/sci/ - Science & Math

>When you fall asleep in class and don't learn about multiple sizes of infinity or how spacetime is continuous and uncountable

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>>14789601
You don't have to learn enough of it to be able to replicate it, just to understand how it functions on a fundamental level. Same way you can learn how an engine works enough so that you know your car isn't powered by "alien magic", but not know enough to be able to fix it.

But seriously, just understanding the concept of logic gates and the power of if->then statements is enough to demystify the basic process.

>>14511258
I hope this helps explain
Because everyone here is looking for a reason to be outraged, no I don't actually believe we're simulated on rocks. But it illustrates the point.

>>11871451
A bunch of rocks

scientifically speaking, who's ama?

>>11245047
Animal brains are analog computers, really life itself is basically uncountable electrochemical nano-machines all working together. The nature of computation is pretty abstract and it's scary to consider the possibility that the process zinging around in our brains isn't any more fundamentally meaningful than if an identical brain having that same thought were being simulated out on pen and paper.

Just some guy.

Here's a good one.

>>10716193
You could simulate the universe on a pocket calculator given enough time.

It's not like anyone in the simulation would notice how long the computation is taking to run.

If we replace a neuron with a computer chip, do we lose consciousness? Probably not because neurons die all the time anyway.

If we keep replacing neurons with chips until all of our brain is one big computer, at what point do we lose consciousness or do we still have it afterwards?

What if the artificial neurons are not physical components, but simple radiotransmitters that relay information to a server that has a neuron simulator on it. Now let's replace every neuron with a simulated neuron, do we still have consciousness? Even after all of the brain is inside the computer?

What if the computer is a mechanical computer made of rocks that we push around? Does the information content and information processing ability of the rocks now contain a consciousness?

It seems to me that somewhere along the way consciousness should disappear when you replace neurons with a bunch of rocks. But I don't see any single point where it should. So maybe rocks and everything else in the universe has a consciousness after all? But since a rock doesn't really think, their consciouness would be something quite different from ours.

Pic kinda related.

>>10557563
The Universe began when someone with an eternity to think, infinite space to plot and plan, and a sufficiently powerful imagination decided to simulate the universe.

who know

If you had an infinite amount of time, what problems in math or computer science would you work on?

>>9647381
>all solutions to y=x^2 exists whether you 'observe' them, in the form of a graph or a calculation, or not
>all solutions for Mandelbrot fractals exists whether they are observed or not
>Therefore we can imagine a math space where all possible logical equations and all their infinite derivations and solutions are present
>One such equation network describes our universe
>The meaning of why i can poop

>>9601154
Yes.

Is this possible?

Is it "okay" to make yourself a slave to mathematics and live in social isolation to the end of your days?

Are you just the universe experiencing itself?

Are we just the universe experiencing itself from different reference points?

What will compsci majors do in a few years when Quantum Computing becomes a thing in public&private industry? Can all of them really into QM?

I think I found a conditional proof of the ER=EPR conjecture. What do with it?

Lots of threads about who was 'best', but who was the shittiest scientist? Who fucked everything up the worst?

Surely some people have dun goofed.

>>8285028
Sure thing, kid.