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Anonymous (5 replies)
Hello, /sci/. I want to riddle you a a hypothetical question from area that's basically purely speculative sci-fi that has me thinking a lot. I suppose that's better than umptienth thread about vax and shit like that. I am not /sci/ head and I do not have any education in the field, so pardon my surface level understanding of subject matter.
This question is primarily related to consciousness and neurology. Supposing it was possible to clone human brain, do, more or less good "scan" of original brain's contents and implant it into the cloned one in order to, for instance, prolong osomeone's existence, we can still deduce that it doesn't really at face value, logically. Original person is still very much alive, and their consciousness is not the same as their clone. This dilemna was main theme of "SOMA" video game. Same thing regarding thought experiments focused on teleprotation- even if we were able to completely "deconstruct" someone and "reconstruct" at different spot in space, person that we "teleported" is very much dead, even as person being end result is continuity of them.
Now, human body is in continuous state of "shedding" old cells constituting it and replacing them with new ones. This leads to cycles between each body is basically wholly replaced, and aging is related to fact that, over time, our body loses ability to do this reliably enough, right?
If there was a way to craft artificial cells and their products (i.e. neurons) by man, and somehow , over time, do the same p[rocess, but replacing human brain's neurons with artificially made ones, slowly but surely, would end result of such process still be same continued consciousness and conversely, the same person? Would that make such eprson effectively immortal?
Anonymous
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Good question, op, but I'm afraid their is no sarisfactory answer. The question your asking is an example of the "ship of theseus" problem. A lot of people, especially scientifically minded people would probably just identify it as an arbitrary semantic distinction and purely a matter of terminological preference. For mostbpractical purposes it would be the "same" person.
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>>13530510 I've thought a lot lately about causal connection and continuation of consciousness and I feel as though I've lost my shit. My conclusion is either open individualism or we have souls. Trust me, I didn't reach these possibilities lightly.
Anonymous (7 replies)
>burning hot engine
>low oxygen
>freezing temperatures
>engine sucking in huge amounts of air filled with oxygen
>burning engine counters freezing environment temperatures
Ok... but how is he hanging on at 300-750MPH?
Anonymous
Come on bro, his clothes aren't even flowing in the wind...
Anonymous
>>13530648 you see the videos of the moon landing?
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>>13530581 Fucking retard,
Get off this board
Anonymous
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>>13530581 Most of this shit seems to be faked, quite badly in fact. but what exactly is the goal?
Anonymous (40 replies)
Coud something vibrating/oscillating at the right frequency be able to phase through solid objects?
Anonymous
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>>13528280 Exactly, in the case of sand gravity would pull it back together after you passed something through
Anonymous
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>>13528059 Atoms, while being basically empty, are mostly interacting with their electron shells so it's harder than just putting two atoms close. And yes, it's about the pase of the wavefunctions of the particles.
Anonymous
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>>13526457 How can Cisco tell it has a speedometer and actual explosives? Does is have fucking wifi?
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>>13528059 >Arent atoms basically empty space? Yes, but you are correct about the the electronic interactions. The force between atoms increases drastically as they are brought close together. You can't "phase" one solid through another because the amount of energy required would be astronomical, and would likely cause the atoms/molecules to mix in an irreversible way. Look up "Pauli repulsion" if you want a better understanding of this.
>What do people here mean when they talk about "phase"? No idea, but I would guess they're referring to quantum tunneling. While technically possible, the chance of anything larger than a small molecule "phasing" through anything is effectively zero
Anonymous (7 replies)
The spacetime interval is defined as s^2 = x^2 - (ct)^2
What is the meaning of there being a minus sign there? The further apart in time the events are the closer they are together? Taking it further, an event 10 light-years in the away and 10 years in the future is a spacetime distance of 0 away?? I don't see how two points so far away could be interpreted as occupying the same point.
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>>13529223 It's litterally just a property that is preserved by the lorentz transform, wich means that the "distance" between two points in spacetime is the same for all observers. It's a usefull concept and also defines a pseudo remannian metric, we can also use it to meassure the proper time between two events in spacetime aswell as the proper length of objects.
>Taking it further, an event 10 light-years in the away and 10 years in the future is a spacetime distance of 0 away?? No, it means that the proper time on a worldline connecting the two events is zero (that is, time doesn't pass for photons). Essentially, for events within the lightcone, it gives the time that an observer on a straight worldline between two events would meassure,.
>What is the meaning of there being a minus sign there? It means that contrary to ordinary euclidean geometry where the shortest distance between two events in space is a straight line, the longest distance between two spacetime events is a straigt line (try proving the Lorentzian triangle inequallity)..
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If you look at your picture with the t-axis up and the x-axis sideways, then linear inert motion is lines through that picture. E.g. if you take the photo of a guy on skateboard, that corresponds to one point (t0, x0) If he rolls with a velocity v, then the trajectory is (t0 + t, x0 + v · t) where t is the time passed since t0. In newtonian theory, v can be any real value. In relativity theory, v is restricted by c, so all motion (lines) are inside the light cone. The acceleration laws, and consequent coordinate transformation operations (elements of a matrix representation of the Poincare group) are such that "speeding up" any number of times leads to a velocity addition that still doesn't exceed c. If you're moving at half the speed of light, you can't move 7 times at fast. it's not just v \maptso 7˜v I.e. it's a complicated "boosting" law.
El Arcón
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Zero meters of spacetime interval is completely unrelated to a quantity of meters of distance. The units of spacetime interval were chosen as meters purely by artificial convention. The formula for ds^2 could have had any dimensional transposing parameter in it but use "c" is easy and convenient, and it gives the units of spacetime interval in meters.
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>>13529223 >minus sign It's useful since it divides space-time intervals into positive (space like, ftl), negative (timelike, sub light speed) or zero (light like).
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in english, doc?
Anonymous (192 replies)
Why is the Midwit Mountain phenomenon so common?
Its almost as if average IQ really does make you dumber than low IQ
140 IQ = 70 IQ
140 >100
70 > 100
Anonymous
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>>13500720 You are not understanding what he is saying, regardless of whether he is correct in his assertion. Lack of impulse control is associated with reckless behavior, e.g drug use, gambling, and hypersexual behavior. Yes, fear is an impulse. In those affected by poor impulse control such cautionary impulses are stunted, which contributes to their risky behavior. Whether his opinion is supported by data hasn’t been shown, but the line of thought is easy to follow anon.
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>>13500709 >therapist No manchild is this stupid
Anonymous
>>13526043 Spend some time today on self refection and wonder how you got to a point where you eagerly go online to spread misinformation. What life choices lead you to this point and is being a propagandist what you thought you'd end up being when you were younger? What was the choice or choices that lead you down the wrong path and to where you are today?
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>>13530576 >wrong path Sike! There's a lot to unpack here, but maybe, just maybe, you should just read a book once in a while and trust the science.
Respect his choices instead of shaming him because he doesn't fit your biased and bigoted notions of what a rightful human should be.
EDIT: Thanks for the gold kind stranger.
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>JUST TRUST THE SCIENCE! >Okay fine what science? Show me some studies on the long term effects of mRNA vaccines in a large human population >WELL UM I DONT HAVE ANY OF THOSE JUST LISTEN TO THE SCIENTISTS THEY ALREADY KNOW ALL THIS STUFF!
Anonymous (5 replies)
There are N buckets. All except one are filled with liquid of unique color to capacity. The last bucket is empty. What is the most efficient algorithm to end up with N buckets that all contain the mixture of all available colors in equal amounts?
Anonymous (24 replies)
Realistically, how bad of an idea is it for me (23 years old) to get the AstraZenica vaccine?
Pfizer is a long way off for the majority to be eligible to get in my country (Australia).
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>>13528627 Take it. We need more data for the experiment.
Anonymous
>>13528808 > Government does nothing REEEEE Why is the government letting us die? They should do something!
> Government pays for research, approves vaccines, buys vaccines and sets up free clinics for everyone REEEEEEE Why is the government helping us? It must be a plot!
Just can't win with you, can they?
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>>13529777 its a different person in each hypothetical, and in places without stringent lockdown most people aren't asking for them
but it also doesn't take a schizophrenic to notice that the vaccines skipped most long term trials and that the various companies developing vaccines have been granted legal immunity from liability
maybe youre a faggot but big pharma doesnt have a good track record and neither does the government. Usually people get compensated for participating in clinical trials, and there are waivers to sign that clearly explain the risks of experimental trials and the possible worst case side effects.
Its highly annoying to me because the medical community has collectively decided now that ethics are situational, and government has decided that precedent doesnt matter. The tools to sow systemic evil are now in the hands of all in power, fascism may be reborn here in the early 21st century all due to covid19. Im not saying this will happen but we as a society need to be aware of the actual risk we take and the corners being cut, so that we dont make the same mistakes over and over. discussion is necessary
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>>13529255 Not to point out the obvious point... ok I will. A job is not worth your life. A person whom is currently being nominated for a Nobel prize has stated that 75% of stabbed people will be dead in 3 years. Obviously you’ll need to perform your own research to confirm this. Anyway, YOLO
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>>13528730 >99.8% chance of survival Maybe if you're old or diseased. For under 30s, there's a 99.8% chance you don't even have bad covid symptoms
Anonymous (5 replies)
There's 3 buckets. One is empty, one has a red liquid, one has a blue liquid. What is the most efficient way to end up with 3 buckets with equal parts red and equal parts blue liquid? You cannot use anything other than the 3 buckets that you have.
Anonymous (6 replies)
Criticize this pet theory.
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>4th dimension Into the trash it goes.
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>>13528299 I blew up the last of my rocks, I didn't see any neutrinos, what do?
Anonymous
>>13528299 >Multiverse >Multiple Dimensions Ayythiest coping defence mechanisms.
Accept Allah as your Lord and Saviour, and Jesus as the second-last prophet behind Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah upon him.
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>>13528299 anon dont pay attention to the haters you knew it would come to it. Your theory interest me but you have to flesh it out more, bring more richness to it
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>>13528655 >muslim scientist holy fuck wut
Anonymous (27 replies)
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>>13528792 I think their falling makes them look more human than when they do things perfectly.
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>>13528792 >entire body is basically a roll cage Anonymous
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>>13528741 Transport them in Humvees and use only for direct assault, Atlas would clear cellar full chinks no problem. The blitz capability, for near impervious to small arms fire irl terminators, would be nuts.
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>>13528792 >>13528799 This is like a century ago where pilots would
try to fly their contraptions only for it to fail.
Oh, the times...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Yww9LG3gw