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2019-03-10 at 9:08 AM UTC in Having sex with one guy doesn't make you gayIs it gay if you're in a cuckoldry/chastity femdom relationship and you suck your wife's boyfriend off?
Asking for a friend. -
2019-03-10 at 9:07 AM UTC in watching ivanka trump taking a dumpThat'd sell for some serious coin.
Scat fetish is WAY too popular a thing.
It's actually a tad disturbing, tbh.
Not trynna kink shame, but... you know... it's literally shit. -
2019-03-10 at 9:05 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by mmQ Well than stop trying to be because I'm not asking you to list reasons why everyone eventually dies.
BUT, the cool thing is that there are a finite set of permutations on the death problem, which means we can achieve true biological immortality one day.
That's some epic shit. -
2019-03-10 at 9:04 AM UTC in I used to tell hos I was dark light or off white
Originally posted by mmQ It's weird reading raps that have a flow to a beat but then the syllables mix up to make shit slower or faster and having never heard the shit irl you have to repeat it yourself to get it right
Referenced by the last verse in chad's dealyo
I need to hit up the studio and lay rhymes down over a Scott Storch or a Diplo beat, and then drop an album and go on tour and get ALL KINDS of groupie strange.
Now that'd be righteous.
Wanna be a roadie? -
2019-03-10 at 9:03 AM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..High on some quality crack.
What's good? -
2019-03-10 at 8:59 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by mmQ I think I addressed that in my comment question. I'm saying there should ar least be one or two 140 year olds out there on pacemakers who avoided the other odds. At least.
Biological aging can be isolated down to a few key contributing mechanisms:
1. Cancer: Until we cure cancer, we will continue dying of cancer before we reach advanced ages.
2. Cell death: We have a finite number of telomeres (specific gene sequences) on our genetic material that lies inside of each cell in our bodies. As we age, those telomeres are continually truncated and it becomes a shorter and shorter sequence. Eventually, it runs out, and the cells in our body start dying.
3. Genetic mutations: Kinda similar to cancer, but can occur through other mechanisms as well.
There are a few more, but I'm drunk, dissociated, and high on crack right now so I'm not exactly in academic mode at the moment. -
2019-03-10 at 8:55 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by SHARK Stuart Hammeroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory is a fraud.
In the sense that it's nonfalsifiable, yes, of course it's a fraud.
At this current time, there can be no [i[verifiable biological, chemical, or physical/quantum explanation for consciousness since we just straight up can't verify it.
But, it's worth noting that we also can't disprove it.
Nonfalsifiable theories are bad science, as they are entirely speculative, but what else can you expect when it comes to the hard problem? -
2019-03-10 at 8:53 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by mmQ Why then do we not yet have 130, 140 year olds on pacemakers? I understand the odds of disease in general vastly increase after peoples 60s or 70s in general, but your thinn think there would be a few people floating around on pacemakers that have avoided all the other shit and continue on past their 120s.
Are their brain pacemakers? I guess that's life support? Question mark? Why doesnt every organ have a "pacemaker" as in a device that makes it work when it doesnt want to?
I'm gonna invent one. The liver one. You're welcome.
Because the older we get, the more things start to go wrong.
It's like an old beater car.
If your 1950's jalopy breaks down, it could be because of a number of things malfunctioning in concert.
In theory, at least, human death by age and natural causes is preventable. We just have to isolate all the different mechanisms responsible for senescence in humans. -
2019-03-10 at 8:49 AM UTC in I used to tell hos I was dark light or off whiteWhen I puff hard rocks, you haters suck cocks.
I barely flex a muscle while you pussy niggas hustle.
I import keys of yayo while you slangin' on the bay, yo.
Fifty bullets leave my truck while medics pick yo family up.
Cross my set, I'll leave you wet.
Your blood stains drench your family pet.
Real G's don't puff on trees.
We drop that cash for legal fees.
Your hood ain't safe, you best behave.
Or my pipe hittin' thugs will turn you slave.
You think that your squad is hard?
We the army and you security guards. -
2019-03-10 at 8:39 AM UTC in General Chat
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2019-03-10 at 8:38 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of ConsciousnessThat's why pacemakers are such an incredible medical discovery.
They are literally mechanical upgrades that allow us to sustain a steady cardiac rhythm.
Pacemaker patients are, in a sense, cyborgs. -
2019-03-10 at 8:36 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by mmQ I get it . I want to know why my heart just keeps beating. What's making it do it? Why? WHY? some hearts stop at sudden times. People from ever age have died from heart stops, but most hearts just beat and beat. And they just get tired eventually I guess. It seems lucky to just have a heart that keeps beating. Like an opposite lottery where your goal is to not hit the magic number and every time your heart beats it puts a number in.
That's the brain.
In your brainstem there's a cortical/neural network that basically acts as a clock/timer and keeps things in sync. If you damage that part of the brain, you life will cease in every way. -
2019-03-10 at 8:32 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of ConsciousnessOne could even argue that ant colonies might be conscious in the same way that we are.
Heck, the Gaia hypothesis states that the entire planet Earth is conscious, and we are all ants in a single colony. -
2019-03-10 at 8:31 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of ConsciousnessAnt colonies exhibit emergent behavior that is somewhat analogous to human consciousness.
They communicate in such complex ways that they act as a single unit. That's pretty much what the cells all throughout our bodies are doing. -
2019-03-10 at 8:30 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by mmQ Thanks. I dont understand how not knowing that is a problem.
Don't gaps in your knowledge bug you?
They certainly bug me.
I actually have a scholarly obsession with the problems of consciousness.
I don't even give a fuck about subatomic particles or any of that.
I wanna know how the fuck neurons start firing in my brain instructing my body to do shit.
Of course, if you ignore free will completely, then you can kinda circumvent that kind of thing.
But it still doesn't explain how subjective perception is a thing. -
2019-03-10 at 8:28 AM UTC in General Chat
Originally posted by Lanny I liked the movie but the dude kinda seemed like a huge asshole even if he was good at what he did
I haven't seen the movie, but from what little I know about him, apparently "asshole" is one of his defining characteristics. That and highly effective. The two traits seem to coexist quite often. -
2019-03-10 at 8:26 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of ConsciousnessWhen your neurons send impulses to your muscles to extend your arm, what caused those initial neural impulses?
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2019-03-10 at 8:25 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by mmQ So then what is the 'hard problem?' What's the problem ? Explain it to me in two sentences. :)
As much as I can't stand SHARK, I have to admit he phrased it pretty well in the OP.
Basically, it comes down to how physical activity gives rise to mental activity.
There is no discernible interface between the physical and mental realms. -
2019-03-10 at 8:23 AM UTC in As far as benzos go, gadzooks prefers Xanax over Ativan...
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2019-03-10 at 8:22 AM UTC in General ChatNo votes for Patton?
