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No.87
Let's have a thread about dumb shit turning smart (or vice versa!)
I'm particularly fond of the idea that planets and life itself are all just bits of starstuff that happened to react in such a way as to happen to be able to turn into self-sustaining and self-replicating stuff, so the concept of genetic algorithms is absolutely fascinating to me.
What fascinates you?
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No.88
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No.89
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No.90
Have you read Godel Escher Bach? It's about consciousness rising out of base matter using "strange loops". Formal systems that self reference turn into tangled heirarchies; their self-reference is the beginning stage of consciousness according to Hofstadter.
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No.98
>>87Bump for interest and making me think very hard
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No.319
I wake up dumb and go to sleep smart.
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No.344
>>90God I hope I didn't post that in a drugs-haze; I'm going to reply to it.
Have you seen my thread about Hofstadter and "I Am A Strange Loop"? He's done some really interesting thinking on the idea of consciousness itself, reaching to a very far out point. He make some statements that it's really hard not to just knee-jerk away from, but he's got a solid foundation to his mode of thought. "I Am A Strange Loop" is far more accessible than GEB; it's not written like a game, or a puzzle, but a man's simple telling of how he thinks thought works. It's pretty deeply moving in parts; he, at one point, references his dead wife and how that influenced his thoughts about consciousness. Strange loop, indeed.
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No.345
Entropy.
Equilibriums, and how a stable state isn't necessarily static.
Orbits. They aren't constant; they are not forever.
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No.350
>>345That's why I still play the game; it's the laws of thermodynamics given form. The eventual heat-death of the universe, writ in game form.
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No.360
Any quasi-intellectual bullshit that gives me a temporary sense of superiority.
Anything that distracts me from the fact that I'm not currently having sex.
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No.1024
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No.1036
>>1024
Shoo yourself, princess. Just because this guy doesn't want to take your brownpill doesn't make him a Greyface.
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No.1386
Laws of thermodynamics
Rule 1: You can't win
Rule 2: You can't break even
Rule 3: You can't leave the table
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No.1390
>>1386
>Rule 3: You can't leave the table
Watch me.
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No.1394
>>1390
Well you certainly can try, but you'll be back.
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No.1396
>>1386
Can I break the table?
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No.1414
>>1396
He said the only thing you can't break is even, so go ahead!
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