Things I wonder when i am bored

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Gunner: If the draft age was 19...how would that change history?
Would we have lost some wars that we won?
Would wars have gone on longer?
Would more people be alive from not being drafted while war was in progress?</p>

<p>(And me and my friends had the same exact convo last weekend...i had to do a double take to make sure that you werent one of them)</p>

<p>Am I very PARANOID because when I enter the bathroom I look in the shower to see if there is someone hiding...and then I check under the sink..in case there is like a midget or sumthin???</p>

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<p>"then I check under the sink..in case there is like a midget or sumthin???"</p>

<p>issues...!!! lol ur weird... jk</p>

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<p>i cant help it...i know its unusual....but how unusual?</p>

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<p>umm... thats like future ocd kid type unusual</p>

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<p>A lot of random stuff...
-Usually a lot of questioning where I'm going in life. About what I'll do after graduation... whether I'll get married, have kids... all of that. And whether I'm on the right path for me. I'm happy in my course, but the questioning part of my brain is always wondering.
-How best to train my Pokemon Emerald team. <em>runs</em>
-Just trying to explain to myself stuff I see around me. In general.
-Languages... just flicking Japanese stuff around in my head... and wondering is there an overlap between learning real languages and learning programming languages...</p>

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<p>I often have a lot of really vague and abstract philosophical revelations and thoughts. Probably too vague for my own good.
-The philosophical problem of other minds really engrosses me. We assume that other people around us are human subjects as is, possessing consciousness, etc. Yet we can never verify the truth of whether that person really is thinking, and if so what. Think of it this way rephrased: how do I know there is truly an alternate consciousness beyond my own? You will always view things through your own schema, in psychological terms. The human landscape really is a wastland of expectations and uncertainty in that respect. Sure, we can look at brain waves from an MRI scan etc. But ultimately those are empty signifiers that don't tell us anything meaningful about what the thought really is, or if it is ever the same as ours. (Again, ther are empirical answers to this, but the philosophical issue at least sheds metaphysical doubt on the meaning of the way we go about answering them through induction/deduction...flaws in the scientific method?)
-I like to think about the future of science a lot, for me it is the paragon of the new and truly alters our very life and the way we perceive everything. The ideas of transhumanism really interests me, though I do have objections. Within our lifetime (by 2050 maybe) it is possible that we will have advanced through computer knowledge and intelligence to the point that we might be able to upload a human consciousness to a computer. Ultimately, the neural network and our consciousness signature could be electrnoically stored and flourish in a silicon network similiar to our brain, free our body. Creepy, but a way to immortality? Would you live on as a robot or simply cease from existence (setting aside religious meta-narrative objections and assuming an end to conscious life itslef from death). Within 50 years will we have discovered the cytogenetic causes of aging and sufficiently halted them, at least to the point that our generation can live another 50 years longer till we can finally find cellular-level immortalility? Who knows, given the literally exponential increaes in bioinformations and biotech (which I am involved with first hand) it's not that out of the question. All of these bring with them very interesting issues of ethics, impacts, and what is 'human' 'death', 'life', etc of course. But just thinking about these things is quite interesting as is.
If I can find a post I made in another forum on life being a Computer Simulation (it's really crazy) I'll post it here too.</p>

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<p>I also check my shower when i go into the bathroom. I also have a habit of opening my linen-closet really fast so that i can catch whatever is hiding in there. I guess i'm the future ocd kid's girlfriend.
I also do this weird thing with numbers...............</p>

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<p>heh... I used to think that there were people watching me always. Like the truman show. Looking back on it, if anyone had known they might have sent me to a therapist. I used to wave at things I thought were cameras (like it could be a hole in the wall or something), and I would dry off in the shower and wrap the towel around me before I got out and put on my boxers while I still had the towel wrapped around me. I was weird... and weedboy isnt crazy to think about how every little detail affects EVERYTHING?</p>

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<p>THIS IS THE COOLEST THREAD EVER</p>

<p>I always wonder "Wow, I'm existing. I'm living right NOW."</p>

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<p>I also wonder what it's like to be blind AND deaf at the same time.</p>

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<ul>
<li>Pretend all surfaces were perfectly reflective, and then shine an imaginery laser pointer, predicting where the light will go.</li>
<li>In middle and elementary school, I would look at the different colored tiles, and say, what is the fastest way to get from here to there while only touching certain colors, and no color twice consecultively(tiles had to be withing jumping range for me).</li>
<li>Think about my resarch stuff(labs are so overrated ;) )</li>
<li>Work on my chess engine(relieves stress).</li>
<li>Analyze my life like a chess engine(increases stress).</li>
<li>Argue w/ people</li>
</ul>

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<p>hypergreenbean that would be a very scary situation. like i'm shuddering right now...</p>

<p>sometimes when i'm walking on a sidewalk i wont step on the cracks. i'm not superstitious at all but somehow this entertains me...</p>

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<p>I like this thread. Ponderous ponders I've pondered recently:
1) Are insects faster than humans relative to body size?
2) Why do clouds float since they're denser than air?
3) Do blind people "see" in dreams?
4) Relative to the solar system, am I upside down?
5) Are there really more than 4 dimensions (referring to string theory)?
6) Do animals "think"?
7) What defines art?
8) WTH is James Joyce saying?
9) Did ancient cultures have atheists?
10) What defines language?</p>

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<p>I thought of another one :)</p>

<p>What is it like to be a baby? Obviously we have all been there, but it is as impossible to remember as a past life. How do babies think, feel, see things around them. And what is it like to live in your mothers stomach?</p>

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<ol>
<li>Does it really end after life, or does it go on forever?</li>
<li>How can the universe never end?</li>
<li>Where my peers and I will end up after high school.</li>
</ol>

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<p>On a similar note, doublechocolatechip, think about how different your peers will be in 5-10 years. Now think about how you'll change. Is it going to be a good change? Being a completely different person is probably one of the scariest things about leaving high school. I mean you can't even guess all the things that will affect you in some way. Everyone else will have a bunch of other things affecting them as well. I guess that's what makes life so personal... we all experience in our own way.</p>

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<p>Okay, firstly I would just like to say that this thread is brilliant, in every definition of the word. Inspired by what some of you have written about philosophy and science, I would like to add my opinion on some of these issues…</p>

<p>1). THE UNIVERSE</p>

<p>I have contemplated the planets, time, space, matter, and everything else related to this phenomenon for a long time now, and more recently have started writing down my thoughts. I am just going to list some brief ideas that come into my mind.</p>

<p>If we consider time as a finite variable, meaning it had a beginning and will have an end by definition in mathematics, then it is directly proportional to the volume of space (assuming it exists in 3 dimensions everywhere) because if time was to stop, then the volume of space would collapse into the universal centre of gravity. Why? Space is fundamentally a composition of forces and matter, as far as I understand it, and hence if time (t) was to stop, then t=0 and therefore the distance (s) must equal 0 in order for 0/0 (an indeterminate result by considering lim(x-->0) nx/x) and hence motion is no longer applicable because of there being no time to move through. Thus, and as far I am aware all matter is moving in space, then s=0 for everything infinitesimal to gargantuan. Now if s>0 for our equation v=s/t, with t=0, then v->positive infinity, negating our constraint for time to be a finite variable (because you can not have infinite velocity in finite time, otherwise everything would expand infinitely by Einstein’s Relativity Theory). Conversely, if somehow or another space was somehow to collapse then, apart from matter no longer existing, time will also cease by the proportionality mentioned above. Now, I am no where near the forefront of science as a plain high school student, but my inner inkling suggests to me that if time WAS finite, then there is no explainable reason for it for suddenly stop, thus the only way for this to be possible would be by s=0, and again I have no idea if this is possible, but I’d say it is most unlikely. This leads me to believe that time is infinite, as is the volume of space. I won’t go on any further, and I’m sure someone on here will disprove things I’ve said above because I merely thought of them just now, but here are some other brief thoughts I have about the universe. Firstly, there are n space dimensions, each existing (simultaneously) in particular domains of the infinite variable t. Secondly, there is something beyond mathematics and science that is yet to be discovered that will shed further light on the universe (I have no idea why I think this to be true though). Much much more, but I can’t think of anything else at the moment. I've got quite a few pages of just pure mathematics on these issues, but I guess it's kind of hard to get them on the internet..</p>

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<p>Uh...
wow.</p>

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<p>vrumchev ... no.</p>

<p>I can't explain now(exams monday, CRAM), but there are some major flaws w/ your theory. Good thinking though.</p>

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<p>Try reading Zeno, vrumchev. He had quite a few interesting ideas about motion and time. :)</p>