Strange goblin creature

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• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In that case, what are we?

  Meat suits hung onto skeleton hangers, obvi.

  Or even more foundationally, proteins doing things with fatty membranes.

  Basically piles of highly organized goo.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you want to go deeper, we’re brains hooked up to a spinal system.

    The bones and limbs are just bonuses to move our meat vehicle. But they’re not required.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world and @rockerface@lemm.ee

      We are beings of electric patterns, with our thoughts riding our brains the way the brain rides the body, and it begs us to wonder then: what rides us in like manner - memes & TV commercials? :-P

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Since awareness is a product of brain activity, we are chunks of brain tissue piloting skeleton mechs in meat armor

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are we really?

      Or are we actually just a subsystem in the climate control system being driven around by a huge colony of bacteria?

      An interesting quirk of human consciousness is we justify our decisions retroactively. It’s how our minds work - most of what we do isn’t chosen by our consciousness, it’s snap decision making.

      If you ask someone why they chose an apple instead of a banana at the cafeteria, they’ll probably rationalize it as a decision they made “I prefer apples” or “just feeling an apple today” or maybe even “I’m trying to get my fiber up”

      They probably didn’t make that decision, their body did. Maybe their rationalization is true and in line with their previous thoughts - but they were talking to you, they probably didn’t weigh that decision at all. The animal they run on chose the apple

      But it goes deeper - do we ever choose anything? Think about doing something you have to work yourself up to - introducing yourself to someone attractive, public speaking, jumping off a high dive.

      You sit there and convince your animal self to do it. You’re not acting, then you are, because you’ve convinced the animal.

      And the bacteria just might be in charge of the animal

      We’re basically language models used to coordinate between ourselves and coax the animal when it gets stuck

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  • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They only went to the skin. The analog would be a hairless human which we mostly are anyway.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re a strange kind of goblin, a puppeteer behind a screen of synthetic fabrics

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  • umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ugly giant bags of mostly water?

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• Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now just imagine it with no beak

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    An anti-wrinkle device that looks like a gaping mouth

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love how it’s an “anti-wrinkles device” but clearly the most important stat is the inner diameter.

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    • jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rtx 4090 for $850 hahaha

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• canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Behold, Plato’s man!

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The same can be said of many mammals when bald

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• Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aren’t we all?

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• SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  nah them being drones is more believable

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  • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Surely you mean that you totally believe that these totally real creatures have “nothing whatsoever” to do with any kind of… um… surveillance capacity, government or otherwise, r-r-right, RIGHT!?

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dinosaurs

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