tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post8274757568897005360..comments2023-10-24T05:49:04.269-04:00Comments on The Chaliceblog: Why we should all be Googling every Goddamn thing these days...Chalicechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-46786696736874101102007-01-16T11:27:00.000-05:002007-01-16T11:27:00.000-05:00I saw this movie with my partner, who is a neurolo...I saw this movie with my partner, who is a neurologist. She went ballistic at the images of the brain having little electrical sparks between neurons (along with other parts having to do with biology).<br /><br />The electricity runs within the neuron itself; chemical packets run between them (as far as I understand it). If the film couldn't get basic biology correct, I was pretty concerned about the rest of it.<br /><br />(And the jump from the level of quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world was *completely* egregious.)<br /><br />Although, this isn't to say that there aren't legitimate philosophers who use quantum mechanics as a way of solving the mind-body problem... but they don't claim we can walk on water.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-60675831473955604632007-01-15T23:14:00.000-05:002007-01-15T23:14:00.000-05:00I KNEW it!! I KNEW it!! I HATED that film. All the...I KNEW it!! I KNEW it!! I HATED that film. All these people I know and love were all ga ga over it and I just sat there thinking it was the cheesiest most new age garbage I had ever seen. And I don't even know anything about science! Not that I'm proud of that, but still it's nice to be validated.PeaceBanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431551457505981195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-83518075160577894342007-01-15T22:05:00.000-05:002007-01-15T22:05:00.000-05:00"So the other day, a friend was telling me that sc..."So the other day, a friend was telling me that science has proved that anyone can do anything. He'd seen a documentary, you see, and read some books where eminent scientists were saying that quantum theory had proved that our ability to walk on water was merely an imagined limitation."<br /><br />This seems to require common sense more than Google. That is, if science had proved something so extraordinary and *certain*, wouldn't we have heard about it? Or did you friend think there was a massive government coverup of our water-walking abilities?<br /><br />Incidentally, that would distinguish it from global warming, which has evidence going both ways (though enough that the peer reviewers at the <a href="http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/document.asp?latest=1&id=3222">National Academy of Sciences</a> felt safe saying that governments should take action) and has been supported and <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21258914.shtml">eventually-supported</a> by different administrations. Unfortunate that Joel would lump the two together, but he's right about the willingness to tolerate and exalt untruth that furthers one's own cause.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-87859826349543447552007-01-15T21:24:00.000-05:002007-01-15T21:24:00.000-05:00Needless to say I love Google. I have even been th...Needless to say I love Google. I have even been thinking of making a picket sign slogan that could have a very broad impact not only on the Uncommon Denomination aka the U*U community but on other denominations -<br /><br />HAVE YOU GOOGLED YOUR MINISTER LATELY? <br /><br />and/or<br /><br />HAVE YOU GOOGLED YOUR CHURCH LATELY?Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-15635242943165751932007-01-15T15:48:00.000-05:002007-01-15T15:48:00.000-05:00This movie is only slightly worse than Al Gore's m...This movie is only slightly worse than Al Gore's movie. I blame not Michael Moore specifically, but what might be called Michael Moore Syndrome- the willingness to tolerate, even exalt any crap that furthers your cause, even when you know it's crap. Had Michael Moore been a conservative, Hollywood would have denounced/ignored him, and Sean Hannity would have honored his movies.Joel Monkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631333436948102576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-22416938520613865942007-01-15T11:37:00.000-05:002007-01-15T11:37:00.000-05:00I saw this movie with my constructivist partner wh...I saw this movie with my constructivist partner who studies constructivism in the context of political science (a la Niklas Luhmann, a German social scientist). anyway, after we saw the movie I looked up a lot of the stuff afterward. It was disappointing that they had so much junk science in there because there were actually was some GOOD ideas that touch on the way that how we understand our world shapes our world. Not like "hey you can walk on water" but like "hey if you think about things differently over time, you can actually change the way your brain perceives the world and yourself." i didn't have time to research the legit stuff from the absurd parts, but there are some good points if you can try to separate the weird/crazy ideas from the helpful/legit ideas.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07349906672496112640noreply@blogger.com