Epimenides paradox: "Epimenides The Cretan Says, "All Cretans are Liars" (page 3)

frankiespeakin

KS,

I like to have a week of non stop nooky. Some instincts good alot of good feelings behind them. But I could see that very well happening with no exaduration at all.

The quantum nature of the human brain (the very low-level activities in the neural connections) has made many philosophers seriously question whether the notion of "human free will" is actually valid in any realistic sense.

BTW - poster Terry and I have both agreed (offline) that Goedel, Escher, Bach is our favorite book ever.

It has to be read at least twice (maybe more) to really understand everything that is there.

frankiespeakin

James,

In that case I would have to read it 10x.

Maybe one of these day I might.

King Solomon

I like to have a week of non stop nooky. Some instincts good alot of good feelings behind them.

Funny you mention that, as I was in a library the other day and a middle-aged woman was seated a few tables over, and at first I thought she was talking to someone on a cell phone (she wasn't). She was laughing as if someone would tell her a joke, or reading the text in a book and making accomplanying gestures, changing to a foreign language, throwing scriptural references in, etc. At times she was laughing like a giddy teen-aged girl, at others, on the verge of tears as if the person said something she didn't like.

It was interesting at first, but annoying when it went on and on (this WAS a library, and her behavior not conducive to study). She's somewhere else now, still trapped in that world. That would be the concern: a week may be fine, as long as you wouldn't have to worry about the risk of a flashback decades later at an inopportune time, or it devolving into a drug-induced psychosis.

I prefer not to tamper with the balance of neurotransmitters, when it's a tenuous balancing act for so many.

Leolaia

james_woods....In recent news: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22336-quantum-measurements-leave-schrodingers-cat-alive.html

james_woods

Every time I hear about that damned Schrodinger's Cat I release the safety on my Browning, Leoliai. But I will look up your link.

BTW - I did read a book by Michio Kaku while I was on vacation and was rather dissappointed with it. It was mostly futurist speculation about everybody soon to be wired up permanently to the internet via brain implants and so on.

frankiespeakin

I wonder if we can imagine a know/knower paradox with this whole mathematical computation of the world thing. We can leave in some sorta superposition for human psyche doing the computation based on imaginational projections of the laws of phsysics by those that understand them?

But a theory of "everything" I don't think they got the mathematics to prove 100% but maybe with these quantum computer we can narrow it down to 99.9999% or higher but you would need one great mind to absorb it.

Leolaia

Futurism is his bread-and-butter.

james_woods

I wonder if we can imagine a know/knower paradox with this whole mathematical computation of the world. We can leave in some sorta superposition for human psyche doing the computation based on imaginational projections of the laws of phsysics?

We already have that on JWN. It is called Wibble.

Leolaia

LOL. Now if Michio Kaku can devise an equation to predict what is said in Wibble, that might unlock the secret to the cosmos.

Epimenides paradox: "Epimenides The Cretan Says, "All Cretans are Liars"

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