Goals.
Goals.
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Finally understand republicans
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Dem property taxes!
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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!
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Invertebates United
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I hear ya, squirt. I hear ya.
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Average US voter
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They do think. It's just that they're bad at it. All the stuff they complain about is just in their heads.
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These are some of the closest relatives of the vertebrates, by the way.
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I've never seen an organic political stance before... that's amazing.
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Me, rotting in bed
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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.
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One is now sitting in the White House
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Lucky bastard
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Original flavor MAGA
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Clearly parasitizing that brain coral.
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Relatable
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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.
Consciousness is 100% an emergent property.
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.
Can you explain what this means?
Thanks for the daily dose of mini-existential crisis 🫠
[Internal Monologue] What the fuck am I? HOW IS BEING ALIVE POSSIBLE? WTF?!?
It would be strongly emergent then. And strong emergence is basically magic.
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)
In a coma?
I think that is a bit of a misleading way of putting it because the feeling being a "self" that is in charge of the body is an experience that is contained within consciousness rather than the essential nature of it; in principle, one could imagine having consciousness without any feeling of being a "self" at all.
If I had to define the nature of consciousness, I would say that it is essentially an internal simulation that the brain creates in order to aggregate information from various sources in order to facilitate processing and decision making. Just to be clear, this is not my own original idea, and more importantly I do not think that it is a particularly clever or deep way of thinking about consciousness, but rather the inevitable conclusion one reaches when one plays around with one's own attention and awareness and sees what happens; the trick is just to do it like a scientist and be constantly challenging one's own conclusions, rather than to invent one's own version of chakras. I find it especially enlightening to watch what the mind does when one tries not to steer it into doing anything; with some practice, it is possible to watch the "self" pretend to be in charge while simultaneously realizing it is not, and this experience can be helpful (though frustratingly I have not found it to be as immediately life-changing as I might have hoped).