I've been busy fighting for toilet paper at Costco. It was madness.
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My hubby also insists our kid stops attending daycare as the coronavirus threat quickly mounts in California. So I've been super busy and haven't read most posts on this thread. I'll get to them later.
I'm not sure I get what you're saying and I haven't ever heard of these experiments. Could you provide a link to an article or something?
Besides the article I posted yesterday, here's some other stuff for you to look at.
Earth creature failed by heuristics example:
blogs.scientificamerican.com
The male jewel beetles mate with brown, glossy, dimpled females, the bigger the better. They ditched females for beer bottles that are also brown, glossy and dimpled - almost went extinct.
Btw, here's a very interesting study that questions free will. When it comes to decision making, we tend to assume they are made by our conscious mind, but it turns out that brain activity predates conscious awareness of choice in some cases by a full 7 seconds. Scientists are even able to predict what decisions a person is about to make based on brain activity before this person consciously makes the decision.
A team of scientists has unravelled how the brain unconsciously prepares our decisions
www.mpg.de
"Seeing is believing" has been proven false by a myriad of optic illusion examples out there.
What I find repugnant in Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre is that they try to justify a cruel creation and solve the problem of evil with silly word games.
That entire post is very interesting. Since you mentioned Nietzsche, I wonder how his opinions that compassion or pity is a social illness and how such sentiments come with a certain amount of contempt sit with this SS crowd where compassion and pity are enshrined as a cardinal virtue.
We have to rely on our "subjective" experiences of reality, otherwise, we'd lose all productivity, worrying about insane "hypotheses".
from my knowledge, we haven't found any evidence of the supernatural.
Not conclusive on this subject indeed. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Supernatural basically means the phenomena that are beyond our current understanding of science and laws of nature. Our understanding in those areas is very limited though. I actually think one way to expand our understanding of the objective reality is to investigate supernatural phenomena with a scientific approach.
Reincarnation has been and is being studied by the University Of Virginia School of Medicine Division of Perceptual Studies. The Nobel Prize-winning physiologist, Charles Richet, studied seances and ectoplasm. I think we're making some process there.
Btw, some insane hypotheses haven't been proven to be facts doesn't mean they should be negated. Stephen Hawking's work in theoretical physics couldn't be confirmed by observational data, that's why he didn't receive a Nobel Prize even as the living legend in the field of physics. His unproven theories and hypotheses revolutionized the ways we see and study the universe anyway.
I personally hold that there is a more justification for oblivion afterwords.
I think so, too. It's just that once I learn about those insane hypotheses, it's hard to unsee them.