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mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 months ago
Imagine someone who's familiar with /r/birdsarentreal finding one of these in real life without knowing the punchline
A thing like that could shatter you. Am I even real? Did I create this place? Am I a brain in a storage locker somewhere, and it's all just made up for me? What are they trying to tell me now, when they show me these things? Am I being tested?
Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean we are all brains in a storage locker. It’s just a portable/mobile storage locker.
OpenStars@startrek.website 6 months ago
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dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes! It’s this mentality that has helped me cope with some major life events. It really helps to put things in perspective when you realize that who you truly are is little more than a pink blob driving a meat skeleton.
OpenStars@startrek.website 6 months ago
And it is all the more fascinating when you think about all the other pink blobs that did not get the chance to exist like us - e.g. (non-avian) dinosaurs, but also too like chimps that can talk, walk, use tools, etc., but do not come anywhere close to our level of Mind.
Without getting into any particular religion (even though this is almost a direct quote from the description of a religion in the super-old TV show Babylon Five), in a way we are the universe (molecules) thinking about itself!:-P Our pattern may be small, but our significance large, at least to our own perspective - e.g. every human life is precious, or arguably should be; but at the same time, as you point out, on the grander scheme it’s nothing at all.
I find such thoughts very freeing - like, we can choose to love, or not, rather than have that forced upon us by like societal conventions, or whatever. Namaste and junk. :-)
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s just brains in storage lockers all the way down
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
but how many of them are occupied by catgirls
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I would imagine the answer to that is a non-zero number.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 6 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain