Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Whatever this phenomenon is and the biology/physics behind it, it's just *weird*.
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Idan Levin 🎩
@idanlevin
"the world is continuous, but the mind is discrete" I'm not sure this function should be continuous and not discrete (as a step function) People like either 'hot' or 'cold' tea They can enjoy 'lukewarm' tea (but less) And really hot tea is not enjoyable to varying degrees
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I don't think you can tell the difference between X-degree tea and (X+1)-degree tea for any value of X though (except 0 and 99 of course)? So it seems clearly very continuous to me.
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Elie
@elie
Think he meant that that’s why it’s discrete. X, x+1, x+2 are all x. So chart would be a bar chart with ~5 values: Freezing, cold, luke warm, hot, boiling. Although not sure if this makes it easier to understand the phenomena.
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Peter Ferguson
@peterferguson.eth
It is continuous because you can’t tell the difference between one point and the next point So there can’t be a big jump (a discontinuity) as there would have to be if it was discrete
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Idan Levin 🎩
@idanlevin
Because you can't tell the difference then this is *not* continuous (it's the same old story on how many grains of sand make a pile of sand) You can probably tell the difference between cold and hot, but you can't tell the difference between 20 and 19 degrees, so ther jumps in your physical sensation are discrete
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Idan Levin 🎩
@idanlevin
And there is a lot of physical phenomena in nature that supports this type of discrete behavior like the photoelectric effect
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