agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 day ago:
I mean, this but not metaphorically.
Source: Known some puppygirls
- Comment on YOLO 2 days ago:
“intoxicated from intranasal cocaine administration” is such a hilariously sterile way to say it.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 days ago:
- Comment on fine dining 3 days ago:
I gotta back them up. I’ve only been to a handful of Buc-ee’s, but every one had multiple signs saying no semis. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
- Comment on More information will be revealed at a later date 3 days ago:
Stfu dude, secret means secret
- Comment on Bow your heads 3 days ago:
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 5 days ago:
Correct, but we also have a disproportionate effect on the rest of nature.
Like yes, cancer is human cells, but that doesn’t diminish the damage they do to the rest of the human cells.
- Comment on Now begins the Age of Suffering, brought to you by WSJ 1 week ago:
Another one got caught by a columbine machine
School shooting?
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 1 week ago:
I don’t think he’s “taking” anything. It’s not his fault they flock to him.
- Comment on Signature move 1 week ago:
And that’s why you always put down a towel when you use the rear entrance.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 1 week ago:
Don’t you judge my apple seed eating addiction, I can stop whenever I want.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what you’re referring to with the “chemical” thing. I didn’t say anything about a chemical marker, is that like a theory of consciousness? I’ve never heard of it, I’d like to at least investigate it if you can provide a link. I can’t find any references linking consciousness to a specific chemical, but I admittedly didn’t look all that hard.
- Comment on Hmmm... 1 week ago:
Which just means it would have been even easier to make the supplemental angle add up! Ugh.
- Comment on Hmmm... 1 week ago:
Yeah I was wondering why it added up to 192°. Maybe I’m a freak, but I would’ve measured ambient temperature and drawn a supplementary angle. Also what scale is that thermometer on? That room is either really hot or almost freezing.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
it’s a stoner thought that for all I know is totally true, but it’s so impossible to either prove, model or test
That’s basically true for every hypothesis about consciousness, though. That’s why it’s called a hard problem. Like yeah, we can map neuron activity and record what the subject says they were thinking about. But that doesn’t tell us what consciousness itself is.
And those “stoner thoughts” are how we conceptually narrow down the possibilities via internal consistency, and maybe get to something we can test. Just because we haven’t developed a test for a hypothesis doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do so. And even if a test is impossible, that doesn’t mean the hypothesis isn’t true. It just means we can know whether or not it’s true.
We don’t really have models to compare too. We have hypotheses, but how do you test them? Is consciousness an electromagnetic phenomenon? Is it purely mathematical? Can it exist in gravitational systems?
We know precious little about the universe. We have snippets of data about our immediate locale, and ever-changing theories about our not-so-immediate locale. We are specks on a rocky speck orbiting a fiery speck on the outer spiral arm of a bigger speck.
Maybe consciousness is a fundamental force. Maybe it is emergent and the universe thinks a billion times slower and bigger than we do. We just don’t know, and we didn’t really have any way to measure one way or the other. That’s the tricky bit about subjective experience.
I don’t think it’s any more “desperate” than any other theory. The only default position is solipsism: mine is the only real consciousness, and all the rest of you could be inventions of my mind or clever automatons. Once you start generalizing more than that, any line is kinda arbitrary. You either wind up at the universe, or you have to come up with a good reason to stop; and I don’t think we have the physics to confidently place that line.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
What measurable neurological means?
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
Who knows what energetic structures exist within galactic super clusters? Energy is constantly exchanged in the universe.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
Grid Iron League Football
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
The LFL (Lingerie Football League) was pretty close. Apparently they’re reviving it
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 week ago:
Some people want to see the world.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
Panpsychism seems logically more possible than the alternative. If consciousness is an emergent property of complex systems, the universe is probably conscious because it’s the most complex system there is.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
Sure, how do you detect conscious effort from outside?
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
I’m inclined to believe every dynamic interconnected system is “conscious” to some degree. Not 1:1 with human consciousness obviously, but the same base phenomenon.
The main problem is that there aren’t very good metrics to distinguish how primitive a consciousness is. Where do you draw the line between consciousness and reflex? Is each of your cells conscious in its own impossibly tiny way?
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
I will come back to it eventually, when the time is right.
It’s not important enough to bookmark, it’s not urgent enough to get to right now, but it’s too interesting to ignore entirely. When the time is right for a tab, I will return to it. Sometimes I scroll through them to jog my memory. Sometimes I’ll decide it wasn’t as interesting as I thought and delete it.
- Comment on Work out girl. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think night shift Barbie is doing the science part of medicine.
- Comment on Stretch marks 3 weeks ago:
Maybe, many relevant acquaintances have spoken very fondly of my balls, up to and including my wife. But maybe that’s just me.
- Comment on now kith 3 weeks ago:
New Apollo 18 lore just dropped
- Comment on When they get the bill too 4 weeks ago:
A man, obsessed with trains, finally sneaks into the engine one day. He’s having the time of his life for a few minutes before he screws up a switch and derails the train, killing dozens of people.
His trial is quick, and he is sentenced to death. The day arrives, and for his last meal he requests a single banana. He eats it, he’s strapped into the electric chair, and when they pull the switch… nothing.
They delay the sentence for a day, to examine the chair for defects. They tighten all the connections, check the wires, and test to make sure it’s working.
The next day, for his real last meal, he again requests a single banana. He eats, they strap him in and pull the switch. Again, nothing.
They delay one more day to tear the chair down to every component, test everything, reassemble, test again. They’re confident that the chair is working properly.
Next day, he asks again for one banana. “Oh no no,” the warden says “I didn’t know how you’re doing it, but you’re not getting another banana”. They serve him roast beef and potatoes, with apple pie for dessert. They strap him in, pull the switch and… nothing.
The bananas had nothing to do with it, turns out he was just a bad conductor.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What makes you think it’s a trap? Seems more like an effort to get you, personally, in and out as quickly as possible
- Comment on Don't forget to wipe 4 weeks ago:
Only if you have an air dryer too
