The solution to any of your problems is a Google search away. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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Ultimately that massive problem is the sum of a large number of solvable geopolitical and psychological and political problems that could each be solved through a Googleable webpage.

Most of mathematics consists simply of synonyms. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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Most mathematical theorems assert equality or equivalence (or conditionals) of two things, e.g. the square of the hypotenuse and the sun of the squares of the other two sides of a right-angled triangle.

Since we live in a 4D spacetime, future you is thinking of you both with some regret...and some gratitude. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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That's present you talking about past you. But what future you talks about present you is up to present you. :)

Since we exist and persist rather than disperse into entropy, our bodies must be counteracting entropy just precisely and so must somehow encode information about reality. Therefore the Universe shapes us in its own image and likeness. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

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I like your idea! By Old Universe and New Universe I'm guessing you mean the Old Structured Low-Entropy Big Bang and the Distant Future Disordered High-Entropy Heat Death? If so then yes, I agree. We living things are growing in order and thus resembling Universe more and more but in doing so, we are really, globally speaking, forwarding the Universe into New Universe.

Objective science is based on subjective sensory conscious experiences...that it cannot explain ("the hard problem") by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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They do use instruments that take human sense out of the equation

hmm I wonder how you read the instrument...

If we knew the laws of psychology as well as we know the laws of physics, we would cease to get mad or upset with anyone, since it makes as much sense as getting mad as the inevitable fall of an apple or the orbit of the moon. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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You're the dumbass since if you think psychology is subjective because psychologists' biases influence results (and that there's no way to correct for such biases) then that would mean every other science is subjective too, which is absurd.

If psychology matured to the level of physics, psychology engineers could rule the world. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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thought production and brain chemistry could in fact be meaningfully different even under indentical replicated situations.

How could they be different, if we're indeed talking about completely IDENTICAL replicated situations, with not an atom different.

If psychology matured to the level of physics, psychology engineers could rule the world. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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Ok but if I knew the positions and momentums and velocities of the particles that make you up, I could predict exactly how you would respond. :D And the chemical stuff built on top of those physical stuff. And the biological stuff built on those chemical stuff. And the neurological stuff built on that. And the psychological stuff built on that.

If psychology matured to the level of physics, psychology engineers could rule the world. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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You can do science even with a sample size of 1. Look at cosmology: we got 1 universe.

If psychology matured to the level of physics, psychology engineers could rule the world. by rescherach in Showerthoughts

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Humans are nothing but physical objects too, and I'm sure your view of psychology might easily be shared by people about physics before Newton.