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RabbitLuvr
I love rabbits.
When I say I believe in science, I mean I don't believe anything that's not science.
If it can't be scientifically proven or observed, I don't think it exists.
Assuming a few things (like easy calculations), then it's true
(or could be true). The reality is that if time extents to infinity, then there would have to be an infinite number of calculations, which is impossible. It'd also be extremely time consuming to do for a small container of gasses, since there'd be a lot of gas molecules even in that small container.But just assume you have a really fast computer.
The three body problem deals with the issue of interacting particles (gravity commonly but also EM forces). I stated idealized gas (which is a way to model gases as pointlike, have no intermolecular interactions, and have purely elastic collisions).
So yes, as we add more interactions and make the system more like what we observe (adding intermolecular forces for instance), it becomes increasingly complicated, very quickly.
Which is a good point. I originally limited my 'predictive' example to an idealized gas because of these and other complications and stated if you could know the velocity and position of such particles.
To add to that complication though, we have QM and even in Newtonian physics, indeterminacy exists. Given that, we can't be predictive for very long into the future (let alone the computational/calculation issues).
I like the idea of not believing in anything, but viewing the world in terms of assumptions and truth intervals (or probabilistic uncertainties) for statements.
yakherder
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I wish they'd differentiate between the subject of science, as it is commonly used, and the scientific method of analysis, as a process of inquiry which is applicable to pretty much any question to which facts may be applied.
I don't believe in science, I believe in the scientific method. Science is just as susceptible to flaws as any other thing people can believe.
yakherder
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yakherder
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He named himself Ginger Queen when he went bowling. That's enough to earn my vote.
yakherder
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And here I thought that's pretty much what a president's purpose was. To be a symbol while having no real actual power
FortyTwo
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Art is something that people happen to enjoy. It probably touches on the fact that our brains have become so crazy complicated that we need some way to express the emotions that we can now analyze because they serve a more complex purpose in our lives than just survival. It's cool but it's not magical, it's just an expression of things that are happening. Even if we don't fully understand them, and even if we never will, it doesn't mean they don't work in a specific way.
Oh poo on all of you.
There is a point to Life. Each and every one of us has a purpose we need to strive for to keep life being, well, life. Even all you are able to strive for is just to maintain your person - that's still a point, a purpose. I don't believe we all have a Purpose that we were Born To Do, as I don't buy into the whole predestination thing (kinda nonsense if you ask me); but neither do I think our brains are nothing but supercomputers, as suggested above. There is something unquantifiable about Life - something that science cannot explain, that an equation will never beable to work out. A "soul" if you will (although I find that word - and all the baggage it comes with - problematic), a spark, a desire - a drive deep down in our very being - to make the world wonderful in our own unique way. And I don't think this spark is unique to human life.
And I am neither religious or an optimist - as someone suggested upthread. Neither am I overly romantic, I consider myself a realist - a realist who can still maintain her faith in humanity.
Let me just say this: it is very easy to be sentimental and sentimentality is a part of life. But it is also the same kind of thing as every single other feeling. That "unquantifiable" part of life is just a feeling created by something quantifiable.
We have birds nesting in our garden...building a nest for their babies...Next doors cat has just tried to get at the nest.
Cats are nasty horrible creatures. I do destest them so. Sorry I know alot of you guys have them as pets but I do not see the appeal...at all.
NB-Of course I would never hurt or wish harm on one...
Cats are nasty horrible creatures. I do destest them so. Sorry I know alot of you guys have them as pets but I do not see the appeal...at all.
NB-Of course I would never hurt or wish harm on one...
I so love cats but I understand your sentiment when it comes to their natural instinct. I always had outdoor cats until recently. It is so much more enjoyable not having to worry about them leaving me some unwanted "gift" at my door.
Blobbenstein
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cats become so focussed when they are hunting, it's weird......I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be a small mouse being played with by a cat.
I can understand why people don't like cats, I didn't like them at all until I was a teenager. My cats don't catch anything since I stopped letting them go out when it was dark and now we have the enclosure they have no chance of catching anything.Birds kill too though, I have had birds catching frogs and dropping them into my garden.
Birds kill too though, I have had birds catching frogs and dropping them into my garden. ******* horrible, I should imagine.
The thing that irked me was that my neighbours were outside...so probably knew the cat was in our garden. It actually jumped up the wall to try and reach the nestbox. Vile thing. Probably went to **** in some poor sods vegetable patch.
I know other animals kill but cats are people pets, they dont NEED to kill to survive. Those birds probably meant to eat the frog.
HA...Advice on a help website:
To keep visiting cats away from your plants place a litter box in your garden & keep it clear of poo when they use it or make one area into a cat friendly dirt box for them to use.
How about no.
A lot of animals kill for fun, not just cats - dogs, foxes, any animal in the weasel family, etc. - the list is long. It's built into their genes as part of their survival strategy - practice makes perfect. Unlike humans, they don't have the intellectual capacity to understand the effect of what they are doing, so they cannot be faulted, not logically.
