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Comment author: Desrtopa 17 October 2011 05:16:55AM 0 points [-]

Humans with our enhancements haven't yet found any aspect of the universe which we have good reason to believe will always continue to escape explanation.

What would you say would actually constitute evidence for such a thing existing?

Comment author: selylindi 17 October 2011 05:36:31AM 2 points [-]

I can imagine encountering a living organism composed of "subtle matter" not reducible to molecular machinery, or a fundamental particle that spontaneously and stochastically changed its velocity, or an Oracle that announced the solution to the halting problem for any given piece of code.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 October 2011 07:21:42AM 1 point [-]

What would you say would actually constitute evidence for such a thing existing?

That's an easy one.

  • Finding something that you can't explain.
  • Finding that other smart people can't explain something.
  • Finding other things are easy to explain.
  • Becoming smarter and still being unable to explain something.

As for what would constitute strong evidence...

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