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FLUX23

['Member']Joined: October 15, 2016 at 04:51Last active: February 12, 2021 at 03:132 discussions74 comments
Location: Japan

Bio

I'm just some random Japanese dude who do chemistry for living, but likes to often think philosophically about the world.

Ph.D. in Chemistry

Favourite Philosopher

Claude Levi-Strauss

Favourite Quotations

"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them."
- Robert J. Oppenheimer

Discussions (2)

Comments

In: Why doesn't God clear up confusion between believers who misinterpret his word?  — view comment
Yeah well, he's not. Unless he can break the rules of logic, he is never omnipotent because that will create numerous paradoxes. And if he can break l...
June 23, 2018 at 13:40
In: Was the universe created by purpose or by chance?  — view comment
The OP might want to clear up the usage of probability. Probability is not just simply probability that a certain outcome is expected out of all possi...
June 21, 2018 at 06:07
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
No you are not, which is the problem. You also do not seem to understand how I defined measurement neither, which also a problem. And to accuse me of ...
June 16, 2018 at 08:39
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
See, you used the word "perfectly ordinary sense of measurement". This is why I am saying this is purely terminology problem. To be extreme, if I defi...
June 16, 2018 at 08:15
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Well I am not a neuroscientist, and to be honest I can only refer to lectures from neuroscientists, the most famous out of them was Edvard I. Moser in...
June 15, 2018 at 11:27
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
I indeed agree that there is a deviation. Can you be a little more specific about "several" test? Are they test with completely different problems? Or...
June 15, 2018 at 11:05
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Well, what I said wasn't really philosophy but science. It is scientifically well established that brain performs measurement in processing informatio...
June 15, 2018 at 10:53
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
I understand. English is also not my mother tongue so I can understand it happens. I am still unsure if you are correctly understanding statistics. Pr...
June 15, 2018 at 10:51
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Well you didn't mention anything about my reply after your final reply, which I assume you just simply missed. However, the measurement thing is a wel...
June 14, 2018 at 02:47
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
This, I must wholeheartedly agree.
June 14, 2018 at 02:23
In: Is the Speed of Light the Ground State of the Universe?  — view comment
No, ground state in physics is not a relative term based on the ambient conditions.
June 14, 2018 at 02:09
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Well, I am not assuming you don't understand statistics. I am assuring you that you don't understand statistics. I am a photochemistry/photophysics gu...
June 14, 2018 at 02:05
In: Is the Speed of Light the Ground State of the Universe?  — view comment
The reason I am saying you need to use standard physical terms is simply because you are talking about physics. You can't just make up a word that alr...
June 12, 2018 at 17:03
In: Is the Speed of Light the Ground State of the Universe?  — view comment
I am sorry but like I said, the terminology is going everywhere in your post and it is really hard to comprehend...I advise you use more standard phys...
June 12, 2018 at 10:56
In: Is the Speed of Light the Ground State of the Universe?  — view comment
Well you said: which was ambiguous. I am not attacking you or anything. But your extra remark "equivocation makes a meaningless argument" is starting ...
June 12, 2018 at 10:51
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Well, the brain is actually "smarter" than that. First, you don't need to recognize every single pieces of the face to recognize that it is a face. Yo...
June 12, 2018 at 10:45
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
You recognize someone's face because your brain can process your vision in which particular set of properties in the vision matches the "properties of...
June 12, 2018 at 10:16
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
I apologize that I haven't read the entire thread thoroughly. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide me the post where you explained why y...
June 12, 2018 at 09:59
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Psychological, yes. Scientific in general, to a degree, yes. I agree.
June 12, 2018 at 09:35
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
I respectfully disagree. If you have a concept and can distinguish between an intelligent person or not, whether subjectively or objectively, you are ...
June 12, 2018 at 08:45
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
As someone who is not American (I'm Japanese), I say Trump is somewhat unpredictable but is not necessarily the worst president as people make him to ...
June 12, 2018 at 04:00
In: Is the Speed of Light the Ground State of the Universe?  — view comment
I understand what you are trying to say, but the terminology is going everywhere. "Ground state" refers to a state with the lowest energy of the parti...
June 12, 2018 at 03:25
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Now I understand that you do not understand statistics. If you don't understand statistics, then you won't even know what IQ tests are about. Why are ...
June 12, 2018 at 02:50
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
Okay, but I don't understand why you assume that intelligence CANNOT be measured. It certainly can. If you are right, then the word "intelligent" woul...
June 12, 2018 at 02:49
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
I will have to agree with this. Statistically speaking, there is a difference between being "inaccurate" and having "deviations". Let's hypothetically...
June 11, 2018 at 08:24
In: Many People Hate IQ and Intelligence Research  — view comment
I know IQ tests aren't some absolute measure of "intelligence", but I think it does a good job overall. I think people criticize the IQ tests more tha...
June 08, 2018 at 07:31
In: Why doesn't God clear up confusion between believers who misinterpret his word?  — view comment
In principle, God, whether he actually exist or not, can never completely and accurately convey his will to the people. There's an obvious reason to t...
June 08, 2018 at 06:49
In: How did living organisms come to be?  — view comment
Good point, and maybe you are right. It might not be a meteorite that brought necessary things on Earth but it was on Earth in the first place. I am n...
April 05, 2017 at 21:14
In: How did living organisms come to be?  — view comment
Scientists do attempt addressing that problem. They just haven't got a universally acceptable solution or alternative. So you are right, general relat...
April 05, 2017 at 21:06
In: How did living organisms come to be?  — view comment
I must say, nice job with a brief summary. But I don't think any of the people here really understand the mathematics and science behind this and no m...
April 05, 2017 at 11:09
In: Does a 'God' exist?  — view comment
You are right. But for me, most of the "evidence" that they claim to be as one is expedient, otherwise downright wrong. One example is "probability". ...
April 04, 2017 at 19:23
In: Does a 'God' exist?  — view comment
I agree that my wording was not good. What I meant was the resulting object (X') derived from the interpretation of the evidence produced by supposedl...
April 04, 2017 at 18:42
In: How did living organisms come to be?  — view comment
Scientifically, I agree with molecular-panspermia (Extraterrestrial organic molecules). Indeed, statistically it is plausible that organic molecules c...
April 04, 2017 at 17:15
In: Does a 'God' exist?  — view comment
Which is impossible because then you are implying that the premise X' = X. Any interpretation arising from God is X' in any religion and disproving th...
April 04, 2017 at 16:53
In: Does a 'God' exist?  — view comment
I don't agree on that. GreyScorpio is clearly referring to our (or actually a group of people in a specific religion) interpretation of God. Not the "...
April 04, 2017 at 12:25
In: Does a 'God' exist?  — view comment
I must say 1) definitely have a fallacy in the question itself. 1. Let's say there is the true target of what we are trying to interpret as X. 2. What...
April 04, 2017 at 12:09
In: The States in which God Exists  — view comment
The OP does not understand what "probability" is and how it works (as other people have mentioned)...this thread is already null before we can actuall...
April 04, 2017 at 11:42
In: Why I think God exists.  — view comment
This is a very bad logic. I don't know how you define "miracles" but it seems to me that there can be a better explanation to it than explaining it as...
April 04, 2017 at 11:32
In: Is the Math of QM the Central Cause of Everything we see?  — view comment
The latter. I don't know how far into the "cause" you are talking about, but I'll tell you from the point of Quantum Field Theory. From the quantum ch...
February 18, 2017 at 15:24
In: Zeno's paradox  — view comment
Space is infinitely divisible in mathematics under the definition of continuous space. Unfortunately, we do not really know whether this is applicable...
February 17, 2017 at 07:59
In: Why I think Red Herrings exist.  — view comment
lol, the sarcasm.
February 17, 2017 at 07:41
In: Why I think God exists.  — view comment
Why do you guys even bother discussing? It's kinda annoying seeing this thread back up when I come to PF. This thread isn't even worth 12 pages. It sh...
February 17, 2017 at 03:41
In: Should I get banned?  — view comment
True. If you go to a library of any research institute, you can get free access to most of the stuff. Unfortunately, not a lot of people have the will...
February 13, 2017 at 10:11
In: Should I get banned?  — view comment
I am saying it's probably already known and is generally accepted without having to have to cite references each time. If you need to disprove that, t...
February 12, 2017 at 22:18
In: Should I get banned?  — view comment
You and I work in these kinda field so of course it is not that difficult for us. But for them? The general public? I know they are lazy in one sense,...
February 12, 2017 at 22:15
In: Should I get banned?  — view comment
I'm pretty sure there is more to it than that. it's just that you (nor I) don't know.
February 10, 2017 at 11:16
In: Should I get banned?  — view comment
If you really want them to listen to you, you'll have to write a post worth a full article to convince people. Even if you do, there is no guarantee t...
February 10, 2017 at 09:03
In: Should I get banned?  — view comment
But look at what the other people said after that.
February 10, 2017 at 02:20
In: Should I get banned?  — view comment
I very much agree with andrewk. I've read the thread as well as your previous threads and posts. In my opinion, I don't think they have the right reas...
February 09, 2017 at 23:06
In: Why I think God exists.  — view comment
For the 15th time, you are unable to correctly address my point and come back with bullshit. I didn't even talk about information in the above post. W...
February 09, 2017 at 04:08
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