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I think I have a simple real-life example of this. A big piece of stone contains a lot of mass/energy. When you make a statue out of the piece of stone then you increase the complexity while decreasing mass/energy.
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how do we date things that are millions of years old?
Itoero replied to blackhole123's topic in Chemistry
I generally date younger girls. And people are not 'things' ! -
Today I learned that Marie Skłodowska Curie was a smart lady. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Nobel Prize in Physics (1903, with Pierre) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, due to aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation while carrying test tubes of radium in her pockets during research, and in the course of her work at field hospitals during World War I.
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Yes, getting a son cooled God down.
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There are many reasons. You should give some examples.
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Today I learned the infinite monkey theorem It states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem#Infinite_strings
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Your consciousness exists out of interacting experience/knowledge, once it's lost ( when you die) it's gone and it can't come back. Because people want to preserve knowledge/experience, people write books, make videos or teach their knowledge to other people. If somehow your brain gets recreated billion years from now then your consciousness will be different then the consciousness you have now. The knowledge/experience that builds your consciousness is acquired by interacting with your environment. Environments change so consciousness changes.
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common sense and things that make sense
Itoero replied to paragaster's topic in Suggestions, Comments and Support
*bump* Something that makes a lot of sense for you does not necessary makes any sense for other people. It depends on your knowledge/imagination concerning a certain subject. Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things that are shared by nearly all people and can reasonably be expected of nearly all people without need for debate... -
Today I learned that late blight (Phytophthora) was a major culprit in the 1840s European, the 1845 Irish, and the 1846 Highland potato famines. In the end of september I often get phytophthora on my tomatoes in the greenhouse. The first visible Phytophtora-spots call the start of the end of the tomato season
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There is no evidence for a causal link between High Blood Pressure and Headache. Many people think it's causal related ...that's a misnomer.
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You might find this very interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829292/ "headaches are associated to various disorders that lead to abrupt, severe, and paroxysmal elevations in blood pressure" It might be that correlation does not imply causation.
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Random thoughts regarding how matter can create complexities
Itoero replied to Knowledge Enthusiast's topic in Speculations
I like how you relate complexity to imbalance. You might describe evolution to be an imbalance that strives towards balance. Striving towards balance is I think what causes evolution..(including chemical evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_evolution ) -
In the USA I often visited a restaurant/bar where one waiter always asked: "Can I keep the change?" He never got to keep anything...regardless of the service.
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The whole system is messed up in the USA. What people earn should not be dependent on external factors (tipping customers) and the minimum wage should go up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country Those things increase and feed the wealth inequality.
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It's indeed not really ethical. It's imo less ethical not to pay your servants enough. And customers can't choose the waiters or waitresses they get... And in fastfoodrestaurants you are not supposed to tip people, so people that work in fastfoodrestaurants live in poverty?
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What do you think about tipping people in restaurants or coffeeshops? When I traveled through Canada and USA I only tipped when the service was very good...not very often. I tipped when my drink got refilled or if the waitresses were pretty women/girls with an open decolleté. Why would I tip a person only for bringing my food from the kitchen? It's imo a way for the boss to pay its servants less...which keeps tipping alive.
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Your said "She can see super light shades of yellow and green properly I think. But if it's a regular color or darker, she seems them as opposite. Please try to understand.." Then she should see the sun as white/yellow because it gives very intense light.
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Your point is that laws prevent abiogenesis from happening and experimentation/observation rejects abiogenesis...which you are still not backing up. And what does it matter we can't explain abiogenesis yet? There is a lot we can't explain.
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In what color does she sees the sun?
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The scientific method is not a discovery. It's the body of techniques that leads to science. it emerged with science. A main difference why modern science rose in Europe, lies in how traditions dealt with 'laws' of cause and effect. Western Christianity developed a conception of causality that accommodated an omnipotent God - nature followed divinely ordained rational laws and so could be apprehended rationally, though God could suspend those laws miraculously if he chose. With this idea as their foundation, Christian scholars set about absorbing vast amounts of Greek learning in philosophy and sciences that had been lost during the collapse of the Western Roman Empire but preserved in Arabic translations. Ironically, at around the same time Christian scholars were benefiting from this new influx of Greek learning, Muslim scholars were wrestling with the theological implications of causation. Muslim theologians were not comfortable with the idea of a universe that had to obey rules, feeling this put limits on an all-powerful God. In the end they rejected the idea that the universe obeyed consistent laws and developed an kind of "occasionalism" whereby everything happened in any instance by the will of Allah and any seeming causation was an illusion. Christian Europe saw the rise of universities which had the rigorous study of logic as the foundation of all study. Universities also functioned very differently to the madrassas of the Islamic world. Thanks to the political fragmentation that followed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Church had developed a high degree of independence and maintained it in a way that gave rise to a clear separation of Church and State in western Europe. This gave universities a kind of autonomy not seen in similar institutions of learning elsewhere. They evolved as something between a trade guild of scholars and an independent state, which gave them a degree of freedom from political and religious control not seen elsewhere. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-modern-science-arise-in-the-Judeo-Christian-West-rather-than-other-world-cultures This concerns China. https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-China-develop-modern-science-during-the-same-time-as-Europe If modern science did not arise in Europe then perhaps it could arise in China or the Middle East but later and different.