Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 June 2013 12:05:17PM 0 points [-]

"If atoms are really to explain the origin of color and smell of visible material bodies, then they cannot possess properties like color and smell." So, although it is not an original thought, it is useful to bear in mind that greeness disintegrates.

Does this imply that there's no bottom level, just layer after layer of explanations with each layer being very different from the ones above? If there is a bottom level below which no further explanation is possible, can you tell whether you've reached it?

Comment author: ParanoidAltoid 21 October 2013 08:48:34PM 1 point [-]

"If atoms are really to explain the origin of color and smell of visible material bodies, then they cannot possess properties like color and smell."

I want to point out that in this post, you were quoting sediment quoting Hofstadter who was referencing Hanson's quoting of Heisenberg. Pretty sure even Inception didn't go that deep.

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Comment author: lukeprog 06 April 2013 07:53:14PM 3 points [-]

Write down your own Fermi estimation attempts here. One Fermi estimate per comment, please!

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Comment author: ParanoidAltoid 20 April 2013 07:49:13PM 0 points [-]

For the "Only Shallow" one, I couldn't think of a good way to break it down, and so began by approximating the total number of listens at 2 million. My final estimate was off by a factor of one.