I offer this rebuttle. If our brains percieve things the same as in real life than in this computer is their really a difference?THEAFRONINJA said:
Your impossible questions?
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I don't know, it's like asking why you can move your limbs or finger, even though you don't "ask" your brain to do it, you just do it. You simply "feel" pain because it is the way your brain tells you something is wrong with your body.Jasper Jeffs said:
I have a few that have been pondering me for awhile now.
Who came up with words? Why do they mean what they mean? Why can't chocolate milk mean jumping off a building.
Why do we need the economy?
And finally, when you're looking for something why do parents time and time again ask the age old question "Well where did you put it?" Well I wouldn't be asking you where it was if I knew the answer to that question mom >.>...
Oh yes and how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? =D
Who came up with words? Why do they mean what they mean? Why can't chocolate milk mean jumping off a building.
Why do we need the economy?
And finally, when you're looking for something why do parents time and time again ask the age old question "Well where did you put it?" Well I wouldn't be asking you where it was if I knew the answer to that question mom >.>...
Oh yes and how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? =D
Not-so-impossible questions.
But reality may not be as it appears, but only simulated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality], in which case the interpretation of reality in which you (the observer) died is rejected for one in which your existance continues (since you continue to exist so long as you can think and perceive). That is, of course, so long as you are sustained by by simulation (assuming you are intrinsic to it) or by whatever system keeps you alive (if you are extrinsic to the simulation).
Infinity + Infinity = Infinity. If you have a larger scale of infinity, the larger one takes precedence, say Aleph0 + Aleph1 = Aleph1. Same is true with all arithmetic functions.CJackson95 said:
On the presumtion reality is as it appears, then death = oblivion. Considering the many-worlds interpretation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation], consciousness continues down all paths by which it can, so you (the observer) continue to live until all possibilities that rule out death are exhausted. Then oblivion.Pandalisk said:
But reality may not be as it appears, but only simulated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality], in which case the interpretation of reality in which you (the observer) died is rejected for one in which your existance continues (since you continue to exist so long as you can think and perceive). That is, of course, so long as you are sustained by by simulation (assuming you are intrinsic to it) or by whatever system keeps you alive (if you are extrinsic to the simulation).
In reality, absolutes do not exist, hence the force is only finitely unstoppable and the wall is only finitely indestructable. In short, one would fail, much like the unsinkable Titanic.AvsJoe said:
The fly would experience rapid decelleration, ergo would slow, then stop, then reverse direction (and rapidly accellerate) to the speed of the train windshield. So yes, there is a point in time, no matter how miniscule, in which the fly stops. Of course, this is all going to be very hard on the integral structure of the poor fly.Private Custard said:
By feel and by smell. Fortunately, unlike grease, fecal matter washes off fairly easily. Much of the world prefers use of a bedet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedet] over bathroom tissue, anyway. Paperless toilets are particularly big in Japan.Stabby McRunfast said:
Not sure if this has been answered (I'm not prepared to search through 8 more pages), but I may have a partial answer. Technically, anytime you touch something it's pain. So, really pain doesn't always mean that you are hurt. Like I said, it's just a partial answer, and may in fact confuse you more, but it's the best I can do.Jasper Jeffs said:
As for my impossible question: What is my impossible question?
Although, is that even an impossible question? I did put a question. Crap... I think I made some sort of paradox.
Thinking that helps me fight pain. I think "What is pain? Why does this hurt?" and it lessens the pain. Yeah call me weird.Jasper Jeffs said:
OT:How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I want to know!!!
That world would go off into an alternate universe, leaving yours with you alive, and that one with you dead.
