Tag: existence
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NORAD, Santa Clauss, "reality"...
Once more, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is tracking down the magic flight of Santa Clauss around the globe. The saint has currently delivered more than 1,793,000,000 gifts as he is heading towards Dhaka, Bangladesh (see here for the flight tracking in real time). [1] Weird how "not real" things have so much "evidence" to back…
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Walking through walls, QM, Reality...
What exactly is "real"? How do you know that your dreams are "not real"? Because your mother told you so. How do you know that the wall you see in front of you is "real"? Because you see it. And because other people see it too. But not all people see the same. And surely not…
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From an apple that is not an apple to death that is not death...
Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. (OSF) has created a genetically modified apple that does not brown after being cut [1]. Is an apple that does not turn brown after being cut an apple? What are the characterisitcs an apple has? How many characteristics of an apple can we change before we stop talking about "apples"? Are…
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On the belief in Existence
We see. We feel. We believe that things "exist". And then we philosophize on what "existence" means. And in order to do that we attempt to see what "seeing" is. We try to model reality only to realize that reality continuously escapes us. We analyze things only to see that too much analysis destroys their…
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What exists is what we Write...
We believe that some things "exist". But why is that? Everything we think exists only because we write it down and give it a name. Everything we speak of today, did not even exist as words 3,000 years ago. Most of them will again not even exist as words in a million years from now.…
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