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Some of my colleagues fit the description. Been there for ages producing virtually nothing, and you can't squeeze an ounce of thinkign out of them.
Clearly parasitizing that brain coral.
Same. It's why I hate change. You know how much it hurts to regrow your brain? It hurts a lot!
It really depends on the capacity for knowledge.
Most people (these days) can painlessly regrow a brain with just a few YouTube tutorials, viral videos & a couple of memes.
Finally understand republicans
Dem property taxes!
why do our manymanymiles of roads suck! damn DMV taking forever! taxation is theft! downtown looks pretty shitty, they should clean that up more! I don't want my tax dollars spent on non-car infrastructure!
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This is a great example in support of something I often think about. We see our consciousness as "me" and as "the thing in charge" of the body, but really it's more of an ancillary subprocess that the body runs for its own benefit. It's just a special subprocess that does its job best when it mistakenly thinks of itself as being the boss of the body.
I think that is a bit of a misleading way of putting it because the feeling being a "self" that is in charge of the body is an experience that is contained within consciousness rather than the essential nature of it; in principle, one could imagine having consciousness without any feeling of being a "self" at all.
If I had to define the nature of consciousness, I would say that it is essentially an internal simulation that the brain creates in order to aggregate information from various sources in order to facilitate processing and decision making. Just to be clear, this is not my own original idea, and more importantly I do not think that it is a particularly clever or deep way of thinking about consciousness, but rather the inevitable conclusion one reaches when one plays around with one's own attention and awareness and sees what happens; the trick is just to do it like a scientist and be constantly challenging one's own conclusions, rather than to invent one's own version of chakras. I find it especially enlightening to watch what the mind does when one tries not to steer it into doing anything; with some practice, it is possible to watch the "self" pretend to be in charge while simultaneously realizing it is not, and this experience can be helpful (though frustratingly I have not found it to be as immediately life-changing as I might have hoped).
Read 'blindsight'
Consciousness is 100% an emergent property.
Thanks for the daily dose of mini-existential crisis 🫠
[Internal Monologue] What the fuck am I? HOW IS BEING ALIVE POSSIBLE? WTF?!?
You are a nervous system, piloting a space suit made of meat.
Like why Reubens are so good. I don’t like salty protein, bread with caraway seeds, thousand island dressing or Swiss cheese, but fuck is a Reuben delicious.
Reubens are the only beef food I used eat in my 20s. I've since switched to seitan, but there's something about the combo that just works. The rye bread is a key part of it.
That’s why I said salty protein :) Swiss cheese is imo so unremarkable that the dairy free version is just as good, and a vegan Reuben is still a perfect sandwich.
Can you explain what this means?
Conscious (sentience / sapience) is an ineffable, unmeasurable, quality. There is no way to say that one sentient being is more or less sentient than another. In fact there is no way to tell that I am not the only consciousness in existence but it feels rude not to give others the benefit of the doubt. We can create neurons and even small brains in the lab but we don’t have any way to instill life into that neuron. Consciousness simply emerges out of the constituent parts of being alive, possibly even as a result of the interactions of such a complex system.
Thank you!
There's no biological structure the creates consciousness to the ppint where you can say "if you have x, you're conscious", to the point where saying "humans are conscious" or even "only humans are conscious" aren't always true. Many elephants are conscious. Some dogs are consciohs. Some humans aren't. And no, the split between humans are/aren't conscious ARE NOT CORRELATED WITH DEMOGRAPHIC (fuck Nazis and racists), nor is it easy to draw a line in the sand because it's a spectrum.
It comes from having a brain that's complex enough. Decision making process start interacting together in unexpenced ways, with subtle variations caused by genetics and history. Literally just read the wikipedia page the previous person posted and apply that same logic to brains and minds.
Thank you!
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I retired 7 years ago and can relate.
This hurts, I got denied for a loan for a house a few years ago.
You should find a rock and then digest your brain.
Seeing your reply out of context made me think "what did I do to get hatemail this time?"
If this is a typical example, you must get some top quality hatemail. There's nothing quite like being told to digest your own brain to convey the poster's opinion of you.
I wonder if we can get the fortnite/counterstrike kids too use this instead of the old classic: KYS
There's just something more refined about it
I've never seen an organic political stance before... that's amazing.
These are some of the closest relatives of the vertebrates, by the way.
Sea squirt looking at us doing dumb things to the planet: ..... nah, don't know those guys, not related at all
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Average US voter
They do think. It's just that they're bad at it. All the stuff they complain about is just in their heads.
I'm just glad I'm seeing the democrats start pushing back with the same vitriol republicans have used, and are finding out the other side is full of snowflakes who can't take the heat. Good job, USians! One step in the right direction. Get down and dirty with it, it's about damn time.
It is nice to see them grow part of a spine, but based on history, the Dem party leadership will nip that in the bud by next summer when the mid term election cycle is in full swing in a lame attempt to sway moderate and conservative voters.
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