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Consciousness

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Is it possible for information to not be self-aware, and still be available to awareness? If so, by what means?
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so a black hole singularity is what happens when gravity becomes the dominant force at some unknown tiny radius.

but there are four forces

What happens if we max out electromagnetism?
Weak Force?
Strong Force?

Just shove a shitload of each of them into a really tiny space.

What happens?
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What do you think about time travel? How can we send some information to the past?
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If I taste phenol sometimes when I wake up, what does that mean?

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Clearly, it's not caustic enough to kill me, but is it leaking from my brain or coming from one of my organs? It smells nice enough, I always liked the smell of chemicals. Ether and acid alcohol are my favorites.
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CO2 is just plant food bro

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It's good for the trees to grow more. Who cares about Greenlandrinos and Antarcticanos ice sheets, nobody live there. Wouldnt it be much better for the native people of Greenland if they can plant avocados?
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I have a student, who has autism, being capable of incredible mental tricks in order to understand mathematic equations, but requires a strict visual representation/visual learning in able to comprehend it. For example, the number 1 to him is a "dot" and 2 being two "dots".

3 being three "dots", but he visualizes connecting lines between the dots, which would be a triangular shape.

4 being a square and so forth.

Very reminiscent of ancient Babylonian or Akkadian representations of numbers. He is also innately(I think anyway) associating numbers with letters or alpha-numerals, like the Ancient Greeks and Hebrew language.

I digress, as the main reason for this question is, how am I able to elaborate on the hexadecimal or base 16 numeral system to him, in a visually friendly way similar to how I've described his approach to base 10.

He's a damn wizard when it comes to geometry and seems to be tied to his visual learning of numbers/maths/etc. His overall approach seems almost identical to how Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans would approach mathematics.

Is there a geometric or "creative" way to visualize and understand hexadecimal numeracy?

Thanks
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How come we don't have more religions based around mathematics? I want to worship math as a deity, principally the triangle and its properties. What do?
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the universe is so vast.
Surely, just by pure coincidence somewhere in that vast space, there is another planet where life is possible and flourishing.
right?
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I get time dilation - a hypothetical clock consists of two parallel mirrors with a photon that bounces between them. The photon makes the round journey in 1 second. If the clock is moving, the photon travels in a diagonal path - a longer distance -and it therefore takes longer to bounce between the mirrors. Therefore, from our perspective, each second on the moving clock is thus longer than on the stationary clock.

What I don't get is how, even though both clocks are experientially (if they were conscious) living the same amount of time, the moving clock returns "younger" (if we say the moving clock's velocity was close to the speed of light).

This is probably a really dumb question, but I literally started researching physics today.
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