tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21121509318841413602024-02-18T23:42:50.062-05:00The Collect Call of TroythuluMusings of a SkeptophrenicTroythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-87348584297977793122019-04-18T00:00:00.002-04:002020-08-29T08:42:37.832-04:00Gods of Terra Primer | Inaugural Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vanakkam. After recently rebooting the setting, I’m posting a series of primers on my Gods of Terra SF universe, mostly but not entirely focused on a small region of space known as the Local Galaxy. <br />
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Here, great interstellar empires vie for power and the wavetouched, Childer of the Shard, struggle for survival and acceptance, while forces beyond human sanity gnaw at reality in the dark between the stars. Here there are worlds with cities made of scents, people with the powers of demigods, and ancient, monstrous beings with hearts of gold. Yet here, even those with mundane limits, skills, and talents can make their mark and change the universe forever. Here, even gods can die. </em></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" data-block="661766e9-10a3-41cc-806e-ed54ec474290" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-661766e9-10a3-41cc-806e-ed54ec474290" role="textbox" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 28px auto; max-width: 610px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">In this series as a whole, I’ll offer a detailed picture of what GoTa is all about, and in future, posts detailing the basic precepts on which everything runs, aliens and space-gods, creatures, superhuman abilities, exotic locations, and others. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" data-block="4f0563ce-90f9-4e2c-a88f-81c5d2e50482" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4f0563ce-90f9-4e2c-a88f-81c5d2e50482" role="textbox" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 28px auto; max-width: 610px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">A list of topics includes: </p><ul aria-label="Write list…" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" data-block="314102ee-73a0-4dc0-ae72-20bb6770e09d" data-title="List" data-type="core/list" id="block-314102ee-73a0-4dc0-ae72-20bb6770e09d" role="textbox" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 28px auto; max-width: 610px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.3em; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.476; margin-bottom: 0px;">Setting precepts; what assumptions, laws, and logics operate, and what do they entail? </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.476; margin-bottom: 0px;">False assumptions; what claims, what myths and mistakes are generally accepted as true within the setting; where and how these claims go astray from the truth, and what are actually the case.<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.476; margin-bottom: 0px;">Supernormal abilities and powers, and the limits therein. <br data-rich-text-line-break="true" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.476; margin-bottom: 0px;">Aliens and other species, such as wave-touched or Prodigals, the Kaisiri, the Rj’lt’ar, and their effect on everyone else. <br data-rich-text-line-break="true" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.476; margin-bottom: 0px;">Empires, worlds, and the cultures that dwell within and on them. <br data-rich-text-line-break="true" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.476; margin-bottom: 0px;">History and momentous events, including the Galactic Ripple, the Great Fear, and the Shutter, and these as influences on the setting. <br data-rich-text-line-break="true" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.476; margin-bottom: 0px;">Iconic characters and monstrous beings, including the Nine Who are One, the first four Gods of Terra, their foes, and those who followed after them in the wake of the Shutter. <br data-rich-text-line-break="true" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> </li></ul><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" data-block="27c5dbf5-7b13-49d3-9616-29e660395098" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-27c5dbf5-7b13-49d3-9616-29e660395098" role="textbox" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 28px auto; max-width: 610px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Tf. 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A while back, Steven Novella <a href="http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/skepticism-vs-cynicism/">[Here]</a> had posted some really good thoughts on the difference between effective, intellectually honest skepticism and cheap, lazy, cynical denialism, and on the importance of cultivating the former and avoiding the latter.<br />
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In the past, I’ve attempted to describe a belief spectrum from absolute credulity to definitive denial, but I currently think that’s an erroneous concept.<br />
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For as has often been pointed out by Stephanie Zvan, except for some rare cases of neurological dysfunction, nobody is totally credulous or completely cynical about everything, but somewhere between them in more of a rock-strewn landscape of belief with surer, safer footing nearer the center than at the edges, to paraphrase her analogy.<br />
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But in the comment thread of Steve’s post, one of the commenters <a href="http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/skepticism-vs-cynicism/#comment-38990">[Starting Here]</a> tries very hard to prove the very thesis of cynicism the post addresses in a classic and blatant display of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect">Dunning-Kruger effect</a>, by conspiracy mongering, in dishonestly ignoring or dismissing all counterarguments, attempting to assert intellectual superiority by evading questions and repeating the same talking points using glaring errors in reasoning apparent to nearly everyone else in the thread, and especially obvious to Dr. Novella.<br />
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Despite suggestions from the others, and better arguments offered by same, at no point does the offending commenter get a clue as to his own incompetence in reasoning, and repeatedly sticks to 20-30 years out-of-date books and documentaries as proof positive of his claims of evil government conspiracies in a manner that seems a bit too uncritically cynical, arrogant, and condescending for one claiming to be the better skeptic.<br />
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Exactly what was described in Steve’s main post. To a tee.<br />
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The commenter is content to claim the moral and intellectual high-ground, and not once does he note the irony of his factual errors, illogical statements and attempts to shift the burden of proof onto the other commenters, thinking his own arguments absolutely steel-girded and views flawlessly correct.<br />
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I’m going to say something I rarely feel a need to: Incompetence leads to more of the same. Some people are too clueless to notice or too resentful to acknowledge their own lack of ability and project it onto others to protect their fragile egos and rice-paper thin skins.<br />
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I for one am skeptical of his claims, as I hear the same sort of absurd arguments from people whose only criticisms of science are based upon casting aspersions of motive and vested interest, thus showing quite nicely that they really don’t understand science.<br />
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As noted with the Dunning-Kruger effect, There’s an enormous difference between self-reporting how well-informed one is about something, and really being as well-informed as one claims: It’s an inverse relationship between how unduly confident one is about their understanding and how much they actually understand, ego and self-esteem aside.<br />
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People who really do know more probably tend to be more introspective and self-critical thinkers and are more aware of their own intellectual shortcomings and biases than incurious types who don’t think deeply enough to question the limits of their understanding and of their own subjective but real weaknesses.Troythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-1392319306360662292017-12-02T23:00:00.000-05:002020-08-29T11:15:40.761-04:00Caturday's Astrophenia | Holiday Blogcation 2017 Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Holidays are coming up, and there's a lot on my plate, so I'll be taking a blogcation until the 28th of the month. That would be the ninth anniversary of my WordPress blog, The Call of Troythulu. I'll be writing, studying, practicing on math lessons, and tons of other things that preclude much blogging. Oh, yes, there are fractals to generate as well, as I'm practicing on unfamiliar apps for those, developing new params for images. I'll see you again here and on other blogs on the 28th, so,<br />
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G'day, O Fine Hominines! This week has been interesting, as I'm experimenting with studying all three of the languages I'm learning in the same week; it's one language per day at least, more than one on the day or days after if I miss one. So this Sunday, I'm devoting equal time to each of Tamil, Bangla, and Hindi, plus getting in a couple of hours of writing. Here, I'll post thumbnails of recent Mandelbulber v.2 images. These are some of the better ones produced, and more will be added, and uploaded, as those improve in quality:<br />
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<a href="http://www.seti.org/BiPiSci/WonderWomen" target="_blank">Big Picture Science Radio Show | Wonder Women</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7007" target="_blank">NASA Links Port-City Sea Levels to Regional Ice-Melt</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/you-think-your-family%E2%80%99s-turkey-day-dinner-is-rough-try-what-hd-172555-is-serving" target="_blank">You Think Your Family's Turkey Day Dinner is Rough? Try What HD 172555 Is Serving</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.universetoday.com/137954/galactic-panspermia-interstellar-dust-transport-life-star-star/" target="_blank">Galactic Panspermia: Interstellar Dust Could Transport Life from Star to Star</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.seti.org/why-is-it-so-cold-on-pluto" target="_blank">Why is It so Cold on Pluto?</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7008" target="_blank">Cassini Image Mosaic: Farewell to Saturn</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.universetoday.com/137960/project-lyra-mission-chase-interstellar-asteroid-1/" target="_blank">Project Lyra: A Mission to Chase Down That Interstellar Asteroid</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-comet-true-as-the-north-star" target="_blank">A Comet True as the North Star</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.seti.org/we-beamed-signal-space-aliens-was-bad-idea" target="_blank">We Just Beamed a Signal at Space Aliens. Was That a Bad Idea?</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7009" target="_blank">Drone Race: Human versus Artificial Intelligence</a></div>
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Troythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-80621873689396702302017-11-18T20:00:00.000-05:002020-08-29T11:15:05.174-04:00Caturday's Astrophenia | 11.18.17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Good morning, afternoon, or evening as it suits you, O humans! This week marks the mid-point of my math studies, having taken the 18th out of 36 lessons, ready to move onto the next 18.<br />
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I've been generating new images via Mandelbulber v.2. I'll share some of them here next week when I upload them to my DeviantArt gallery. I'll be doing some writing over the next couple of weeks, for blog posts, stories, and essays, and will continue creating more fractals.<br />
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This weekend, I've been busy setting up my new dresser chest, so I can find new homes for stuff, while I create new graphic headers and generate ideas for new blog posts.<br />
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My habit-forming is coming along nicely, as I add a new productive habit each month, building on prior ones.<br />
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Have a terrific time yourselves this week, and I'll see you next Caturday, with pics!<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/137872/closest-potentially-habitable-world-found-around-quiet-star/" target="_blank">Closest, Potentially Habitable World Found Circling "Quiet" Star</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.seti.org/BiPiSci/SkepticCheckNibiruAgain" target="_blank">Big Picture Science Radio Show: Skeptic Check – Nibiru! (Again!)</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21971" target="_blank">Jovian Tempest</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-new-observatory-keeps-a-very-very-large-eye-on-the-sky" target="_blank">A New Observatory Keeps a Very, Very Large Eye on the Sky</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.seti.org/weekly-lecture/kepler-k2-and-beyond-era-exoplanets-has-arrived" target="_blank">Kepler, K2, and Beyond: The Era of Exoplanets Has Arrived!</a><br />
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Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening as it suits you! This week, I'm busy generating short story drafts, Lucasian verse, and 13 word stories as well. Things are going well. I've even gotten a 3d fractal generator, <i>Mandelbulber v.2</i> working on the new OS, and will be exploring it over the next few weeks as I use it in my spare hours.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/137803/building-electronics-can-work-venus/" target="_blank">Building Electronics That Can Work on Venus</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/help-name-a-rock-in-the-outer-solar-system" target="_blank">Help Name a Rock in the Outer Solar System!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.seti.org/here-what-e-t-could-actually-look-like" target="_blank">Here's What ET Could Actually Look Like!</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21970" target="_blank">Jupiter's Stunning Southern Hemisphere</a><br />
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Troythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-23203979344325912822017-11-04T21:00:00.000-04:002020-08-29T11:16:35.934-04:00Caturday's Astrophenia | November 4, 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week, I've been gauging my limits on daily workloads, and have now completed an entire day Friday spent editing, proofreading, and formatting a book manuscript of over 13,000 words in multiple timed work blocks of 30 minutes each. Last night it was 16 such work blocks, plus timed break periods for 8 hours of work total. I managed to fit in lectures, podcasts, and a Dr. Who episode, so while it tested my limits, it did not actually reach them, and still had some fun during this. This is a good sign, I think. I'm devoting most of next week to study, and for fractals am putting a temporary moratorium on doing new fractals for public release via Mandelbulb 3D, which I've just started on new tutorials that may be found on the Mandelbulb Maniacs Facebook group. I'm upgrading my skills with the program, and will be able to create much better images using it than I currently do.</div>
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<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6952" target="_blank">The Legacy of Herschel Space Observatory</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-plume-erupts-from-a-comet-pressured-from-below" target="_blank">A Plume Erupts from a Comet, Pressured from Below</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.seti.org/update-from-laserseti-team-oct-2017" target="_blank">An Update from the LaserSETI Team Oct. 2017</a><br />
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Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, as it suits you, o sapients! I’m making progress in my retrieval practice for Bengali, and studying new units of the text. But strong claims require strong evidence. For those visitors to this blog familiar with Bengali, I'll offer a little. It’s not my primary language. I’ll try to avoid butchering this, though the romanized spelling may be a bit off: <i>Namaskar. Amar nam Troi, ar ami markin chatro. Ami ingreji jani ar bangla shikhchi</i>. *ahem* In other areas of life, I'm experimenting with different work schedules, and continuing to add productive habits to make that easier, to create time rather than find it for the things I need and like to do. I would really like to do this blog series on this site once every week rather than each fortnight. But we shall see how that turns out.</div>
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Troythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-18120623272609503242017-10-21T22:00:00.000-04:002020-08-29T11:17:48.750-04:00Mr. Eccles Presents | George Hrab, "Stories and Songs of Skepticism" – The Good Old Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Vanakkam! Well, this weekend, I resume my study of Tamil, Bengali, and Hindi, not necessarily in that order. Thursday of last week, I participated in a recording with a bunch of other terrific people, including actual cast members of the show, for the Halloween party scenes in an upcoming Doctor Madblood special. I was cosplaying as the Ninth Doctor from 2005's first season of Doctor Who, and the whole thing was brooghly fun! This will be a busy month as I catch up on needed writing, study, and work on my new book, which will take some months to complete, <i>The Gardens of Sarusammog</i>. That book will contain all new stories not seen anywhere else, and will be my longest title to date.<br />
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Things have been busy lately, but I'll be posting once a week from here on, on this blog. I'll see you next week!<br />
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Troythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-74714721780654641372017-05-14T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-30T08:43:25.653-04:00Ubi Dubium... | The Way to the Truth<div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<br /><br />I self-identify as a skeptic, and now and then fall short of the ideal — we all do — but like better and certainly more accomplished skeptics, I believe that, yes, Agent Mulder, the truth is out there…<br /><br /><br />…But also that the best way to the truth is through skilled, careful reasoning and systematically gathered evidence.<br /><br /><br />Skeptics tend to value logic and evidence as ways of knowing the natural and social worlds. Without claiming that skeptics “own” logical thinking, I can confidently say that some mix of solid reasoning and sound evaluation have been very reliable throughout human history, in any profession involving professional competence, whether a good mechanic, police detective, soldier, electrical engineer, landscaper, lab technician or astrophysicist.<br /><br /><br />It’s all a matter of using effective knowledge that one can reliably use in situations in the real world — without the universe thumbing its nose and saying “Nope, that won’t even get onto the airfield.”<br /><br /><br />It could even be said that there is a set of <a href="https://kestalusrealm.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/the-values-of-rational-empiricism/">principles, ideas and values</a> that while not identical with modern skepticism and its use of critical thinking skills underlies both, as with the process of science.<br /><br /><br />Let me get something straight: skepticism is a set of methods, not a doctrine, belief nor a system of belief advocating any particular position on the nature of reality, so it can’t possibly be true or false, formally valid or invalid either. It is not the sort of thing that can be those.<br /><br /><br />It’s a method of finding out what’s true or false, or likely to be, and of reliably showing it to be when there’s enough information to come to a reasonable conclusion.<br /><br /><br />When skeptics are generally agreed that such-and-such a claim is false, likely to be false, or at least highly suspect, it’s because a commonly shared set of methods was used to reach that conclusion, not a taboo about or disinterest in the paranormal or the unconventional.<br /><br /><br />Conclusions are provisional — good skeptics are willing to change their minds upon the satisfaction of a level of proof appropriate to the claim.<br /><br /><br />Is there any other, at least as reliable, even superior way of knowing the truth besides reason and empirical methods? If there are any, I don’t know of them, and I don’t know of anyone else who does and has been able to show it convincingly.<br /><br /><br />With no universally agreed-upon way to tell the true from the false, short of using other forms of evidence to corroborate them, some of claims based on these may occasionally turn out to be true or partly true as a lucky guess. But most have shown themselves highly unreliable as effective techniques despite their frequency of use by many cultures. If you put out enough random claims, some of them are bound to come true by chance alone, via the Law of Large numbers.<br /><br /><br />The problem is that most claims to knowledge based on unproven means of gaining input from esoteric sources (themselves unproven or even unprovable to exist) are unreliable, often true by chance alone, and sometimes even fraudulent, so care must be taken in evaluating them.<br /><br /><br />But care must be taken with any extraordinary claim to knowledge no matter the source and set of methods, any claim inconsistent with a well-supported body of established findings. And the more inconsistent the claim, the better and more copious the evidence needed to support it.<br /><br /><br />After all, claiming that I’ve read a book by a certain author is trivial when both book and author are well-known to exist and I can intelligently discuss the contents of the book with another, but to claim I had a twenty-foot tall eight-limbed radiation breathing alien dinosaur in my bedroom closet would be a claim requiring an enormous burden of proof on my part, since there is no proven knowledge that such beings exist, that any are on Earth if they do, much less the fact that the known dimensions of my closet are too small to contain such a being, and the fact that I show no signs of radiation exposure despite my claimed proximity to the alien.<br /><br /><br />And no ad hoc hypotheses would or should be permitted. Every link in my claim must hold and be capable of disproof if it is to be acceptable — no excuses!<br /><br /><br />At the very least, my obstinately persisting in that claim despite disproof would and rightly should raise questions of my honesty or my sanity, or perhaps what sort of joke I’m attempting to play and what the punchline is.<br /><br /><br />It would be interesting if there really were superior ways to the truth, but I know of none which currently exist. I suspect that any existing at a future date will most likely be a evolution, vastly improved, of current scientific methodology or something else like it and serving the same function, only better.<br /><br /><br />That, I think, may be something to look forward to, if not in my lifetime, then the lifetimes of those yet to come. Good or bad, we are living in interesting times indeed.</div>
Troythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-91476345004590576982017-05-07T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-30T08:45:00.478-04:00Tutorial: Build Your Own Hypershard!Hypershards are curious things, slivers of hyperspatial matter created long ago that allow their users (also called hosts) to do all sorts of amazing things.<br />
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So I thought I'd put this together to show you how to make your own, so that you too can twist spacetime into knots, curling and uncurling its Kaluza-Kleinian eleven dimensions to muck around with physical laws and constants to do your bidding.<br />
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This is reality physics at its most insane.<br />
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First, you need the right tools if not a hyperdimensional being yourself. This especially applies to humans currently residing mostly in a four-dimensional spacetime manifold! Otherwise, the only way to get around this is to venture into hyperspace using a StarFold translation drive, and once there, start collecting hyper-crystal particulates in a state of forced wakefulness while dosed with mood-flattener pharmaceuticals to avoid going stark raving psychotic from the neurological effects of hyperspace on the waking brain. Remember: you must remain in hyperspace in order to smelt and forge the hyper-crystal into the parts you'll need. Hyper-crystal is nearly ghostlike in the three dimensions of ordinary space, and cannot be manipulated here without a top-of-the-line set of Gamentran Industries™ brand Kurtz-Dunar liminally stroboscopic field manipulator waldoes.<br />
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Once you have those, and have access to (and training with) a well-built transparachronic terawatt fabrication engine to smelt, forge, and shape the components to specifications (included in the operating software), complete the manufacturing process as directed, with a good-sized dimetronic plasmafluvian reactor to power it before assembling the parts using the waldoes.<br />
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All done with part fabrication? Now the fun begins. Remember, keep the waldoes handy once assembly is complete; you'll need them to place the finished product safely into your skull, where it will exist coterminously with your brain after clicking into place and receiving instructions from it for operation!<br />
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First, we assemble the whole: this uses a teledimensional cybertap fracticulator essential for powering the device; it taps into quantum-gravitic brane fields of other regions of the multiverse just bursting with huge, young, incredibly luminous stars that generate the tremendous power needed to twist reality like a pretzel, or maybe a gordian knot, depending on what you want to accomplish. It looks something like this from a three-space perspective, or maybe not, depending on which way it rotates into and out of three-dimensional space:<br />
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This has three major components, which absolutely must be put together in the correct sequence or the whole thing catastrophically explodes, vaporizing everything in a 300000 kilometer radius. Make sure you've paid the premiums on your planetary insurance policy!<br />
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There is the data core, which uses teledimensional quantum computing pathways defining the functioning parameters of the device. This determines the range, kind, and strength of the abilities granted. The data core is first, using subparachronomic welding equipment to exacting industry standards, generally at or slightly above the Planck-scale in precision.<br />
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Second, there is the morphic function transfiguration hardware, which alters its structure and functions according to the parameters of the data core's programming. This requires the same tools and standards as per the data core as does the next item below.<br />
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Finally, there is the power tap, the teledimensional cybertap fracticulator. This is added last, as when first in sequence, causes the previously mentioned catastrophic explosion.<br />
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There. You now have a fully assembled hypershard, ready to conquer world after world with, and the envy of most interstellar empires with only moderate military budgets.<br />
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Go forth, my Wavetouched, and let slip the chihuahuas of inconvenience for those who oppose you!Troythuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049366417814126101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2112150931884141360.post-8740857299267605542012-07-14T00:00:00.017-04:002020-08-29T08:35:17.246-04:00"We Are Stardust" - Symphony of Science<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8g4d-rnhuSg" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Lyrics:<br /><br />
We are part of this universe<br />
We are in this universe<br />
The universe is in us<br />
Yes, the universe is in us<br /><br />
Every atom in your body<br />
Came from a star that exploded<br />
You are all star dust<br />
From a star that exploded<br /><br />
Look up at the night sky<br />
We are part of that<br />
The universe itself<br />
Exists within us<br />
<br />
We are star dust<br />
In the highest exalted way<br />
Called by the universe<br />
Reaching out to the universe<br />
<br />
We are star dust<br />
In the highest exalted way<br />
Reaching out to the universe<br />
With these methods and tools of science<br /><br />
Stand in the middle and enjoy everything both ways<br />
The tininess of us;<br />
The enormity of the universe<br /><br />
The atoms that make up the human body<br />
Are traceable to the crucibles<br />
That cooked light elements<br />
Into heavy elements<br />
<br />
These stars went unstable in their later years<br />
And then exploded<br />
Scattering their enriched guts<br />
Across the galaxy<br />
<br />
[Refrain]<br /><br />
We are part of this universe<br />
We are in this universe<br />
The universe is in us<br />
Yes, the universe is in us<br />
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