[QUOTE=xilman;442739]Unfortunately, the standard term appears to be "trit".[/QUOTE]Hey, don't interfere with my altered reality. How dare you bring facts into this discussion. :mad:

[QUOTE=LaurV;442737]Tieautiful! Hehe. :tu:
Now I can't get out of my brain the image from the "Total Recall", that with the lady with three ternary digits....[/QUOTE]Alternatively, Eccentrica Galumbits

[QUOTE=jasong;442700]If I admit that I think Jesus was black, will my white friends hate me?[/QUOTE]

I would guess it would depend on how enlightened your white friends are.

As long as it is not bullets that goes thru your brain, it'ss all right.

[QUOTE=jasong;442700]-If I admit that I think Jesus was black, will my white friends hate me?[/QUOTE]Given that Jesus was a native of what is now Israel, it is extremely unlikely that he was black.

I would hope that your white friends wouldn't hate you just for being wrong.

[QUOTE=jasong;442700]-Would aliens be offended by the word "inhumane?"
[/QUOTE]Do you mean "inhuman"? The literal meaning is quite clear and would be most unlikely to cause offence, IMO. The figurative meaning may cause offence.
[QUOTE=jasong;442700]
-Could the anti-Christ end up being an extra-terrestrial?[/QUOTE]
That depends greatly on what you define as "the anti-Christ", an extremely ill-defined concept IMO.
[QUOTE=jasong;442700]
-Does the part of the brain that maps out sensation in a penis work the same way with a vagina, and do things match up in the brain across genders? (For instance, maybe stroking the head of the penis feels the same as stroking a clitoris and the concept of inside and outside the body is something we learn with our other senses)[/quote]Extremely likely, IMO. Easily testable by experiment, for instance by functional MRI.
[QUOTE=jasong;442700]-Will computers always be base-2, not including artistic stuff?[/QUOTE]Are quantum computers base-2? Is the human brain base-2?

[QUOTE=xilman;442765]That depends greatly on what you define as "the anti-Christ", an extremely ill-defined concept IMO.[/QUOTE]

Down boy, down! That's a good boy.... (I hope that's taken with the humour with which it was intended...)

jasong dropped an idea bomb.

Let's see if he comes out back to interact with the results....

[QUOTE=xilman;442765]That depends greatly on what you define as "the anti-Christ", an extremely ill-defined concept IMO.[/quote]
The Anti-Christ is a being that will show up in the last years of sinful human civilization and his main goal will be turn as many people as possible away from the Church of Jesus Christ. And I mean the literal church, not just the Mormons.
[quote]Extremely likely, IMO. Easily testable by experiment, for instance by functional MRI.[/quote]I would imagine a well-educated doctor that's good with Google could answer the question of whether or not the penis and vagina "line up" in the brain.
[quote]Are quantum computers base-2? Is the human brain base-2?[/QUOTE]
The quantum computers I've heard about ARE base-2, but the 1 and 0 exists simultaneously. If you know of a quantum computer that's some other base, please link me up. :)

[QUOTE=jasong;442777]The Anti-Christ is a being that will show up in the last years of sinful human civilization and his main goal will be turn as many people as possible away from the Church of Jesus Christ. And I mean the literal church, not just the Mormons.[/QUOTE]

Wow! Lots of material there....

[QUOTE=chalsall;442781]Wow! Lots of material there....[/QUOTE]

OK, JasonG... Let's work this problem space.

In your mind, is this an entity, or a group?

What is the end goal? What are they working towards?

[QUOTE=jasong;442777]The Anti-Christ is a being that will show up in the last years of sinful human civilization and his main goal will be turn as many people as possible away from the Church of Jesus Christ. And I mean the literal church, not just the Mormons.[/QUOTE]

Let me try to unpack that into a series of assertions.

1. Human civilization will last a finite number of years.
2. The last years of human civilization, call them Y, will be sinful.
3. There is or will be a church C.
4. C will exist during Y.
5. There is or will be a Mormon church M.
6. M will exist during Y.
7. There is a collection of qualities Q of being an Anti-Christ.
8. Q includes having a main goal of turning as many people away from C as possible.
9. Q includes 'turning up' during Y.
10. There is or will be a being with Q.
11. There is or will be at most one being with Q.
12. M ≠ C.

Possibly you meant the stronger claim
12a. M ⊊ C.
instead, I'm not sure.

Two questions spring to my head: what is Q, and can a being with Q be identified during human civilization? [i]A priori[/i], it seems that Q might be identifiable only after the end of human civilization, which makes it untestable by civilized humans.