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Steve Dustcircle 🌹

The Most Absurd #Beliefs People Actually Follow

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#Atheism #ReligiousHistory #Philosophy

Why do so many people still cling to beliefs that defy #logic, #evidence, and basic #commonsense?

In this video, we dive deep into some of the most #bizarre, #irrational, and downright #absurd beliefs that millions around the world still take seriously — from ancient #superstitions and #magicalthinking to modern-day #religiousdoctrines that contradict #reality.

YouTubeThe Most Absurd Beliefs People Actually FollowsBy Logic Over Faith
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[Wolfgang] Pauli…sought a positive way of expressing the irrational, which in itself represents a term that is defined by what it is not. … He stated that because the models of science necessarily build on the possibility of making general statements; they are dependent on testability by repetition. This, of course, excludes from the very beginning any reference to something unique. Pauli’s goal was to find his way to a worldview that was open enough to include the irrational, a model of reality that could actually incorporate the qualitatively unique.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#wolfgangpauli #pauli #irrational #reality
#reality
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When in his early texts Bohr used the concept ‘irrational’, he did so in the sense of ‘an elementary fact’, which cannot be further reduced to any determinable constituents. The quantum of action appears irrational only in relation to the requirements of classical physics…
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#bohr #irrational #physics
#Physics
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…the existence of life must be considered as an elementary fact that cannot be explained, but must be taken as a starting point in biology, in a similar way as the quantum of action, which appears as an irrational element from the point of view of classical mechanical physics, taken together with the existence of elementary particles, forms the foundation of atomic physics. The asserted impossibility of a physical or chemical explanation of the function peculiar to life would in this sense be analogous to the insufficiency of the mechanical analysis for the understanding of the stability of atoms.
—Niels Bohr, ‘Light and Life’, Nature 131 (1933), 458.
#nielsbohr #bohr #life #irrational #physics
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After his encounter with Jung he more and more emphasized the creative aspect of science, i. e. the lucky ‘flash of wit’ or brilliant idea that comes to you. This aspect is decidedly irrational according to Pauli and can never be reached by rational methods alone (observation and logic). Instead he wanted to see the irrational as an integrated part of nature…working at a deeper level as some sort of constructive force.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #science #creativity
the #rational vs #irrational
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Pustam | पुस्तम | পুস্তম🇳🇵

Euler–Mascheroni constant! :euler:

In fact, the last one is:
\[\large\displaystyle\int_1^{+\infty}\mathrm dx\ \left(\frac{1}{\lfloor x\rfloor}-\frac1x\right)=\gamma\approx0.5772156649\]

Equivalently,
\[\large\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\sum_{k=1}^n \frac1{k}-\ln n\right)=\gamma=0.5772156649\ldots\]
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Unsolved problem in mathematics:
Is Euler–Mascheroni constant irrational? If so, is it transcendental?

#Euler#Mascheroni#EulerMascheroni
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Nox and the Pack :Fire_Enby:

It's easy to forget that we're feeling machines that think, not thinking machines that feel.

(Source: an António R. Damásio quote.)

We like to think that we're rational actors but we are not. Look at children. They certainly don't act rationally all of the time. And somehow we draw an arbitrary line at 18 years of age and pretend that we're no longer children. All while our brains develop well into our 20s. So where is the moment where we become purely rational actors? Please point it out in this timeline. (Spoiler: you cannot.)

My tip: embrace your own irrationality and find the humor in it. Forgive, learn, grow, and do better. Flourish. You got this.

#brain#adulthood#adulting
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