well if you wanna go deeper then we are just processes running on a bio computer that's our brain and nervous system.
or if you wanna go deeper we are just a bunch of DNA that wants to replicate and spread.
Go deep.
We're just a clump of stuff that is constantly fighting against the entropy of the universe, man.
we are just processes running on a bio computer that’s our brain and nervous system.
We're processes running on two bio computers, one of which is actively suppressed by the other. That's our brain and nervous system.
Men are just DNA mosquitoes, only instead of taking blood we deposit DNA.
I mean, we still suck. but that's more of a classification or generalization for another time.
And if you go really deep matter itself moves to form organized organic compounds that reproduce and grow in complexity under stable physical processes.
pretty shitty meat armor, might i add.
It's pretty amazing that it can self mend
I've managed to outlive many computer systems because they can't self mend.
It breaks a lot
And leaks a lot
Also has a few exhaust problems
yeah, the methane output on some models is just insane.
So if gut bacteria have a serious influence on the brain's behavior, does that make us cyborgs driving a mech?
Source https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-020-1705-z
It makes us an ECOSYSTEM!
We’re not really “human” we”re more like… … a planet.
or a forest, at least (soil, mycelium, roots, microbes, ferns, shrubs, squirrels, trees, clouds, rain, rivers…)
(imho)
My vessel is an ecosystem..... you could really get use to saying that lol
Then why I die from liver failure.
Every death is just brain damage. Now that can be either caused by physical trauma or (more commonly) oxygen stops reaching the brain for one reason or another. Oh and I guess sometimes a virus or a tumor invades the brain and eats up most of it.
I call my blood balloon stick mech The Vessel.
The Vessel is fucked up, but the spirit piloting the mess is doing great.
I’m 14 and this blew my mind
What a terribly reductionist POV.
A few antidotes:
study and learn Somatic Experiencing. (Where in your body do you feel a given emotion ? Where is tension felt? where is relaxation felt? where is sadness felt? )
study some real yoga (not stretching
but actual yoga ie meditation breath-work soma practices )
The Lives of a Cell (1970s? 1980s? Lewis Carrol, iirc)
The Hidden Life of Trees (2016)
The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity (D. Graeber and D. Wengrow)
Being Bodies
Somatic Experiencing
Sex At Dawn
The Story of B (Daniel Quinn)
I think those are all nice titles but this is just a joke meme sweet Lemming.
lol i know
thank you for the kind reply
aaannnd art is in the eye of the beholder so idk not necessarily for the OP needing to read it
moreso for those who (as w many of us) hv poor/low sense of self-value/self-resilience
i just hear that a lot from tech nerds “my body is stupid/irrational” etc
and it’s like “or maybe we need better models to listen to & make sense of it”
I enjoy your answer, I truly do. We do need better models. I just don't know how we ended up with credit scores and being beholden much of our time to either staring at a spreadsheet or putting up with some customers yelling at us. Life is pretty absurd when you think it over.
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I dunno. Organic space suit implies that the nervous system could survive independently of it. But it can't.
You need to get blood to the brain, so you need a heart. That blood needs oxygen so you need lungs. You need some way of getting energy to these systems, so you need a digestive system, which starts at your lips and forms a frighteningly long tunnel that ends at your butt. Now you're introducing weird shit to your blood beyond just oxygen so you need a few systems to keep the blood clean. Now you've got all kinds of different needs and so you have other orgasms to keep those organs alive and functioning. Oh and because your blood is also alive, it dies and you need a way to make more. Quite efficiently this is done in your bones. But for the sake of argument let's say this is possible without the bones themselves.
I'd say the space suit starts at the immune system, and ends at the skin, which is really an extension of the immune system but there's muscle in there. You could, theoretically, survive without any muscle or skin, or even an immune system in a clean environment, as long as you had a way to obtain calories and Oxygen independently. Though going to the bathroom would be hard.
You can't really live without a space suit. That's why you wear the space suit in the first place.
Maybe if we moved to an environment more suitable to our nervous system, we wouldn't need our meat suit.
You realize that this is a joke?
Thanks!
both of you PLEASE put a CW warning on that
not everyone has huge screens so we tap it and then ::vomit::
CW morbid human nervous system anatomy, decoupled from rest of body
But where are you really? Behind your eyes? We become aware of sensations in the body but how can they be above or below us? The sensory data just is, there's no place we receive it from, it just appears and then disappears. Any label we put on this is just a convenient conceptual overlay that attempts to make sense of it and give it meaning. There is no meaning, only emptiness.
We are just quarks in a void doing whatever we want.
What's the line from Cruelty Squad? "I am a meat automaton animated by neurotransmitters?"
I mean. The motors are meat to. You would die without your skin but if you did not you could still move technically but the bones won't do anything on their own.
The title sounds like carrot weather
