My Fingers Challenge

[Open]

I reckon 9 point something if you are talking about the aggregate of a population. There are likely to be more amputees that persons with genetic dispositions giving them extra fingers etc. Averaged out this makes the figure somewhere between 9 & 10.

 

[kangitanka]

Hold up both of your hands in front of you.

See those 10 digits? Start counting backwards with either hand.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6 + the 5 on your other hand = 6 + 5 = 11.

Easy ---

This reminds me of Penn and Teller's BS (Showtime) show, Season 4 , episode 9 ("Numbers")
And just like their cockroach counting, the above is complete Male Bovine Feces (as Phil pretty much admitted, although not in such words)

 

[AV1611VET]

This reminds me of Penn and Teller's BS (Showtime) show, Season 4 , episode 9 ("Numbers")
And just like their cockroach counting, the above is complete Male Bovine Feces (as Phil pretty much admitted, although not in such words)

Glad'ja liked it ---

 

[tansy]

Don't worry, the answer is 10. I was making a point about how certain members ask questions, and then create rules about these questions that actually eliminate the correct answer.

Oh, and it works because you're working with the pre-determined numbers 10 and 5. Counting down from 10, you'll be at 6 when you run out of fingers on that hand, even though you've only counted 5 off. Adding 5 to 6 ends you up with the number 11. It's a sleight-of-hand trick

Thanks ... I thought I was going mad for a few minutes! Trick questions are good fun...but not so much when one's not absolutely sure if it's a trick question!

 

[Split Rock]

Please answer this question with discrete numbers -- and please don't say ten.

How many fingers (thumbs included) does the average human have?

The question really should read:

"Please answer this question with discrete numbers -- and please don't say ten.

In light of a literal interpretation of Genesis, how many fingers (thumbs included) does the average human have?"

 

[gaara4158]

The question really should read:

"Please answer this question with discrete numbers -- and please don't say ten.

In light of a literal interpretation of Genesis, how many fingers (thumbs included) does the average human have?"

Ah! That it should, thanks for the correction! lol

 

[MoonLancer]

11 --- and I can prove it.

pictures, or it diden't happen.

 

[AV1611VET]

pictures, or it diden't happen.

 

[gaara4158]

That's ten. *sigh* i guess asking you not to say ten is too much for you to grasp. Why do I even bother?

 

[AV1611VET]

That's ten. *sigh* i guess asking you not to say ten is too much for you to grasp. Why do I even bother?

That's eleven.

Are we gonna go through this again?

Both of them are holding up 11 fingers, and I can prove it.

Your challenge has been effectively met.

 

[Naraoia]

That's why I said discrete numbers. 10.02 is continuous.

Nooo! 10.02 is perfectly discrete on a discrete scale of intervals of 0.01.

I reckon 9 point something if you are talking about the aggregate of a population. There are likely to be more amputees that persons with genetic dispositions giving them extra fingers etc. Averaged out this makes the figure somewhere between 9 & 10.

This thread is so funny

 

[USincognito]

None. We're actually brains in vats and our appendages are illusions.

 

[tansy]

None. We're actually brains in vats and our appendages are illusions.

How do we know our brains aren't illusions too?

 

[Hespera]

How do we know our brains aren't illusions too?

That was covered by Descartes.

 

[tansy]

That was covered by Descartes.

Ahah!

Was he right though? What if HE was an illusion?!

 

[tansy]

Please give proof that we;re not deluding ourselves that we're not illusions!

 

[Hespera]

Here is a story told to me by a friend's father, he is a farmer here.
It deals with the fundamental mysteries of reality and illusion.

One day, while peacefully crawling in the grass, a bug was eaten by a cow.

It was warm and dark inside the cow, so, the bug went to sleep.

When the bug woke up it was still warm and dark, but the cow was gone.

 

[tansy]

Here is a story told to me by a friend's father, he is a farmer here.
It deals with the fundamental mysteries of reality and illusion.

One day, while peacefully crawling in the grass, a bug was eaten by a cow.

It was warm and dark inside the cow, so, the bug went to sleep.

When the bug woke up it was still warm and dark, but the cow was gone.

Ha ha ha .... I tell you what, when one does get into philosophical things (not that I've studied it much as such, but I have thunk deeply, and have read a bit of philosophy), onr's mind tends to go spiralling down deep into a big black hole, and one finds oneself gaspng for air...not to mention sanity.
Actually, we could start a thread on perceptions of reality...if everyone joined in, I expect CF would implode on itself, and disappear into its own black hole!

 

[gaara4158]

Please give proof that we;re not deluding ourselves that we're not illusions!

Who is seeing the illusion?

 

[tansy]

Who is seeing the illusion?

Ah! Good point! All depends.....