arken
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- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 day ago:
No, you have to tell women that your hobby is “listening”.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 3 weeks ago:
Even cnailshells would have to adhere to the basic laws of conchology though
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it could be a manual photoshop job.
It could, but the double spiral in the shell indicates AI to me. Snail shells don’t grow like that. If it was a manual job, someone would have used a picture of a real shell.
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 weeks ago:
This seems like a good opportunity to tell the story of “Balloon man”
- Comment on This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site. 1 month ago:
We need to stop calling these sites and services “free”. Anything that’s financed by ads, spying and profiling is not free, the user is paying with their attention, integrity and right to privacy. This is not nothing.
Presently, it’s a shady and dishonest practice since the terms of the transaction are rarely transparent to the consumer; in other words, it’s a scam.
- Comment on Those poor plants 2 months ago:
I have done plenty of research, thank you. Of course even more research never hurts.
- Comment on A life fully lived 2 months ago:
The hides of giant mutated squirrels
- Comment on Those poor plants 2 months ago:
Er, that’s what I am saying however is that you can observe and measure consciousness.
Going with any definition of consciousness relevant to this discussion, say phenomenality and/or awareness, no.
I am not sure why it’s hard to accept that some living things may not be conscious. Viruses propagate “mindlessly”, they’re neither living nor conscious.
That’s not really the point - I don’t claim to know what entities possess consciousness. The point is that you don’t either.
I also don’t understand why you think emergent properties are a hypothesis. Emergent properties of biological processes are fact
Obviously I’m talking about Emergentism as it relates to consciousness, and the idea that consciousness is an emergent property is not a fact, no. And there are perfectly valid reasons - for example, the “explanatory gap” - why someone might find it unsatisfactory.
- Comment on Those poor plants 2 months ago:
So, I’m guessing everyone in this thread has a different conception of what “consciousness” actually is and what we’re talking about here, which makes it difficult to discuss casually like this. You seem to have a very exclusive definition of consciousness, which only serves to avoid the argument, really. “It’s possible that same organisms exhibit some parts of consciousness as we have noticed till now, but if those organisms do not exhibit all parts of consciousness then they’re not conscious”…you’re splitting hairs. If plants could be proven to be aware, have subjective experience, a sense of self, it would be reasonable to change our definition of consciousness to be more inclusive - simply because such a concept of consciousness would be a lot more useful then.
Emergentism is a popular hypothesis, not a fact. Christof Koch lost the bet, remember? The idea that “all organisms which are conscious have to exhibit the same properties” and “you cannot pick and choose” does not logically follow from anything you’ve said. These are criteria that you set up yourself. Take the idea of qualia as an example, how could we ever observe that an animal or a plant does or does not experience qualia? Nobody solved the problem of other minds.
Consciousness is nothing like a heart; the function of the heart can be observed and measured. How do you know that you possess awareness? You can only experience it. (Actually, that we are aware is the only thing we can know with complete certainty.)
- Comment on Those poor plants 2 months ago:
which we don’t observe in those which lack consciousness.
See what you did there? You assume a priori which entities lack consciousness, and then motivate this by claiming they lack traits that can be observed in conscious entities. That is very neatly circular.
- Comment on I hate people like this 2 months ago:
Food service and retail needs to exist, (commercial) call centers should be banned and their owners shunned from polite society.
- Comment on perspective 3 months ago:
This gem also springs to mind
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
I think the brain is only where the concentration of prions is highest and therefore the most dangerous part of an infected person to eat, but you can also get it from other body parts. But I’m no expert… haven’t eaten anyone in years actually.
- Comment on What song would cause you to do this to yourself ? 3 months ago:
What, you don’t enjoy a bunch of sleepy whiny junkies self-indulgently wailing through a three chord Bob Dylan cover for 15 minutes? Man, weren’t nineties arena rock great.
- Comment on near zero 5 months ago:
So, I understand why there is a naked woman in the joke, what I don’t understand is her motivation.
- Comment on Do not trust it. Do not follow it. 6 months ago:
He is obviously inflated, she has to hold him down or else he’ll float to the ceiling.
- Comment on Do not trust it. Do not follow it. 6 months ago:
Well, I for one want to hear more about your racist dog?
- Comment on "Let me in right now or I swear..." 6 months ago:
“It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.”
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 7 months ago:
I like this idea more and more. All computers off, noone is allowed to work, just a big new years party for everyone.
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 7 months ago:
Plus forum search so you never have to add “reddit” or “lemmy” to your search phrase again.
- Comment on Oh no, Murray! 7 months ago:
Thank you “caitas cooing” for pointing out the most obvious thing you could have.
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
They were deleted by their creator.
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 8 months ago:
There definitely should have been an 12" extended dance mix with the complete lyrics included.
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 8 months ago:
Psalm 137
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!” Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
For context, the book of Psalms is a collection of jewish hymns. Psalm 137 is written from the viewpoint of defeated jews in Babylonian exile; the last verse may well be read as a defiant answer to the line “sing us one of the songs of zion!”. The god of the bible is not speaking directly here nor is he being addressed.
As additional context, Boney M’s disco version is actually a cover version of The Melodians “Rivers of Babylon” (featured on the soundtrack of the film The Harder They Come) and tactfully omits the verse about dashing Babylonian infants against rocks.
- Comment on the sensory biology of plants 8 months ago:
There’s a theory that allergies are getting worse due to an imbalance of gender selection when planting trees in urban environments. Here is some additional context.
- Comment on the sensory biology of plants 8 months ago:
Thank you for taking the time to comment in this thread.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 10 months ago:
Works anywhere where there’s snow.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 10 months ago:
Snow chains?
Studded tires for bikes are quite common where I live.
- Comment on Squidward 11 months ago:
So you’ve added the criteria per capita; I still think you’d find that the gang milieus that gangsta rap (in its various forms) is closely associated with vastly overshadows any isolated cases of Nödtveidt or Varg-wannabes there still might be out there. Black Metal is also one of the most popular subgenres of metal nowadays, so the per capita argument doesn’t really apply.
RAC/White Power-music perhaps, but then only because the fanbase of this music is so embarrassingly small.
- Comment on Squidward 11 months ago:
I actually grew up around people just like that. Point is, the music they listened to never mentioned violence in any shape or form yet they would happily beat up anyone they could get their hands on for any made up reason they could think of - like being a metalhead or just wearing the wrong color pants.