Timeline for Are there any causeless phenomena from the mainstream physical viewpoint? [closed]
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 13, 2014 at 23:06 | history | edited | user65081 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2014 at 22:39 | comment | added | Kyle Oman | I'm voting to leave closed. The edit is an improvement, but if this was an open question I'd probably flag to close as too broad. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 21:14 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| May 21, 2014 at 20:52 | history | edited | MKaama | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed all the distracting taunts and rephrased as much as possible in physical terms.
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| May 21, 2014 at 16:37 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Being a strongly reductionist discipline physics is less suited to "explaining" consciousness than some of those effective theories they use in the other science building on campus. On the other hand there are people who try to examine the limits that modern physics might impose upon free will (something that has been going on since the days of Newtonian determinism). | |
| May 21, 2014 at 15:10 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| May 21, 2014 at 14:11 | comment | added | DumpsterDoofus | "Life means freedom and freedom means laws can be broken. If the laws can never be broken (including physical laws), there is no freedom, no life and no consciousness." I think you're confusing yourself by attempting to take ill-defined words like "laws" and "freedom" too seriously, and using them to come to similarly ill-defined conclusions about physics. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 14:07 | comment | added | Jim | I don't expect to convince you in the slightest, but I would recommend that you show at least some respect to the idea that people whose lives focus on studying a concept also have some well thought out philosophical notions about that concept. And taunting someone because you think something is fundamentally wrong with the philosophy of their life's work is not only morally wrong, but when (as in this case) it stems from your own lack of understanding of the topic, you're more likely to become much moreso the tauntee than the taunter. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 14:03 | comment | added | Jim | I intend no disrespect, but if this is the basis on which you've been taunting physicists, then your taunts must not have bothered them at all. You seem to have a gross misunderstanding of physics to hold this point of view. Anyone who understands the laws of physics and what they mean would tell you that life, consciousness, etc exists because these laws are unbreakable. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 13:57 | comment | added | sabiland | The biggest mistake/illusion is this -> people believe they are conscious. As we are, we (people) are conscious maybe few minutes through all our life. In fact, we are totaly governed by every single outer impression. Like a robot/program. Input -> output. Very few people (from ancient times till today) understood this and stoped being a "robot". With us/robots everything happens, (almost (!)) nothing is/was ever made/invented/etc. consciously. Of course, hardcore scientist will never beleive this - but this is the biggest obstacle for a scientist to get a better understanding of the universe. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Another candidate for literallyunbelievable.org | |
| May 21, 2014 at 12:52 | history | closed |
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| May 21, 2014 at 12:49 | answer | added | Blackbody Blacklight | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 21, 2014 at 12:48 | comment | added | MKaama | @DavePhD I would consider E.coli to be all three. A human person has more freedom and E.coli has very little, but conceptually they are the same. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 12:44 | comment | added | DavePhD | It seems that you are not distinguishing the concepts of free-will, consciousness, and life. I would consider an E. coli bacterium to be life, but not be conscious or have free will. These are philosophy issues, not physics. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 12:39 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 21, 2014 at 12:18 | history | asked | MKaama | CC BY-SA 3.0 |