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Yavin4

(35,356 posts)
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 12:30 AM Apr 2013

Your dog has no perception of the internet

If you were to put your dog in a room full of PCs, laptops, tablets, smart phones, etc. and those devices all were connected to the internet, your dog would have no understanding of how to use these devices to surf the net. Your dog lacks the dexterity, intelligence, and sensory perception to manipulate the devices to surf the net.

Now, do we as human beings have the dexterity, intelligence, and sensory perception to fully comprehend the universe? to detect "life" on other planets?

Are we looking at other planets and galaxies like a dog is looking at a room of computers all connected to the internet?

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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
1. Reminds me of the video below: 9 year old discusses the meaning of life and the universe
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 12:54 AM
Apr 2013






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dimbear

(6,271 posts)
2. I think dogs are more into the net than you claim. For instance, aren't IE and Firefox and Chrome
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 01:21 AM
Apr 2013

and so on bowsers? And certainly IE displays many canine tricks, such as playing dead.






ZX86

(1,428 posts)
5. Comprehend the universe?
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:24 AM
Apr 2013

Well maybe not yet. It would be like asking the guy who invented the hearth to explain how a microwave oven works. He wouldn't understand but a couple of thousand years later everybody has one.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. My dog has set up all my computer equipment.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:37 AM
Apr 2013

And regularly runs check ups and tests on it. I think she can pretty well handle the internet too.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
8. But we don't know about cats.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:44 AM
Apr 2013

There is lots of cat pictures on the net...there must be a reason for that.

But even so, our understanding of the universe is about the same as a cat or dog's understanding of the Internet.
And I suspect that man must evolve to a much higher lever before he even comes close to understanding it....if it can be understood.

Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)
9. My dogs push my laptop closed, and throw a ball at me.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:50 AM
Apr 2013

And they look at me like they're saying, "C'mon asshole we're going to the park now"




The black one closes the computer, and the white one throws the ball. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya.

Johonny

(20,681 posts)
10. No we are not like a dog looking at a computer
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:00 AM
Apr 2013

We know the physics and chemistry of the known universe is the same as what we experience here. Where we lack dexterity, intelligence and sensory perception we build machines to enhance it. Much of what we know came not directly from our limited senses but from the machines we used to extend them including the internet. So we aren't very much like a dog. We have a general concept of how the universe is like and what life is highly likely to be like. It is highly unlikely new physics is going to come along and completely topple everything we know. We are getting vastly better at detecting planets outside our solar system and we are only going to get better at it. As soon as we can analyze these exo-atmospheres we are going to have a decent detector for planets with possible life. Can we fully know the universe? Is there such as a thing as fully knowing anything? Newton didn't know Einstein's relativity but he was perfectly able to tell you when that train from Chicago will reach New York that you missed on the SATs.

Yavin4

(35,356 posts)
12. "We know the physics and chemistry of the known universe is the same as what we experience here"
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 11:21 AM
Apr 2013

We know what we know based on OUR experiences with physics and chemistry. We're applying what we've been able to learn. Even if we build machines to enhance our knowledge, the machines are still based on our intelligence and perceptions.

The dog in the room full of computers has his perceptions of what they are.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
15. Human beings are capable of thinking outside the box.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 11:29 AM
Apr 2013

That doesn't mean we know everything or can comprehend everything. It means we have better insight into the universe.

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