If you think ghosts exist, why aren't the grave robbers afraid to steal from the dead? Are ghosts helpless mostly?
Do you know of any reported incident by Police/FBI where Grave Robbers behaved strangely because they got punnished by ghosts?
If you think ghosts exist, why aren't the grave robbers afraid to steal from the dead? Are ghosts helpless mostly?
I think I asked this question before. But I am not sure. How can a skeptic fear ghosts? Anyways what is the fear of ghosts? Why would we be spooked if we just saw a ghost? It means Nobel prize in physics. So why fear it? What is there to be scared of? Why don't we wish "please stand front of me and reveal yourself if you exist, so I can win the nobel prize for physics?". I don't kind of understand the fear of ghosts.
As a skeptic what category of paranormal claims do you think is the most silliest? Can you rate them from least silly to most silly?
A. Telepathy Psychic powers
B. Near Death Experiences/Out of Body Experiences (Consciousness independent of brain)
C. Reincarnation
D. Ghosts (Ok be honest with this one, don't tell me it is silly if you are afraid of ghosts)
E. UFOs
F. Meditation Levitation Mind power/ Nirvana
G. Creationist God
Could it be that NDE of ancient people gave rise to religious believes?
Hi I was wondering weather it would be possible to create a high quality lie detector that can be used for a wide variety of purposes.
- For interrogating suspects, use in law etc.
- For understanding children(since they make up random stories),
- For investigating paranormal claims (Since people do fraud)
So my idea is to be able to get a score from the subject so that I can say how confident I can be about their honesty.
We can of course use AI to make sure their logic fits. But I am thinking more like studying brain signals. Furthermore is it possible to fool the lie detector once trained on it?
well I used to use plastic numbers I got as a present as pedestrians when I was playing with my toy car, only a few were left in the end and they became my favorite numbers.
I used a shoe box as a bus and slippers and shoes as passengers. I would push the "bus" and on "bus halt" I would drop the "passengers" off.
I removed the "girlish" head of a plastic doll and used the rest of the body as a Tarzan action figure. (Tarzan was kind of naked)
I used tree leaves as soldiers and created military camps and dropped stones on them as bombs, then I counted the causalities, dead means the midrib is broken, wounded means damage else where. I also made small bows and arrows and shot them to play robin hood.
Played with a toy for a while, then crushed it with a rock and set it on fire, the only toys I didn't burn were the dinosaurs, but dog bit the head off T-rex,
How do human calculators compute like that? How does the brain do it?
Hi I was wondering weather it would be possible to create a high quality lie detector that can be used for a wide variety of purposes.
- For interrogating suspects, use in law etc.
- For understanding children(since they make up random stories),
- For investigating paranormal claims (Since people do fraud)
So my idea is to be able to get a score from the subject so that I can say how confident I can be about their honesty.
We can of course use AI to make sure their logic fits. But I am thinking more like studying brain signals. Furthermore is it possible to fool the lie detector once trained on it?
If I don't believe in Free Will, What are your strongest arguments against it? I appreciate good established arguments over personnel theories, but everything is welcome
If you know lot of geometry and topology, Do you think it is possible we live in higher dimensions than 3, but our brain adapted to be in 3d because 4d would be too complicated? And somehow we can compress everything in those high dimensions to 3d and still survive competitively? I am not talking about compactified dimensions in string theory. Also in 4d our brain can fold in much more intricate ways to store more information. May be we can't find any logical pattern in our brain because it is projected from 4d.
When you answer this question think about what is topologically special about 3d, and weather it is because it is because of human bias or by actual mathematical reason.
(I was so happy with learning mathematics and physics until I came across things like NDE and reincarnation stories, if they are true, then our reality is not real reality, and we can only hope to comprehend this real reality through mathematics. People in NDE report being able to see through walls, may be they see through 4d?)
So if you didn't have a option to be human, what other animal would you be? Would you be a predator like the eagle, lion, hyena, wolf, or a herbivore like cow, bull, horse, donkey, or an omnivore like pig, rats, rabbits, monkeys? Would you just chose to be an ape like the chimpanzee ? A dolphin, a whale? and why?
Is their any recorded reports about people having being animals in their past lives?
Those that believe consciousness can survive death, how does consciousness function?
Those stories about NDE and reincarnation suggest consciousness actively doing things such as seeing colors, people as they actually appeared. I mean can't see things outside without eyes, can't process thoughts without a brain. So what is your theory of how this happens?
Strange that no one said they were executed in the French Revolution, even though many have said they were world war victims. Anyone has anything on this?
I created this by accident in Gemini , when I asked it to make it more blue. What is this beautiful technique called? The transformation to the bottom version. It looks like photography quality in old movies.
I saw someone interested in Godel numbering because he thought enumeration of Turing programs is not rigorous. Is this a real concern? Of course, I see that Logic is more complicated than computational theory because we need quantifiers. In Computational theory this kind of thing is handled by oracles. So there are arithmetic orders rather than orders of Logic,
So what exactly is the physicalist view of consciousness? How do they explain it?
So what exactly is the non-physicalist view of consciousness? How do they explain it?
Don't they both agree that consciousness is fundamental? and how do things like paranormal psychological things become possible or impossible relative to those view points?
Do they accept that our regality is much more complex or just a tiny bit complex than our current understanding? Which wins the Occam's Razor prize?
Is there a free LLM for asking mathematics questions besides ChatGpt and Gemini? I am working on computational theory stuff and no one around knows much of it. This subreddit don't even have a flair for it. So I need a LLM to help me answer some questions,
I am not in robotics, but I have an idea from very long time ago. So people became really good at programming with AI right? So I thought, maybe they turned all of the environment in to a 3d model, and instead of training the robot in the real world, they trained it in the 3d computer model initially to get the neural network marginally good. Then they made a prototype and trained it in the real world so weights and physics would be more realistic and that fine tuned the neural network they had originally from computer simulations. Is that how they did it?
