I enjoy the Marcus Aurelius quote paraphrasing Epctetus…
“You are a little soul bearing about a corpse.”
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 days 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.
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
kozy138@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
So you’re saying humanity is a mecha space opera?
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Yes.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days 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 days ago
And I want off.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
Lava is just liquid rock
ignotum@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
acid metal
abfarid@startrek.website 2 days ago
Obligatory “um, akhtually, it’s magma”.