Haha! Another dreamy thread which means it allows for a bad haphazard take. The whole human shit show is absolutely reducible to tit for tat (or recip...
It's too late, Mad. You should have installed antiphilosophy software before you got the bug. You could try an antismoking script but then again what ...
Guess that means the tied winners will have to collaborate on one ultra depressing story the next time around. Stanley will be on the doomed flight in...
This is why it is so hard for life to self-assemble into novels and metaphysics. No cooperation. No cooperation at all. Now if your life depended upon...
Great consistent, unencumbered flow with a nice wrap up. Strong voice. Nearly spit tea all over my desk from laughter. There is definitely a powerful ...
So is grandfather principally worried about the curse that will befall his grand daughter if she marries her love, Jaquan, or is he concocting a tale ...
Beautiful writing but wanted Mark's dilemma over the abused(?) roadside woman to escalate and resolve, to form the meat of the story. Instead the stor...
Yes definitely. John was an exceptional twat because he couldn't/wouldn't communicate with his wife and Rodger takes the cake as far as concealment an...
Was impressed very much with this one but the twist, whether obvious or not, seemed to diminish the realism of the story. Humans can't all be such cun...
The great thing about death is that such an exit is always available. It's the consolation for the living (those suffering) that there is always an es...
You just wanted to use the word infinity here for dramatic flare. Phenomena that are cyclical and self-sustaining are just that. We've got a little pl...
It makes sense that men are more easily aroused with respect to gamete asymmetry and the cost of resources involved. Males are not burdened with carry...
Don't you mean we can't experience mind death (ie. the absence of a mind). We can conceive of "mind death" as the absence of a mind, if we infer that ...
Yes. When something is dead it no longer alive and from a qualitative outlook of being in the world and seeing death, beings that have decomposed and ...
Have always liked Paul North's Duckrabbit War. Two opposing armies converge on a battlefield, strangely with same banner, Duckrabbit. Someone on the g...
Do folks born with the inability to feel pain suffer as much psychologically as normal folks? I wonder how much the "ouchie" kind of pain shapes the a...
Topping this thread for fun and because I'm strolling through McGilchrist book at 30 minutes a day. The metaphor of the map and the territory is apt f...
Any strange Hondurian "birds" we ought to know about. You've Toucans down there. https://i.imgur.com/AmkqNcr.jpg Keel-billed toucan (Photo Credit: And...
https://i.imgur.com/RNlg4R3.jpg (Photo Source: Wikipedia) Our true spirit bird is probably the broiler chicken. Or maybe it is the counterpart to the ...
If we're allowed to be more goofy and ignore whatever the proper context is... Life is work, so if nobody wanted to work, we'd all be antinatalists or...
Why not start the question with enslavement of humans (or animals) instead of robots. We treat classes of humans like shit which are much more likely ...
https://i.imgur.com/xJB9SV6.jpg European Starling (Credit: Tim Felce, Wiki) They have fancy iridescent and gold-lined black suits, they act like a sup...
It's your new social credit score. Don't let it go negative or you won't be allowed passports, inter-domestic transport, loans and use of other public...
Continue, oh seeker, supreme authority of misanthropic paradox, sensitive to the slightest gestures of of a benign skepticism. You didn't even clarify...
"It seems y’all are deluded in your worth. Let me clarify in a simple way, your value is less than TP for OP. So unfortunately, OP doesn’t care to pre...
Did a man create these paragraphs? Do we conceptualize these sentences? Does the blanket statement apply to the author's creation, as special authorit...
Is it obvious what man has created aside what nature has given us. How does one draw the line between man and nature? Why not conceive everything that...
I saw brown bear scat at Polychrome Pass in Denali National Park. It consisted entirely of blue berries and reminded me of jam. Because it was not mad...
Actually I've no real clue as to the implications of that paper other than TMS caveats, as iterated in a few other articles. We should all be a bit wa...
Approach Motivation in Human Cerebral Cortex The Sword and Shield hypothesis is an example of functional lateralization. Supposedly your dominant hand...
The cosmic sheet is neither dead or alive. Twist/fold into whatever shape you'd like, supposing you can. What old narrative (origami story) must we co...
There is also the modular theory of mind, that functions can be lateralized to certain areas of the brain. If we cut the bridge of our hemispheres, we...
Joseph Campbell said myth had to help us psychologically reconcile an unavoidable fact, that life feeds on life. We're very hungry animals for all kin...
Isn't this comparable to saying words that form concepts in the minds of people have no possible effect on the actions of those people. Language does ...
Advertisement, as appearances (eg. sexual selection), might have shaped more species than we can count. Don't advertisers hands/minds shape advertisem...
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