Regarding Objective Reality, E₈, and string theory (part I)
I should just pack it in and move to Blogspot. This LiveJournal just isn't
very furry. Who am I kidding? I don’t wear a fursuit,
I rarely write
furry stories, and the only
fursonal drawing
I ever bought got ruined during the move to Canada. There is no place in
this Fandom for “an anthropomorphized Homo erectus pretending to be a
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Losing you from LJ would be a disservice indeed.
That said, the subject of the phenomena collectively collected in Magic is always interesting. I know of a group of fellows and ladies, whom without any form of communication know when another of their group is ill, or upset, or angry, or elated. They live a minimum of 1 US State in separation from each other (the closest pair is a distance from Nebraska to Boulder, CO). They say it is a bond, a link, something that was formed over time with practice. I call it magic, and can be convinced no other way, because I cannot in science see any way they could be connected as 3 out of the 5 of them HAVE NEVER MADE PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH ANY OF THE OTHERS (I mean not to shout, but to emphasize)!
For that matter, a central processing unit (CPU) or our microcomputer's processor! It contains within it billions and billions of transistors, yet I cannot fathom how it is they do their job to translate my hooking a USB keyboard at one end, and an Ethernet cable at the other end, to my having this typing fit upon this textbox which expands itself every time I reach another (now growing ridiculously long) line. I mean to say, I can understand how a transistor works, and understand that they must have a mass of logic to figure out, mathematically, what every thing happening must mean, but I cannot in my head connect all that logic to know that this is exactly why pressing this key does this. And I repair and assemble and (according to my degree, though not to my current level of success at it) program these things FOR A LIVING! (Admittedly not a successful one right now).
Also, objective reality. For example, I am in room A. In Room B, I have left an inanimate object whose state shall change, without question, at a precise time (this is significantly different from Schroedinger's Cat, because it is known the state will change). I will not be notified or aware of its state changing other than my knowledge of the time it should change. I do not observe the object, yet I know it still exists, however my mind must imagine myself looking upon it in order to comprehend its existence outside of my personal reality and its change of state. It is incredible to think that, unobserved, it remains in existence.
What if there was a place, let us assume a closed environment, with no observation inside whatsoever (except, theoretically, by a "god" or "godlike" figure, but I digress). In that place is an object, state unchanging, who cares the state. For us to imagine that this object exists WITHOUT imagining that we (or some other) must observe it and its location in this environment to understand its existence... can you imagine that?
Stay here, my not-quite-furry-enough-for-furry friend. There is only so much awesome left on LJ, and to lose you would be disappointing.
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It is unfortunate that LJ is not what it once was, but nothing lasts forever.
Many scientists confuse "event lacking any known mechanism" with "hoax". Lots of things happen for which the mechanism is not yet known!
I actually do know a bit about how transistors work together to make CPUs, but I can't build one myself that runs at GHz speeds-that's a "black art" to me.
Are you unable to find work in computer repair these days?
Object permanence is the belief that objects continue to exist even when we cannot see them. Some scientists believe that very few animals have the mental capacity for such a concept.
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Scientists believe sometimes if they cannot understand it it must be fake. That's ego.
Building a CPU out of transistors is itself a "black art" to me, simply because I could not figure out how all that logic translates... it's amazing.
No I am unable to find work in anything these days - but repair is especially hard.
I sometimes suspect that humans are one of the animals without the true mental capacity for that concept - we can work with the concept, but to wrap our minds around it is devastating sometimes.
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