It's self evident, e.g. axiomatic. Therefore scientific. Except to hucksters (or so they say).

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There are exceptions, revealed through hindsight. Einsteins theory of relativity wasn't accepted for quite a while, but now it is. It's the best we can do, deal with it.

What Tobias said.

I think this is an urban myth, whether you're talking about special or general relativity.

I used to argue with my sister about such silly things when we were about 10 years old, but I'm all better now. You can't possibly be serious about stuff like that or it'd mean learning to program games is a waste and you wouldn't be here on allegro.cc.

You mean like this?

Arthur, no offense, but you seem to be blinded by your senses.

Are there any practical implications? Does this idea in any way affect your life?

There are a number of posts here comparing the brain to a machine. We don't understand the brain. Physical phenomena tend to be taken advantage of by nature. To our greatest ability of detection, there is a truly random aspect to sub-atomic physics. If you are to really believe in science, you must accept that determinism is a belief. This is in the same vein as accepting that the earth is the center of the universe when all available (pre-telescopic) evidence suggests so with careful examination -actual historical recordings made to the limit of possible human eyesight suggested this as truth. Although it is perhaps not true, science is against you if you believe determinism.

Until we understand the mechanisms by which the brain determines what we call true (not just a few of its behaviors), I can't help but accept that the brain may not function by the rules we accepts machines to work by: deterministic principles. After all, relativity is the last thing I would call intuitive.

That said, I fully believe in the brain being an advanced machine. Marie Curie was a damned fool for believing that science alone should be examined almost in a depth-first manner. I am a fool too. The idea still resides in me that what "is" isn't physical atoms, but ideas. That's the meaning of "I think therefore I am". As for the soul, it's whatever compels me to believe that: probably a machine.

Stop trying to sound deep, people. You're giving me horrible flashbacks to my high school philosophy class.

I don't believe in god or other stuffs like that. I think we need to know more about us before trying to know what are we doing here or where we are going. Because all these questions are about those topics: "Why we are here?" "do we really exist?" "Why I'm alive?".

I think the most interesting and difficult question is: "Are we alive?".

Because even when we can obviously see a big difference between a rock and a human being, we can't actually say that that rock is lifeless just because is an inanimate object and we're alive because we're animated objects. My theory is that we're not more than a particle of dust flying in the air from one place to another. The only difference is that we have got so complex that we think we're actually "thinking" and making things because we want, an not because an external condition is telling us what to do. Think about it, there are many "things" that exist thanks to the evolution of time, and different conditions in which they have lived in.

We go to the desert and we see those tumbleweed going around as they were "alive" impulsed by the wind, and dispersing its seeds all over the place. Basically if you analyse all objects in earth are made and live thanks to certain conditions: light, water, air, earth, temperature, etc... If you take a plant and put it in the space such plant would die, the plant is alive in the earth but not because it's alive an that's it, but because thanks to basic conditions such plant is alive, but only in the earth. Well, I think we are the same but with a complexity millions of times higher than a plant. We're descendants of a kind of "movement" probably in this case originated mostly in the water, because we're biological creatures, and biological creatures are always made of a considerable portion of water.

And if you think about it, the water is always in movement, it almost never stop, it's a perfect environment to start a evolutionary chain of tiny particles that get together for some reasons an conditions and those conditions leads to another and so on, until it appears a little bacteria that we think is alive because when get in touch with another biological or non-biological object or entity we can see that it grows, and reproduce creating another bacteria but it's not more than certain conditions acting on such particles...

We're too advanced to be able to see it now, it's like when you show the source code of an operating system to someone that doesn't know anything about programming, he wouldn't be able to understand it, and if there is no books and no one to tell him how things work he probably will never be able to know what it's happening... Never...

Obviously, Arthur's soul is made of beans and franks...

That's now the third time I've seen that dog picture. The internet is shrinking.

Real thinking is hard work.