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Everything Is Doubt?

Post by cronus » Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:50 am

Can this be proven?
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:09 pm

Potato - A South American plant (Solanum tuberosum) widely cultivated for its starchy edible tubers.
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by cronus » Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:19 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:Potato - A South American plant (Solanum tuberosum) widely cultivated for its starchy edible tubers.
Only true if enough people are believing it. Could be a 'pineapple' get's that distinction if enough of a population bottleneck occurs among humans....and some one is hacking the system.
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:23 pm

There's no doubt about the state of your mind.. :read:
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:32 pm

cronus wrote:
Sean Hayden wrote:Potato - A South American plant (Solanum tuberosum) widely cultivated for its starchy edible tubers.
Only true if enough people are believing it. Could be a 'pineapple' get's that distinction if enough of a population bottleneck occurs among humans....and some one is hacking the system.
Why shouldn't we be allowed to create at least some parts of reality and call them "really real"? I don't understand this need to dismiss our own input. Are we not Gods!
















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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Apr 02, 2018 2:13 pm

Do you ever get the feeling that Crumple is just a computer program?
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Apr 02, 2018 4:37 pm

I assume everyone's a program. The reason we can never know some things is because we're on the wire man, we're on the wire!
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

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Post by cronus » Mon Apr 02, 2018 5:36 pm

Visit Croydon often? or not?
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by Rum » Mon Apr 02, 2018 6:21 pm

I've been there exactly once. No uncertainty - or doubt.
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by Svartalf » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:19 pm

pErvinalia wrote:Do you ever get the feeling that Crumple is just a computer program?
actually, there are times he successfully passed the turing test, he's just extreme in his proclivities.
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by JimC » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:50 pm

In the sense that we go from "absolutely no fucking idea" to "99.99% certain" on an asymptotic curve that approaches 100% certain but never reaches it, yes... :tea:
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by Hermit » Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:07 pm

cronus wrote:Can this be proven?
I doubt it.
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:01 am

cronus wrote:Can this be proven?
How would you know?
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Re: Everything Is Doubt?

Post by rainbow » Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:15 am

Rum wrote:I've been there exactly once. No uncertainty - or doubt.
...but were you really?
I was there, and did not see you.

Explain that!!!!!!
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