General Science Discussion Thread!

Takumi said:
No, thats not what happened. If it was we'd all be robots.
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How do you know we're the first form of robots? Huh? And I'm serious, we don't know infact there was an article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/12/physicists-universe-simulation-test-university-of-washington-matrix_n_2282745.html

Even they physicists believe the universe may be a simulation or program of some sort.
 
Takumi said:
No, thats not what happened. If it was we'd all be robots.
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That's not the impression I got. Sounded more like a tech-based analogy for Deism.
 
Takumi said:
No, thats not what happened. If it was we'd all be robots.
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Well, if you view all decisions ever made by anyone to simply be chemical reactions in the brain dictating decisions...

...we kind of are robots.
 
So you took a Huffington Post article saying that some scientists are merely testing a philosophical thought experiment as a complete fact? And even if the tests are a success the article even says that they're not really confirmation of much of anything? It looks more like clickbait than actual information. You should stick to primary resources before taking your Computer Science 101 analogy as reality.
 
We're not robots. Nor are we created by a "programmer". But that's my belief too.
 
Did you know that I was made with an X and Y chromosome?
 
ernesth100 said:
Hypochondriac Mario said:
We're not robots. Nor are we created by a "programmer". But that's my belief too.
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You believe we're created by god like programmers or your saying you don't believe that?
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We're atheist. We believe in no god.

chillv said:
Did you know that I was made with an X and Y chromosome?
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I wuz created with two X's :]