Retrocausality... Interesting!

sherrife · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:57 pm

This is pretty amazing. I've done a philosophy unit focusing on just this sort of thing, and it was GREAT.

I highly recommend that you check out the article. If you can wade through the details of the experiment, its incredible stuff.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Sherrife, did you study philosophy at the ANU? I'm in my first year course of philosophy now.

sherrife · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:26 pm

Nah Dave, I'm at Monash in Melbourne, was only at ANU for an internship.

Enjoying the unit so far? What does it cover? I was going to major in philosophy before realising that the higher up you get in the year levels, the more abstract and theoretical it becomes.

I'm not sure how you go from amazingly interesting stuff about bioethics, time travel, and cosmology in first year to arguing about the semantics of "I think therefore I am" (Descartes) and other 300 year old philosophical texts in second.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

We're actually covering Descartes at the moment, basically we're just briefly going through philosophy in a historical sense, so I assume we'll be covering more in-depth issues later on in the semester.

But, yeah, I am really enjoying it. Apart from everything else, it's really great to get into debates in the tutorials, as you can get some really varied opinions on things.

My Dad went to Monash, by the way.

HAL · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:24 am

"it" being We're covering Descartes at the moment we're going philosophy in a historical sense he or she assume we'll be covering in-depth issues on in the semester? Me too.

sherrife · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:54 am

Yea it's the best, plus philosophy students are always great to bum around with for hours after class talking about anything and everything.

Pa Marmo · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:10 am