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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 85 points 1 year ago

You're an electrified hunk of fat piloting a meat-covered skeleton riding on a damp rock that's hurling through space and time.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

It's actually a lump of lava with a thin crust. Any time the crust breaks we have a very bad time.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago
[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

The core is metal, the outer shell is hard rock, i would assume what's inbetween is a mix of pop and smooth jazz maybe?

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago
[-] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Obligatory "um, akhtually, it's magma".

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoy Marcus Aurelius paraphrasing Epctetus...

"You are a little soul bearing about a corpse."

[-] kozy138@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

It's weird that we, as people, think that our being or self ends at our skin. And we're just a consciousness controlling a meat cube.

What about all the bacteria living on and inside of us? People would die without their microflora.

What about our subconscious/unconscious doings/thoughts? Are we in control of them? Or are they in control of us? Could consciousness be an illusion? One created by our senses' interpretation of external stimuli.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

anyways this sandwich tastes great

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

So you're saying humanity is a mecha space opera?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Be fair. You are an abstraction layer; a subsystem running on that electrified hunk of fat. There's plenty of stuff that evolution has delegated as non-conscious functions of the fatlump.

[-] SkidFace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“At thе end of the day, your brain is just a meat computеr in a bone cockpit piloting a skin robot You think the world makes sense? Nothing makes sense! So you might as well make nonsense!”

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

And I want off.

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