If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortune
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If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortune
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Re: If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortu
But is that what they are telling you? Many, if not most would disagree with you.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 12:43 am A fortune teller sees through a crystal ball and tells you the future. If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortune telling? Is this related to philosophy? If it is, what is the philosophical link between our future and the melting of an ice cube?
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Re: If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortu
Ha, Ha, actually I don't expect anyone answer this question but it is a deep scientific philosophy question. It is physics!LuckyR wrote: ↑January 31st, 2018, 5:10 pmBut is that what they are telling you? Many, if not most would disagree with you.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 12:43 am A fortune teller sees through a crystal ball and tells you the future. If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortune telling? Is this related to philosophy? If it is, what is the philosophical link between our future and the melting of an ice cube?
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Re: If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortu
Sounds like you can't (won't?) answer my question.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 31st, 2018, 10:21 pmHa, Ha, actually I don't expect anyone answer this question but it is a deep scientific philosophy question. It is physics!
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Re: If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortu
Neither. It's bunk. Codswallop. Flapdoodle. No different than divining the future using chicken innards or astrology or similar.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 12:43 am A fortune teller sees through a crystal ball and tells you the future. If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortune telling?
Time is linear. We can remember the past but we cannot remember the future. That's just the way it is.
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Re: If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortu
Is the individual causally isolated from the fortune teller? If they are in conversation, what's to keep the individual from being contrary and intentionally doing something else? A so the question of "is it science" this refers to the method. If one finds that if one focuses one's mind on an ice cube, then one's intuitions become more clear, and these prove correct often, that would be a test of a sort and thus science of a sort.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 12:43 am A fortune teller sees through a crystal ball and tells you the future. If someone sees through the melting of an ice cube and tells you the future of human being, is this science or fortune telling? Is this related to philosophy? If it is, what is the philosophical link between our future and the melting of an ice cube?
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