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I think you first have to assume that there was a finite amount of mass/energy when the big bang occurred.Poseidon wrote:
How can dark matter make up 25% of the universe? I thought the universe was infinite? How can there be a percentage placed on it? What th--
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Not the way it was worded.AussieReaper wrote:
Eight didn't make much sense.
Made perfect sense to me.AussieReaper wrote:
Eight didn't make much sense.
Flecco wrote:
Made perfect sense to me.AussieReaper wrote:
Eight didn't make much sense.
It's a virus that doesn't follow any rules. It's to big, it's genome is the wrong shape for viruses etc. etc. So it breaks the current classification system and might be a missing piece in the puzzle that is the theory of evolution.
I thought the part about it looking like our genome was worded badly. "It may even make us rewrite it" the genome, our history? lolMimivirus doesn’t fit with the established story of how life on Earth got going. Mimi has a genome that, in parts, looks like yours. Mimivirus seems to be part of the story of life on Earth. It may even make us rewrite it.
Agree. When they write it seems to be part of the story it sounds like it fits in.. not really indicative of something unexplained.AussieReaper wrote:
Flecco wrote:
Made perfect sense to me.AussieReaper wrote:
Eight didn't make much sense.
It's a virus that doesn't follow any rules. It's to big, it's genome is the wrong shape for viruses etc. etc. So it breaks the current classification system and might be a missing piece in the puzzle that is the theory of evolution.I thought the part about it looking like our genome was worded badly. "It may even make us rewrite it" the genome, our history? lolMimivirus doesn’t fit with the established story of how life on Earth got going. Mimi has a genome that, in parts, looks like yours. Mimivirus seems to be part of the story of life on Earth. It may even make us rewrite it.
I thought scientist had said that the universe is constantly expanding and contracting? Wut wutKmarion wrote:
I thought they would have mentioned the expanding universe is expanding faster. A common .
Check the date. That was the accepted opinion til - oh, five years ago? Ten?RDMC wrote:
I thought scientist had said that the universe is constantly expanding and contracting? Wut wutKmarion wrote:
I thought they would have mentioned the expanding universe is expanding faster. A common .
What the fuck?!?!?Your decisions are not your own
Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. But science says this free will is a delusion. According to the world’s best neuroscientists, we are brain-machines. Our brains create the sense that somewhere within them is the “you” that makes decisions. But it is an illusion; there is no ghost in the machine. What does this mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
The hypothesis that you have no soul, and your brain is just a machine that gives you an illusion that you have control. Then again, it is impossible to prove that you have no soul, this being a completely abstract thing. So that one is kind of invalid.Mattimus wrote:
What the fuck?!?!?Your decisions are not your own
Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. But science says this free will is a delusion. According to the world’s best neuroscientists, we are brain-machines. Our brains create the sense that somewhere within them is the “you” that makes decisions. But it is an illusion; there is no ghost in the machine. What does this mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
I think my brain just exploded.some_random_panda wrote:
The hypothesis that you have no soul, and your brain is just a machine that gives you an illusion that you have control. Then again, it is impossible to prove that you have no soul, this being a completely abstract thing. So that one is kind of invalid.Mattimus wrote:
What the fuck?!?!?Your decisions are not your own
Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. But science says this free will is a delusion. According to the world’s best neuroscientists, we are brain-machines. Our brains create the sense that somewhere within them is the “you” that makes decisions. But it is an illusion; there is no ghost in the machine. What does this mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
I have trouble believing this is at all a scientific question.Your decisions are not your own
Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. But science says this free will is a delusion. According to the world’s best neuroscientists, we are brain-machines. Our brains create the sense that somewhere within them is the “you” that makes decisions. But it is an illusion; there is no ghost in the machine. What does this mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
It isn't.Spark wrote:
I have trouble believing this is at all a scientific question.Your decisions are not your own
Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. But science says this free will is a delusion. According to the world’s best neuroscientists, we are brain-machines. Our brains create the sense that somewhere within them is the “you” that makes decisions. But it is an illusion; there is no ghost in the machine. What does this mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
