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What does Errol Flynn mean by the quote, "I am an octagon of contradiction which in itself may be no contradiction."

So he would adjust to certain groups, he would conform to the ways of others he would be around. I totally understand that, I think we all do that at some point in our lives if not all the time. We all have to adjust and conform to the people around us, we are all social at one point or another. You act appropriately when you go in for an interview just as you act way different when you are out at a bar with friends. If someone lives in this time we have to adjust appropriately. Imagine someone not being able to adjust, they would be seen as an outcast and not be able to get jobs or socialize with people. We act entirely different when we are at work in responsible mode, then at home hanging on our couch or in a classroom with a teacher present. We all know the difference in the ambiance and environment. And with those differences we act accordingly.

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Why do we mistakenly believe that chants or prayers or petitions work? How does science explain such coincidences?

We believe in "chants" or voodoo because we allow our minds to think that it is true. We set our minds into believeing in something then to us it is infact believeable. For example if you try 10 times to chant something to happen and only 2 times it actually happens then the numbers dont matter because your a believer due to the 2 times it did happen. Its like magic, you see a magic trick and its believeable. Watching a magic show infact tricks you into believing it is real, in our minds it is real. But if you go behind the scenes to see the reality of it then you will realize they are nothing more than tricks themselves.

Crop Circles

I am sorry but I have never and will never believe in crop circles. Believe that it is aliens or other creatures that are doing these crop circles. I will never believe that Aliens or extraterrestrials have anything to do with crop circles because it is not a proven fact. I have yet to see an alien or creature from another planet on our earth, let alone in the middle of a field designing a crop circle. I infact believe that it is performed becuase they are real, crop circles exist and thats the only proven fact that we have. But it is surely done by human beings. A crop circle is forsure in my mind performed by human beings, maybe trying to fool others in believeing their are extraterestrials out there or maybe for a deeper reason. We dont even know why crop circles are done, what is the true meaning behind a crop cirlce? Are the intrecit designs something we dont understand? Do they stand for something we are not piecing together? It could be humans messing around or it could be humans trying to tell us something we dont know. We have no idea in this world what is behind a crop circle and I tell you it is very interesting.

Re: Errol Flynn

So he would adjust to certain groups, he would conform to the ways of others he would be around. I totally understand that, I think we all do that at some point in our lives if not all the time. We all have to adjust and conform to the people around us, we are all social at one point or another. You act appropriately when you go in for an interview just as you act way different when you are out at a bar with friends. If someone lives in this time we have to adjust appropriately. Imagine someone not being able to adjust, they would be seen as an outcast and not be able to get jobs or socialize with people. We act entirely different when we are at work in responsible mode, then at home hanging on our couch or in a classroom with a teacher present. We all know the difference in the ambiance and environment. And with those differences we act accordingly.

FLAME ON

Homosexuality seems like an on going problem in society. I myself see nothing wrong with homosexuality. The problem is that people use the word "GAY" or "FAG" as a bad word, people say this to others in a derogatory way. When you say words like that to others in a bad way then they are seen as bad people. As an example the word "bitch" is used in such a bad way that if you call someone this word its an insult, but in reality the definition is just mierly a female dog or a small animal like a fox. The word itself was made into a derogatory term and used in a bad fashion. If I am calling for my female dog and use that word everyone will look my way and think I am cussing at someone and the same goes for the words gay and fag. I have no idea why or how these terms in society became so volgure but they have and its makes the situation of a homosexual even harder to cope with in society.

Re: Voodoo Voodoo

Voodoo does seem rather magical. Like when it is chanted or used the desired outcome happens but I believe it is all in our minds. We wish for something and if it comes to us even just that once we believe it is true. Like the quote that you reffered too, it seems if it worked 2 out of 10 we believe it is true. And when we believe it is true in our minds, then our mindset is set to believe in voodoo. Even magic, when I go to a famous magic show with a magician thats known for his magic I tend to believe in magic. I watched one on TV one year and I believed magic was real for many years to follow. Until one day I seen an episode that revieled how the magician accomplished his magic. It was all fake, they showed how every trick was in reality a trick. It was heartbreaking but atleast I knew the truth. Just to think I believed in magic until I seen how it was all false with my own eyes.

The Mummy vs. the Wolfman

Egyption immortality! To keep intact the physical body. Death was very known to human beings, even way back in the past. They wanted a way to keep the body intact. Imagine, advancing science to a point where we can prolong the deration of life in our human bodies. That is so crazy, but even if we can maintain the human body we cant live forever. I think we are rather scared of transitioning into death, so we come up with ways to try and perserve our lives for as long as possible.

I dont think the body can be perserved forever, nor do I think its right to do so. No one would be left to enjoy or experience anything in that body so why perserve it? Death is something that is going to come no matter if we want it or not. Its the inevitable so why fight it? Why come up with a way around it or a way to stop it? I know we are scared of the unknown but just like birth we all have to go through death at one point or another.

Voodoo Voodoo

I have never believed in Voodoo personally, but then again I have experienced times where I would chant it and the desired affect would happen. Once when I was a young girl I sat at the bottom of my great aunts stairs and chanted with my cousins 'If Voodoo is real, something with come rolling down these stairs" and I promise you that 2 out of the 10 times we said that chant it happened! The first time was an old coca-cola can, my aunt collected coca-cold products that were antiques. The second time it was more like a thump and a sign fell, rolling down to the bottom of the stairs. It made us run and scream, we were young but it was rather scary knowing that voodoo could be true. After many years of thinking about Voodoo and how real it seemed, I came to realize that it is all in our minds.Voodoo is in our minds, we want to believe it is real so we allow it to be real in our minds. Anything could have fallen from my aunties stairs at any moment and it would happen quite frequently. There were times when thing came rolling down those old stairs and no one chanted or even thought about voodoo. Things can happen at anytime but we hype our minds to believe that it is real so we tend to believe it. To me voodoo gives people hope, like they can have control over something at that very moment and even if it happens just once then they believe it in their minds to the fullest. Because even those other 8 times that nothing happened after we all chanted voodoo we still believed it was real.

Re: The Perfect Coke

That is a great thing to point out in this video, the fact that his mother was a horrible cook could of had alot to do with him feening for his taste buds to be fullfiled by a cold coke. I think the ambiance of the lady serving him his coke really made it a special feeling as well. I was just talking about how important the ambiance is, like if you have appealing things then your eye will stop in that direction. I also spoke about the differences between WANT and NEED, do you think that he turned his WANT for a Coke into a NEED? To me when you dont really NEED it and say you do, its an addiction like your feening and when you finally get it your going to say its the best (perfect coke).

The perfect Coke

Honestly, I watched this video and perceived it totally different then others. For one, I myself can not enjoy a meal without a coke. And Im being completely honest. If I had a wonderfull hot feast infront of me and did not have a soda, I could not enjoy the food that I am eating and in most cases wont even eat the meal. Im not sure if this is because im addicted to the taste of a cold coke (carbination), or its all in my mind that I wouldnt be able to taste the food the same. It could very well be in my head that my mind is made up, I think about a meal and the coke completes it. When I seen the video I related to the enjoyment of having the taste of a cold coke, so I was side tracked and asked myself if it was in our minds that we NEED something we dont really need. And then the packaging and abiance (whos serving the soda, how others enjoy soda) that makes us WANT it and feel there is a NEED for it. My WANTS become NEEDS and it gives you a feeling of addiction.

Re: Time Machine

If I was able to see the future in the time machine I dont know if I would be able to do that. I would be rather scared to see the future played out for me right in front of my eyes. What if something bad happens and there is nothing I can do to change it from happeneing. And just knowing the exact time its going to happen is like a ticking time bomb in our minds. But to travel back into the past would be pointless unless we are able to travel back to change the outcome of something, like a bad mistake we made or to warn other about a horrific tragedy. Only go back or forth in time to change things, but if we are ineligable of chenging the outcome then it would be kind of pointless.

First Time Machine

Imagine a time machine that starts from the day you turn the machine on, not to go back in time from now to the past but rather to start today and years from now you can go to this day. However this time machine would work I think its fascinating to know that there is a time machine that is capable of taking you to a different year day and time then the one you are presently in. I would think something like this is impossible, uncapable of accomplishing. Its strikes me as amazing just to know the things we are capable of doing and how far technology has come. Now if you would ask me if I would use this time machine my answer would definitly be NO but I would be very interested in watching someone else use this, recording exactly what I observe.

Re: The Codex Funeral, Books are Dead

A huge pro that I see about having a book in your IPAD or IPHONE is that they are portable, they are very convienient. You can read them in the comfort of your own home or take them on the go and read them at a local starbucks or at the park while the kids play. I love the convienience of having more than one book (which paper books can be very big) in such a small portable item. I even dowload several books at one time. The only con I see is that I have no idea if it is affecting my retinas, I have bad vision as it is and I feel a need to blink or even close my eyes for a few seconds after reading a few pages on my IPAD. Also if your battery dies then you have 0 books..

Ray Kurzweil

TECHNOLOGY!!!! Can you believe that in 2020 we will have computers so powerful that they can simulate the human brain!! Technology is way too powerful and growing way too fast. A million times more powerful 20 years from now. Smart phones are moving soo fast, they have apps forjust about everything you could imagine. Computers in the future will be far more powerful then even the human brain. It kinda scares me to know how fast technology is moving, a computer that is far smarter then us dosent sound good to me. I look at technology in both ways, good and bad. Good becuase we have so much information and information leads to knowledge but what if this knowledge is used in bad ways by terrorists? Computers can teach us just about anything we want to know and learn, google can give me answers to anything I desire. But that also means it can give anyone those answers, the good people the bad people and the ones that do ugly things. I love technology so much, I love having a smart phone that can give me directions or answer my questions like where is the nearest gas station, I love seeign a vehicle that can practicaly park itself and has cameras in the rear for extra safety. But technology is moving far too fast and far too powerful for the likes of me. It can be a scary thing if people are using this technology for BAD.

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At the end of the Gumby show they showed Gumby being spred with ash and he became the incarnation of spiritual love, a shrine was even created for Gumby. When Wolfgang makes that comment, about being not even wrong, its because basically he is saying that not only is it not right but its not even on the wrong side, its nothing to contemplate about. Its not right or wrong because its not on a level to even contemplate about!

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Personally this video is my favorite so far, it describes me. It explains my love for coke and how I cant enjoy a meal without it. But in reality it is all in our minds. We can see what we want to see as "perfect". We can choose what we want to choose as "the perfect taste". My love for coke is the same love that this man has, I cant eat a good meal without having a cold refreshing coke. But when I take a step back and listen to how silly that sounds I begin to realize that it is I that have made it that way. We inquire a ceratin taste, like the taste and then cant live without it. In reality ofcourse we can, but in our minds we cant. It can be the abiance, it can be the wait, it can be different things in life that give you the "want" or "need" to find the perfect in something, and when you find it in your mind its amazing.

Re: The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic Image

Yes, dreams that become so realistic are rather scary becuase you can wake up in a daze and not know your surrounding or what time and day it is. I know that everyone has had a dream about falling, like your falling down and you wake up all shakin up, thats how real dreams can be! Adream can actually wake us up in such a scary way, that tells you how realistic it can be. HeHe about the late fee =)

Disneyland is a joyous place but in the pirates of the carribean I totally get that feeling that someone is watching you, it has to be the ambiance. Im sure thats what they want you to feel on that ride, like a little creeped out. But how do they add the lighting just right to make the characters look at you, like eyeball you right in your eyes. Its rather amazing, especially the new ride at universal studios transformers 3d..Its amazing how realistic technology really is.

Re: The Disneyland of consciousness

That is very true, you went to Disneyland knowing these caracters were fictional. Since you had an idea that these were nothing more than comuters you were aware that they were fake and your mindset was set. But for me, it was a little different. The first time I went to Disneyland I was just a young child. I had no idea that these characters were fictional and man made. I thought as a child that everything that moves and talks is real, and the haunted mansion ride was the worst. I remember riding that ride and believeing in ghosts, believeing in the holograms and whatever else I seen. And its kind of scary becuase even now at 27 years old I go to Disneyland and still believe, until I tell myself these are fictional.

Patricia Churchland on Neurophilosophy

The two questions is the nature of knowledge and conciousness. Just a brain and yet it has awarness and is able to allow you to talk, are we just molecules????? Watching this video gave me a clearer understanding on what philosophers 2 main questions are and how that is broken down. And as I watched I realized that even with all of the information we gathered we still go back to Plato and Aristotle and they were philosophers from so long ago. We have come such a far way with technology and vehicles and architecture but its so interesting how we are still in the same area regaurding these questions in philosophy. We still ask the same questions and even with all the answers we have thus far it goes back to the very question we start out with, its a wide spread question. Patricia talks about how religious philosophers can be inaccurate, and how we talked about what "matter" means.

A Glorious Piece of Meat: An Overture on Consciousness

Your brain is just a piece of meat? It seems so harsh to hear such a statement.We are more than just neurons firing, or atleast we believe we are! To me, it seems our brains control our conciousness. The video talks about if we would get hit in the head with something hard and for that second we forget whats going on around us and even blank out then that means to me that our brains are our conciousness, they are the power behind everything. They are like our personal computers. My last post was about how we confuse computers for humans and it reminded me of this video because of the first thing that came to my mind "our brains are our personal computers", if something walks and talks and moves we see that as a living thing. This video was very informal and taught me that everything I know comes through my conciousness, inturn comes from our very own brain.

Radiance without an Edge: Wisdom in 56 seconds

It is LIFE and not DEATH that is scary. That is exactly what this video relayed. No one can recal their birth, the time they became concious, it is impossible to recal that second that you were born. And believe it or not, death of consciousness is not something we experience either. It seems like everyone including myself is scared of death because its the unknown adn we have no idea what we are going to experience but according to this video there is nothing experienced at all. Im not too sure if I truely believe that, I have herd of people dieing and talking about the feeling they had and how they travel through a bright light at fast speeds. They all had the same answer as to how they felt and what they seen exactly. I myself believe we feel the death of conciousness, as for the birth of conciousness we have the answer and its we do not remember the feeling of being born, but death is totally different in my perspective.

The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic Image

All I have to say is that technology is on such a deep level that its evolving and changing soo fast. Watching this video reminds me of my trips to Disneyland. When I was a child, even until now I honestly thought the characters in the rides were so life like. I was horribly scared the first time I rode pirates of the carribean, I remember looking at the pirates and seeing real live human men starring right into your eyes. They are able to move and open their mouths and blink. One that was sitting on top of the bridge even drinks out of his beer bottle. Im 27 years old and know for a fact that these pirates are made from technology and I still doubt myself. On the haunted mansion there is a part on the ride when your looking at yourself in the mirror and a ghost appears right next to you, these holograms are so life like that it even scares you for a bit. Our minds are able to play tricks on us. But it has a lot to do with this technology and how far it has come. Then again when I think about my dreams and how people in my dreams are so realistic and when you wake up it feels like whatever it was that you dreamt about just happened to you in real life. And dreams have nothing to do with technology in any way. It makes you think about how easily our minds are fooled.

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It definitly says that we are very easily intriged and allow illusions to become realistic. It understandable that humans make mistakes, but we should recieve some sort of credit because of the fact that these computers are performing with human intelligence. Computers can be created to look like a human and talk and move (a robot), they can also sit on our desks and do just about anything you want them to do. We cant help but to be tricked in our minds that there is some sense of being in these computers. And the worst part is everyone uses computers and we rely heavily on them, they do so much for us that we carry them with us (ipad) (smart phone) daily. We as people are easily fooled but only because of the technology behind these computers. Technology is somewhere it has never been, above and behond!

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Amobius strip is an endless surface that transforms into something that it is not when someone tries to reorient the strip itself. They are similar becuase when one reduces consiousness into parts anything that follows will be lost. 

A first person narrative is totally different from a third person narrative because first person narratives are in the perspective of the person speaking or narrating. Third person narratives are in the perspective of a person that is not the characters in the story. Third person is someone that wasent even around when whats in question even occured. The story easily changes and the context is different becaue it is a different person's experience. Its like the "telephone game" I used to play in 2nd grade, you sit in a circle with your entire class and when the first person tells the second person in their ear the word it changes, by the time it gets around the circle then that word is an entirely different word.

How does evolutionary theory connect with quantum mechanics? Feel free to do a google search to buttress your answers here. Clue: Think of Brian Greene meeting Charles Darwin.

 

 

Mutation is the key that connects Evolutionary theory and Quantum mechanics. Mutation is a change in sequence in your DNA. Evolutionary theory explains how cells undergo mutations, the advantaged genes always win against the disadvantaged and survive over all. As quantum mechanics is raw material for evolution while natural selection is more of a direction of evolution.

Brian Greene came up with something called the string theory. Scientist hope that string theory will unlock a huge mystery in our universe as to why and how gravity and quantum physics fit together. Charles Darwin believe that species have evolved from natural selection. Green believed that quantum mechanics helped evolution.

How did Socrates die?

Socrates was sentenced to death by drinking poisonous hemlock. His death was caused completely because of a man named Meletus. Meletus accused Socrates of corrupting the youth. Meletus said Socrates was inventing new gods and denying the existence of old gods. And looking back on the tragic event that occurred by Socrates death, there wasn't even enough evidence in court to prove that Socrates corrupted the youth. And now a days we have the freedom of speech and religion, so his death was very unfortunate and in some ways very wrong. It was as if he lived before his time.

 Socrates tried to lead people to find their own faith instead of following the faith that was already set in stone. He wasn't respected for this, people were used to only having faith for the gods that were already set in stone, not created.After Meletus had pointed fingers and accused Socrates, he still talked highly of Meletus and said he was a very wise man. Socrates himself was considered the wisest man in Athens, and was highly respected by the people their.Socrates believed his wisdom brought among jealousy, jealous people would feel of him. Meletus seen Socrates as a threat and in my opinion was very jealous of Socrates.I would even think it had alot to do with why Meletus wanted Socrates dead.

Re: What scares us most about death?

I totally agree, we have no idea what will happen to us when we die. Will it be painful? Will it be peaceful? And alot of people wonder about after life, will we be re born again? I use to believe that after we pass away we are reborn and have a different life. I know different people have different views on death and we have no real evidence and proof about what happens to us. Its definitly fear of the unknown. And the wierd part is sometimes people think of exactly how they are going to die, in an accident? Peacefully in bed? heart attack? Most of these ways are scary. And plus, it seems like in movies and stories that death is a scary thing to face. Movies and stories get to us and we become scared, it makes people think of their death. Even watching the news, some scary strories (true stories) about how people have passed away.

RE: aids in Africa

Africa still greatly suffers from aids and HIV. It makes me rather upset to see how far we have gone with technology and yet we still dont have a cure for HIV. Can you believe that we have apps that do pretty much everything you can think of, even one where you bump your phone up against another phone and it exchanges your numbers automaticaly! But still no cure for HIV.
And to think a baby is born with HIV, its the worst thing to be born with a desease that can kill you without having a choice. Born unhealthy, it saddens me deeply. Atleast most of us have a choice to use protection and keep ourselves healthy, some dont dont have that choice.

What is eliminative materialism? Please elaborate.

Eliminative materialim is the way people understand their own minds and how they are incorrect about what they understand about their minds. There are categories of consciousness that people classify themselves in, which are desire, love,motivation,anger,free-will ect. They say these categories fail to exist becuase they are mythic and religious explanations of human conciousness. This is something called "folk-psychology". They say that these categories or feelings are un true, an example is "love". It is a self-generated thought and has no meaning. I honestly think that if we were going by this theory we as humans would be un human-like.

Your teacher argues that philosophy done well is science and philosophy done poorly is. . . well, philosophy. What advantage is there with doing a philosophy predicated on science (Edward O. Wilson's Consilience) versus a more traditional route? What are the drawbacks to a purely scientific endeavor in this regard?

The definition of science is basically an individuals that build and organizes knowledge with explanations and predictions about our universe. Science is a method, and scientists go off of observation and experiment. Scientists develope models to explain how the world works. Science goes off of the fundamental laws of physics. And as we know philosophy studies questions that can be answered by obsevation and experiment. It all tells us what is true about our universe, E.O Wilson believed that knowledge has no boundaries and that all knowledge together can explain everything in this world.

E.O Wilson thought the idea that the way everone thinks should be based on physics. The law of physics evolve as we learned in the law of evoltion. He believed their was a way to unite all sciences.  He also had an idea of consiliance, which was that everything is connected together on the deepest level possible. We learned that everything is made up of positive and negativer early on in this class so I believe his idea is correct in every way.

Why is the theory of evolution so important in doing philosophy? More pointedly, why is the theory of evolution key to understanding why human beings behave the way they do? Focus on evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology when giving your answers. I also suggest being creative here and perhaps using your own life as a template to explain some aspects of evolution.

Evolutionary biology explains why humans change through the generations, physically and mentally. The whole theory of evolution is the reason for change and improvement, in ourselves as people. Our traits and genes adapt due to our environment, survival and diversity. And with all the new traits and genes we evolve into new species over time.

Charles Darwin stated that "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment". We as people have become modernized and adapted well to our environment. In result Evolutionary psychology is the same theory to explain how psychological traits evolve and adapt through time.

We all have many different traits and genes that develop, mainly intelligence, beauty,body structure etc. The theory of evolution is not just in our genes and traits, it bigger then that, it is in our work ethics and morals. Another example is in our values. Now with different cultures and age groups our values, morals and ethics have evolved and changed. They evolve just like our bodies and minds. The more you know about evolution, you know about life and have better ethics, morals and values. to follow.

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The fact that we dont know where we are going when we die. We dont know if it is painful or peaceful. What if we are re-born into another life, there are so many mysteries about death and no proof on what happens when we die. And another huge obstacle we are faced with is when and HOW we are going to die. Im sure we all have our imaginations flowing on how we are going to pass, but when you think of passing because of a heart attack or car accident it seems very painful, And to top it off the movies they make on death these days are really making our imaginations flow, the most grusome deaths are in most scary movies.

MAYA

Everything we think happens right now, occurs nano seconds before. Maya is Indian philosophy. It leads you to believe things that are not true. Illusions per say. The greatest Illusions or deceptions is within ourselves.

Watching the video I seen a couple demonstrations on how writing some parallel lines on a piece of paper and putting another piece of paper with parallel lines over it, the illusion moves in different ways. It seems that Illusions are so realistic we tend to believe they are truely real.

Flip video #7 Maya

Maya is an Indian word. It is from Indian philosophy, in so many words it means an illusion. Maya gives us a defininition on understanding real deception. So Maya basically describes deception in neuroscience. We can see things that are not truely there and thats an illusion. An example is when we see disturbing images and they burry there way into our memories and become illusions of other things in the disturbing illusions..

Evolution Trilogy

I believe that as we get older we feel lost in life because we are acting more and more not like ourselves. We change our character due to the environment we are in at the time. We adapt to others, if someone is acting a certain way then we adapt to the way they act.
Its our survival mode, it kicks in so much that we loose track of the person you really are and how your true character really is. Changes are going to take place no matter what, its inevitable. But with change we as people become different, our character changes, our deminor changes.

Darwins DNA

Everyone knows about Darwins theory of evolution. By now we have a lot of evidence that evolution is correct. But there are some religious people that do not accept the theory.
With all the proof of evolution, it seems that some people still have a different theory, it involves god. They believe God created everything andn everyone. With all the years and how far we have come scientificaly, its wierd to me how people have and believed other theorys (god).

In the famous Einstein/Bohr debate over the implications of quantum theory, who do you think won? Explain why and be sure to detail your answer with pertinent information related to quantum entanglement, the double-slit light experiment, and other strange factoids within physics. You don't have to side with either one, if you wish, and can present the pros and cons to each.

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr are two of the founders of quantum mechanics. The main difference between the two is that Einstein was on board with the principle of uncertainty. He believed that the world was run on classical physics laws instead of how god wants it.Einstein even went as far as making a comment that "god does not throw the dice", meaning he doesn't call the shots.

Einstein had many experiments, one was called the double-slit light experiment. This experiment demonstrates that matter and energy can have characteristics of both waves and particles. In this experiment a light source lights up a plate pieced by two parallel slits. The light went through the slits and you can see the results on a screen behind the plate. The results were not what Einstein expected, the light should have consisted strictly of particles. The experiment supported the principle of indeterminacy.

The debuts between the two lasted for the rest of their lives. Most believed Bohr was the ultimate winner by far, I don't think there was a winner between the two because there are too many laws and rules to how nature works and we are yet to figure out all of them.

In the magazine MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM (and in the film feature), it is argued that the reason many individuals have a problem with a purely scientific exploration in philosophy and religion is because of a misunderstanding of the term “matter.” Explain his argument and feel free to either support it with additional material or critique it.

People always seem to have a problem linking philosophy and religion due to a misunderstanding of the term "matter". Some religious people think that the term "matter" contradicts the bible and that in turn insults their religion. Religious people mainly feel that the term "matter", as defined makes them mierly a material. This links to the theory that we are all "beams of light".

 Even if we are all made of material or light we are all equal which makes people feel better knowing we all have a sense of equality.

Scientifically "matter" is defined as anything that occupies space and has mass. People consider matter and spirit opposite because not many people fully understand the true meaning of "matter". If we had a true meaning of "matter", a definition that doesn't change and is not out dated, then we would have a better understanding on the actual term.

An example is the film we watched on quantum thinking because it made me think of how we cant even define objects or things because we don't understand what they really are. We just make our own opinion on what these objects are but have no real definition formed.

"What lessons can human beings learn by understanding that there are limits to how much we can ultimately know?"

When I think of the word "limit", I think of a capacity. And in this case it is a capacity of information we already know. Weather it be in philosophy, physics,mathematics etc. its a limit because its only what we know for now. In time, just like our ancestors have done before we will know more and have more answers and questions that are greater then the ones we have now. Or even answers to the questions we have now, in time. We came this far over many years, and in many years from now we will be further with the limit of knowledge we have.

Why is String Theory potentially scientific and not merely wishful thinking? What its Feynman's definition of science?

String theory to me is that all objects in our universe are composed of strings and membranes of energy. Ive herd that string theory is the theory of everything, relatively young science.Scientist believe that sciences will eventually come together, or in one way or another link to eachother. Gravity and quantum physics link together. I dont believe its wishful thinking because there is a theory that gravity quantum physics work together.Feynman was a very interesting man and he was known as one of the best scientists in the world. He always thought if he cold come up with the theory of the very small he would have the answers for the very large.

Fabric of the cosmos

What if what we percieve is wrong? Things could be so different, as different as going in reverse. What if everything you did happened in reverse,its so crazy to think about but according to physics it is possible! This video had my imagination going crazy. thinking about all the new technology and where technology is going in years to come. We have went so far and to think that in as little as a few years from now we can really be so technologically advanced. Its amazing to me how far we have come and how absolutly anything seems possible.

Eliminative Materialism: God did it?

Basically the video explains how if math, physics,chemistry,sociology,psychology and philosophy does not explain it, then god did it. Another words if all else fails to give the explanation then god did it. And saying "god did it" is a perfectly good explanation because we have nothing else to eplain it.
Watching the video made me realize that people say that very often, is it always only because we dont have the answer for why it occured? Or how something occured? Is it the right resource to turn too? After we have exhausted everything else we simply say god did it, but yet its perfectly ok with everyone and understandable by everyone.

MANY-WORLDS

I got a perfect definition describing the many-world theory from wikipedia.com. Many-worlds means that all possible alternative histories and futures are real, each representing an actual universe or world itself. Just to think that life exists outside of earth is a huge thing. If there are others living the life that we are living, or others that know about us and we dont know that they even exist.
I truely believe that if there was life outside of our lives, meaning outside of earth we would know. It would be hard to say that there is a totally different universe that exists out there. Not impossible but without evidence of such a universe we have no idea if it could be true or just pondered upon.

GRAVITATION

To me I think gravity is nothing more than what gives weight to an object with mass and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped. Gravity is responsible for keeping the earth moon and sun in place. Imagine how our earth would be without gravity?Gravity is even responsible for the formation of tides.Without gravity imagine what would happen to oceans and lakes.
Imagine how we would be without a gravitation pull? It reminds me of when I would watch people in space, like the movie Apollo 13. They have no gravitational pull and basically just float around. We would not be able to function or get anywhere if we had no gravitational pull

Re: Electricity

Electricity is a necessity and a must have! Imagine we had no electricity in this world? We would be literally lights out after the sun goes down. Not be able to watch TV or charge your cell phone, cant even be online right now because we cant charge our laptops. I cant imagine how life would be without electricity.
Well if I think of a power outage we recently had then I get a better understanding of life without electricity. Now they even have those electric vehicles, it seems like electricity is starting to become even bigger now. We are resorting to the use of electricity and its a positive thing for our environment.

ELECTRIC SURFING

Matter composes our entire universe together and it holds together in an electrical nature. Protons have a positive charge, I always somehow knew that protons were positive because they started with PRO. And electrons have a negative charge. Both charges are equal between the proton and electron, which in turn attracts because they are opposite. When electrons move we have a current.
This video showed a discription of a positive plus and negative minus, it reminded me of a battery. Then I started thinking about all the uses of a battery and how they have become a necessity in every home. And seeing the discription in the video I realized that negative and positive balance out, even in a battery we use. Protons and electrons are the same anywhere in the world, the only thing that differs in a battery is the electrochemical reaction that makes the current flow.