Reposts from 17 December 2023

stop doing consciousness - brain was never supposed to have "theory of mind" - millions of years development and yet no real world use found for having self-recognition in mirrors - "please transfer internal cognitive states to other organisms by means of sequential tokens obeying grammatical relationships", "I am not a cognitive zombie" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!

Attached: 1 image Why I prefer Star Trek.

"In ancient Greece, as the Achaeans and Trojan armies gather for battle, Paris offers to avert the war and duel Menelaus alone for the hand of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. They battle, and though Paris is defeated the goddess Aphrodite rescues him, guiding him to sleep with Helen before Menelaus can find him and finish him off." - An epic (classical literature) You, in a cubicle, do some basic algebra on server logs to decide what colour a button should be. - An epic (Jira)

Attached: 1 image Time traveling back to 1991 to warn tim berners-lee that his cute little hypertext invention will eventually require me to click on pictures of nightmare broccoli in order to pay a parking ticket

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Remember in the 90s when computers screamed every time we connected them to the Internet, and we just thought they were overreacting?

no one should have to do things.