this is about the same as dropping an ice cube in hot water. not shit happens.

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Ever see a blacksmith put something hot into water to cool it down? Yea, it steams and possibly hardens. The idea that it explodes is an old troll.

>>14350

It's 11.34 kilos.

>>14349

at first I thought you were joking and I lol'd but then I guess that does go down

>>14394

Yeah, when I was a kid we had a cockatiel, and we always had to make sure the fan was turned off before we let it out.

>>14396
>>>the fruit, not the tree
Seriously? Do you know the expression "Hitler ate sugar"?
If you're going to treat a common metaphor[1] as a bible reference merely because it happens to be in the bible, then all bets are off regarding the validity of your reasoning.

>the important part of that sentence was the phrase "singling out."
I still don't agree with that statement.
>The true key to science [...] is the second question...”Are you sure?”
>its that seed of doubt, and the process we've developed to address that doubt
>Science acknowledges the fallibility of human senses and insists its followers test they're conclusions again and again and again.
What he's singling out is clearly not the uncertainty of the answers, but the error-finding process that takes place after a possible answer is found.
(I realize that the "followers" bit doesn't help my case. I think it deserves the benefit of the doubt because he's making an analogy between science and philosophy.)

>he either doesn't actually believe or doesn't understand his own conclusion of what science is by directly contradicting it
Would this really be that surprising for someone who's only beginning to try to understand on their own what science is about?
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fruits come from other plants too. when you talk about fruits and trees literally within 3 words of the word knowledge, people will take that as a bible reference.

i'm not going to say any more, because it's already gone further than it should have. i never claimed to be an internet mind reader or intended it as a serious accusation, just that he has phrasing and thought inconsistencies that can be interpreted as insincerity.

OP here.

well, this went in a direction i never imagined.

to my mind, the thought behind science is a philosophy. but its one that works. its rooted in physical proof that can be verified and tested. perhaps i should have been more explicit in my wording. most philosophies give you an answer but stop at that. Science gives you an answer, then encourages you to verify it. test that answer. poke it and see if we really understand whats going on.

to me, that willingness to test itself makes science unique. it accommodates human fallibility and the limits of our senses by encouraging us to take good, long looks at what we study. to exparament from every possible angle and verify what we see with others.

this is sciences virtue. it lets us see past our limitations by first acknowledging those limitations. no theory is ever complete. even phenomena that are well tread have room for revision as we learn new things. hell, newton had a pretty damn firm grasp on gravity in his day, then Einstein comes along and turns it on its head. perfect example of how the philosophy of science works.

to be absolutely clear: the body of knowledge science has accumulated is not a philosophy. as far as we can tell, its fact. the thoughts and world veiw that prompted us to collect that body of knowledge, and that makes room for its refinement, IS a philosophy.

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um, ipconfig /release /renew /all ..? like this?

no, that's not what it means. analog means the scale is a continuous spectrum and digital means the scale has discrete increments of equal size.

as for the data, you have to specify what you mean by "like a computer." for example, anything that's on a hard disk, anything that's translated into binary, anything that's recorded and retrieved automatically and electronically, etc.

>>14363
>digital means the scale has discrete increments of equal size.
I don't believe they have to be of equal size. It just makes it a lot easier to handle.

bro, that's literally the definition of interval scale, which is what analog and digital are used to describe

look at a mobius strip (or a hotwheels track). to a 2d guy on the surface it seems like a circle, but in 3d you can see it's not. the point of this example is that the magnitude of the velocity of something travelling on the track is the same in 2d and 3d, but the direction is not.

Read Flatland.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201

Basically whatever a ghost can do, if he can only manipulate himself in and out of these dimensions. Invisibility, invincibility, teleportation.

Imagine a stick-figure guy in a house drawn on a piece of paper. He is constrained by two dimensions, and thus has to walk around the lines of graphite on the paper to navigate his house. Now, picture an ant walking across this piece of paper. To the perspective of the two-dimensional man, the ant can walk through walls. Furthermore, he can only see the very tips of the ant's feet when it touches the paper — that is, where and when the ant is interacting with his dimension. He wouldn't at any point see an ant, he would just seem nebulous blobs of matter teleporting across the rooms.


It's entirely possible that the part of human beings that we can see and interact with (that is, the flesh and blood) or indeed all of reality "extends past" the three dimensions we are familiar with. This gives a possibility of truth to the human soul, which is the part of the human being that exists in higher-numbered dimensions and thus cannot be killed or even really affected, here.