Piggybacking on that line of thought, WTF is up with the lack of Dragons and giant eagles?
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Dragons and Giant Eagles? Got it.
(Itâs so easy to throw around labels, like, say, âpedantâ these days. Innit?)
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Thereâs an out of control trolley speeding towards four workers. Three of them are cannibalistic serial killers. One of them is a brilliant cancer researcher. I have the option to pull a lever and change the trolleyâs path so it hits just one person. She is a brilliant cannibalistic serial killing cancer researcher who only kills lesser cancer researchers. 14% of these researchers are Nazi-sympathizers, and 25% donât use turning signals when they drive. Speaking of which, in this world, Hitler is still alive, but heâs dying of cancer.
Should I pull the lever, Jebus?
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Iâll try to get this one right, but itâs a while since I did the fancy word-for-word prayers? Straight up letcha know what I get.
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Can you believe the last time I bookmarked the thread, that image was in the post that came up? Didnât that confuse me for a second?
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Do you really think that your barrage of colonial microagressions are creating a comfortable space for those who identify as anthropo- or auto- phagic?
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Because it is damn fine booty?
So how about that new Doctor Who season? That was an interesting first episode wasnât it?
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Wouldnât it be interesting to imagine cloning a person and baking their last recorded mind-state into the clone as it grows? Of course, given arbitrary technical expertise, we could clone the body with only a basic CNS which was taking care of homoeostatic functions and either transplant a neural prostheses into the head, or maybe just the mind-state pattern into the waiting, null-state brain?
But basically am not I just trying to get a pattern here and now into another substrate there and then? And donât I think, with the advent of super intelligence and the for sure, totally, 100% assured utopia that will follow it, that the moral duty of those who live in such a utopia would be to snatch the dying processes of all dead humans from hellish, non-utopian, bygone eras into healthy bodies (simulated or no) in that future?
What about them? Weâre looking back in time, reading their mind state right up until the moment they died and then transferring that pattern into a body in which their mind can continue to exist, wonât they just have to learn to come to terms with the massive implications of mind-state trans-locution in the same way as we (or our future descendants) will have to come to terms with it?
Shouldnât I have definitely said âprobablyâ?
I was using the term kinda loosely, but the concepts concerning the holographic universe invoke higher dimensional reality as a product of energetic interactions in lower dimensions producing the effect of a universe to any conscious processes embedded within that lower dimensional, condensed framework, so in practice, isnât the universe that those entities (us) perceive âsimulatedâ within the lower dimensional substrate?
Of course, we could be being simulated within a higher (3 or 4 dimensional) computer that is itself embedded within the framework of the holographic universe so⌠turtles all the way down?
Synchronistically happened upon a decent talk by David âHard Problemâ Chalmers, and doesnât it round up a lot of the concepts weâve been discussing?
Iâm intrigued by your centralising of the importance of the concept of the collective unconscious, do we know if it even exists? Iâve always thought of it was a way of getting around some weird implications from depth psychology and probably to be explained away as a ghost once we understand the entrainment of conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious processes unpacking data from neural structures inherited through transmission of genes, like, do you think (or should I say âbelieveâ) that there is some transfer of psychic information between brains other than through normal means of communication? Or are you invoking the concept as a kind of awareness of the current Zeitgeist through culturally reinforced archetypal structures?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!?
Should I watch it?
Isnât Doctor Who something I keep meaning to try, and then can never quite bring myself to?
Shouldnât they get Peter Davison back?
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Why doesnât anyone ever pull the lever half way and derail the damn thing?
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Anyone ever drank Grenache Syrah Carignan before? Isnât Mouvedre the normal third grape?
Donât I want my sense of smell back? Doesnât everything taste bland these days?
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If you like dumb sci-fantasy stuff sure, otherwise isnât about time for a new season of QI?
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QI?
Have they got rid of Stephen Fry yet? At least they must have dumped Alan Davies?
(should I return my passport for being sick of National-fucking-treasure Fry? Should I hide from @japhroaigâs wrath? )
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Arenât we allowed to not like things?
(if you really wanna watch The Doctor you probably should start with season/series 1 or the new ones but I am really liking Peter Capaldi in the role)
Eccleston? Didnât I try?
Havenât I loved Capaldi since Lair of the White Worm?
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