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It seems fairly plausible that free will could just be a comfortable illusion - and an ironic one at that. Ironic in that the illusion (if it is one) could lead to a discussion like this. Take things down to the particle level - can fundamental particles make choices? Neither randomness nor...

A potential solution to that first problem: If god is truly omniscient and we possess free will then perhaps god not only knows the 'future' but knows all possible futures that could come to exist given free will. Given the talk of free will etc. it might be worth putting forward the problem...

So you deny this 'entity' human characteristics yet you wish them to possess some form of judgement (since they choose people to go to this mystery universe) and obviously there is some kind of underlying value system since they have a way of deciding who gets to go and who doesn't. On top of...

I disagree with your claim of contradiction. Take this creationist theory: The multiverse consists of two higher dimensional meta-spoons which rotate about the aether. At one point the two spoons collided creating a concentrated build up of energy. It was this collision which resulted in the...

In answer to the argument along the lines of 'what if there turned out to be a god and you were kept from paradise/nirvana/happiness (whatever)... wouldn't it be wise to be religious just in case?' It's potentially just as bad to assume religion and then be wrong. Here's an extreme example -...

It gets even more muddled than it already is when you throw twinning into the mix - can something actually possess that which constitutes human life when it may yet become two human lives? Hell, what constitutes human life in the first place?

The fact that important things die doesn't mean the death of a foetus is insignificant. I generally feel that women should have the right to abort but I find it hard to agree with the argument in your first sentence. You need to contrast a life of despair and hardship against non-existence. Some...

For the most part it doesn't matter. Provided the course you're trying to get into doesn't have sciences as prerequisites then you're better off following your interests. The hardest part about getting into medicine is getting the high marks, something which is a lot easier if you enjoy what...

As far as I know Monash is the only uni offering a combined MBBS/LLB degree. It's a curious idea - I geuss it makes sense if you have strong interests in both areas. Alternatively it'd be useful if you wanted to go into something like an area of medical law or perhaps even health policy. It...

Some of these points/questions have probably been brought up in this thread already but I'm still going to pose them in response to the above: - The growth and development of spermatozoa and oocytes can be seen as 'active' and 'progressive' in a similar way. One could suggest that the...

Along the same line of thought: what if the population of beings/creatures decreases, where do all the excess souls go once their physical form fails? Do they just sit in limbo or is there some sort of queue system?

If there were to be a minor it'd probably be from something like politics, linguistics or political economy. Keep in mind that we only get 66 credit points to play around with (the rest is supposedly made up by medical ethics and communication content in the med course). Given that I'd like to...

Hey, I'm doing the BA/MBBS (1) combined degree at UNSW. I'm in first year so I don't officially start the arts component until next year (and while I'm not currently taking an arts course I'm doing enough interest inspired reading to make it seem like it :P). (2) I'm doing the other degree...

Hey, you're right in thinking that UAC only gives you the top preference that you made it into. When you hear of people having to choose it's probably because they got offers from med courses in other states. For example, I submitted university applications to VTAC and QTAC (victoria and...

Hey man, I wanted to do that but I'm only doing a portion of an arts degree (the rest is made up by ethics and communication material in the med course) and given that I have to do an arts major and am considering honours I won't have much room for maths - maths might be too detached from the...

This is a quote from an old thread. It's a 'random' question which I thought was pretty neat. Give it a go:

Unfortunately my real mistake, which I noticed having looked back over it, was in assuming that |reix + z2|2 takes a constant value for all values of x... which is significantly easier to do if you use a z1 substitute like I did. Disregard the second part, the first part for circles centred at...

Hey, I don't know if this suffices as a proof or something which is sufficiently within the syllabus, but a possible approach uses the fact that reix = r(cosx + isinx) = rcis(x) (which comes from Euler's formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_formula ... If you look up the taylor series...

I think for UNSW's 2005 intake the average/mean UAI was 99.30 while the median UAI was 99.70. From what I've heard about the marks/scores/performance of other people making it into UNSW med you can generally make up for average marks in one component by doing particularly well in another. Being...

They also have those in walmarts in the USA now.