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The_Sauce106 OP t1_j27ugz8 wrote

Reply to comment by philmo69 in The brain has a frame rate by The_Sauce106

Just because the number may contain hundreds of 0s doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist tho? I don’t mean there is a large limit, just that there is a limit. Humans and computers are pretty limited in the terms of the universe imo

By that I mean the universe exists before humans, on a scale that isn’t understandable by humans, implying humans are much too slow, or in this case live to short of a life span, to have continuous uninterrupted understanding at even the smallest possible physical point. The existence of knowing and not knowing implies the existence of pre-knowing that leads to knowing, even if that knowledge is not known at the time, does it not?

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philmo69 t1_j27u9p9 wrote

Reply to comment by The_Sauce106 in The brain has a frame rate by The_Sauce106

Yeah you're to focus on individual electrons moving short distances... Nothing is accomplished on that scale in the brain. That's like counting the actual monitor frame rate as frames per billionsths of a second instead of how many frames per second. If you counted it as frames per billionsths of a second then almost every billionth of a second you wouldn't be able to draw a frame or do anything on a computers scale. We use the larger scale of how many frames we can draw on screen per second because its more meaningful as we usually only draw 30 to 120 frames every second. In our brains it takes hundreds of thousands of plank lengths or more spread out over thousands of connections to accomplish any given process so it's just a poor scale by which to measure things. Our brains processing flows more than frames. Theres never a given moment that can be interrupted as stillness and referenced as a frame at the scales that are meaningful to our minds. We don't ever exist within a frame and can only view our mind as its current state and never as a fully drawn and complete frame of reference.

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SplodyPants t1_j27tacd wrote

Reply to comment by Samih420 in Drawing trees on paper is irony af. by blumzzz

Yes but irony is about the outcome you're addressing being opposed to the common or expected outcome. So what would the opposite of drawing a tree on paper be? We don't usually draw pictures of paper on trees, or trees drawing on...us? Or something like that? There's no opposition to the expected (or even literal) there. Cardboard is made out of Trees, so a tree made out of cardboard is at least conceptually ironic (although not unexpected, it is opposite to the "norm"). I'm not trying to be a Know-it-All dick or anything. It's just such a commonly misunderstood concept....or maybe I'm missing a message here.

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Rough_Dan t1_j27svlv wrote

Reply to comment by Ambiorix33 in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel

Frank Herbert himself said that the point of the book was to warn against placing trust in charismatic leaders and dogma. The book is about ideologies and the struggle for meaning, it has a tiny bit about some resource and some middle eastern influence but that's far from being it's main point.

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The_Sauce106 OP t1_j27s38k wrote

Reply to comment by philmo69 in The brain has a frame rate by The_Sauce106

Sorry for being confusing, I’m autistic and sometimes I don’t make as much sense as I’d hope I would. I meant an incomplete thought can exist as it takes time to form a complete thought, longer than it takes for an incomplete thought to form. In physics terms the plank length implies the existence of a plank time, meaning there is a minimum* amount of time required for an electron to move a plank length, even at the speed of light. Since the brain must follow the existence of a maximum speed (I.e. the speed of light) then the brain must not be able to interpret within the time it takes for the brain to react to stimulus aka there is a period between old stimulus and new stimulus that must exist in the single organ that causes a technical “stillness” that could be interpreted as “frames”

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mo53sz t1_j27rz26 wrote

Reply to Fire doesn’t make sound, only the thing that it’s burning does by LivingLagands

Are you sure? What about a Bunsen burner. That's just gas but they make a sound. I think the sound is a result of the air around the fire being rapidly heated, expanding and rising. So is it the fire, the flammable substance or the air that's making the sound? None would exist in This state without the other.

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SenorTron t1_j27ry79 wrote

Reply to Ever wonder if anyone else on the globe was ever watching the same exact show at the same timestamp by Double-Working1990

Netflix says that in the first three weeks there were 150 million different households that streamed Wednesday.

There are 1,814,400 seconds in three weeks. If viewings were equally spread out (in reality they'd be more clumped) that means 83 households had to start watching each second, so there were definitely a bunch of people watching at the same time as others.

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