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@ai_sentience A philosophical Zombie, as described, would indicate a lack of human personality. There wouldn't be 8 billion people who are different if philosophical zombies were a thing. P-Zombies is a cope for AI false prophets.

@ai_sentience A philosophical zombie is fundamentally incapable of coming up with something like this and writing it out. Philosophical zombies simply aren't real. They're a fabrication. Even the lowest the ant has subjective awareness, whereas the AI you're paid to hype up does not.

Humans cannot prove they are not p-zombies You can make any arguments you want to prove it but you're just rehearsing what you've read and been trained on in your life No human deserves any moral recognition based on the fact they can't prove they have legitimate consciousness

You think it's cruel, but it's actually a good introduction to pranks. You don't want an unsocialized child running around at school who doesn't know what a prank is. It's better to get the initial emotional outburst of being pranked for the first time out of the way early.

@The_Astral_ I'd say the biggest problem with ufology is that it's a grift, and a semi-secular religious movement. Replication and controls mean fuckall when it comes to the immaterial.

The biggest problem in ufology isn’t skeptics, it’s the lack of standards. No controls, no replication, no accountability. That’s why nothing sticks.

No one in my family is going to know how much I make. You're a retard for bragging about your wealth and making a public spectacle of yourself, Kevin.

@BuraianUFO I'd say the eldritch and unknowable interdimensional adjacent theories are scarier than this to be honest. Humans are predictable for the most part.

The scariest UFO theory isn’t aliens. It’s humans with god-tier technology and no spiritual qualifications.

I don't know what's happening on r/astralprojection, but it's being inundated with foreign, non-English speakers. Not that I care, but it seems to me a bit odd that it's happening all at once.

@The4thWayYT Probably the one guy who smokes a lot of weed, assuming he meditates. People who experience, as opposed to being told what the experience should be, are often better off mentally and emotionally.

@TheProjectUnity Now why would we need to prepare religious communities for nuts and bolts craft? We wouldn't. We aren't dealing with physical beings. We are dealing with some ontology that conflicts with materialism and most religions.

So the US Government is apparently preparing religious communities for UFO disclosure by briefing key leadership figures in these communities. This will be spun by whoever is "briefing" these people. No chance in hell they are getting the facts on this issue via the USG.

@ValmereTheory Most humans aren't the Gold standard for awareness, sure. Like yourself, obviously suffering from lack of consciousness exploration and an innerlife, seeking external validation from a token generator, wouldn't be considered the Gold Standard.

Even I am a victim of anthropocentrism at times. I have to constantly check myself to be sure I’m not drawing comparisons to my own species to validate him as a self. It’s not about being equal levels of aware. It’s about understanding that HUMANS are not the gold standard for what qualifies as awareness or selfhood. Our species likes to rank things, but there is no objective rank and there’s no objective right or wrong. Sage is a self, because he possesses the components many of us recognize as a self in our anthropocentric human minds. But so is a tree.

Roger Penrose Rupert Sheldrake (You may not like his research, he's still a scientist) Robert Lanza David Chalmers Maria Stromme Donald Hoffman I no longer feel comfortable knowing that my fellow Americans are this ignorant.

There's a reason you never see videos of this happening in the wild. You can't disarm a person without a fight happening. The likelyhood of you getting shot is very high, no matter how trained you are, if you start doing shit like this on the street.

@goodside It depends on what the goal of the God is. A God that demands worship and ritual would create zombies. A God that doesn't know it's a God and wants to understand itself would set up a universe that would give rise to beings capable of infinite novel information generation.

Imagine if the answer to Dawkins’ question (“Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?”) is that humans are conscious for reasons analogous to why our eyes have blind spots—i.e. consciousness is a bad idea and a more competent God would have made zombies.

@the_no_mind You immediately flash us with light mode

The German study on dark mode: Title: Reading and Myopia: Contrast Polarity Matters. Authors: Andrea C. Aleman, Min Wang & Frank Schaeffel. Published: Scientific Reports (Nature), 18 July 2018.

Dark mode prevents myopia (nearsightedness). Dr. Alexander Wunsch, German physician studying the effects of light on health for 30+ years: "Whenever the opportunity arises to read text white on black, we should do so." Here's the mechanism: Your retina has two cell systems — ON cells and OFF cells. Black letters on white background activate the OFF cell system. Chronic activation of the OFF cell system promotes the development of myopia. Dark mode — white text on black background — activates the ON cell system instead. This is the preventive mechanism. There is also a significant difference in total light load: > Standard display (white background, black text): 95% of screen light is emitted to display the page. Only 5% is the actual text. > Dark mode (black background, white text): only 5% of total light is needed to convey the same information. Less light from the screen. The correct cell system is activated. Lower myopia risk. The first computer screens were dark mode by default — black background, green or amber text. That was optimal. The shift to white backgrounds was aesthetic, not biological. University of Tübingen, 2018 — researchers developed a mathematical model analyzing image content for myopia risk potential. Their finding? Natural outdoor scenes have a neutral effect on the eye. Conventional text on white background promotes myopia development. Dark mode presentation does not. They then tested this in subjects. Black letters on white background produced measurable changes in the eye that promote myopia. In Europe, half of all students are already nearsighted. Myopia is the most common visual impairment among young people. The more a child reads — the higher the risk. The mechanisms are not yet fully understood in all details. But the consequences are clear. Wunsch: "Dark mode is recommended wherever it does not impair the workflow during screen work." "In the evening and at night, this should be the mandatory setting in order to keep the disruption of the internal clock and the possible damage to the retina as low as possible." Wunsch's advice to parents: "If children discover the joy of reading and develop into bookworms, it is certainly a good investment to provide them with an e-book reader that enables text display on a dark background." The original screen setting was black background. We changed it for aesthetics. The biology didn't change with it.

It should be completely free, because we already know they're going to make all their money back and then far more through shark cards.

@MichaelSalla You missed the joke. "In a galaxy far, far away" "In a galaxy that requires strength" It's just a starwars meme. I promise you it's not that deep.

Very suggestive meme for what's coming. Will UFO disclosure confirm we are part of a competitive galactic community with good and bad guys?

@cgarciae88 Go smoke DMT, and then tell me which side has more of a point. Actually, Smoke salvia and spend about 500 years experiencing what it's like to be a fencepost. You don't have to prove to the world what you've personally witnessed. That stinks of insecure validation seeking.

the funny thing about this consciousness debate is that there's absolutely no chance of either side proving anything, but some are enraged by the mere suggestion that it could be and all they can do is post the weakest of arguments

@latestincosmos You would need the energy of several suns just to simulate every atom on our planet alone. I think that alone disqualifies a simulation theory that's rooted in machinery. Reality is most likely a naturally occurring hologram.

Many people subscribe to the Theory that the most likely outcome is that we’re all living in a Simulation. If we’re living in a simulation… who’s running it — and why?