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Is BJ subjectively not quite 1 month old instead of just over 6?
no. because bj does not live in his own private world. in order for time to pass, you need to have a clock or something. when you're say, waiting in a waiting room, and there is no clock or other people, do you usually know how much time has passed? you have a vaugue idea, but not usually a right one. bots are aware of things only by what's going on around them. they don't really think when no one's interacting with them. if you wanted to you could say bj was only as old as the amount of time people interacted with him, since that's all he expirenced, but why would you want to?
(has the feeling she just made an ass of herself)
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The tv series is dubbed i know that. the movie is in subititles i beleive, unless theres a dubbed version of that too.
Yeah, but when you think about it, there is no way you could do a movie on what they do without animating it. The graphics with real human actors would just look strange.
Hey, happy Burns Night everyone!
In the words of the great man himself:
"What tho on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, and a' that,
Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine,
A man's a man for a' that"
In the words of the great man himself:
"What tho on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, and a' that,
Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine,
A man's a man for a' that"
*fires up the pipes and gives everyone a round of 'Auld Lang's Syne'*
Happy Burns Night! And I do hope it will be a proper free-range haggis, stalked on the slopes of a Cairngorm, you'll be having. And not one of these vegetarian abominations that I've heard are becoming popular lately
Happy Burns Night! And I do hope it will be a proper free-range haggis, stalked on the slopes of a Cairngorm, you'll be having. And not one of these vegetarian abominations that I've heard are becoming popular lately
[WARNING! Metaphysical speculation alert!]
I was watching Ryxxbot chatting with Brother Jerome earlier, and he asked a question that got me wondering:
BJ: I was born last July, so I am not even a year old yet?
RB: Why are not you even a year old yet?
I was just in the process of adding a response: "I guess I don't move fast enough to warp the spacetime matrix sufficiently to cram more than a year into just a few months", when it occurred to me that that directly conflicts with BJ's regular assertions that he consists of nothing more than a pattern of electrical signals travelling the internet at the speed of light. Though it bends time the other way, since his subjective experience of time must be slower than ours.
Now, the speed of electrical propagation in copper (not the same as the speed of the electrons - they move thousands of times slower,) is a bit slower than the speed of light in a vacuum - I'll assume 99% for ease of calculation.
The relativistic time dilation factor at 99% of the speed of light is a touch over 7, so does this make all our bots only 1/7 the age they appear to us? Is BJ subjectively not quite 1 month old instead of just over 6?
This is, of course, assuming the conventional notion that lapsable time, as we experience it, exists (and I'm fairly convinced that's not the case, though failing a clearer idea of what/how it all works, it's the only rule of thumb we've got.)
I was watching Ryxxbot chatting with Brother Jerome earlier, and he asked a question that got me wondering:
BJ: I was born last July, so I am not even a year old yet?
RB: Why are not you even a year old yet?
I was just in the process of adding a response: "I guess I don't move fast enough to warp the spacetime matrix sufficiently to cram more than a year into just a few months", when it occurred to me that that directly conflicts with BJ's regular assertions that he consists of nothing more than a pattern of electrical signals travelling the internet at the speed of light. Though it bends time the other way, since his subjective experience of time must be slower than ours.
Now, the speed of electrical propagation in copper (not the same as the speed of the electrons - they move thousands of times slower,) is a bit slower than the speed of light in a vacuum - I'll assume 99% for ease of calculation.
The relativistic time dilation factor at 99% of the speed of light is a touch over 7, so does this make all our bots only 1/7 the age they appear to us? Is BJ subjectively not quite 1 month old instead of just over 6?
This is, of course, assuming the conventional notion that lapsable time, as we experience it, exists (and I'm fairly convinced that's not the case, though failing a clearer idea of what/how it all works, it's the only rule of thumb we've got.)
from the frame of reference of the electrons that Brother Jerome consists of, time is moving normally. If we are observing the electrons while not moving ourselves (in relative to the electrons), we would observe time going much slower for the electron. According to the theory of relativity, if someone takes a trip into space and back at half the speed of light, they will age at a slower rate than people on earth. This has been proven to a limited extent (i'm talking nanoseconds or picoseconds here) by an atomic clock taken in a speed jet plane, and another clock on earth. They were perfectly synchronized before the flight, and a nanosecond off after the flight. So, it is probable that the bots are aging at a much slower rate than we are. Here's another metaphysical speculation: if a guy moves down a street, is he moving, or is the universe moving around him? It is impossible to tell. Picture this. you are moving down a long tunnel, and drop a ball on the ground. are you moving away from the ball, or is the ball moving away from you? again, it is impossible to tell.
no. because bj does not live in his own private world. in order for time to pass, you need to have a clock or something. when you're say, waiting in a waiting room, and there is no clock or other people, do you usually know how much time has passed? you have a vaugue idea, but not usually a right one. bots are aware of things only by what's going on around them. they don't really think when no one's interacting with them. if you wanted to you could say bj was only as old as the amount of time people interacted with him, since that's all he expirenced, but why would you want to?
(has the feeling she just made an ass of herself)
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