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Author Topic:   Do we affect the" physical " indepentent of the laws of physics
2ice_baked_taters
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Message 125 of 148 (309990)
05-07-2006 1:42 PM
Reply to: Message 124 by Percy
05-06-2006 3:55 PM


Re: Definition of Force
It feels to me like you're confounding phychological force, as in "force of his personality", with physical force.
This is the entire point.
Psychology is the branch of science for the type of force you're talking about, not physics.
Are you saying the the nature of the animal psychology deals with is not physical?
We do have a nasty habit of compartmentalizing our thinking. We often learn much about something when looking at it from another point of view. It allows us to see things that we were previously blind to.
As I have asked before. I am curious why the resistance. Most of you are bright enough to see the correlation. I know you understand it is worth looking into. Therefore, motivations I have observed are as I guessed long ago when first coming here. No matter.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 129 of 148 (310286)
05-08-2006 12:09 PM
Reply to: Message 128 by sidelined
05-07-2006 6:08 PM


Re: Definition of Force
You are not exerting a force rather, you are having an influence as a result of the choice of a human being reading your passages.
Unlike the result of a force the response of people to the influence of your statements is a choice that they have. All that read these lines are not required by a "law of nature" to answer back. You are confusing the science term of "force" which is defined as a mass acceleration with a colloquial term concerning influence or persuasion in a conversation.
This is purely a matter of perspective. You are quite mistaken if you think I am confused. I understand the perspective you and others share quite well. I understand exactly what f=ma represents. It is no more a definition of the phenomenon we call force than your height is of you.
F=ma results in a measurement that is the property of a phenomenon we cannot define. We are aware of the result of force but we have no clue what it is. One does not discover a means to determine the mass of a substance and then declair that is the definition of the substance. This is absurd. It is no more absurd to think of force in the same narrow way. It is an artificial limitation placed upon a thing we know little about.
Science has found a predictable quantitative property of a phenomenon they cannot explain. This property can be exploited. It has proven very useful. We can be very predictable as a whole from a statistical point of view.
All that read these lines are not required by a "law of nature" to answer back.
Statistically as a whole this is an incorrect statement. People will respond. This response is a part of nature. We evolved this way. This is a property of us.
The difference between your narrow view of force and mine is that you can measure a property of the subject. The mistake is that you define the subject by a property. I cannot currently measure my idea in the same fashion. We understand a number of properties of ourselves in a very real way but not measurable in the f=ma way at this time. We are a different animal so to speak but the fundamental idea is what I am driving at.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 136 of 148 (320693)
06-12-2006 4:22 AM
Reply to: Message 132 by nwr
05-08-2006 1:37 PM


Re: Definition of Force
What we do not understand well enough to be able to measure, we do not understand very well at all.
This is a completely false statement. We understand all the motivations that bring meaning to this existance. It is the meaning that shapes us yet the source for all that is meaningful, that which gives us reason to act and exist is scientifically undefinable and unmeasurable. A measurement of love or any other emotion is meaningless and unatainable. You are responding because you wish to. Any scientific explanation you give for this will fall short of anything meaningful. In the end at the root you will be forced to answer that science simply does not know. This means you are acting with a process that you must have faith in. You are accepting it's existance without scientific evidence.
I am lacking any scientific data concerning you but I understand you and others here quite well.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 140 of 148 (320878)
06-12-2006 5:13 PM
Reply to: Message 137 by nwr
06-12-2006 8:24 AM


Re: Definition of Force
And we do not understand love very well at all.
perhaps you do not. That is your misfortune.
Thank you for making my case.
The case that you do not understand love?
You are most welcome.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 141 of 148 (320886)
06-12-2006 5:39 PM
Reply to: Message 138 by ramoss
06-12-2006 9:04 AM


Re: Definition of Force
Perhaps this is better:
This is a completely false statement. We understand all the motivations that bring meaning to this existance. It is the meaning that shapes us yet, the source for all that is meaningful, that which gives us reason to act and exist, that remains scientifically undefinable and unmeasurable. A scientific measurement of love or any other emotion is meaningless and unatainable under the scope of current scientific knowledge.
You make the statement. Now, find a meaningful way to describe how we understand how things are meaningful.
I do not need too. We simply do.
I assert that we are the force that experiences this and evidence of our force is left everywhere by the consequences of our decision makeing. We leave a clear and easily followable trail.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 144 of 148 (321009)
06-13-2006 1:56 AM
Reply to: Message 142 by Percy
06-12-2006 6:18 PM


Re: Definition of Force
As long as you don't believe you're making a meaningful scientific statement, this is fine. And given that science can't provide insights into the human search for meaning, this shouldn't be a problem for you
My suggestion has been and will remain that science is limiting itself.
Reality goes far beyond science's current approach to it's definition. My assertion requires a change in thinking. People simply do not like change.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 146 of 148 (321199)
06-13-2006 5:38 PM
Reply to: Message 145 by Percy
06-13-2006 7:24 AM


Re: Definition of Force
After 144 messages you're still just repeating your initial assertion. You made a lot more sense when in your previous message you simply said that there are many aspects of the human condition not amenable to scientific study. I think many would agree with you. But it is contradictory on the one hand to claim that science is by its nature limited, and then on the other to complain that science is limiting itself.
It is not contradictory at all. The above statement is in complete agreement with itself. The current dogma that people insist on driving science down is the limiting factor. People are the key.It requires a shift in thinking that will come quite slowly but will surely come in time.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 148 of 148 (322787)
06-18-2006 1:49 AM
Reply to: Message 147 by ramoss
06-13-2006 8:29 PM


Re: Definition of Force
You can make claims about the 'motivations', you can make claims about the 'source'. That might be what you believe. That is just your interpretation and your belief. It has no 'Meaning' outside of you.
It has meaning outside of me the minute another sees it. Many people see very clearly what I see. I have met a number of them here.
Edited by 2ice_baked_taters, : No reason given.

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