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Geek Culture / why do people think a apocolypse will happen in 2012??????

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Darth Kiwi
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Posted: 19th Aug 2008 15:51
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Hm, that's a good point about the organs. Presumably it would have no sexual lust or adrenaline rushes since the relevant organs aren't there.
Does anyone know where the chemicals for fear/happiness/sorrow come from?

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Satchmo
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Posted: 19th Aug 2008 15:53
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Pfft, everybody knows emotion comes from the appendix.

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Roger Wilco
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Posted: 19th Aug 2008 16:38
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From the pelvis?

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Satchmo
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Posted: 19th Aug 2008 17:48
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Fear comes from the genitalia.

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Posted: 19th Aug 2008 17:53
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Quote: "Fear comes from the genitalia."


*applauds*

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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 19th Aug 2008 20:02 Edited at: 19th Aug 2008 20:04
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Quote: "Does anyone know where the chemicals for fear/happiness/sorrow come from?"

Happiness comes from:
chocolate
killing things on computers
eating junk food
pie
watching other people hurt themselves
TV
The interwebs.
These are the ultimate sources of happiness.
Fear comes from:
stupidity
ugliness
stupidity
threatening situations
stupidity
the interwebs
Bratwurst.
Sorrow comes from:
doing something ridiculously stupid.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 19th Aug 2008 23:51
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You know what might be cool, since it's a digital being, is if hormones were "coded" into the brain. Whatever receptors in the brain process hormones could be modified to process the "softmones." Sort of like a function, how you can alter it to adapt to your needs, and switch it out with a different, more suitable one. You could have hormone functions that give it the feelings you want it to have. But if it's self-aware, it might resent you for doing that lol.

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tha_rami
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Actually, the brain releases the hormones or allow whatever creates them to create those hormones. This would mean hormones could be simulated inside the simulated brain perfectly, technology allowing.


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Posted: 20th Aug 2008 13:22 Edited at: 20th Aug 2008 13:23
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Here is something that I had to write an essay about for TOK today incase any of you want to express your opinions on it:

"Is the scientific nature of a discipline determined by the phenomenon it studies, or by the methods used to obtain the knowledge?"

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Flatlander
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Posted: 20th Aug 2008 13:36 Edited at: 20th Aug 2008 13:37
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I just browsed through this thread. Wow, did this ever get off topic. I personally love it when a thread does that. Really.

Also, the discussion is very well behaved and interesting. I like that as well. Thumbs up from me, but of course who am I and what do I count?

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Darth Kiwi
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Posted: 20th Aug 2008 17:13
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Quote: ""Is the scientific nature of a discipline determined by the phenomenon it studies, or by the methods used to obtain the knowledge?""

I believe it is determined by how it goes about its study, ie. the method. Consider a scientist performing careful experiments with acid and chemicals. Clearly, this is scientific because both the method and subject (chemicals, acid etc.) are scientific. But what if you take a scientific method and a non-scientific subject? For example, scientists trying to explain some supernatural phenomena such as ghosts. As long as the scientists remain objective, I believe this can be classed as scientific, since the whole point of science is not whether or not you prove of disprove the existence of the ghosts, but that you do this logically and empirically. Conversely, consider a scientific subject being studied using unscientific methods, eg. what if a group of people decided to ascertain how old the earth was by playing scrabble and adding up the scores? This is a scientific subject (geology and physics) but a very unscientific approach, which I think renders the discipline of scrabble-geology unscientific. Heh, scrabble-geology...

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sinisterstuf
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Posted: 21st Aug 2008 00:52 Edited at: 21st Aug 2008 00:53
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@Darth Kiwi
lol brilliant
pretty much the same as what I said... except my examples were something about someone eating 100 marshmallows and people investigating interactions between atomic particles by taking drugs and beating eachother... I think yours may have been better though.
However, after class today it was decided that gaining new knowledge about any subject wether it be science, art, history, literature etc. has scientific nature because of the methods used.

@F l a t l a n d e r
well thankyou, kindof out of the blue, but appreciated, I'm sure

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