Cuil theory

[None42069 520]

Yesterday, I was playing on a manor server on TF2 when some guy played this:

 

 

The best way to describe it? It lowered my IQ and raised it at the same time. My mind was destroyed but completely repaired. It's confusing yet makes perfect sense.

Is this what drugs feel like?

[LightRaider 148]

i think there is only one way to describe what i just watched.

WHAT DID I JUST WATCH

it made sense, but it didn't at the same time!

I am as confused as you are.

[Tuxedo Kamen! 114]

Its the compounded, twisted, and rusty knowledge of both the theory of quantum pseudoscience and non-linear rationale turned into a game. At a basic level it makes sense to me. Dude is pretty good with adjectives

[Ink 191]

This is absolutely amazing. As I was listening to this the divine background tones engulfed my soul and caused me to shed a single tear, which promptly turned into a pool of despair and agony.

[Twilight Circuits 603]

If I didn't know better, he's implying devine power and that there are different levels of divine power without even coming out with who or what that devine power is. He mentions the universe but his details seem very obscured to me and do not follow a path it would seem. That video literally made no sense to me at all.

[Evilshy 5,090]

Heh, pretty funny, something I'd expect to see on Reddit, or /b/ on a (really (really)) good day, perhaps.

Reminds me of the Infinite Improbability Drive from HGttG

 

 

But now I feel like ruining all of your fun with SCIENCE.

 

Abstraction is unquantifiable; you can't look at something odd and say "this is x levels of abstraction away from reality". Certainly you can say something is stranger than something else, but even then, it is a vague assumption, based on the completely artificial and just-as-vague concept of "normality". Even if you could quantify abstraction, you'd have to define reality first

 

Now let me do this bit by bit.

First off, I will be using the examples given to represent all of the infinite situations at each number of Cuils. This works beacuse they will all have the exact same amount of abstraction, lest they would be a different number of Cuils. Also, I am working under the (correct) assumption that reality and normality are both extremely difficult to define.

 

The example for 1 Cuil, giving someone a raccoon when they ask for a hamburger, is completely within the bounds of reality. According to most people, this would, however, be pretty far outside of normality.

 

2 Cuils is too vague on how exactly the second man does not exist, nor what led the first man to ask him for one. Did the second man cease to exist as soon as the first man decided he wanted a hamburger, or did he never exist? What led the first man to ask a non-existent man for a hamburger? Without this knowledge, the range of abstraction is too great. At least one of these situations is impossible with our current understanding of physics.

 

3 Cuils is impossible within our understanding of how the universe works. Also, have all waves of light changed to a frequency consistent with sepia, or is the first man's perception merely different?

 

4 Cuils is a mix of possible and impossible, probable and improbable. There is no reason to not be speaking German. They could be Germans, speaking German to each other. The only thing that is impossible is a cow breaking down into patties, and possibly the pickle-eyes (description is too vague, but it seems to say that he literally has pickles in his ocular cavity instead of eyes, which is not even outside reality, merely outside normality). There is not enough information about the song that births the universe to go off of.

 

5 Cuils is mostly describing things that are not only completely within reality, most of them fall under normality as well. The only things that don't would be the first man killing the second man, and the second man giving the first man a hamburger despite being dead. The thing about the first man waking up could go either way, as all events before it could either be a dream or reality.

 

6 Cuils is completely crazy and the only one besides 1 Cuil that I'd say was consistent with the number of Cuils it got (relatively speaking, of course, since, like I said, abstraction is unquantifiable).

[Twilight Circuits 603]

*snip*

 

I'm afraid all I can see in it is questioning space time reality without no way of scientifically proving itself. Why is why I'll leave it as nothing more then theory. Don't get me wrong, I have a very open mind and critical thinking skills and that whole thing confuses me. If it makes sense to you, so be it. Just exactly who came up with this theory? You know what, don't answer that.

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

These are the only words that can describe that video.

"What... The buck.... was that ?

 

 

Also This was the only thing that I could think of while watching this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8u097puKT8&feature=related

[Evilshy 5,090]

I'm afraid all I can see in it is questioning space time reality without no way of scientifically proving itself. Why is why I'll leave it as nothing more then theory. Don't get me wrong, I have a very open mind and critical thinking skills and that whole thing confuses me. If it makes sense to you, so be it. Just exactly who came up with this theory? You know what, don't answer that.

 

Umm... the theory itself is a joke. I just picked it apart because that's what I do.

 

Also, you seem to not know what a scientific theory is, which is pretty normal, since a scientific theory is way different than a normal theory.

In normal English, a theory is an idea. In science, a theory is what you get when you start with a hypothesis, run experiments, and they support the hypothesis. Then you publish it, and a bunch of other scientists run similar experiments, and if they also get results that support hypothesis, then it can become a theory. If even one scientifically rigorous experiment returns results that disprove the hypothesis (well technically, prove the null hypothesis, which is different), the hypothesis has to be changed.

Quick explanation of null hypotheses for those who don't know:

 

Say you have a hypothesis that says "X causes Y". The null is "something that is not X causes Y". You run the experiment, and if the null hypothesis is proven (in this case, if anything other than X ends up causing Y), then the original hypothesis (that X causes Y) is wrong because something that is not X just caused Y. If the null is proven, then the original was wrong and you have to come up with a new one. If the null is disproven (everything that is not X and could reasonably cause Y does NOT cause Y, while X DOES cause Y), then you're probably on to something.

 

 

So in science, a theory has a lot of evidence backing it up. And since the null hypothesis method makes things so easy to disprove, you can bet that if respected scientists are calling something a theory, then it's probably a pretty good idea of what is really going on.

[Twilight Circuits 603]

Umm... the theory itself is a joke. I just picked it apart because that's what I do.

 

 

Your spoiler still makes no sense to me at all. I do understand scientific theory even if I can't always explain it in x or y's. But if this whole theory is a joke then that would be why it doesn't make sense to me.