Which thoughts wreck your head?

Captain Ginger

For me it's trying to imagine another colour, I know it's impossible but trying to think about really wrecks my head, I'm sure there are other things as well, what about you guys?

LadyE

I dont understand this, if you think of another colour (a different colour than what?) your head is wrecked??

What?

Spud83

Trying to think of a worse thread than this. I knows it impossible but still it wrecks my head.

Magpie!

A new colour?

Theres a couple of novels about that. Artists going off on quests to find new colours. I think one dreamed a colour and went mad tring to recreate it or something.

captainzapp

the colour thing used to bug me too. like if you try to think up a completely new colour? and anything universe related. like it cant just keep going on forever but if it doesnt then it has to stop but it cant just stop because then whats on the other side of it so it has to be infinite right? i just dont know!

Captain Ginger

Well for some people trying to think how the universe began ( ie "and what came before that" syndrom") wrecks their head, for me its thinking of "what if there was a new colour".

whiskeyman

On the colour vibe, I always used to wonder if colours I saw were the same that you saw.
Like, I see grass as green, but what if you see it as blue, but think it's 'green'? As in, blue is your green... and other colours are messed up, but seem perfect to everyone, even though they could be different?
How are either of us to know, if that's all we know?
Understand?
Confused?
Welcome to my world...

rhapsody!

Everything about the world wrecks my head.

How can you see moving pictures on a screen?
^and the colour thing.

And being dead.

How can you take a photo and have it there in front of you?

So many questions...

Ourlad

whiskeyman wrote: »

On the colour vibe, I always used to wonder if colours I saw were the same that you saw.
Like, I see grass as green, but what if you see it as blue, but think it's 'green'? As in, blue is your green... and other colours are messed up, but seem perfect to everyone, even though they could be different?
How are either of us to know, if that's all we know?
Understand?
Confused?
Welcome to my world...

I used to think that as well!

Quazzie

whiskeyman wrote: »

On the colour vibe, I always used to wonder if colours I saw were the same that you saw.
Like, I see grass as green, but what if you see it as blue, but think it's 'green'? As in, blue is your green... and other colours are messed up, but seem perfect to everyone, even though they could be different?
How are either of us to know, if that's all we know?
Understand?
Confused?
Welcome to my world...

I think that exact thing:eek:

sebastianlieken

i tend to philosiphise in my head every so often about just how enormous everything is...and how tiny everything is.

like the very smallest qwark, whats the made of....what if you zoom in even further beyond the theory. is there a universe in the smallest possible thing?. could there really be an infinite number of universes in so little as our escape key? and vice versa, is our entire universe just a tiny spec in some other world?

the whole string theory thing with multiple dimensions and multiple universes exactly parallel to where we are standing....mind boggling....

seamus

whiskeyman wrote: »

On the colour vibe, I always used to wonder if colours I saw were the same that you saw.
Like, I see grass as green, but what if you see it as blue, but think it's 'green'? As in, blue is your green... and other colours are messed up, but seem perfect to everyone, even though they could be different?
How are either of us to know, if that's all we know?
Understand?
Confused?
Welcome to my world...

That's an extension of the Zombie Theory, one of the fundamental philosophical queries;

That is, how do you know that everyone else in world isn't a zombie - acting completely autonomously and acting is if they are alive and have conscious minds, but they don't? How do you know you aren't the only fully conscious person in the universe?

Indeed it crops up a lot. How do you know that what you call, "Pain" is the same as what others call pain? Perhaps what you call "pain", other consider to be more a tickling sensation, or vice-versa.

philosophy

Ostrom

The internet. I get how it works but would love to understand the physics of it. How does this information exist 'out there in the air' or whatever. Wrecks my head thinking about how so much can be transmitted through nothing. Does a video exist outside of the storage device if you are viewing on wireless?

Earthhorse

Guys don't worry, I'm hear to help out.

whiskeyman wrote: »

On the colour vibe, I always used to wonder if colours I saw were the same that you saw.

Why are you posting in magenta?

rhapsody! wrote: »

How can you see moving pictures on a screen?

Go to the cinema.

rhapsody! wrote: »

How can you take a photo and have it there in front of you?

Use a camera.

Anything else I can help with just let me know.

LadyE

Actually, it wrecks my head when I think of what is at the end of the universe...surely it cant go on forever..there has to be something outside it...Im thinking its white tho.

Dudess

Captain Ginger wrote: »

Well for some people trying to think how the universe began ( ie "and what came before that" syndrom") wrecks their head

That's my one. Not original, but Christ does it have my head doing somersaults...

Earthhorse

LadyE wrote: »

Im thinking its white tho.

But is your white my white or is it actually black?

Oh Gawd!

seamus

efla wrote: »

The internet. I get how it works but would love to understand the physics of it. How does this information exist 'out there in the air' or whatever. Wrecks my head thinking about how so much can be transmitted through nothing. Does a video exist outside of the storage device if you are viewing on wireless?

All information in the web is stored in one form or another, even when you're viewing it.

You can think of wireless much like making noise.

When you shout something across the road to your mate, where does the sound go after it leaves your mouth, but before it hits his ears?

Earthhorse

seamus wrote: »

When you shout something across the road to your mate, where does the sound go after it leaves your mouth, but before it hits his ears?

You're telling me it's the interent? Right?

Dudess

seamus wrote: »

That's an extension of the Zombie Theory, one of the fundamental philosophical queries;

That is, how do you know that everyone else in world isn't a zombie - acting completely autonomously and acting is if they are alive and have conscious minds, but they don't? How do you know you aren't the only fully conscious person in the universe?

Indeed it crops up a lot. How do you know that what you call, "Pain" is the same as what others call pain? Perhaps what you call "pain", other consider to be more a tickling sensation, or vice-versa.

philosophy

Yeah, like I have one perspective of, say, my parents' front room. But maybe others don't have that same perspective - maybe they see it a different way to me...

LadyE

Earthhorse wrote: »

But is your white my white or is it actually black?

Oh Gawd!

Dont complicate things!!!

A_M101

Sometimes if I'm walking somewhere, I'll look down at my legs and just think "Wouldya look at them go!" and it sort of wrecks my head that if I said "Legs! Stop!" that they wouldn't have to, I'd have to make some sort of very distinct decision and command in my head and then they would.

ntlbell

LadyE wrote: »

Actually, it wrecks my head when I think of what is at the end of the universe...surely it cant go on forever..there has to be something outside it...Im thinking its white tho.

You had enough problems trying to work out what the thread was about, maybe your not ready to jump into the end of the universe just yet.

seamus

Earthhorse wrote: »

You're telling me it's the interent? Right?

Yep. The government suck all of the sound from the air and store it on teh interwebs.

LadyE

ntlbell wrote: »

You had enough problems trying to work out what the thread was about, maybe your not ready to jump into the end of the universe just yet.

:pac:shaddup...I got there in the end

Ostrom

seamus wrote: »

All information in the web is stored in one form or another, even when you're viewing it.

You can think of wireless much like making noise.

When you shout something across the road to your mate, where does the sound go after it leaves your mouth, but before it hits his ears?

Say one computer is transferring to another, wireless over the same distance. Is there now a greater quantity of information (whatever the unit is, I dont know!) occupying the space of the soundwaves in the shouting example? I just dont understand in what state the information exists

Earthhorse

A_M101 wrote: »

Sometimes if I'm walking somewhere, I'll look down at my legs and just think "Wouldya look at them go!" and it sort of wrecks my head that if I said "Legs! Stop!" that they wouldn't have to, I'd have to make some sort of very distinct decision and command in my head and then they would.

This is because your legs don't have ears.

seamus wrote: »

Yep. The government suck all of the sound from the air and store it on teh interwebs.

So that's why my phone bill is so high. Gonna start crossing the streets to talk to my mates from now on. Thanks Seamus.

seamus

efla wrote: »

Say one computer is transferring to another, wireless over the same distance. Is there now a greater quantity of information (whatever the unit is, I dont know!) occupying the space of the soundwaves in the shouting example? I just dont understand in what state the information exists

The information exists as electromagnetic waves. Now, ask me to define what an electromagnetic wave is and how *it* exists, is another matter entirely.

Ostrom

seamus wrote: »

The information exists as electromagnetic waves. Now, ask me to define what an electromagnetic wave is and how *it* exists, is another matter entirely.

I get you now, I remember some basics from physics years ago. I think....

jester77

Just stop thinking!!

QED

ntlbell

efla wrote: »

I get you now, I remember some basics from physics years ago. I think....

Have you ever gotten a bang of a load of 1's and 0's in teh face?

Earthhorse

efla wrote: »

Say one computer is transferring to another, wireless over the same distance. Is there now a greater quantity of information (whatever the unit is, I dont know!) occupying the space of the soundwaves in the shouting example? I just dont understand in what state the information exists

Here's something for you to chew on.

All computer code ever written, all it ultimately ever does, is change the colour of pixels on a screen.*

And how do you even know those colours are the same colours other people are seeing, huh, how d'ya know?!?

*Except code that generates sound.

Call Me Jimmy

Not particularly original but the insignificance of my life no matter what I do. Even if I became the greatest person in the history of the world, cured AIDS, rode the lead singer from the pussy cat dolls... even if I did all that I still lose consciousness forever.

Although I have got a satisfying idea of what death is like in my head. Imagine armageddon - the whole universe is about to implode into nothing. It's on the news, everyone's out in their gardens hugging and saying goodbye. Then it happens, like the turning off of a television. Everbody's gone. The universe is gone in the blink of an eye. That feeling just as everything disappears is my idea of death.

ntlbell

Earthhorse wrote: »

Here's something for you to chew on.

All computer code ever written, all it ultimately ever does, is change the colour of pixels on a screen.*

And how do you even know those colours are the same colours other people are seeing, huh, how d'ya know?!?

*Except code that generates sound.

What about a driver for a nic card?

what happens when it's headless? :eek:

Ostrom

Earthhorse wrote: »

Here's something for you to chew on.

All computer code ever written, all it ultimately ever does, is change the colour of pixels on a screen.*

And how do you even know those colours are the same colours other people are seeing, huh, how d'ya know?!?

*Except code that generates sound.

I never thought about that. I dont know do I? How could I know?? Ah!!!!!! Im too upset for work

ntlbell

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Not particularly original but the insignificance of my life no matter what I do. Even if I became the greatest person in the history of the world, cured AIDS, rode the lead singer from the pussy cat dolls... even if I did all that I still lose consciousness forever.

Eventually no one will remember all of what you did.

That gets to me a ltitle bit some day no one will know who i am or what i was or what i did :mad:

arse..biscuits

Trying to invent a new accent is tough..

ntlbell

arse..biscuits wrote: »

Trying to invent a new accent is tough..

I just seem to wander into a chinese one every time i try:D

Earthhorse

ntlbell wrote: »

What about a driver for a nic card?

what happens when it's headless? :eek:

Some days I'm glad I'm only of average intelligence 'cos if I was actually smart my universe would probably implode!

efla wrote: »

I never thought about that. I dont know do I? How could I know?? Ah!!!!!! Im too upset for work

You've come to the right place.

ntlbell wrote: »

Eventually no one will remember all of what you did.

That gets to me a ltitle bit some day no one will know who i am or what i was or what i did :mad:

Quick trip to the bell tower with the best in American innovation and design should fix that.

Black Swan

"The other" conceptualization found in Derridian postmodern deconstructionism.

R0ot

Thinking about website design... really really annoys me.

Aurora Borealis

Thinking what moved someone to do something. Hard enough time overanalysing everything myself, nevermind overanalysing others!!!

Magpie!

It wrecks my head to think of so many people wrecking their heads thinking about ****e.

All that wasted time energy and brainpower. Go do something productive folks!

FlutterinBantam

When I look at one of those big apartment blocks in Dublin and all the windows and all the people living there and all the shíte that must come out of them:eek:

Then I think of allthe apartments in Dublin,then the houses,then London,New York, Sydney,the World!!!..

Sorry feeling a tad faint, need to sit down here..

0utpost31

Trying to think up of a username for hotmail or gmail and this keeps on coming up: "sorry name in use!!! why not try this username 123123james.1423abc@hotmail.com".

Wrecks me ceann.

Aurora Borealis

0utpost31 wrote: »

Trying to think up of a username for hotmail or gmail and this keeps on coming up: "sorry name in use!!! why not try this username 123123james.1423abc@hotmail.com".

Wrecks me ceann.

+1

lil'one

i used to get thee moments where i'd be just sittng there quietly...then i'd look at my arm or leg..... then i'd start moving it and be like, wow and theres blood and veins and muscle and bone and look at the skin and wow, thats so crazy, how did all that happen, i've got a heart and it beats and ya can feel it......

sebastianlieken

A_M101 wrote: »

Sometimes if I'm walking somewhere, I'll look down at my legs and just think "Wouldya look at them go!" and it sort of wrecks my head that if I said "Legs! Stop!" that they wouldn't have to, I'd have to make some sort of very distinct decision and command in my head and then they would.

you are indeed an odd odd person.........

loved the "your legs dont have ears" comment tho earthors non the less

Latchy

Originally Posted by LadyE

Actually, it wrecks my head when I think of what is at the end of the universe...surely it cant go on forever..there has to be something outside it...Im thinking its white tho.

Same here ,use to think about that a lot and have to stop .It's to overwhelming a thought to conjure .

Perhaps there is a Stop or cul de sac sign at the end if any ?

rhapsody!

Earthhorse wrote: »

Guys don't worry, I'm hear to help out.



Why are you posting in magenta?



Go to the cinema.



Use a camera.

Anything else I can help with just let me know.

How do you make Earthhorse cry?

Presuming a he, castration.

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There are alot of mind boggling things, I found Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder a really interesting read when it comes to Philosophy and such. Fascinating book!

Earthhorse

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

"The other" conceptualization found in Derridian postmodern deconstructionism.

What's that then?

rhapsody! wrote: »

How do you make Earthhorse cry?

Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant" usually does it.

But why you wanna make Earthhorse cry?

PS Guys, pretty sure all that stuff about colour is covered by philosophy under epiphenomenal qualia.