Which thoughts wreck your head?

Captain Ginger · 14-08-2008 10:37AM #1

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 · 14-08-2008 10:40AM

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

What?

Spud83 · 14-08-2008 10:40AM

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

Magpie! · 14-08-2008 10:41AM

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 · 14-08-2008 10:44AM

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 · 14-08-2008 10:46AM

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 · 14-08-2008 10:46AM

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! · 14-08-2008 10:46AM

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 · 14-08-2008 10:51AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:02AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:11AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:11AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:15AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:16AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:16AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:18AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:18AM

LadyE wrote: »

Im thinking its white tho.

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

Oh Gawd!

seamus · 14-08-2008 11:18AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:20AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:20AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:20AM

Earthhorse wrote: »

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

Oh Gawd!

Dont complicate things!!!

A_M101 · 14-08-2008 11:21AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:21AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:22AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:23AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:23AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:24AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:25AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:28AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:29AM

Just stop thinking!!

QED

ntlbell · 14-08-2008 11:31AM

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?

Which thoughts wreck your head?

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