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General Misc. / Re: Politics
« on: June 07, 2020, 12:12:08 am »
I don't even know what to label myself. I'm extremely anti-war anti-materialism type dude, but i just might be anti-material cause i dont have a lot of money, if i did i might buy lots of cool shit, who knows.

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This is one of those articles where i wish i was just a bit smarter so I could follow it easier. Really interesting.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: Lying
« on: March 22, 2020, 09:23:16 pm »
I'd need a more robust study than asking 15 highschoolers, the replication crisis is built on the back of badly conceived experiments.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science
« on: December 07, 2019, 11:14:51 am »
All these theories and no experiments, science is about falsifiable results if you can't even experiment on your theories it's philosophy not science. All imo of course.

Just for clarity, people agree on this, yeah? One isn't "doing science" if all they are doing is proposing un-falsifiable claims, right? There is some division between theoretical vs. experimental of course, but is there a point where theory is so far from being verifiable that it ceases to be scientific?

I'm paraphrasing a Feynman point in a lecture about science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIxvQMhttq4

It's also basically what i was taught and also think, although i might just be indocrtrinated to think that. Who knows.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science
« on: December 04, 2019, 04:01:53 pm »
The queston I have for multi-verse proponents is where does the energy come from?
My very rough understanding (I am far from an expert of QM or any multiverse stuff) but from Carroll's "Many World" interpretation, the idea is that the whole multiverse isn't "duplicating" or "multiplying" or anything, it's simply branching, which means that there isn't more or less energy pre- or post-branching, it is simply just "bifuraced" or, as Carroll himself sometimes puts it, the Many Worlds are "slices" of a very, very "thick" universe (or meta-universe, if you want, Carroll doesn't call it that, I don't know what he would call the whole thing).  Apparently there is math to back this up, but it's Penrose-like stuff that I can't even fathom.

I think there might be a notion of that it is finite, in a way, but the number of possibly sustainable branches is something absurdly huge.

that just means split into 2 "bifuraced" and if energy is conserved then it must travel from one branch to the other and you need a mechanism for it.

There's many things described by maths that don't conform to reality for example. Using Maths you can take an orange slice it into many pieces then construct it back to something the size of earth due to the infite splitting/divisibility rule or whatever it is called. Yet try and do this in world (i.e. in reality) and it won't work even though the maths said it would.

Feynman talks about it in one of his books, probably his autobiography about arguing about it with mathematicians at university.

All these theories and no experiments, science is about falsifiable results if you can't even experiment on your theories it's philosophy not science. All imo of course.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science
« on: December 02, 2019, 01:55:34 pm »
The queston I have for multi-verse proponents is where does the energy come from?

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The Great Ordeal / Re: Sranc POV?
« on: October 12, 2019, 10:22:02 pm »
Yeah in judging eye, Soma meets them I think.

There might also be one right at the start of TJE when the sranc run into an ambush.

I think their thoughts are basically fuck fuck kill kill.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: (TUC Spoilers) Thoughts on TUC
« on: October 05, 2019, 06:50:28 pm »
I think the fact Mimara as the God can see the Carpace while Cnaiur as Ajokli cannot has some significance. The last part of the book is basically Mimara staring at the carpace. Then Cnaiur strolling down looking for the carpace (was ajokli assuming it was kellhus in the carpace?) and not being able to see it.

Well apart from Mimara casting away her last protection from Akka (chorae) and embracing him fully in some way, if Akka wasn't there no one would have started running either.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: (TUC Spoilers) Thoughts on TUC
« on: October 05, 2019, 06:43:50 pm »
I didnt mean to suggest that TNG would be a rehash. Only insofar as the entire TSA series is a rehash of the First Apocalypse to begin (which it most definitely is) and historical events repeating keeps happening both in long term and even shorter term (Short term: moenghus->20 years->dies chorae, repeated by Kellhus->20 years-> dies chorae. Long Term: See Ordeal in First Apocalypse and Great Ordeal in Second).


Plus the names, plus the twin thing. Kellhus being a direct descendant of the original dynasty opposing the consult.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: (TUC Spoilers) Thoughts on TUC
« on: October 05, 2019, 06:41:00 pm »
I don't know, I guess I am just pretty resigned to the fact that Bakker is a flawed person.  I guess that just doesn't surprise me.

I mean, I do wish some things were done differently in the books, but they just are what they are (now).

I, however, do see numerous ways that TNG doesn't have to be a rehash of the First Apocalypse.  We don't know what the "personality" of the insertant has, as an effect, on the behavior of the No-God apparatus (if any).  We don't know what the long term consequence will be of the removal of the Chorae from the Carapace, despite the massive culling that the Schools underwent as a result of the end of the Ordeal, presumably the No-God is relatively "more" vulnerable to sorcery this time.

Plus, there is a decided lack of leadership as many of the "old powers" were lost in the Ordeal.  There is also the "added" factor of the Fanim, more specifically, the fact that Kellhus specifically did not kill Meppa, meaning that the Psûhke is still "on the table."

Then, of course, is the added factor of Mimara.  In my deluded mind, Kellhus' comment that "she is what he pretends to be" or however it is phrased, is a fact.  That she will be something like a "Prophet" or a savior.  That alone is much different than the First Apocalypse.

Also, I still do think that Bakker is "playing" (in a sort of Heideggerian way) with the word "Apocalypse."  While it's "common use" is taken more from it's biblical tone, it's root is: "Old English, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal’, from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’."  So, what is uncovered, or revealed?  To me, that is the call to the role of Mimara.  The "revelation" that Logos (rationality/logic) is not the "savior" nor is the "tekne" (technology).  No, the "answer" is more akin to Hegel's "Geist," that is, Spirit.  I won't rehash the circumlocutions of my Eärwan Souls thread here, but there is something "there" to me.

Isn't it Mimara that says She is what kellhus pretends to be?

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Philosophy & Science / Re: Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?
« on: August 15, 2019, 05:20:41 pm »
SCi keep posting these sort of things, just starting to sit down to read a couple, always interesting always challenging. The good shit!

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Philosophy & Science / Re: Do you know the mushroom man?
« on: August 08, 2019, 02:26:15 pm »
“heroic dose” Trademark of Terrence Mckenna.

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Feynman called this cargo-cult science back in the 60's 70's. If it doesn't pass the reality test, i.e. experimentation it is wrong.

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The Crabikiad / Re: Crabby Fails
« on: July 20, 2019, 03:51:58 pm »
How do we know Kellhus has failed. Perhaps he planned past a defeat.

When Iyokus is speaking to Akka when he has him captured he states that Skuarus planned past a defeat which is a sign of true intelligence.

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