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I say there's no universal definition of fiction b/c how "fiction" is understood depends on a culture's metaphysics. Philosophy of fiction has been taking Greek metaphysics for granted. I say we branch out.

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Our Daily Data Insight today — the world has passed “peak child.”

Big difference between careers that break minds by design and those where mental health issues are the exception. Systemic burden vs. situational breakdown.

You are currently on a spaceship, but its propellant is eight light-minutes away.

i like the ensemble creativity of these sites-- you post something (usually silly), someone else modifies it, someone else modifies that, that in turn gives you another idea... extended mind

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I exist without my consent

pov: you have no pov

So is consciousness a continuous spectrum rather than a binary state?

How much, if any (or none), of our daily functioning relies on unconscious or semi-conscious processes?

in other words, promises are love letters written by a past version of yourself to a future stranger who happens to share your name and fragments of your identity

It is said that we shouldn't make promises we can't keep.

But there are virtually no promises that we can keep wholeheartedly with the original intentionality because we're in an unavoidable but natural constant flux. The you keeping the promise is not the you who made it.

Chat GPT may yet have its uses, but, speaking as a historian interested in how young people learn about the past, it utterly terrifies me. It is a bespoke garbage howitzer

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It is possible to make tea as a sleepwalker. So is consciousness really required to process the world and leverage it?

What an amazing statistic.
Planes are so safe that passenger safety can be measured in light-years!

The march continues: "Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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hope these are considered non-normie

I think we'll reach other sources of energy like artificial stars or antimatter before building dyson swarms

What's your prime directive?

can i swap out my nervous system for a relaxed system