtnDew:
--- Quote from: Atomshock on October 09, 2009, 04:44:25 PM ---test What color is this? What color is this? What color is this? What color is this? --- End quote --- You can't test it that way. In fact, you can't test it at all. 2nd page :( |
| Chrono:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 09, 2009, 05:07:17 PM ---The question as to whether people all see the 'same' colors has been around forever. I thought about it before I was 6, and I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't really matter. An object that's blue might not be 'blue' for another person, but we both see it as what we have defined as blue. --- End quote --- This is why I stopped thinking about it. But I still can't get over what just nothing would be. |
| Tokerovin:
--- Quote from: Atomshock on October 09, 2009, 04:44:25 PM ---test What color is this? What color is this? What color is this? What color is this? --- End quote --- Illegitimate - The color we see as "red" still appears red, though it may appear as a different "red" to you. Lol'd tho. |
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