Oh shit! I didn't realize the first experience I have with any phenomena will predispose me to certain behaviors regarding such-or-like phenomena in the long-term! Further, I never realized that gaming consoles could be used to "train" my compulsive behaviors! Maybe if the reward-sequence of a video-game-level took longer to achieve, I would have never started smoking heroin!

This is the beginning of the end. Everyone, given that we are all born equal, has a God-given right to become a god themselves.

An X-Ray will confirm that your bone is broken or confirm that it really is just a sprain, in the current moment. You are already in pain and need treatment right now. X-ray will help determine the method of that treatment. A DNA test has the power to inform you of an illness you may have in the future, such as Huntington's disease, thus it is informing you of the potential of a future illness. Until that illness begins its course, you will be awaiting that illness. A DNA test will tell you that you may have some disease in the future, whereas an x-ray only informs you of the present moment. There is definitely a qualitative difference in those two examinations. Therefore it wouldn't be equivalent to opting-out of an x-ray. (For a more dystopic treatment, see the book "Next" by Michael Crichton; a wife divorces her husband and sues him because there is a DNA test showing he gave their children the predisposition for Huntington's disease [even though the children are very young and not yet affected by the disease])

That is so interesting! Psychosomatic influence of knowledge! It's almost like placebo; except where before believing a sugar-pill to be real medicine could cause the body to heal itself, this seems to be the opposite: believing that you are incredibly likely to attain some illness could cause your body to....(for lack of a better description) predispose itself to that illness. Perhaps like a hypochondriac who gives himself the illnesses he believes he has! There could be some kind of a genetic fallacy hiding within these arguments, but regardless I know a few people like this. My aunt has "21st century syndrome" where she can read about any illness and convince herself (self-diagnosis) that she has that illness. She MUST visit a hospital at least thrice a month, or else there is something wrong because she is TOO healthy. With all of this information available, it will become suspicious to be healthy: there must be something somewhere giving you some illness or predisposing you to some kind of ailment.

The information absorbed from the matter that falls into the black hole must correspond to something existent, and given that nothing can be created or destroyed, even if something passes the event horizon, the corresponding information must remain. There must be an infinity of information dwelling in the nothingness of the cosmos! How else would we be able to be philodoxers? Since philodoxy cannot conceive of nothing, it necessarily follows that, in virtue of the mass doxaston, that there is an infinity of information. And it will be all at our fingertips.

Your mom has the largest genome ever sequenced!

Help me, dear friend, can you help me find the laws of physics? I seemed to have lost them; I thought I wrote them down but then I remember just seeing them somewhere too...

So what you're saying is that....we predict the past the way we predict the future? That is seriously profound!

I wonder if evolution will allow their experience of reality to comprehend the calculus being done, this would finally settle the inane claim that humans are better than any other living thing. Perhaps they will use calculus to find that they are indeed flying too close to a high voltage light? If we can fly to the moon using calculus, perhaps they can alter their flight patterns to accommodate the variables in the environment that change at variable rates. All we need to do, is reduce the neuronal activity of the human brain performing calculus, to the level of a fly's neurology. Once we reduce our mind to the fly's mind, we will be able to understand our own minds at an infinitely greater magnitude.

Oh no no, you mustn't let anyone know that it is a myth! It is imperative that we make it especially clear to every youth that the only profitable, respectable, and practical path of study and practice is science and engineering! It is more like a noble lie; even if the related industries are over-saturated with individuals, we must convince every person that reality is concretely grounded in science and engineering because it is what is closest to the truth. The success of science and engineering fulfills its own demand for power: we are headed toward a singularity, we can genetically modify entire forests to prevent the extinction of species, and the comfort of contemporary life is unparalleled.

But of course! How did I never understand that it was the teachers all along that specifically became educated in a particular field to be able to teach children things? I was raised to believe that parents are the main educators of their children, and that teachers are facilitators who guide the parent and child along their own way to knowledge. This light is just all so blinding, it is almost as if there might be a better or worse curriculum....

Yes yes; let us not envy one another's slaves. We have plenty to go around.

There is no valid reason for confirmation to show a hypothesis or postulation to be true. We can only fail to falsify a hypothesis, thus only proving that we cannot (yet) yield results that falsify our hypothesis. Ergo, you should have written: "Um, this is one experiment with no falsification yet. No one has falsified the results as of yet so how about drinking champagne until another group of experimenters falsifies?" Or something along those lines.