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I was using the general definition of the word theory, since we have already established that you all do not understand the idea of reasonable doubt. You all claim to be intellectuals, but you know nothing other than your science theories, you do not even have any facts. Haha pathetic little men, keep your computers and your science, I'm leaving now, you're very boring, and unintelligent. Good day (barely) gentlemen.

Zeno's main idea was that "It is", even if you say it isn't, you've already contradicted yourself, because you've admitted that "It does not exist" but simply not existing is itself an existence. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI'm just curoius, what are your thoughts on evolution? does evolution extend to the point of being fat louts who eat McDonald's cheeseburgers while talking on their blue-tooth headsets driving down the road downloading illegal MP3'a to their Iphones and smiling their pharmaceutically induced smiles from all the Prozac they took before they went to work?

Zeno and Socrates have never been proven incorrect because they cannot be, any attempt to say otherwise would be a contradiction. Their theories are just as applicable now as they were in their time.

Then I will have done my good deed for the day my friend. haha Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedas to your references of my fallacious thoughts and logic, I suppose you believe yourself to know more than Zeno and Plato, since I have essentially just quoted them... interesting.

The atomic bomb dropped by the 'Enola gay', killed more people than the entire black plague, and as to your technology, what of the firearm? and I'm sure you can find lots of information regarding the fire-bombings of dresden and other plagues of technology.

If I jump off a building I'll never land, because I'l have to go halfway first.

empericism is itself a philosophy, hahaha. Humble yourself, for just as Zeno, Socrates, etc. you know nothing, we all know nothing. And I'm sure Zeno would quite easily out-wit you my friend.

I will present you with plenty of evidence when I return from my trip my friend, I am a history professor, these things I know, just as you know your sciences. I am interested in your "profession" (I do not know if it is your profession, but I am assuming) which is why I am here, albeit your arguments thus far have been less than stellar.

interesting, so, something that does not conform to your independent view of reality is labeled as untruth?

haha a very ignorant response my friend, people have reverted back after using technology many times throughout history without experiencing anything like 95% of the population dying or anything even remotely close to that morbid conclusion. In fact, the Meiji Restoration of Japan, one of the happiest times, and healthiest, was the result of the reversion from the gun back to the "primitive" weapons such as the yari and the sword. Technology has ended more lives than it has saved, it is an undeniable truth. as a side note, have you read the news lately in regards to North Korea threatening to declare war on the united states?

your arguments assume that the term reasonable has a quantifiable meaning. What to one man seems reasonable can to another seem to be complete folly. relate this to the philosophy of Zeno, he argued that motion was impossible, he stated that: " even granting motion, one could never arrive anywhere, not even to such a simple goal as a door. Before one can get to the door, you must go halfway, but before you can go halfway, you must go halfway of the remaining halfway, but before you can do that, you must go halfway of the halfway, but before you can go halfway, you must go halfway. When does this argument end? Never! It goes on for infinity. Therefore, even something so simple as motion would be impossible, even if it were possible" so you see my friends, nothing can be proven beyond a doubt, even a reasonable doubt, as these are not measurable quantities, and even things that are apparently measurable have an inherent un-measurability about them.

yes but this still does not answer the question, Why do we NEED to navigate a plane through a 10-G turn. the answer is, we don't. The only things we really need are food, oxygen, and water, everything else is simply circumstantial. Man has created for himself problems that are beyond his own limitations, and rather than accepting those limitations, attempts to overcome them with machines.

I believe what the post above me is saying is that a person in a state of conjecture mistakes an image for reality. ? correct me if I'm wrong.

It is my opinion that a machine will never be able to perform on the same level as a human being without a human being providing it with some type of instruction. Even if it is possible, Artificial Intelligence is not needed anyways, what is it that you need a machine to accomplish with it's own "mind" that you cannot accomplish with your own mind and some initiative? I think this is one of the fundamental problems with the world today, laziness. Everyone wants artificial intelligence to do things for them, to make life easier, but I tell you that hard work has made man prosper for thousands of years now and hard work is what the world will return to one day, when the sciences finally go beyond their intended objectives.

"What cannot be done is to prove a theory to be true with no doubt whatsoever." The same as I said, simply phrased differently and now you are entering in to the realm of philosophy, since many philosophers have speculated that nothing can be proven to a point of no doubt. so to explain, scientific theory is no more valid than biblical theory, it just has a mathematical nature about it and seems (to the limit of our senses and apparent understanding) to conform to patterns and be re-produced.