• @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    832 days ago

    You’re an electrified hunk of fat piloting a meat-covered skeleton riding on a damp rock that’s hurling through space and time.

    • Diplomjodler
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      382 days ago

      It’s actually a lump of lava with a thin crust. Any time the crust breaks we have a very bad time.

    • @saltesc@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I enjoy Marcus Aurelius paraphrasing Epctetus…

      “You are a little soul bearing about a corpse.”

    • @kozy138@lemm.ee
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      132 days ago

      It’s weird that we, as people, think that our being or self ends at our skin. And we’re just a consciousness controlling a meat cube.

      What about all the bacteria living on and inside of us? People would die without their microflora.

      What about our subconscious/unconscious doings/thoughts? Are we in control of them? Or are they in control of us? Could consciousness be an illusion? One created by our senses’ interpretation of external stimuli.

    • @SkidFace@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      “At thе end of the day, your brain is just a meat computеr in a bone cockpit piloting a skin robot You think the world makes sense? Nothing makes sense! So you might as well make nonsense!”

    • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      72 days ago

      Be fair. You are an abstraction layer; a subsystem running on that electrified hunk of fat. There’s plenty of stuff that evolution has delegated as non-conscious functions of the fatlump.