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Sewblon said:
Your brain lies to you every second you open your eyes. It falsely creates the impression that you don't have a blind spot in each eye, but in fact, you do. Similarly, your brain fools you into thinking that you have free will. Studies have shown that people often do something, and then later decide that they consciously wanted to do something. In fact, they performed the action before they actually decided to do it. Free will is an illusion, although as a corollary, it should be pointed out that you'd behave the same way if you somehow managed to violate the laws of physics and have free will
Sewblon said:
Personally, I believe that time travel and the 'many-worlds' theory are both not only possible, but also mutual. By the many-worlds theory, a time traveller who makes changes to the time-stream would simply find the universe split into another reality where those changes happened, and the original universe the time traveller came from would not be changed at all. The time traveller him/herself would simply be unable to ever make it back to their own universe. The most simple way of looking at it, that I've ever found to be bizarrely accurate to my own beliefs that is, is the 'Trousers of Time' theory as described in the Discworld novels. To be fair, I did already believe this theory before reading Discworld, but those books put it into a context that is much easier to understand.
Humans are inherently evil. The evidence for this is in the acts people do, that people are basically capable of doing. I refer you to this for more evidence as such:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
A human is not made 'good' by doing good deeds. A 'good' human is simply one who manages to avoid committing evil acts. We make ourselves feel better by doing simple acts like giving money to the homeless man on the corner, making ourselves believe just for an instant that we have done some good in the world. But that homeless person will be able to eat a sandwich with that pound you give them, but they'll still be on that street corner the next morning, watching you ignore them again as you walk to work, earning money to feed yourself decent food every evening. We are all hypocrites by our very nature, and true enlightenment is purely the realisation of that one basic fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
A human is not made 'good' by doing good deeds. A 'good' human is simply one who manages to avoid committing evil acts. We make ourselves feel better by doing simple acts like giving money to the homeless man on the corner, making ourselves believe just for an instant that we have done some good in the world. But that homeless person will be able to eat a sandwich with that pound you give them, but they'll still be on that street corner the next morning, watching you ignore them again as you walk to work, earning money to feed yourself decent food every evening. We are all hypocrites by our very nature, and true enlightenment is purely the realisation of that one basic fact.
The 2nd one: I see wat u did thar. Nice trick, but used before.lacktheknack said:
The 4th one: Yay!
The world doesn't end in 2012, the Mayans just ran out of rocks
http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/well_well_well.jpgoreopizza47 said:
I'm sorry, I had to.
The key word in my second argument is "if" The point I meant to make is that even if nothing else prevented a time traveler from going back in time to kill Hitler, it would still result in a contradiction, which renders the concept invalid, and the same logic holds true for all deliberate attempts to change the past. Yes we are dealing with unknowns, but we can still theorize. Philosophers do it for a living. And when it comes to things like hypothetical future technologies, theorizing is the best we can do.Pirate Kitty said:
To those who have discussed the assassination of Hitler (thereby validating Godwin's law):
Your views on time travel are not the only ones out there. If you examine your own views on time travel, you'll find they're intrinsically linked to your views on fate.
Time travel hasn't been proven... yet. If it ever is, it would mean you can't time travel back before the first time machine (because there has to be a recieving end for time travel).
Chamale said:
I read of the same study. Except when I read it they said that the findings could also be interpreted as evidence for the existence of souls, as in, your soul makes a decision before it lets your brain know. Granted the existence of souls are not scientifically testable, but neither is determinism, which I think is what you are arguing for.
I tend to take the Doctor Who approach to time travel and say that certain events in history are time locked and cannot be changed, even by a time traveler, thus making Hitler's rise to power inevitable.Sewblon said:
I think I would make sure autotuning never existed before I even thought about offing Hitler.Pirate Kitty said: