Science & Mathematics Unanswerable questions

[Krakeour Magic]

Is it possible to think of nothing at all?

No.

What is a memory and how are they created?

1) Relative intellectual retention of experiences.

2) By having experiences.

 

[Pie eyed]

No.



1) Relative intellectual retention of experiences.

2) By having experiences.

Not really right on topic, but amazingly interesting none the less.
Mechanical memory. Machined from brass.

http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/automaton/images/07_automaton_short.wmv

More detailed.

http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/automaton/images/071104_automaton.wmv

 

[ballanFYNE]

do yetis exist........................................











hang on found one

 

[ballanFYNE]

I've got one similar............without blacking out.......imagine what it was like if there was nothing.......it wouldn't be black or white because there are no colours.

 

[HSSB]

What would happen if Pinociho said his nose was about to grow?

 

[Pie eyed]

What would happen if Pinociho said his nose was about to grow?

Reminds me of a very old joke about Mrs Pinocchio.

 

[HSSB]

Reminds me of a very old joke about Mrs Pinocchio.

I need to hear this joke

 

[Pumbi]

This one is probabaly answerable but I always like to think about it.

Whose to say we perceive colours collectively? For example, is my red, the same as your red? Cos there is no way of justifying your red to someone elses, because when describing it, well, its just red. For all we know my blue could be your green. I reckon that would be awesome.

And now for my theory to be debunked in 5..4..3..2..1..

 

[Mitchell Madness]

This one is probabaly answerable but I always like to think about it.

Whose to say we perceive colours collectively? For example, is my red, the same as your red? Cos there is no way of justifying your red to someone elses, because when describing it, well, its just red. For all we know my blue could be your green. I reckon that would be awesome.

And now for my theory to be debunked in 5..4..3..2..1..

well you are half correct. It is imp[ossible to justify the shade of a colour, as we cannot see what someone else is. what is very dark to you might be lighter to someone else

 

[Pie eyed]

Colour is governed by wavelength. You are 100% correct that other people do see colour, which is about the individuals perception of the colour as governed by his/her nervous system, differently or in varied ways.
Colour blindness comes in many forms all the way to the complete inability to perceive colour. Those affected can very often differentiate very accurately between colours though by shade, able to identify the diferrence between two or more colours but unable to describe the "colour" itself in isolation.

 

[prankmonkey]

I've got one similar............without blacking out.......imagine what it was like if there was nothing.......it wouldn't be black or white because there are no colours.

white is the combinations of the whole visible spectrum
black is what you see when none of the visible spectrum hits your eyes
so you can 'see' black, since its the absence of light

 

[Walesy]

white is the combinations of the whole visible spectrum
black is what you see when none of the visible spectrum hits your eyes
so you can 'see' black, since its the absence of light

Yeah, there's a bunch of parameters that would need to exist to answer the question. For example, if there was nothing, you wouldn't exist to experience anything.

However, if you were to look at nothing, you would only see black. Since black is what we interpret a lack of light to be. (and nothing would be generating no light.)

 

[Pie eyed]

Not right on topic but relevant to how we see or can see.

Have you ever wondered what the universe looks like in different, normally invisible to our senses, wavelengths?

http://www.chromoscope.net/

Have fun.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Not right on topic but relevant to how we see or can see.

Have you ever wondered what the universe looks like in different, normally invisible to our senses, wavelengths?

http://www.chromoscope.net/

Have fun.

And to think I was planning on getting some work done tonight

 

[Krakeour Magic]

However, if you were to look at nothing, you would only see black. Since black is what we interpret a lack of light to be. (and nothing would be generating no light.)

No, you would see nothing.

 

[Walesy]

No, you would see nothing.

aka, no light

which your brain would interpret as... black.

 

[Krakeour Magic]

aka, no light

which your brain would interpret as... black.

I would suggest that it is impossible to "see" nothing.

The only way that could happen is if you were dead, and henceforth you would "see" nothing.

 

[Greggy]

No, you would see nothing.

Which begs the question can you see nothing?

 

[Greggy]

Does a blind man technically see nothing? or does having no sight elimenate him from seeing?

 

[Pie eyed]

Which begs the question can you see nothing?

No because literally there is nothing to see. You could not even gather enough nothing to look.

 

[Walesy]

I would suggest that it is impossible to "see" nothing.

The only way that could happen is if you were dead, and henceforth you would "see" nothing.

Sight is a sense. Light burns an image on our retina which our brain then processes and tells us what we can see.

Without this light burning our retina, our brain would process what it "sees" as black.

 

[Pie eyed]

I would suggest that it is impossible to "see" nothing.

The only way that could happen is if you were dead, and henceforth you would "see" nothing.

Henceforth you could not see. See being a function of a living brain.

I reckon there's a confusion about anything, nothing, no light and true lack of anything or absolute nothing.
You can't see what is not there, blind or otherwise. Hypothetically you could not even get near to nothing without yourself ending.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

What do blind people (from birth) dream of?

 

[Pie eyed]

Direct quote from a person blind from a very young age.

" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I've met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30. "

Link to various studies of the dreams of the blind

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22202/85765-do-blind-see-dream-/2

 

[ExpectToWin]

3 business men go to a restraunt and have a meal.

Each meal costs $10.00

They each give the waitress $10 and the waitress hands the $30.00 to the manager.

The manager tells the waitress to give the business men $5.00 dollars back.

On the way back to the table the waitress decides to pocket $2.00 and gives each business man $1.00

This means each business man has paid $9.00 for their meal

$9.00 * 3 = $27.00

$27.00 + the $2.00 the waitress pockets = $29.00

Where is the missing dollar