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Art3mis

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Jasper Jeffs said:
The Jakeinator said:
Jasper Jeffs said:
Why does pain hurt?

I either get a strange look or "because it does". I still dunno why it hurts, or what pain even is. I feel pain, but I have no idea why it hurts me, or what "hurt" is. Ah fuck, I'm just diving by zero here.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pain/PN00017

Science is a friend of mine.
I've read stuff like that, but I don't know why pain hurts. It's just a sensation like any other, what makes something like (for example) sex good and pain bad? I realise my body is made to function that way, but I don't fucking understand what the feelings are.

This is why I get strange looks, I know the science behind pain but I can't fucking ask the question I want to without sounding like a freak.
There's a fine line between pain and pleasure. What one person considers painful might be pleasurable to someone else.
 

JonnyZOMG

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twistedmic said:
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Your trapped in a room with Justin Beiber, Miley Cirus, both are having a karaoke contest, and you have only one bullet in your revolver. What to do?
Shoot one of them then beat the other to death with the empty gun and your bare hands.
Fire the bullet to get both of their attention, then beat them both to death with the gun/bare hands.
 

Anarchemitis

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Private Custard said:
I have one.

If a fly is flying down the railway line and happens to meet the windscreen of a train travelling in the opposite direction, does the fly stop before going back in the same direction as the train, even for a nanosecond?

Logic states that if something is going to suddenly change direction 180 degrees (with no deviation left or right), it'll have to stop, even for the smallest time. But if the train is moving in that direction, how could the fly stop before going the other way?
Such are the puruits of Quantum physics, to pursue an answer to that question.
The amount of time that the fly (or it's summary particles) would have a net velocity of zero would be negligible.
In the same way that if a freight train hits a concrete wall, the entire train does not instantly come to a full stop, the deceleration would be a cascading effect from the locomotive to the first car, second car and so forth backwards. The same it would be with the fly, but on a minute scale. Since the cascading effect of the deceleration of the fly would take far less time to elapse then that freight train example I gave, it would be difficult to accurately assess how much time that actually would take.
 

Sacman

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zen5887 said:
Fucking magnets! How do they wo...

Nevermind.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?
lol Cyberpunk literature reference...
OT: Is there a God?
 

guntotingtomcat

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Man invents time machine.
He was able to because on his first return trip he went back in time and told himself the design.
Where did the design come from?
 

CarpathianMuffin

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Can somebody with multiple personalities fall in love with one of their personalities?

Not really impossible to answer, just something that's been bugging me for awhile.
 

Twilight_guy

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How much wood wou7ld a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

The Correct answer is : He chuck all the wood a woodchuck could chuck if he could chuck wood but nobody seems to know.
 

Urialanis

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arc1991 said:


Will you ever look at this sign the same again? =D
I see this sign like 30 times a day at work and it always gives me a wry smile that confuses everyone else.

OT: If you actually created AI capable of independent thought and learning would its emotions/reactions/personality be as boring as the rest of humanity?
 
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Jasper Jeffs said:
Why does pain hurt?

I either get a strange look or "because it does". I still dunno why it hurts, or what pain even is. I feel pain, but I have no idea why it hurts me, or what "hurt" is. Ah fuck, I'm just diving by zero here.
It hurts because its causing damage to your body. And your body needs to warn you that one of your systems is being violated. Said violation is negative so you get a negative feeling sent to your brain by the nervers reporting the violation. Which results in a negative feeling. So "hurt" is your body warning you not to do something (like walk through thorns)
 

Dr. Whiggs

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Wintermute_ said:
Your trapped in a room with Justin Beiber, Miley Cirus, both are having a karaoke contest, and you have only one bullet in your revolver. What to do?
I believe it's pronounced... "menage a trois?"
 

Sacman

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The Jakeinator said:
Sacman said:
The Jakeinator said:
Sacman said:
arc1991 said:


Will you ever look at this sign the same again? =D
I don't get it...
Imagine the bottom one is flying.
so he's flying, I still don't get it...
Alright, he's flying. Imagine you are seeing this "Superman" from the side, where his arm and legs are lined up so you can only see 1 arm. His Penis is sticking out, and he is wearing a cape. Now let that image sink it.

For some people, they would think of that image when they saw something like this instead if the default.

Am I making a point across? It's hard to explain things in sentences for me.
oh yeah I see it now...
 

Maze1125

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CJackson95 said:
Infinite + Infinite = ???
The answer is an infinity equal to the cardinality of the largest infinity in the sum.

Or, more simply, infinity + infinity = infinity.

Private Custard said:
I have one.

If a fly is flying down the railway line and happens to meet the windscreen of a train travelling in the opposite direction, does the fly stop before going back in the same direction as the train, even for a nanosecond?

Logic states that if something is going to suddenly change direction 180 degrees (with no deviation left or right), it'll have to stop, even for the smallest time. But if the train is moving in that direction, how could the fly stop before going the other way?
Each particle in the fly will have a moment at which it is stationary relative to the ground. But those moments will be at different times.
Equally, there will be a moment when the total momentum of the fly would be zero relative to the ground.

The problem can be unintuitive because one thing people forget is that the glass of the train window will bend slightly, very very slightly, as the fly hits.
 

Urialanis

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The Jakeinator said:
Urialanis said:
arc1991 said:


Will you ever look at this sign the same again? =D
I see this sign like 30 times a day at work and it always gives me a wry smile that confuses everyone else.

OT: If you actually created AI capable of independent thought and learning would its emotions/reactions/personality be as boring as the rest of humanity?
Possibly. Depends on what happens in it's life.
Guess so just wonder how similar you could make something without a brain to a person essentially.