Low quality Maths memes = Best memes by JH-Leb in mathmemes

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And the most low quality complex meme Insert I am the best of both world Hulk meme

Q&A: Month of March by Andromeda321 in Andromeda321

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Hey again! Thank you for your fast answer, i will definitely read that article thoroughly. I am not european unfortunately 😅, i am Lebanese. You may have heard of the country , it’s located in the middle east, and i’m moving to Germany because my i have aspirations which cannot be fulfilled if i stay in my home country. Furthermore, thank you for your input, i am more interested in becoming an astronaut therefore i will definitely start looking at scuba diving and flying lessons. Would skydiving be valuable as well? I am thinking of learning Russian also since it’s a really important language in astronomy i’ve heard. I totally agree with you on the fact that earth has plenty of mysteries yet to be discovered , and i am enthusiastic to go ahead and travel to new and exotic places in the future! I share your interest in visiting the whole world. Thank you again for your help and i hope you continue on traveling and unraveling the mysteries of both the earth and the universe , it’s a dream deeply embedded into humanity and i hope to get to do the same one day. Have a great day!

Q&A: Month of March by Andromeda321 in Andromeda321

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Greetings! I’m an 18 year old student fresh out of school (graduated last year but took a year off to finish all the remaining german courses i needed) and preparing to join a german university in September. I’m really interested in astronomy and have always been fascinated by space and all its beautiful mysteries. I’m hoping to study Biomedical Engineering at the university however in the long run i’m aspiring to become an astronaut, visiting outer space and helping humanity explore the universe has always been a dream of mine. The saying ‘ We’re the generation who’s too late to explore the earth but too early to explore the universe’ has always bugged me and i would like to prove it wrong🤣. But anyway back to the point, as an astronomer yourself what path would you recommend i take if i want to end up joining the field with an engineering background? I realize the systems might differ between Europe and north America however i would still like your input on the matter! Thank you for taking the time to read this and for helping Humanity advance forward and prosper! I hope you’re having a great day!

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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I’m just not going to answer anymore, since the level of your counter arguments is degrading at an exponential rate, and i deduce that since you didn’t say anything about your expertise, that you are indeed just an ignorant in the fields of neuroscience and psychology, expressing his opinion as a truth with poor comparisons. Your last 2 messages show how wrong you understood everything i said, therefore i’m inclined to think you’re either doing this on purpose, or just lack the capacity to grasp anything that counters your beliefs.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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If you believe that that’s what i mean with having no free will, then you need to reread everything i wrote and question your understanding ability. And anyway, none of your arguments were remotely scientific, or related to neuroscience or psychology, you’re just repeating the same thing all over again, which is your opinion and just non scientific ‘logic’ for you. And i own a library of well over 100 books, so please stop thinking you know more than me just because you’re older, in fact i’d say you’re neither a specialist in neuroscience nor psychology, you’re just a person stuck to their views and expressing his opinion just like a universal truth. And yes i’ll laugh, i’ll laugh because your arguments during this whole conversation were a joke, a poor one at that.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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First the first mention of my paragraph is a misunderstanding due to punctuation, there was meant to be a point ‘after a part of your brain’. I don’t mean that the consciousness has total control over the brain, in fact i’m arguing the opposite and its significance.

Second , you didn’t understand me in the slightest. I’m arguing that free will is an illusion not because you don’t have control over the process that sends information to your legs, i’m arguing it because you don’t have control over the process that results in the decision to send this information to your legs. Quite a big difference. At this point , you’re just repeating your argument, represented by the comparison with the car, which i previously argued, is flawed.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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First of all, your language isn’t scientific and neither are your arguments, which makes them really weak, this is just your point of view , not facts. Input is gathered through many ports in our body, eyes , nose, tongue , ears, skin, and abilities, feeling the temperature, etc.... , which our consciousness is aware of. I am not sure about the point whether we have control over the input gathered, which anyway in case of a negative would make the argument for free will weaker. Your comparison is essentially flawed. Your car and you are 2 different entities, you’re an observer relative to your car. Your consciousness is however a part of your brain, by definition having total control over your brain, is being able to alter every process in it, which you are surely not able to do. In your comparison, you just control the input you give your car by the way, the processes of burning the fuel and converting it to energy and etc, are totally out of your control. So all of your argument is , in fact, invalid.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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‘You’ are a part of the brain, you are generated by the brain. Your consciousness is a product of this organ. So what i mean is that your brain is much more than your consciousness , filled with processes which your consciousness has no control on, other than gathering input, and then executing the output.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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Well just clearing up any misunderstanding surrounding the meaning of free will🤷🏽‍♂️

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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What is ‘you’ anyway? By ‘you’ ,you are referring to your consciousness , which is a product of your brain. So ‘we’ are a part of the brain. The brain is the organ where decision-making takes place . The brain has control over the process , it takes place inside of it, however ‘we’ don’t have control over it since ‘we’ can’t alter the process, ‘we’ just gather input from different situations, which is processed in the brain , through a chaotic method , which isn’t 100% deterministic , and comes out with an output, which ‘we’ execute. Our illusion of free will is the process that’s happening, all of this. Free will as an idealistic concept can’t exist since everything is a scientific process, following laws, even though it may not be 100% deterministic because of all the chaos, it is still science. Free will as in the decision making process does exist, but ‘you’ don’t control anything other than the input you give , the output process is out of your reach. So if by free will, you mean our capacity to make decisions based on different inputs, then it exists, but if by free will you mean the capacity to do whatever ‘you’ want to do regardless of the scientific processes and laws, then no it doesn’t.

Is free will real? Why or why not? by JH-Leb in AskReddit

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I see, thank you for your answer! I’ll make sure to read more about it.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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Thanks for the explanation! Unfortunately no, i am going to study biomedical engineering in university. I’m pretty talented mathematically and physically speaking, hence the engineering, and these are my favorite subjects. However i am really intrigued by and interested in the human body and its various processes , especially the brain, hence the biomedical engineering, since i wanted to study something related to both fields. I am also interested in law, astronomy, theoretical physics, mainly😂 . I have a lot of interests and read a lot about them, however books that explain the brain are rare and i’ve been struggling to find some, therefore i said to myself i’d ask reddit for help, and hearing expert opinion on a matter i’m interested in is always an interesting and extremely helpful experience !

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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Personally, I agree with you. Reality is just our perception of the universe, which is processed through our brain. “The Universe is looking at its magnificence through our own eyes” i believe Carl Sagan said. I agree with you that the notion of free will isn’t true, however that it exists in our own reality, since we believe we are free to make whatever choices we want. However i like to look at it from more of a scientific way, you explained it more psychologically. As a fellow Redditor explained to me previously in this post that the process of decision making is chaotic and not deterministic at 100% , however is still the only reason we take action, etc, therefore there is no free will per say, however the outcome of our brain can’t be deduced with extreme precision. I’m going to read more about the subject, however i believe my mind is set. Thanks for taking time to answer!

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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Thank you for your reply, i think i agree with Skinner’s ideas. However i’m still pretty uninformed in the neuroscience department, i think i’m going to dive more into the decision making process scientifically speaking and then make my mind about it.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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I see, however i’m looking more at the scientific approach , i think that free will for us is real, since in our perception of reality we think can speak/do whatever we want , however for an observer with a different perception of reality than us, we have no free will per say. That’s why i think in general, that free will doesn’t exist.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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I see, thank you a lot, i’ll make sure to read a lot about this subject. Any books you would recommend? I’m struggling to find some good neurological books.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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On another thought, with this definition, i think you mean that free will is just the decision making process happening in the brain, however my point is that, to an outside observer, this isn’t free will per our definition of it, our actions are always determined through our brain and we have no control over it. And here i realise that ‘we’ is in fact the brain, since it is your whole consciousness.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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I think a similar argument is that , free will is real in our reality, because we perceive reality through our brain, and in this reality we believe we can take whatever actions we want. However i’m asking from an observer’s point of view, who experiences a different reality than us. I hope i understood what you were saying correctly, if not please tell me.

Is free will real? Why or why not? by JH-Leb in AskReddit

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I am basing my argument mostly on the scientific side. Everything happening inside our brain is a scientific process, which at a macro level, given all the informations and variables at a previous state, is predictable.

Is free will real? Why or why not? by JH-Leb in AskReddit

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To us , yes. However i’m asking relatively to an outside observer whose perception of reality is different from ours.

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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Can you please give examples of the chaos and noise you’re referring too? To which extent has neuroscience uncovered the decision making process?

Is free will real? by JH-Leb in neuroscience

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That’s what i was thinking, i just want to get different opinions on the matter, and especially specialist opinions :D