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.
Me too.
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mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Consciousness is 100% an emergent property.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Thanks for the daily dose of mini-existential crisis.
[Internal Monologue] What the fuck am I? HOW IS BEING ALIVE POSSIBLE? WTF?!?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Can you explain what this means?
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would be strongly emergent then. And strong emergence is basically magic.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Read ‘blindsight’
ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I mean that’s basically what a person who is a vegetable is (sorry, don’t know the correct terminology, someone probably will be offended by that phrase)
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Finally understand republicans
Capybara_mdp@reddthat.com 18 hours ago
Dem property taxes!
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
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!
Zerush@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Invertebates United
potpotato@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Clearly parasitizing that brain coral.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
I hear ya, squirt. I hear ya.
Chakravanti@monero.town 18 hours ago
What?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 hours ago
Same. It’s why I hate change. You know how much it hurts to regrow your brain? It hurts a lot!
brem@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This hurts, I got denied for a loan for a house a few years ago.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You should find a rock and then digest your brain.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seeing your reply out of context made me think “what did I do to get hatemail this time?”
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Average US voter
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 day ago
They do think. It’s just that they’re bad at it. All the stuff they complain about is just in their heads.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Fil was arguing Obama care shut down his doctor because too many patients were using it. Then I said hmm thats interesting so all those ppl didn’t have health insurance before then? Then started blaming Obama for again for decreasing health insurance profits. I went to break Then.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We are all manipulated to think a certain way by our garbage media diet and lackluster advertising regulations. It’s impossible to avoid the bs projected at us 24/7. I constantly have to drive by billboards with anti-abortion propaganda slogans on them…
brandon@piefed.social 1 day ago
These are some of the closest relatives of the vertebrates, by the way.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Sea squirt looking at us doing dumb things to the planet: … nah, don’t know those guys, not related at all
Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
I mean, it's not like we're the worst. Stromatolites completely fucked up the atmosphere and it's still full of poison billions of years later.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’ve never seen an organic political stance before… that’s amazing.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 16 hours ago
I retired 7 years ago and can relate.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Me, rotting in bed
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
One is now sitting in the White House
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Lucky bastard
ddplf@szmer.info 1 day ago
I somehow misread sea for ceo and yet it didn’t make it nonsensical
Chakravanti@monero.town 18 hours ago
That does rather well suggest what happened to Mario…
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Me too buddy
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.