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JustaUser
JustaUser@steelineYT·
@rerawroy @deserteagle291 @j3lqingt0n It's funny how so many people fail to realize why "nuclear war advocate" is after "don't take things too seriously". You're not the first guy who tried to use this against me lol The RBMK is a fairly reliable design. The issue mostly lay in the lack of thereotical knowledge
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tom bombadil
tom bombadil@Authw8·
btw, the actual medieval conception of this was more interesting than you usually hear. their view, taken from augustine, was that the world was in its final stage where the body decays and the spirit becomes strong (the current age was of course dated from christ's birth). so they understood themselves to be a different type of person than the people who built the ruins, oriented towards heaven and god rather than earthly things.
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Always fascinated how people in the middle ages for hundreds of years just lived amongst the ever decrepitating Roman ruins. It was just a part of daily life for them.

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owen cyclops
owen cyclops@owenbroadcast·
the concept of "transferring minds" is interesting because we all take it as intuitive, because it makes logical sense, but to square it with the present modern conception of the mind and self is extremely difficult. it makes sense intuitively because what is being transferred is something like a soul or spirit - you can even see this in "science" style cartoons - rick and morty, futurama, whatever: someone uses a device to transfer themselves into another body. most people wouldn't say it this way, but what's transferred is really "the self" - the spirit of that individual. if you attempt to square this with modern conceptions of the mind, you end up in a really bizarre place. at best, in the modern worldview, "you" are patterns in your brain, and something like the continuation of your physical self over time. so, what is transferred in this modern cultural trope? the physical brain isn't transferred (this usually isn't the case, it's always via some high tech device with rays and light and electrodes and such things), so, that's out. that just leaves the patterns. this means that in situations like the below example, you're ultimately seeing a kind of trick: there's "the girl" - her brain is turned off, or something (this is really something like death), and all the patterns we associate with her (her likes, dislikes, worldview, inclinations, talking style, and so on) are then perfectly reproduced in another mind. this means that, really, when you're looking at any popular media that features something like transfer of consciousness, from an atheist scientific materialist perspective, the initial person is basically killed, and a reproduction of their mental patterns is artificially induced in another mind. that's what "the transfer" of an individual actually would be in that paradigm. but, no one sees it this way, because we all intuitively understand that something like "the soul" exists, and that's what would be transferred in such a situation - even if that's antithetical to the worldview we're pretending to inhabit.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm

New poster for Pixar’s next film ‘HOPPERS’ The film follows a girl who transfers her mind into a robotic beaver to help the animals fight the local mayor’s construction plans (Source: @Fandango)

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Liz Gorinsky @🏡
Liz Gorinsky @🏡@2muchexposition·
If you see a brilliant quote today, assume that it's Ursula. Here's another, from The Dispossessed. RIP, great one.
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Καλός
Καλός@realKalos·
"If that cute 15-year-old anime girl could overcome her fears to achieve her dreams, I can as well. Ganbare me!"
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