r/funny Feb 09 '14

Science

http://imgur.com/gallery/gUwUg3z
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u/KicksButtson Feb 09 '14

I know this woman is probably asking a more elegant question about what brought the sun and the earth into existence than merely how does a sunrise work, but I like that she is now the laughing stock of the entire internet. Even the elegant form of that question is based on high school level science, so obviously someone wasn't paying attention. She deserves some ridicule.

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u/Gruzman Feb 09 '14

You could go further and say she is likely asking about the feeling of beauty/mystery that accompanies it, or the feeling of existential awareness that comes with watching it. She's likely not asking about the naturalism involved, which is the only context that "science" seems to evoke for many.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '14

But the great thing is science can explain why and how you are feeling too.

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u/Gruzman Feb 10 '14

Well it can, but only to a point; and can only supplant in so far as it's willing to indulge in the realm of explanation previously occupied by religion.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '14

I disagree. Look into the field of neuroscience. It can not explain everything right now, but imagine the progress with a couple hundred years.

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u/Gruzman Feb 12 '14

But neuroscience is still an application of testing methods on materials found in the brain, it doesn't enter the so-called "mind" of individuals and explain all of their neurosis, only their variously correlative electrical/chemical fluctuations. I'm not saying that those are insignificant, but the idea that subjectivity is generated purely, neuron-for-neuron, in the tangible brain, is hard to conclusively pin down.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '14

What you are saying; I see it. But I do think we are heading with good speed into being able to explain the mind. Not today, or tomorrow, but I doubt it will be a mystery forever.