Which thoughts wreck your head?

Earthhorse · 14-08-2008 11:32AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:33AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:34AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:35AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:36AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:36AM

Trying to invent a new accent is tough..

ntlbell · 14-08-2008 11:38AM

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 · 14-08-2008 11:38AM

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.

14-08-2008 11:39AM

"The other" conceptualization found in Derridian postmodern deconstructionism.

R0ot · 14-08-2008 12:08PM

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

Aurora Borealis · 14-08-2008 12:14PM

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

Magpie! · 14-08-2008 12:18PM

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 · 14-08-2008 12:20PM

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 · 14-08-2008 12:20PM

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 · 14-08-2008 12:22PM

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 · 14-08-2008 12:26PM

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 · 14-08-2008 12:30PM

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 · 14-08-2008 12:38PM

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! · 14-08-2008 01:47PM

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.

--

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 · 14-08-2008 01:54PM

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.

iamnothim · 14-08-2008 01:59PM

Try and imagine a sixth (or seventh) sense. Not seeing hearing tasting smelling or feeling - completely different but just as distinct as these are from one another. I'm convinced it's impossible.

Hrududu · 14-08-2008 02:02PM

What does a blind persons dreams look like? That got me thinking for a while. What really wrecked my head was when I started to wonder what a deaf person's stream of consciousness sounded like.

Quazzie · 14-08-2008 02:03PM

iamnothim wrote: »

Try and imagine a sixth (or seventh) sense. Not seeing hearing tasting smelling or feeling - completely different but just as distinct as these are from one another. I'm convinced it's impossible.

Spidey-sense FTW

Earthhorse · 14-08-2008 02:05PM

iamnothim wrote: »

Try and imagine a sixth (or seventh) sense. Not seeing hearing tasting smelling or feeling - completely different but just as distinct as these are from one another. I'm convinced it's impossible.

Balance.

rhapsody! · 14-08-2008 02:10PM

Hrududu wrote: »

What does a blind persons dreams look like? That got me thinking for a while. What really wrecked my head was when I started to wonder what a deaf person's stream of consciousness sounded like.

Has anyone actually thought of asking a blind person what their dreams are? :P

I've always wondered about it aswell.

mollydolly271 · 14-08-2008 02:14PM

i hate trying to make mt mind go blank its impossile try it and yes you have to be awake

seamus · 14-08-2008 02:15PM

rhapsody! wrote: »

Has anyone actually thought of asking a blind person what their dreams are? :P

I guess it would depend on the blind person tbh.

If they'd been blind since birth, then I'd imagine that in the absence of any experience of visual stimuli, their dreams would take place almost exclusively with them being blind (perhaps with some colours and fuzzy stuff that they can't recognise).

Remember that someone who's been blind since birth has no idea what it's like to see - just like we have no idea what it's like to be a bat and use echolocation. Do you ever dream in echolocation? No. So why would a blind person dream visually?

If they went blind after having been able to see, I'd imagine that their dreams are similar to normal people, but perhaps with even more distortion - they would have to form mental images about what new people places and things looked like, which would no doubt be different from reality. There were would also be a degenerative effect on existing memories - what they remember people looking like would change continually down the years. Have you ever tried to think about someone from your past (say Primary school), then looked at a picture of them and realised that they looked completely different to what you remember?

14-08-2008 02:16PM

Captain Ginger wrote: »

Well for some people trying to think how the universe began ".

Yeah that annoys the **** out of me ^

Earthhorse · 14-08-2008 03:56PM

seamus wrote: »

Remember that someone who's been blind since birth has no idea what it's like to see - just like we have no idea what it's like to be a bat and use echolocation.

And we're back to epiphenomenal qualia. Bam! Just like that.

seamus · 14-08-2008 03:57PM

Earthhorse wrote: »

And we're back to epiphenomenal qualia. Bam! Just like that.

Which thoughts wreck your head?

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