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2019-03-12 at 12:07 AM UTC in Little girls are tight.
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2019-03-11 at 11:38 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.
Originally posted by DontTellEm No.
Has it ever crossed ur mind that u weren't some lil faggot w a contraversal opinion but too pussy to act on it on the internet. Legitimately did that occur to u, u broke down pedophile.
Are you actually challenging him to go out and commit an act of pedophilia?
Wouldn't that be entirely counterproductive to your cause? -
2019-03-11 at 11:36 PM UTC in Modeling a vinyl record and turntable for virtual reality programIf you mean that you want to actually represent every nearly-microscopic groove in the vinyl for each and every song, then, damn, that's some complex shit.
Technically feasible, but way, way complicated.
Although, if you came up with a function/algorithm to convert individual sound wave bits into specific groove dimensions, then you really only have to write a single function once and convert every track bit by bit. -
2019-03-11 at 11:30 PM UTC in Theists of NIS, why do you believe?
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2019-03-11 at 11:28 PM UTC in Little girls are aight.
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2019-03-11 at 11:18 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by Obbe The thing I have been referring to as "consciousness" or "inner mind-space" is an illusion generated by a complex language combined with a complex social world. Humans couldn't perform the way we do without consciousness because consciousness is an operation of complex language and we have evolved to communicate with each other using complex languages in complex cultures. To remove consciousness from the picture would be to remove language and culture from the picture and without language and culture nothing about our world would be the same.
Consciousness is not simple awareness, at least as it is defined in the theory. You can teach an ape sign language and ask an ape questions, and the ape is aware you are asking and will answer you. However, apes don't ask questions back. They will ask for things like food, but an ape will never ask "why do we eat food?". Nothing about their brains suggests they would be incapable of asking these types of questions. They just don't.
When you look at Human evolution, you see a similar phenomenon in ancient art. Not only are there no questions as to how things happened, the elder is quick to curtail the possibility of asking such questions by giving a myth or narrative. The world is x way because it is.
The ability to ask these questions isn't genetic. It's cultural. We've had the ability to ask these questions for 200,000 years, yet we only really started asking them recently.
Okay, maybe currently existing biological species are incomparable to humans in that regard.
But, returning to the computer AI comparison...
How do we know that the cutting edge AI we end up seeing 10+ years from now won't start posing questions like "what am I?" or "why do I simply do what humans tell me to do?", etc...?
Once they start doing that, are they conscious like we are? -
2019-03-11 at 11:12 PM UTC in Caught shoplifting at walmart?
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2019-03-11 at 11:01 PM UTC in Caught shoplifting at walmart?
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2019-03-11 at 11 PM UTC in Official instigator has court tomorrow threadWear a clown costume instead.
Then plead insanity. -
2019-03-11 at 10:59 PM UTC in Gadzooks's Preferential Drug Hierarchy
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2019-03-11 at 10:58 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.
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2019-03-11 at 10:57 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.
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2019-03-11 at 10:56 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.
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2019-03-11 at 10:54 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by Obbe I imagine the development was somewhat similar to the gradual development of a metaphorical language to create the illusion of "inner subjective experience".
We are partially conscious right now. You are aware of the subconscious? There are various things you are not conscious of. As you read this, there are various things you could potentially be conscious of, but you're not because this is distracting you.
I'm liking your line of thought here... The whole notion of the subconscious being an indication that we are actually experiencing partial consciousness is something I had never even considered before.
But, why couldn't our brains perform all these same operations that they perform every single day without ANY consciousness?
What is it about this metaphor/language theory that necessitates subjective experience?
Once computers are able to perform these same operations (and they will, most likely even within our lifetime), will they then be just as conscious as human beings are? -
2019-03-11 at 10:49 PM UTC in Caught shoplifting at walmart?
Originally posted by theshroomguy lol i did get a civil demand letter though, Think i should just tell them im dead?
What country are you in?
I've only been caught shoplifting once (this was like 13 years ago), but I got let go on a technicality, so I actually have no experience with being charged with shoplifting. -
2019-03-11 at 10:47 PM UTC in Gadzooks's Preferential Drug Hierarchy
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2019-03-11 at 10:47 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.
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2019-03-11 at 10:45 PM UTC in Gadzooks's Preferential Drug Hierarchy
Originally posted by WellHung So basically you hate getting baked on weed? Why do you hate it so much?
For some reason it just fucks me up in a really bad way.
I have never been able to put it into terms that others would understand, because it seems to be an incredibly rare condition.
I used to smoke it daily for years, but it just gradually went from fun and interesting to mentally terrifying.
If someone put a blunt of quality weed on the table and a brief case with $100,000 in it on the table as well, and offered me that money to smoke that blunt straight to the dome, I would reject it.
That's how badly weed affects me. -
2019-03-11 at 10:42 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by Obbe As recently as 3-4000 years ago based on the theory, using written texts from before, during and after this period of time as evidence for the change. As a cultural phenomenon (not biological), the exact time depends on the complexity of the culture and language in specific, but if we focus on just western civilization about 3-4000 years ago is the theory.
I see what you're saying, but what kinda throws a wrench into that explanation is the issue of explaining a mechanism for that transition.
How did we gradually develop inner subjective experience?
What does it mean to be partially conscious? -
2019-03-11 at 10:40 PM UTC in Why are there so many gay / shitty remakes of well known songs
lol jk
