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inothernews:

Free will is an illusion, biologist says

azspot:

As Cashmore explains, the human brain acts at both the conscious level as well as the unconscious. It’s our consciousness that makes us aware of our actions, giving us the sense that we control them, as well. But even without this awareness, our brains can still induce our bodies to act, and studies have indicated that consciousness is something that follows unconscious neural activity. Just because we are often aware of multiple paths to take, that doesn’t mean we actually get to choose one of them based on our own free will. As the ancient Greeks asked, by what mechanism would we be choosing? The physical world is made of causes and effects - “nothing comes from nothing” - but free will, by its very definition, has no physical cause. The Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius, in reference to this problem of free will, noted that the Greek philosophers concluded that atoms “randomly swerve” - the likely source of this movement being the numerous Greek gods.

I refuse to believe this.

Yeah, when I realized this things got a lot different. But if you don’t believe it you can’t believe in math or science or any of those other pesky ideas that require “1+1” to equal “2”.

EDIT: Not that I like magically came up with the idea, someone told me, thought about it, made more sense.

somethingintellectual:

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

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Sigmund Freud (via birds-planes-trains-cars)

Coke head reblog.

inothernews:

I don’t care what this scientist in this scientific journal says - our planet and Universe are NOT a giant hologram. Now put your 3-D glasses back on.

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into “grains”, just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. “It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan.

If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.”

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

(Read the rest of this insanity - it is insanity, right? - at New Scientist.)

It’s funny because of how much sense this makes. Also, I think I remember drunkenly being told by my friend Jonsense (Ex-Genius) that there’s a point in space where reality actually appears to be pixelated.

Also, this is funny because it fits into a short story I wrote in Sophomore year of high school about how in the very very very far future we destroy everything on earth with bombs and then the last line of the story is the first line again meaning it was doomed to happen forever (LOL mad deepz right?). But it fits because what if we made a gigantic super computer super far in the future that made a projection of our history and that’s what we’re living in right now.

Sorta like Futurama’s God computer.

omg I wanna smoke weed and think about this until I frighten myself.

I properly celebrated “Toking Tuesday”

expect stumbleupon pictures of animals!