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by nbulka 8y ago
Could those stars then potentially have thoughts or actions?
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by nbulka 8y ago
You may want to temper your claims with "based on the currently accepted Standard Model" or "with high probability." Because paradigm shifts occur.
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by nbulka 8y ago
one cigarette + laying-on-your-back nap = lucid dream
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by nbulka 9y ago
Or the models and maths fail at a certain threshold.
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by nbulka 9y ago
There's actually a lot science requires a person to accept outside of data. The law of excluded middle comes to mind ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_thought#The_three_tradi... Science also uses induction
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by nbulka 9y ago
Newton discovered certain patterns that worked. He invented a theory, a way to speak about them. They are indeed an invention, though, because they aren't accurate at very small distances or relatively fast speeds. pun intended.
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by nbulka 9y ago
Who invented a table? What even is a table? Or a cotton gin for that matter? A patent? because that sounds awfully like a theory...
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by nbulka 9y ago
Well ... The Institute for Advanced Study is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel, after their immigration to the United States. ... founded in 1930 by American educator A
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by nbulka 9y ago
Many famous scientists were interested in philosophical questions like the nature of reality or "is God real?" and are only known as scientists because they had these ultimately philosophical concerns.
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by nbulka 9y ago
https://books.google.com/books?id=KHezRs7nsAgC&pg=PA45&sourc...
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by nbulka 9y ago
Only a truly great scientist gets mentioned as contributing to the philosophy of science, or is characterized also as a logician on wikipedia. That's often because they were pursuing some philosophical riddle which they were more conce
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by nbulka 9y ago
Check out algorithmic information theory: https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0210035.pdf