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buy new scientist this week!

andyandy

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just a heads up for this weeks NS magazine.....it's a 50th anniversary special and it's an excellent read;

features on......

What is reality?

Do we have free will?

What is life?

Is the universe deterministic?

What is consciousness?

The theory of everything

Can secular science oust religion and should it try?

plus 30 pages of articles from the last 50 years

plus predictions for the next 50 years.....

plus the usual NS stuff....

well worth buying :)
 
This deserves at least ONE reply. Thank you. I think I'll try to find it and buy it. My Discover magazine subscription expired and I haven't read a good science article in a long time. (Most memorable article was from this guy by the last name of Huth, who mathematically figured out that the 'nothing' before the universe could have spontaneously turned into 'something', and he at least, believed he proved it.

Sounds really interseting. Ya. What IS reality? I don't think anybody knows, really. Reality might be that reality is unreality. I heard yesterday on tv, while surfing, that your brain has no way of discerning reality from non-reality if it is done right (like in virtual reality). Therefore, if THAT is true...then maybe...well, maybe nothing is actually true, or real?
 
Iamme said:
I see I was beaten to the punch.
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:D

There is no way we can ever know reality. Maybe the only reality is what we perceive through our senses. But science is not concern about it, it works under the assumptions that everything we see around seems to be real. Maybe it is not.
 
Q-Source said:
:D

There is no way we can ever know reality. Maybe the only reality is what we perceive through our senses. But science is not concern about it, it works under the assumptions that everything we see around seems to be real. Maybe it is not.
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And I suppose that when you really come down to it, it really doesn't matter, whether it really is, on it's merits, or if it isn't... but rather everything acts just as if it is. So I guess the scientists are correct in approaching it that way.
 
Thanks.
I will travel to the US in two weeks, I hope to still find a copy of it. It is not the same to read it online than to get a hard copy. But seriously, it is a good idea to promote this sort of magazines, especially among young people.
 
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