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There is a mixture of facts and assumptions on the article link and the journalist goes out of her way to mix fact and assumption into the same box, don't have the time to go through each assumption right now though. Will just say that you don't need to directly involve quantum physics to have afterlife. If you have a powerful enough computer, would be possible to actually transfer your mind to it and live in a virtual reality inside it, or make many clones of your mind, or even live a thousand years in a second. What I said above is far fetched and can only be predicted based on Moore's law, which has no real science to it. So again, all of these ideas are assumptions and not facts about the Universe. Time is no illusion, time is simply a coordinate in 3d space, that is, it's the 4th dimension, Easier to understand by example: When you have a date, you need pin point the location of the date in a 3d space, like the fancy restaurant down the street, that is not enough though, you need an extra coordinate for it to make sense, you need to know the time, and expect the other person to also follow the same coordinates as you do, else it will be dinner for 1.

That is exactly what they said though, people want to be Neo and take the red pill, because they know they are not Neo and already live on the blue pill Universe. Neo is a generic emotionless character because he is an empty frame. He's a carcass of an human being, he's a demographic oriented carcass at that, and people can wear it. Twilight fans will find different demographics, but the same carcass. Even if those actors wanted to display emotion and personality, that is not what they have been hired for.

These people are sketch comedians and movie critics but this insight about the human psyche is amazingly deep.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbKuOaVF3k

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There is no PPC version, you run a CPU emulator and then run the version for that CPU.

Quite an interesting video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBgSfdfJQqk

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Don't underestimate what people know, because they might know more about it and spent more time studying it than you think, calling people ignorant because they don't agree with you is a non sequitur.

It was a brilliant invention, so was the morse code. Who owns the government? Do you know? "Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws". Who said that? Was it a politician, or a banker who profited from printing fake paper? Is this person directly related to what happened during the great depression?

The financial system is not telling me if resources are there or not, because it's a economic system based on fake paper, if this were the case there would be no such thing as planned obsolescence or perceived obsolescence, which is to say the market will waste resources in order to get more fake paper. Apple is not worth the amount of resources it has, its value is as much imaginary as the paper we use, that is why you can have booms and busts, a bust means people realized they paid for something that never existed. If the resources are there (carbon, aluminium, copper, water, eg: the most abundant things on the planet), why are the resources not reaching technology developers? If there is food available, why there is hunger? If there is abundant energy from solar, wind and geothermal, why are people still using fossil fuels? As far as I can tell, the lobbyists paying off the government in order to keep making money off scarcity are going to keep doing the same thing with or without a government, and if you think rich people would only manage to screw up the monetary system with a government paid army, then you are not following the latest developments in warfare technology.

I would argue that on a Resource Based Economy there would be no financial barrier to getting new products out, the only barrier would be a technological one, and that's the only one you really need while developing new technology. I don't want to start convincing people that they should give me money for building a 3d Graphene printer, even less because my ideas might not work at all. So the monetary system is restricting me from getting new products out there. Note that if you incorporate failure as part of how things work in real life, you don't need to punish people for failing to make usable technology, in fact the whole society would be rewarded by me figuring out that something won't work, and that is a positive sum game.

The moment you start cooperating, the moment you start directing costumers to the store next door because it has better quality goods and prices, is the moment you are out of business and suffer the consequences of this zero sum game. Incidentally, trying to help your costumers and improve their lives, would lead you to not make the sale, which I would argue is is not even remotely virtuous. Apple could direct every iPad costumer to the Kindle Fire HDX, which has better hardware for half the price, but in practice Apple would quickly go out of business for doing so.

I don't understand why I get half of the comments I get on this topic. This is a reply to a video uploaded by Stefan, if you haven't watched the video yet, or read my transcription, or read my previous posts on this topic, don't waste your time commenting because you have no idea what this is about.

Carl Sagan - Demon haunted world

I'm not affiliated with the Zeitgeist Movement in anyway, but I am a volunteer over The Venus Project. Those are different things. Are you affiliated with Ron Paul? He's a free market guy too right? Can you really say that market competition is necessary for providing incentive, regulating price and use of resources, and then call it cooperation? I do acknowledge it was a fascist state, do you acknowledge that the Free Market Guru Milton Friedman is directly responsible for it?

Seems you are not aware that people starve to death for not having enough money to buy food. How is that ever a positive outcome? My father is neither anti-capitalist or socialist. In my childhood I couldn't care less about economics, political systems or religion, since none of that made sense to me, so just didn't talk about it. Am not talking about privileges here, unless you think basic human rights are privileges, while I view food, access to education, medical treatment and housing, not as privileges but the very minimal necessary for survival. And when you say they can't have it, is like saying Profit is more important than taking care of human suffering. Have you heard about the Chicago School / Pinochet experiment in Chile? Why you think the lesser the government intervention, more people went bankrupt/hungry? And why it was necessary to use a brutal dictator in order to enforce a free market?

Depends what you mean by critical thinking.

When I say people, I obviously include myself. Often catch myself blaming politicians, religious leaders, bankers and warmongering scientists.

People want simplistic, easy to understand solutions, because dealing with the actual world is mind boggling complex. And more importantly, they want someone to blame their problems to. So some spiritual leader can come along and say: "- Hey, this is really complex, but don't worry about it, I've done the thinking for you!" That is why is easy for a dictator to come along, pick a scapegoat and control a whole country after that particular society has been broken. People are pissed and want to blame anyone but themselves: "- It's those damn Latinos/Chinese/Jews/Arabs/Blacks/Women/Any group of people!"

Deepak Chopra does not really understand what he is talking about, Quantum Physics has became the new God of the gaps for spiritual people, they enjoy talking about how it can explain afterlife, mind reading and psychic powers, since they believe: Quantum Physics = Anything goes. If you hear someone talking about how the multiverse, 11 dimensions, string theory and dark energy/matter can explain their spiritual beliefs, you can be sure that the person is full of shit, because not even Michio Kaku or Stephen Hawking actually understand what the hell those things are. They've never actually been directly observed, so right now it's a very curious possibility that enables Particle Physics to make mathematical sense, and have very accurate real world predictions. It's like people have stumbled into some kind of buried artifact, and the more they dig in, more they understand what it is, though since they've just started digging, they don't know if the pointy uncovered tip is an iceberg or the hull of the Titanic. It's funny that these people talk about Quantum Leaps, like if that represents something huge, when it's actually something happening at subatomic level.

Hahaha, that was pretty funny. Though does it make sense to call someone a troll because you don't agree with him? I figured you people were into philosophy and open to new ideas and challenges? Or are you people here to agree with each other and never evolve?

Talking about game-theory, if the Free Market is a zero sum game, with winners and losers, where the losers die. Isn't there something fundamentally wrong with it? How would a positive sum society look like?

I actually do see my own privileges, and understand I'm one of most privileged people in the world. I was raised by my father to be a Scientist/Hacker, in a similar way Richard Feynman's father raised him to be a Scientist/Hacker, so can read in 7 languages, even though I've only ever met one other person who had proficiency in English. Being more educated than the rich in rich countries, only accentuates my responsibility for making a difference, because if I can't do it, who will? I'm not one to give up easily, if I'm damaging your self image of a good Samaritan that cares about people, then I'm actually doing a good job here.

I would not expect you to understand, because you don't know what you don't know, so you can't see your own privileges.