Useless facts you actually know....

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:58 pm

Shonky wrote:
ikeaboy wrote:We experience reality half a second after it occurs. Which means we act half a second before we have decided to do the action and our brains fool us into thinking everthing is nice and sequential. This is observable from brain scans (apparantly, i don't own one) and it freaks the shit out of me
Why, I think it's cool.

It feaks me out because it fucks up free will and moves things towards the Dawkins cosmic fluke explaination of life, which i don't like at all, not that I'm religious.

It could have helped me avoid hitting that old lady the other day, wasn't driving just randomly striking complete strangers

Yeah (i know you messin) but the evidence still points to individuals making decisions but just subconsciously. So our decisions would be made by a part of ourselves that by definition is unknowable except by observing past behaviours= scary to Damo (me)

Someone tell me to lighten up

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:00 pm

frebentos wrote:
ikeaboy wrote:We experience reality half a second after it occurs. Which means we act half a second before we have decided to do the action and our brains fool us into thinking everthing is nice and sequential. This is observable from brain scans (apparantly, i don't own one) and it freaks the shit out of me
where did you find this out? Interseting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergson#Duration

Read some Bergson boyo, mind blowing stuff.

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:21 pm

stanton wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergson#Duration

Read some Bergson boyo, mind blowing stuff.

Nice one. Can you recommend any good books on him?

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:32 pm

"If someone annoys you or has a face on ..... Tell them it takes 42 muscles to frown .... but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and
whack them in the head. Or alternatively tell them it takes none if they had shut the fuck up in the first place

"

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:48 pm

ikeaboy wrote:
stanton wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergson#Duration

Read some Bergson boyo, mind blowing stuff.
Nice one. Can you recommend any good books on him?

Thinking In Time (An Introduction to Henri Bergson) - Suzanne Guerlac is excellent, it covers his most important ideas and is really transparent. Other than that there's Bergsonism by Deleuze but that's rather more dense. Thats the only other thing I've read apart from his own books.

silentk · Post by **silentk** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:11 pm

could leave my house at any time of the day or night, take a 5 - 10 minute bus journey, and get myself killled. i choose not to because i value my life more than my dignity.

slim · Post by **slim** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:21 pm

Ashley wrote:Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket so they can put their shank in it and knife up other babies at the park.

This is why babies always lose a shoe - "Bruv, gimme ur kreps and your dummy!" but they dont have enough time to take the other one off..

Actress jamie lee curtis is also genetically male, she just has a fucked up Y chromosome that doesn't get expressed.

And a lack of free will can fit in fine with a non-religious outlook on life, the laws of physics may be so strict that the universe can only follow one pattern and that dictates everything down the the chemical interactions in your brain which cause the illusion of "choices"

Deep like puddle

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:50 am

doner kebab isn't actually made of squirrels, contrary to much taste evidence that suggests otherwise

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:32 am

SilentK wrote:could leave my house at any time of the day or night, take a 5 - 10 minute bus journey, and get myself killled. i choose not to because i value my life more than my dignity.

ehh, you feeling ok?

jdcribs · Post by **jdcribs** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:53 am

The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain.

victor liechtenstein · Post by **victor liechtenstein** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:58 am

Steven Seagal did not know his 2007 film 'Flight of Fury' was a remake of the 1998 film 'Black Thunder' until it was about to be released.

He was not happy.

djake · Post by **djake** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:35 am

the british record for worm charming is 511 worms in an hour

freqone · Post by **freqone** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:37 pm

ikeaboy wrote:We experience reality half a second after it occurs. Which means we act half a second before we have decided to do the action and our brains fool us into thinking everthing is nice and sequential. This is observable from brain scans (apparantly, i don't own one) and it freaks the shit out of me

EVIDENCE??????

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:42 pm

Duplo is a form of lego that poor kids used to play with.

The reason why they bought Duplo is because it is far larger and they get their moneys worth.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:44 pm

The first record to sell a million copies was Enrico Caruso singing "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:50 pm

ikeaboy wrote:
SilentK wrote:could leave my house at any time of the day or night, take a 5 - 10 minute bus journey, and get myself killled. i choose not to because i value my life more than my dignity.
ehh, you feeling ok?

I think he's saying he lives in a rather rough area.

I live opposit a train track, so i'd be faster should we race.

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:27 pm

Thomas wrote:
ikeaboy wrote:
SilentK wrote:could leave my house at any time of the day or night, take a 5 - 10 minute bus journey, and get myself killled. i choose not to because i value my life more than my dignity.
ehh, you feeling ok?
I think he's saying he lives in a rather rough area.

I live opposit a train track, so i'd be faster should we race.

Right, I tought somebody somewhere wasn't staying for the full show.

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:03 pm

Ashley wrote:Duplo is a form of lego that poor kids used to play with.

The reason why they bought Duplo is because it is far larger and they get their moneys worth.

Duplo is toddlers who haven't moved onto lego yet, because they might choke on it. getcha legoz outt

blizzardmusic · Post by **blizzardmusic** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:11 pm

tempest wrote:Duplo is a form of lego that poor kids used to play with.

The reason why they bought Duplo is because it is far larger and they get their moneys worth.

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