arken
@arken@lemmy.world
- Comment on What year is it 5 weeks ago:
Knew before clicking it had to be Irving Finkel…my favourite influencer
- Comment on american culture 1 month ago:
Sure, send me their phone numbers and home addresses, I’ll conduct a little survey.
- Comment on american culture 1 month ago:
So the obvious solution is they should read more books, more varied stuff, not less. Popular, niche, basic, normative, weird, etc.
Of course, your assumption that all teens hate Kafka just because you do is demonstrably false. The assumption that books sell simply because they are actually better and more enjoyable to read is also false, there are a lot of other factors at play.
The kids that enjoy reading will find what is pushed in the book shops anyway, but kids from working class homes will never be exposed to anything else - and therefore have no chance to decide if they like it or not.
- Comment on american culture 1 month ago:
Well, lead a horse to water etc, doesn’t mean we should stop making teens read books in school they wouldn’t be exposed to otherwise. At least now you have both read and formed an opinion on two of the most influential and well regarded works of world literature. (And hopefully they also made you read a lot of other literature in diverse styles and genres.)
- Comment on american culture 1 month ago:
Only boring kids would find Wuthering Heights & Jane Eyre boring. Both books would be excellent choices in any curriculum. If you wanna talk boring early 19th century authors, Jane Austen is the name you’re looking for.
- Comment on american culture 1 month ago:
Just because it was wasted on you doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, Kafka’s short stories especially (Die Verwandlung, Ein Landarzt etc) are accessible for teenagers and a good gateway drug to get interested in other things. Which is really important for kids that don’t have natural access to literature at home.
- Comment on HONK 2 months ago:
Nobody’s seen the burly man since
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 2 months ago:
Thank you for replying. Robertson screws are not common in Scandinavia - at least I’ve never seen one IRL. I use torx for everything, never had an issue with hand screwing them, which is why I asked. But I’m not an expert or professional, just a home owner that tries to DIY as much as I can.
Not having to deal with stripped screws is the biggest plus for me, I hate having to remove a Philips or flathead screw that someone else put in some hard-to-reach location that can’t be turned without breaking. (Which happens surprisingly often, actually.)
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 2 months ago:
Honest question, why not torx across the board? What do square do well that’s not covered by torx?
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 months ago:
No, you have to tell women that your hobby is “listening”.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 3 months 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 months 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 4 months 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. 4 months 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 5 months ago:
I have done plenty of research, thank you. Of course even more research never hurts.
- Comment on A life fully lived 5 months ago:
The hides of giant mutated squirrels
- Comment on Those poor plants 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 6 months ago:
This gem also springs to mind
- Comment on Ah sweet! 6 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 ? 6 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 8 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. 9 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. 9 months ago:
Well, I for one want to hear more about your racist dog?
- Comment on "Let me in right now or I swear..." 9 months ago:
“It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.”
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 10 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$! 10 months ago:
Plus forum search so you never have to add “reddit” or “lemmy” to your search phrase again.
- Comment on Oh no, Murray! 10 months ago:
Thank you “caitas cooing” for pointing out the most obvious thing you could have.