I just knew there was going to be a Well akshually post like this. As if men putting on fancy feminine dresses and dancing around is only a ""drag show"" if it happens where you expect it to.
And WTF do you mean by vulnerable-minded?
I just knew there was going to be a Well akshually post like this. As if men putting on fancy feminine dresses and dancing around is only a ""drag show"" if it happens where you expect it to.
And WTF do you mean by vulnerable-minded?
Yeah, but how often did Bernie himself repeat those conspiracy theories? Did he ever try to violently overturn the Democratic primary results? Every popular person has some shitty supporters, so you can't just judge people based on their supporters.
I wish more than anything that there was evidence of alien life that I could see with my eyes or hear with my ears. For now, we just have some dude saying things with no real evidence.
No, it's not. Next question...
Seriously though, doesn't basically every experiment in brain surgery and neuroscience disprove this idea? We know how different structures in the brain contribute to consciousness. We can't explain the mechanism 100%, but that doesn't mean that every piece of matter secretly has some consciousness embedded in it. It's God of the Gaps nonsense.
I'm not against posting stuff like this. Obviously serious people take this idea seriously. Just none of the people taking it seriously study brains.
I'm in the same boat. I really liked BeeHaw, but I couldn't get in. I joined .world instead, the largest, most stable alternative, and now I'm boned.
I think that as the fediverse grows, it might become common/necessary to have a few accounts in order to see everything you want to see. Honestly, if that's the price I have to pay to avoid centralization and enshittification, I'm ok with that.
This is such a weird take. You say the people at the top are the worst capitalists, but they literally succeeded the most at capitalism. You say capitalism demands cash flow, but... does it? Who or what demands that cash flow? Certainly not the free market.
You then give a perfect example of capitalism failing, medical care.
Why defend capitalism?
My real answer is a book: Slaughterhouse 5. The movie Arrival pretty much does the same thing, though.
It really changed the way I think about my place in time and space, and the meaning of memories. Made me way less sad about death and entropy.
Yeah, that's a concept that gets covered extensively in anatomy, immunology, and microbiology. It's called "the donut model". This is not a joke. It clearly shows how your digestive system is exposed to the outside world, similar to skin. You can obviously see why this is important immunologically, since germs can just get into the mouth/butthole in a way that they can't penetrate skin.
It's one long hole.
This is a weird one, but Astepro nasal spray for allergies. The name brand is a little unpleasant to blast up my nose because of the smell/taste. But the off brand stuff is absolutely foul and bitter. I would get random whifs and drips of the nastiness in the back of my throat for an hour.
Yeah, but how often did Bernie himself repeat those conspiracy theories? Did he ever try to violently overturn the Democratic primary results? Every popular person has some shitty supporters, so you can't just judge people based on their supporters.
I tried to sign up for beehaw 2 days ago, but still haven't been approved. I guess my statement about wanting to discuss science and philosophy and videogames wasn't good enough :(
This dude actually said what he wanted in another thread. He wants an instance that tolerates "basic slurs." It's hilarious and sad how obvious it is that these "free speech" people are just racist. https://lemmy.kde.social/comment/497886
FYI, no one is immune to propaganda.
I'm glad that the propaganda I've been exposed to has generally pointed me toward intolerance for Nazis and racists, and tolerance for most other people.
So what do you think the propaganda message being pushed by this image is? What insidious thoughts should we be wary of? Maybe men who wear dresses can also be brave? Or maybe breaking gender norms is harmless as long as you can still fulfill your important responsibilities? Heaven forbid.
FYI, people's beliefs can be wrong. If someone's religion says the Earth is 6000 years old, then that religion is harmful and we should not tolerate that belief.
Obviously there is nuance here. It's not ok to be prejudiced against religious people, but we shouldn't let people get away with nonsense by calling it religion.
Ah, but is a pressure wave propagating through air truly a sound if it does not interact with something that can hear? Or is it just the movement of air????
LoL, I'm sorry I couldn't help myself.
This was my first thought. Reddit had both r/DnD and r/DungeonsAndDragons. It was fine
I watched up to the end of season 5, knowing that was the real ending to the story.
I thought I would stop after that, but I can't help myself, I just keep going. I'm on season 7. It's not as good, but it still has good stuff. It definitely helped that in season 6 they go to the set of their own show and watch the original showrunner get killed. I have to give them credit for that level of self-awareness. I doubt I'll make it all the way to the end, but I'm still enjoying it for now.
"any good cop deciding not to be a cop..."
What the hell makes you think this hasn't already been happening for years? Any cop that doesn't fall in line with the coverups is fired or, rarely, murdered.
We can't rule out something as impossible just because we haven't observed it yet, as it would directly contradict the scientific method
Figuring out what's possible versus impossible isn't really part of the scientific method. The scientific method is about collecting and interpreting evidence. Where is the evidence that particles are conscious?
Until there is a testable hypothesis, panpsychism doesn't have anything to do with science.
Others in this thread have already explained that consciousness doesn't play any role in the double slit experiment. I definitely understand your confusion there. I believed the same thing at one point. It doesn't help that some people purposely spread that false interpretation of the experiment because it's more interesting than reality.
If Ted Chiang could write more than one short story a year, I think he might be the greatest living fiction author. Basically everything he writes is a revelation.
Exhalation isn't quite as good as Stories of Your Life and Others, but it's still amazing.
At this point, I barely consider Andor to be "Star Wars". It's so far outside the normal shitty formula. There are like 19 real "Star Wars" shows on Disney+, and Andor just happens to share the same influences.
It's not that hard to resolve. In an ideal situation, the fascists would drop dead without feeling anything. I agree that suffering is wrong, but death is natural and comes for everyone eventually.
Also, if you got hit with I gun that big I don't think there would be much time to suffer.
It's only depressing if you've convinced yourself that you're something more than an intelligent ape.
If you think about it from the perspective of an animal that had no concept of time, space, ethics, or philosophy just a few hundred thousand years ago, then we're actually pretty impressive.
We probably won't have any significant effect on the galaxy, but we sure have an effect on Earth.
Yes! Sunbautica actually made me feel like I was exploring uncharted ocean depths. It's amazing and sometimes scary.
Trying to nail it all down (at this point) to biology+physics+whatever
If the stuff happening inside your body can't be "nailed down" by biology+physics+whatever, then you're talking about magic whether or not you call it magic.
"What is the brain the substrate for?" Is not a good question to ask because it assumes there is some unknown invisible force acting on the neurons in our heads. Neurons come from an egg fertilized by a sperm, just like every other cell.
Should we ask what the balls are a substrate for, since they are creating the sperm that will one day have consciousness?
(PS thank you for the discussion. It's all in fun and I think this is genuinely interesting.)
Well, don't forget that the Good Place is fiction. There's nothing waiting for you after this except nonexistence, so cling to life and claw every ounce of experience out of it while you can!
Yeah, there's no perfect immediate solution, so let's just give up on solving the problem.
Which slurs are your favorites? I'm curious. Maybe if you're specific I can recommend a good instance for you.
Yes! I haven't tried Rogue Legacy 2 yet, but I've been wanting to get it. I loved the first one.
House of Leaves is as much a puzzle as it is a book. I wrote in the margins A LOT as I was reading/solving it. FYI, there are more fake references than real references, but some of the references are real.
I was "in school" until I was almost 30 and got out without any debt. College undergraduate programs are basically theft that is used to pay for people like me and for massive administrative salaries. It's absolutely a scam.
And yet, big schools, the kind that can afford to really not give a shit about individual students, are some of the only places where true independent research is being done. Cutting edge research generally only happens for profit, for the military, or at universities. Federal grants help pay for it, but another big source of cash is comes from absolutely fucking over 18 year old kids who think they don't have a choice.
I don't know what my point is exactly. Just wanted to give you some insider perspective.
They lived in the ocean and had no interactions with animals, so they probably wouldn't have any way to hurt us. Our immune systems would destroy them like most of the other microbes we encounter every day. No need to worry!
No, I'm pretty sure manic episodes don't occur regularly on a 24 hour schedule.
Is your point that memory, emotions, and sensory input don't have anything to do with consciousness?
What exactly is consciousness doing without sensory input to process and memory to give those inputs context?
Why do you think "awareness" of sights and sounds is separate from the parts of the brain that process those sights and sounds?
What exactly is the brain the substrate for? All evidence up to this point indicates that the brain is the thing doing the thinking and feeling.
Without some seriously compelling evidence to the contrary, I'm going to assume you're talking about a soul or some other supernatural idea.
In your example of the guitarist, where would you say musicality actually comes from? I would say the brain, because there is plenty of evidence that brains exist and can be creative.
when you try to find the thing that experiences reality, what do you think you’ll find?
Grey goo, a network of neurons, a brain. You can literally inject chemicals into your body that change your emotions and consciousness. Physical things can interrupt my consciousness, so why would you assume consciousness is not a physical phenomenon?
When I look through a microscope, photons go through the lens of the microscope, then similarly go through the lens of my eye. My retina absorbs those photons and translates them into action potentials a.k.a. chemical/electrical signals. Those action potentials reach my occipital lobe (going through some synapses as purely chemical signals) where they interact with other action potentials from other parts of my brain, and I have the experience of seeing an image.
If my occipital is not the final destination of these signals, then what is? Where does the information go after it's processed by my brain?
I don't think that means we must somehow use our current understanding of a thing to arrive at comforting explanations; instead, I think that this question in particular is forcing us to admit We Don't Know.
Ok, obviously we don't know the exact mechanism of consciousness and thoughts, no argument there.
You think the belief that my entire self is nothing but a gooey grey organ inside my skull that can be irrevocably damaged by slipping on the floor is comforting?!
Our current understanding of a thing is an interesting way to phrase this. I would argue that our current understanding of a thing is literally the only way we can meaningfully study something. We start with our best current model and go from there. Of course there are sometimes paradigm shifts and big discoveries that seem to come from nowhere, but those are rare, and generally still fit into a wider model for how the universe works. If you don't understand how some function of the brain works, you shouldn't jump to the assumption that biology can't provide an answer. I'm not saying our neurons can't be the receivers for some extra-dimensional consciousness radio, I'm just saying use Occam's Razor.
You seem to be looking at the explanation of consciousness the way people looked at the explanation for the inheritance of traits from parents before we knew anything about genetics: a complete mystery. I think the current neuroscience on consciousness is closer to how we were dealing with genetics in the 40s: we knew there was genetic material, we were looking for it, we just didn't know exactly what it was (DNA). The problem with consciousness is that it isn't a single thing. It's a process, so until we nail down every individual step of the process, there will always be people saying that the part we don't understand yet is the part that can't be explained by biology.
Have you seen/heard this? https://www.npr.org/2023/08/20/1194905143/how-the-brain-processes-music-with-a-little-help-from-pink-floyd
Like I said, humans have had a big impact on Earth. No argument there.
There were also thousands of homo erectus and homo habilis individuals that were clever enough to use tools and adapt to new environments. They're a part of the process of coevolution between people and technology that we are still experiencing. That's why we're special, that process. The process will end at some point, and that's ok.
There are people in this thread that think their lives are meaningless if they don't leave some irreversible mark on the fabric of reality. I don't think that's a reasonable perspective. I prefer the perspective of an intelligent ape. Intelligent ape is excited about smartphones and antibiotics, even if the Earth is doomed to be swallowed by the sun.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Every sentence has the first letter capitalized. The bullet points are sentence fragments, so they don't need to be capitalized. Capitalization might look more professional to you, but it's not grammatically correct.
You could argue some of them are commands with an implied subject of You, but not all of them. For consistency, you would want the bullet points to all have the same capitalization.
That was actually a pretty good prediction. They just didn't account for one genius who revolutionized farming.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug