You're not piloting a bone mech, you are it.
It feels like you're behind your face looking out into the world but once you pay close attention and look for what's looking you'll discover there's nothing there. There's no "you" in a sense that there's someone behind the wheel. There's just consciousness. It feels like something to be. A subjective experience.
WHERE IS THE PAINLESS OFF BUTTON!?
That's called a massive dose of opiates. You are highly unlikely to reboot after complete shutdown, so it's generally not recommended.
Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.
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.
I like to spread my DNA without replicating it.
In other words I’m a mistake of evolution.
(Jk all the other shit humanity has done to destroy the planet and allow 100 people to have half of the world’s wealth are the mistakes.)
Fuck yeah spread it
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.
Go deep.
We're just a clump of stuff that is constantly fighting against the entropy of the universe, man.
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
This opinion is beautiful and I will now choose to follow it. It almost makes one feel a kinship with the eyelash mites.
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
Our being is just a brain and a nervous system. Our body is just a space suit
This is only true if you subscribe to a dualist view of humanity, that is that the body is a separate thing from the mind. But there is also a monist way to look at it, that the body and the mind are one.
The totality of a human being can't be separated into body and mind in a practical way. What about the senses which are both a bodily and a psychological function? What about emotions that are definitely felt both in the psyche and in the body? When I am tried I can't think well, when I am depressed it's harder to perform a bench press than when I am not depressed.
We are not just the brain. That's a reductive way to look at human being. The ancient philosophers knew this, after all, mens sana in corpore sano.
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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.
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?"
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.
The title sounds like carrot weather
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.