Science problem (Black vs White) NRR
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sounds like it'd be a perfect time to say "everything is everything, son," and walk away.
i'm deep like that.
i'm deep like that.
Your son reminds me of my ten-year-old nephew. He's high-functioning Asperger's with a very high IQ. He thinks this makes him smarter than most people (actually, I suspect his failure of a father regularly tells him as much), which in a way he is, but he doesn't realize that he lacks the necessary life experience and education to actually school anyone.
He explained to me a couple of months ago that he was trying to figure out how to make a perpetual motion machine, something which, he was eager to point out, has been attempted by great engineering minds the world over. He said his idea involved only a fan and an electric generator. With my limited scientific knowledge I tried to explain that in his situation there would still be a net energy loss. His response was along the lines of, "Oh, I thought you could just push the fan blade to start it and it would keep going forever."
He has these grand ideas, but lacks the level of schooling to actually do anything with all his brainpower, and I think it frustrates him.
He explained to me a couple of months ago that he was trying to figure out how to make a perpetual motion machine, something which, he was eager to point out, has been attempted by great engineering minds the world over. He said his idea involved only a fan and an electric generator. With my limited scientific knowledge I tried to explain that in his situation there would still be a net energy loss. His response was along the lines of, "Oh, I thought you could just push the fan blade to start it and it would keep going forever."
He has these grand ideas, but lacks the level of schooling to actually do anything with all his brainpower, and I think it frustrates him.
""what would exist if there was nothingness"?
Nothingness. To say that nothingness exists is a semantic error, not a contradiction of concepts."
I disagree. there can be no such thing as 'nothing' as there always has to be 'something' for that 'nothing' to exist inside of.. eg there is nothing inside the box, there is nothing hapeing at the club, there is nothing worth buying from that record store, there is nothing iside the fuel tank etc etc.
So even in the old creations myths that talk about 'nothingness' they refer to a infinite dark expansion of water that contains the roots of everything.
There is also a whole school of eastern philospohy a friend of mine was really into that ponders thought vs non thought. eg where do your thoughts come from, what are they before they exist as thoughts, do they have a 'body' to them, is the absence of thought equal to nothingness or is that something in itself.... etc
PS Skel...keep encouraging your kid to podner these questions, its cats like that who will be inventing new shit in the future. Leaders never follow.
Nothingness. To say that nothingness exists is a semantic error, not a contradiction of concepts."
I disagree. there can be no such thing as 'nothing' as there always has to be 'something' for that 'nothing' to exist inside of.. eg there is nothing inside the box, there is nothing hapeing at the club, there is nothing worth buying from that record store, there is nothing iside the fuel tank etc etc.
So even in the old creations myths that talk about 'nothingness' they refer to a infinite dark expansion of water that contains the roots of everything.
There is also a whole school of eastern philospohy a friend of mine was really into that ponders thought vs non thought. eg where do your thoughts come from, what are they before they exist as thoughts, do they have a 'body' to them, is the absence of thought equal to nothingness or is that something in itself.... etc
PS Skel...keep encouraging your kid to podner these questions, its cats like that who will be inventing new shit in the future. Leaders never follow.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D.."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D.."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
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