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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
Don't you see the difference between "science has not addressed this" and "this is not according to any known physical laws"? The second says that something happens different from what science says. The first says only that science doesn't say anything. That's why I suggested your wording was careless. No, I do not have a problem with this concept. Is conveys my meaning quite clearly. I am unclear as to how you are recieving it.They suggest that there is much we do not know and that we should have a look. This is one approach that may bare fruit.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
The laws of physics do not recognize the force of me. My physical body though, must obey them so I must succumb to them in that context.
I affect the world around me on a daily basis in some very unique and unpredictable ways. I am a force that does things at will and in many ways not according to any known physical laws. In fact it can be said that the force that is “us” generates it’s own set of changing laws called beliefs. The force that is us succumbs to these laws both by coercion of other similar forces and our choice. By obeying these laws we in turn can have a profound and unpredictable effect on the physical world. In effect, our changing Laws can become a force and in turn, affect the physical world in unpredictable ways according to the laws of physics. In addition to this we as individual forces can choose to act against the very laws we generate. Perhaps thinking of us in terms of an energy force will allow science to have a better glimpse at that which is “us”. I find this perspective interesting and would like to see it explored. We speak of forces in science all the time that we can only identify by the evidence they leave behind. What big leap is required to consider my suggestion?
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
Perhaps you would care to give us an example of how this can affect the physical? You do it every time you post.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
There is a element of randomness in the universe which prevades reality on a level that escapes sciences ability to predict. But there is also a element of order and predictabilty which allows for matter and energy to go from entrophy to order and order to entrophy. The ultimate recycler of the most sublime. We only know our own definitions. Order and entropy are simply a matter of our perspective.
Everything that exist is a part of a whole. The brain, the mind, the iron in your redblood cells, the glucose in your body, the plants that produced it, the light from the sun. How gestalt of you. The mind? what is "the mind"? Sing with me now...."One of these things is not like the others". lolTrue to the above statement person is just a part of the human race. All of it a cascade of phenomenon that allow for existance of something rather than nothing. How can one say that they are divorce of this system. Wow.....I never said anything was divorced. You perhaps percieve it this way. This is only the case if one is under the belief that the scientific knowledge we have learned explains everything. That is a faith based assumption.
It is impossible to step outside of the mosaic of what the cosmos is composed of.
Cosmos by what definition and how do you know this?
You are but a product of those forces, and the choices you make, your freewill, your soul, your mind a natural property of the universe. Call it God, call it nature. We ultimately must be recycled back into this system from whence we came. Perspective is everything. You have this one. We are drifting here and this also falls into belief as your statements do butfor you and some others I will share a piece of mine. I do not have a "soul" I am "soul" mind and free will are just aspects or "properties" of me. As to weather or not we get recycled....ultimately...who knows.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
Suppose, of my own free will, I decide to do something. To be specific, suppose I decide to eat an apple. As a consequence of my eating that apple, various physical things happen. In principle, these actions can be described in terms of the motion of atoms. When you say "this is not according to any known physical laws" you seem to be saying that the motion of atoms violates physical laws. Based on other things you have posted in this thread, I suspect that isn't what you mean. Rather, I think you wanted to say that people seem to act with free will, and science doesn't appear to have a good way of accounting for this. Science does painfully lack the ability to prove it's source. As I said before....we talk about forces all the time and the only evidence they exist are the tracks they leave.Your decissions are not in any way physically identifyable accept for the evidence they leave behind in the physical. You can make many decissions that no one will ever be aware of. We all do. You may act a certain way based on decissions you make, yet based on the actions we cannot necessarily discern the reasons or properties that propogated the application of the force that is you in such a physical way. This does require a different perspective. If you are under the assumption that what we know scientificly defines all that is, you have limited yourself. I do not wish to limit myself this way. My idea may be way off but as I said I believe it is worth consideration.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
I don't really see why it matters or what impications it has. Why is it so interesting to you?
Lets say that we DO affect the physical independent of the laws of physics, what's next to discuss? Here's an example, lemme know if I'm gettin what you're saying.
The laws of physics don't 'recognize' what the baseball you're holding is going to do because you decide on your own accord what parameters would be inputed into any prediction physics could make about where the ball will go. The 'force of you' decides where the ball is going to go and the laws of physics don't recognize that force. Am I understanding you correctly? If so, then so what? From each new perspective things may be learned. How this might be applied and in what context I have not thunk on it. This seems to be more than enough for people to deal with.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
What does "prove it's source" mean? And why is it painful. I'm having difficulty working out what it is you are trying to say. We are the source for science. We define it. It is hardly some imperial yardstick. I suspect you have a different view.
That seems to suggest a misunderstanding. "Force" is a technical term in physics. It is defined in terms of the effect of the force. Your use of "the only evidence" misplaced. There could be no better evidence of a force. Yes this is the point. So why not a similar view of us? Give me reasons.
I spend part of my time studying human cognition, and I do think outside the box - so far outside that cognitive scientists are likely to conclude that I am obviously wrong. There are various groups within cognitive science, with different ideas as to how to explain cognition. You seem to fit with those known as "mysterians". The mysterians are those who want to take quite mundane things, and make a mystery out of them. If you want to be a mysterian, that's your choice. But it is silly to use your choice as an argument against science. Nobody is claiming that science has the answer to everything. Nobody is currently claiming that science has explained human cognition. I never suggested the common place is mysterious. You seem to be percieving it as such. You did not mean mysterious as in "we do not know" but more with the trivial disdain of "don't bore me with your meaningless prattle". You are coming to my idea with preconceptions. You have or are atempting to put me in a box I refuse to go in. I suggested that the common place is so common that we may have overlooked it.
I don't limit myself, at least not in that way. Most scientists are open to new discoveries. So both our heads do not get too big. We are both human and prone to bias. I know I am. Now I know you could not have possibly suggested that you or scientists are somehow above or imune to this.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
Yes we define science. We could even be said to invent it. But we invent it to deal with what we find in reality, so that make reality the primary source. It is all a matter of perspective my friend. You seem to hold science with much more esteem then the tool you profess it to be. As if the "divine reality" is the source for science. As if science is serving some higher purpose. One of our biggest mistakes is when we put things on pedestals. Your inference smells much more like a religious belief to me.
I'm not sure of your point there. Science, as an institution, could be considered a kind of epistemic empire, and science is its own yardstick. Yes, and I am the most handsome man in the world. You do not need to ask how or why I know this do you.
Nobody has come up with a good way of using us as part of a precise technical definition. There is no such thing as a precise technical definition. Definitions are within accepted parameters within a context.perception is everything You started this thread. When asked for examples, you gave common place ones. That you made a thread of them, suggests that you find a mystery there. You are coming to my idea with preconceptions.
No. I am coming to your idea, trying to work out what you think warrants a discussion topic. I believe that means you are weighing my idea against your reality. We are both human and prone to bias.
Granted. But that does not help me understand what it is that you are trying to discuss. I have been aware that you understand my forums meaning from before I began it. You are also aware that this discussion between you and I is at an impass. You will not cross it and neither will I.You are either engadging me for another purpose or you are arguing your beliefs -Imho And in truth to this sight we have begun to drift off topicplease moderate us.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
Evidence for us is everywhere. Mundane
As mundane as old bones in a layer of rocks. In fact bones have far less to tell us. We looked at them anyway and had to see them in a different perspective to see anything of value. Now we know they tell us a story. A fresh look at the old us. Why the rejection? I am thinking.......If we are indeed a force with purpose then it opens a whole new world to explore. The idea will live or die with or without you. I just thought it was worth sharing and exploring. The 2 of you don't. There is no arguement.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
I think the essential answer to your question is we don't know if the laws of physics don't recognise the (cringe)"force" of you. Correct. My attempt was to speak of us as a force for that reason. To try and bridge the void if you will. As I said, science is painfully at a loss to define it's source.
We also haven't developed complexity theory to the level required to handle the kind of self-regulating (and defining) information behemoth that is the human mind. Even if we did it is like taking a ruler to measure how sexually atractive the opposite sex is. You may get results but they won't mean much.
Either way, I can plug any action you perform into Elementary Mechanics and predict what will happen, as such this doesn't present a giant hole in physical theories. Correct. Any physical action. I never said that. I said there is a factor of independance and we are it. I have chosen to describe us as a force. What better aproach for science?
All that is missing is a correct understanding of the process which turned certain inputs in your environment into "throw the ball". Or "why throw the ball"Should the ball be thrown now? My arm is hurting so I won't throw it so hard. I am embarrassed to throw the ball under these conditions. or a myriad of things that make up each individuals choices. The self evaluation of the choices made and how this adds up in the big picture if one believe in one or cares to consider it. This is what will be missing. Of course we may some day acheive this or a representation of this.I think it is a lot simpler and more rewarding to just have a child.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
When discussing science it is best to drop certain emotive phrases. "Painfully at a loss" implies something which isn't the case. As if we're desperate to find a scientific explanation but just can't, there by exposing some flaw in science. It would be better to say the much more bland "We don't know yet" Since science is a human thing and subject to all our faults and prejudices. It will never be any more or less falible than we are.Science is flawed because it's source is. That is a truth we cannot escape. To suggest otherwise would imply a BELIEF that science is infalible. It begs the question how can something infalible come from a falible source but that is a whole other topic. Now I shall use your phrase in the following context. The scientific comunity recognises that the scientific method was invented by humans.All observations are made by humans. All conclusions are arrived at by humans. We are the judge of the validity and value of all that is science. Now when asking people to use science to define it's source. The answer is....We simply don't know yet. Then these conclusions are all derived from a source that is not known yet?Remember that science is a "thought process" before you bite into this one. I will stand by my quote. Science is painfully at a loss to prove it's source. Since it is of the people, by the people and for the people. My topic is after all about us. Hence the reason for the topic.
You don't know that. For all intensive purposes we might obtain a fully deterministic model of consciousness. If I understood you right- your telling me we might obtain a model of something we have no definition for, using a method based on a source that is undetermined?This is where I personally will allways have problems discussing science. I recognise it for the tool it is. I am not so sure some others do. Force is a poor word choice as force is already defined as the change of momentum over time. A better word would be "causal agent" or something similar. I have a problem with this definition of force since we speak of the force of gravity and electomagnetic forces. This would seem a misuse of the word by this definition. However it is precisely how I would like to use it.Yes a different perspective is taken there even though force is used freely both ways even by physicists. It's a human thing I would gladly accept something that would appear more palitable to people. A causal agent may be more palatable but leaves much to be desired. The human language is at a loss here without using spiritual terms and If we go there we might as well stick with force. If someone has a better idea I would welcome it if it helps people to at least consider my topic. I would like to see science look at the force of us just like it looks at the other forces it deals with. A way to describe something we can only detect by the effects it leaves behind. We do not speak of gravity or electromagnetism as causal agents. We call them forces. Just thinkin out loud. You seem convinced that the human mind can't be understood completely by science, where as this is may not be case. Considering that science is only one way to look at things and only an aspect of us it will only give us one kind of perspective. Science has no meaning. We give science meaning. We use meaning to understand ourselves. Science is not that tool. So there is no doubt in my mind.
For now all we can say is that science has not advanced to the point where it can model the human mind, if it is even capable of doing so. When you say "science" you are reffering to an aspect of us of course. You do realise that don't you? It is not sepparate. So this suggests the possibility of using one aspect us to invent a complete model of us.Then we would have a complete model of one aspect of us. "just thinking out loud"
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
This is not a persuasive argument. Science is a joint effort, with scientists checking each other's results. The cooperation and mutual checking involved should make science far less subject to faults than are individual scientists. And our experience is consistent with this. How wonderful for those of you who agree with each other.we all have our opinions. This is not a persuasive argument.
You keep using that word "source", but you have never explained what you mean. My context is clear. My position is clear. But for you That would be the "you" you so conveniently keep refering to.It's allways all about "you", isn't it....lol No, spiritual terms only confuse the issues. Scientific terminology has the advantage of precision. When using it, we at least know what we are talking about. That's far better than what happens when spiritual terms are used. Yes that was my point. Note I have requested suggestions for a better description. However....nothing in science is precise. Everything is within acceptable tolerances. Precise is only a matter of perspective.
No, it isn't a thought process. It is al empirical project. It involves much interaction with the world. So for your and my clarification we will try:Scientific method is a thought process derived by "you's" and used by many "you's" to establish facts and general laws concerning the physical world through observation and testing by "you's" The results which are agreed upon by a majority of "you's" before being accepted as some sort of "empirical fact" by "you's" under the context of the thought process "scientific method" which "you's" invented. That was kinda fun Anywho if the term "you" I have used does not work for "you" in this context I have established please feel free to offer reasonable alternatives. I am open to suggestions. Sure, scientists use thought, I believe people or more in our established context "you's" use thought.
but they use a whole lot more. According to who?Am I understanding you correctly? Sounds like self determined superiority to me This is the problem with the idealistic conception of science. It involves all these little "you's" Since science is a human thing and subject to all our faults and prejudices. It will never be any more or less falible than we are.
on Goku should have worded that as "rate of change of momentum with respect to time" And both the force of gravity and electromagnetic forces are defined as just that. Perhaps you are a bit rusty on your physics. I will plug your definition into your senctence.Quote "And both the [rate of change of momentum with respect to time] of [rate of change of momentum with respect to time]and [rate of change of momentum with respect to time][rate of change of momentum with respect to time]'s are defined as just that." Yes, I see now how this clears things up. Hence my use of the word force Sorry to disagree, but science gives us many perspectives. This is a common mistake. We give us perspective. science is just a tool. the one described above.Unless you are suggesting that science is somehow above/beyond or apart from us and affects us in some independant way. Help me out here. Science gives us a great deal of meaning.
Science has no meaning. It deals with "facts"We bring meaning to anything within the context of our established "you" Viscious little circle aint it?
And we use science to understand ourselves. Our physical selves. What about the "you"? My idea is an attempt.To see it you must change your perspective This message has been edited by 2ice_baked_taters, 03-14-2006 02:13 AM This message has been edited by 2ice_baked_taters, 03-14-2006 02:20 AM This message has been edited by 2ice_baked_taters, 03-14-2006 02:22 AM
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
And..??? so...??? What am I to gather from this statement? You call your shoes taters or shoes? Physics is a science of definitions. One can not make up they're own definition and expect to be taken seriously. Defined by who?Show me gravity. I wanna see it. Better yet define it. NRW tried that. I pointed out the problem that occurs. The same occurs when we try to describe the "force" that is us The mind is the illusion of a thinker behind the thought or self that is the result of electrical activity and sensorium of the nuerological systems in concious sentient organisms. It is totally dependant on that system that consists in part of protiens, glucose, as well as the force of electromagnitism and the other forces of nature that manifests reality. Is this your opinion?
Bullshit. Dont try and do a Texas backstep on this. You are composed of atoms. The atoms that make up the thing you think is you are occupying space on this planet, which is orbiting a star that supplys the energy and light that allows you to exist. Without those things there would be no YOU and hence no mind, soul, or what ever you care to call it. So this is your belief?Surely you are not professing to know this as fact. Houston...we have a problem And on a truly human level.....relax Author no need to get all bent. No topic is harder to discuss than this except the higher power thing. This message has been edited by 2ice_baked_taters, 03-14-2006 03:17 AM
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
you seem to have a lot to learn... We all do. Perhaps I will learn something from you.
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2ice_baked_taters Member (Idle past 5882 days) Posts: 566 From: Boulder Junction WI. Joined: |
I don't know if the human mind can be totally understood by science. However, I am sure that being able to reproduce the workings of the mind artifically might be possible. We might not understand WHY a decision making algorythem becomes 'intellgent' and 'self aware'.. but I would not be surprised if we could mimic it artifically. We might never do so. If we can't.. that is just a lack of our cleverness. Clever is one matter....wise is another.I must say to do so would open up a bigger can of worms that we need. What I do find distubing personally is the research into living computers. Using actual neural neworks. The search for knowledge is great but we do so blindly without wisdom. It is a bit disconcerting. I have allways wondered why we are working so hard to artificially recreate ourselves when we can have children and it is much more rewarding.....the initial process ain't bad either.
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