The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake

[Jalpha]

Kudos to the mathematicians for trying. It does bring to mind the phrase "If you can't make it easy to understand, you don't really understand it." Then again I show massive bias toward the subject.

Many cultures used cyclic time. The Mayans, the Celts. The Greeks is something new to me. Did we come up with linear time or was the concept also common among various cultures?

[Onep]

You're all a bunch of fucking mind-numbing retards.

[Jalpha]

I wish I could comfort you buddy but there is nothing which could fill the void in your soul.

[sMartins]

Many cultures used cyclic time. The Mayans, the Celts. The Greeks is something new to me. Did we come up with linear time or was the concept also common among various cultures?

No clue to be honest, but usually those things are slow process ... I doubt we came up with this idea from nothing, probably it's the result of already existing traditions, and so on.

[Jalpha]

Well, a brief search indicates that the Christian/Islamic faith is where the concept of linear time originated. Every other faith and culture holds the opposite view. Interesting.

[shubla]

it looks to me like we are overcomplicating what should be very simple

I think that this is very true, for sure, there would be easier ways to express some things, but its too late to change them now that the expressions have become widely accepted.
They are not that difficult if you look into them though...

[Zentetsuken]

The same value can be reached via a more complicated formula without using addition, I'm fairly certain. So there is an alternative. When I look at the pages of symbols mathematicians use to explain their theories it looks to me like we are overcomplicating what should be very simple.

I find it highly likely that any extraterrestrial species would use a radically different system of performing sums. As someone else said we created the rules and that defines and limits our perceptions of what is and is not possible.

Somebody call NASA, we're making history here boys. Math is wrong, aliens likely to have the secrets to true addition. You heard it here first folks.

[Jalpha]

The same value can be reached via a more complicated formula without using addition, I'm fairly certain. So there is an alternative. When I look at the pages of symbols mathematicians use to explain their theories it looks to me like we are overcomplicating what should be very simple.

I find it highly likely that any extraterrestrial species would use a radically different system of performing sums. As someone else said we created the rules and that defines and limits our perceptions of what is and is not possible.

Somebody call NASA, we're making history here boys. Math is wrong, aliens likely to have the secrets to true addition. You heard it here first folks.

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My posts are better than yours

[Zentetsuken]

> constantly shitposts with walls of text and thoughtless kneejerk arguements that sound like the ramblings of a paranoid schizophrenic

EVERYBODY WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH ME OR TAKE THEIR TIME TO ENGAGE ME IN CIVIL DISCUSSION IS A TROLL

[MagicManICT]

sound like the ramblings of a paranoid schizophrenic

You do know that much of the basis of modern economics and other areas are based on the mathematical genius of a paranoid schizophrenic, yes?