Quote: Originally posted by Magpie | I assure I can handle it. Do your worst. If Candy is that powerful I will drive her behind Hadrian's Wall and you can have your way with her for
eternity. |
So wait... in this scenario are you the Romans or the Scottish? It matters!
Quote: Originally posted by Fulmen | You're right, it's the inertia that's the real point. But I prefer consistent models, so the water is always massless. And you can easily construct a
"turbine transformer" by coupling two turbines together. |
Hmm. How do you account for hooking a transformer up to DC?
I have a very detailed model in my head, and this sticks out as an inconsistency.
Quote: Originally posted by wg48 | I strongly suspect that most religious, homeopathic, supernatural, over unite, crank cancer treatment, etc believers are strongly procedural. They
have no mental models to invalidity crazy stuff. They don’t have a working BS detector. Effectively they can believe anything particularly if
presented by what they perceive as an authoritative figure and it is not directly contradicted (not in a model way) by an already accepted truth.
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I really like this idea, and think there's certainly truth to it. But now I'm starting to develop my own model (heheh) of how "procedural" minds
work. It's not that they think THAT different, it's that they have too many models and they don't all mesh with each other. So to get from one model
to another model, they need a procedure. And they have to follow that procedure before a different model can take over. Sort of like stumbling
through the dark between two well-lit rooms. |