I only saw the top part of the picture at first, and I was very confused: "Why is this in Science Memes?"

"It's funny how people will believe in Newton's laws of motion but still think the Force from Star Wars is mythical nonsense."

"believe in wi-fi"

But the Force is Mass times Acceleration!

I do subscribe to a small comfort belief that our consciousness isn't just encoded in our neurons but has a radiative component that constructively/destructively interferes with the environment on some small level we atttibute to random events, and that when we die, we sever only the somatic component of our consciousness but our radiative part lives on encoded into a wider network of ambient thought.

Sort of like ghosts/an afterlife, but less moaning and chain rattling and more general vibing the emotion of a park bench from the overlapped thought networks that ever intersected it

Might be in the wrong sub...

World appears to be solid/stable at first but on closer inspection is actually vibratory.

It's ok to have points of agreement. You don't have to mock and bicker 100% of the time.

Mkultra

Sounds a bit like if we die, we retreat into the human noosphere and become a concept instead of a person

No, it's the Force so it has to be the Mass times the Acceleration.

They also seem to believe wi-fi "powers everything"? What a loon.

I peraonally belief in a really thin cable, but big tech is trying to tell us its waves and stuff. But you have your opinion, I have mine. Nobody can be sure wich one is really true.

data goes in, data goes out. you can't explain that.

Midichlorians are the powerhouse of the Force.

If you don't believe wi-fi exists, you'd be a fool.

i don't believe in wifi, just like i don't believe in trees. i know they're there. that requires no belief.

No it can't be then The Force will be equal to The²(Mass times Acceleration)

Its either The mass times acceleration or mass times the acceleration

Oh, you're a solipsist? You believe reality is an illusion and trees don't really exist? I'm somewhat similar, I'm an antirealist. I recognise that reality is an illusion, but I still choose to believe in it until it can be overthrown. If we teach enough people how to reshape their beliefs and perceptions, then we can decide for ourselves whether trees exist. But at present, I need to believe in trees in order to inhabit consensus reality and communicate efficiently with the people who live here. It's cool that you don't believe in trees, though!

I do believe gorilla piss exists.

I do not believe drinking gorilla piss would grant you gorilla strength (citation needed).

no

Thats why you scream 'oh god!' when climaxing.

It's actually a really REALLY fat cable. We spend our entire time inside it.

The belief would be that your senses aren't being actively deceived. Also, that you're not a Boltzmann brain hallucinating in the void.

I personally believe all the axioms of science apply. It's still fun to poke at them.

I think consciousness is more than just our neurons, it's an active waveform riding and guided by them.

Unfortunately, I don't think it survives death. Without the underlying structure, it collapses to noise.

Interestingly, our brains have special circuits, design to emulate others. In effect, our consciousness imprints onto theirs. It's not the full pattern, and imperfect, but a part of us lives on in the consciousness of everyone who knows us.

Like ripples in a pond. The water of the initial wave is no longer involved, but it has passed to others.

the atheist says "i will not believe". the agnostic says "i can not believe". one is as dogmatic as the beliefs they purport to refute, the other lacks the capacity for dogma, as belief for them is simply not possible.

You're changing the subject to auras and telekinesis: not what was being discussed.

What will the mockery get for you?

I only believe in my own wifi. My wifi is the one true wifi.

Where we're going we don't need commutative multiplication.

well yeah, obviously! You have to dilute it 1000 times for it to have any effect.

what

Belief in a null is a lot more reasonable than belief in something so powerful it can pretend to be a null.

Belief that I am not in a Truman show like environment is a lot more reasonable (without evidence) than belief that I am in a Truman show, and they are doing a perfect job.

That doesn't mean I don't try disproving the null hypothesis.

No.

fuck me, you got me good
I'm mad I laughed as long as I did

well you eyedrop it into your butthole and then expose your butthole to the sun so the positive solar energy modifies it primally because we're all made of starlight and that's just how it works

There are people who deny Reality is made of vibrations. They are absolutely deserving of kind & respectful correction, because it's a wrong view.

a hypothesis based on established facts is no longer belief but extrapolation.

I used to love reading W.I.T.C.H. comics and they always had a bunch of fun stuff about zodiacs and reading the future in tea leaves, moons and stars and all that silly stuff. I friggin loved that shit because it was fun for the imagination and it also tied in well with the comic being about a groups magical girls who get their powers from nature and blah blah blah. I thought it was fun to find out what my element was based on what month I was born in and what my birthstone was and take little personality tests to see which one of the girls I was like the most (9 out of 10 times, I got Taranee).

The thing is, though: I always knew it was just play pretend and fun past time stuff.

I have had that fun permanently destroyed for me after people started believing in astrology and magic for real. I know people irl who refer to their zodiacs as an explanation for how they like their coffee or why they push their work to last minute or why they vibe well with this and that person. They take personality tests and believe it for real instead of using it as some stupid past time fun. Online, it's even worse. It gives me the same level of ick as the women in Sex and the City.

It absolutely fucking ruined the fun for me and I just can't read my horoscope anymore because I don't want anyone to think I'm one of those people.

noosphere

New word for me, thanks for this!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere

You forgot the Lorenz factor. The Falcon flies FTL. That's where the midichlorians fit in.

It's an assumption, not an extrapolation. Assumptions, without evidence are beliefs.

We assume several unprovable axioms to allow science to function. A lot of work has also been done to collapse them down to the core minimum. What is left is still built on belief.

The fact that the results are useful back validates those beliefs. It doesn't prove them however.

Interestingly, our brains have special circuits, design to emulate others. In effect, our consciousness imprints onto theirs. It’s not the full pattern, and imperfect, but a part of us lives on in the consciousness of everyone who knows us.

I think this is a far better explained version of what I'm yammering on about. Echoes of yourself living on in other conscious beings, fragmented 1000fold into the general aether of all those you've interacted with

we're comparing it to a system where none of that has been done. it's sort of a "god of the gaps" situation but the gaps are shaped exactly like pieces in a puzzle. we can extrapolate the form of the proof even if we can't show it. the same is not true of the other camp.

It's useful to understand the mechanisms, it helps you to understand both what it can do, and its limitations. E.g. they can only mirror the parts they see or talk about. The parts of yourself that you hide away will be lost from their imperfect model.

For more info, it generally falls under "mirror neurons". They help us empathise with others. E.g. when we smile, certain mirror neurons start firing. When we see someone smile, the same ones fire. We feel the appropriate emotions because of this. They also fire preemptively. E.g. when you hear your mother yelling about the mess, even though you've lived alone for a decade.

Introducing POW (power over wlan)!
By broadcasting a constant small gamma wave, small electronic devices can use the latent energy to power electronic components.

You say that, but, if the universe has an infinite lifespan (as current models suggest) then we would almost certainly be Boltzmann brains. (There would be an infinite amount of Boltzmann brains, but only a finite number of humans)

I personally believe I am not, and the universe actually exists, rather than a sensory/memory ghost.

Tesla was already on it 100 years before it was cool

This is why nudist colonies are so vibrant. Easy as.

Maybe you just don't understand how I use them?

If you assume I'm using them nonsensically, then yes, I suppose they would seem nonsensical to you...

I didn't even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I'm the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it's just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there's that.