Narz
keeping it real
Strong words. What makes it seem like "total crap"?cgannon64 said:
computer that predicts the future
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Does this mean that if you concentrate hard enough you can get CivIV's RNGod to give you a Settler start on Diety? 
Tenochtitlan
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This can't be done with the known laws of physics of this universe.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Most of all, the idea that pyschic concentration can overthrow probability.Narz said:
Yuri2356
Test Screening
Nah, the RNG only accepts animal sacrafice.Truronian said:Does this mean that if you concentrate hard enough you can get CivIV's RNGod to give you a Settler start on Diety?
ArneHD
Just a little bit mad
The question is, does predicting the future create the future?
Think, Leo from the Dune books.
Think, Leo from the Dune books.
Swiss Bezerker
Emperor
focusing the power of spearmen beats tank into pure awsomness.
Abaddon
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I wonder if it ever spews out 47.
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For what its worth, it doesnt seem like crap to me. Until someone gives me a better reason to rule it out than , 'Uh just because', I'll keep an open mind about it.Narz said:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
blackheart
unenlightened
Tenochtitlan said:
Which laws does it violate?
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Yeah, what about all that 'Quantum Non Locality' stuff?
toh6wy
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Sounds really cool, but it's hard not to be skeptical.
Narz
keeping it real
Fair enough. I believe that to be self-evident though. I imagine that if you were to go into one of two empty rooms and twenty other people were to go into an adjacent room and instucted to send hateful thoughts towards you for half an hour you would probably feel it. Same with loving thoughts. Don't you believe in prayer? Prayer is nothing more than crystalized intention and the universe (or God if you will) cannot help but be swayed (at least to a minor degree) by such energy.cgannon64 said:
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Prayer involves a god. This sort-of pyschic feeling control, as far as I can tell, does not.Narz said:
Now, tell me, why do you imagine you'd feel it?
* How do they define "unusual patterns of 1s and 0s"? (The article suggests it's when there's more of one than the other.)
* How do they define an event to be significant?
Did they announce that something significant was going to happen *before* 9/11 and so on, or is this a case of "noticing" a correlation after the event? To me this just looks like "Bible codes", where people spot patterns, but for example ignore cases where there's an unusual pattern with no corresponding significant event - or alternatively, there's enough things going on in the world that you could find *some* "significant" event.
As for them "respected scientists", do we have some evidence besides a biased article (no, the "doubters" are not acknowledging anything)?
* How do they define an event to be significant?
Did they announce that something significant was going to happen *before* 9/11 and so on, or is this a case of "noticing" a correlation after the event? To me this just looks like "Bible codes", where people spot patterns, but for example ignore cases where there's an unusual pattern with no corresponding significant event - or alternatively, there's enough things going on in the world that you could find *some* "significant" event.
And these results have been reproduced by other scientists?
As for them "respected scientists", do we have some evidence besides a biased article (no, the "doubters" are not acknowledging anything)?
Wikipedia's article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Consciousness_Project
Unless the computer's RNG comes from a nondeterministic process (which 99.9999% of computers arn't), then it is not truely random.
Yuri2356
Test Screening
Which means that someone must have designed it to produce these anomolies in order to coordinate their evil plans...Bill3000 said:
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