rap needs to be properly represented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOINSUWOqyo
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rikers
it's a BTM thread experiment about people who are attractive to low value posting....
also highly correlated with people that can't contribute otherwise....
I nominate Matt to go into the lounge with this thread
ez game
I only post here when drunk. My IQ is still higher than yours till proven otherwise.
Just perpetually trying to distract myself from the fact that I don't even exist.
None of you have ever met me. I'm smarter than anyone. I gave up when I was 15 months old, when I learned how to walk, and also that life is absurd and meaningless. Keep running the hedonic treadmill and chasing the Kurzweilian dream.
while you're at it
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/f...n/faculty.html
if we're one of 7 billion of ~115 billion of the "3rd planet" of the solar system of the galaxy of the universe, you think I have a ****ing imperative to try? **** no. Like Douglas Adams said, if life is to exist in a universe of this size, one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Well, guess what, every day when I wake up, I have said sense of proportion. First thing I think of is how laughably futile my life and YOUR LIFE is.
Just picked up A Devil's Chaplain by Dawkins today, which contains Dawkins' multiple eulogies for his friend Adams. Look up the puddle bit, terrific expression of the anthropic principle.
Unlike the likes of most of you who choose to post thousands of times with nothing new to contribute, I prefer to listen. Except when drunk. My posting of Firestein was an oblique way of promoting ignorance (see his book, or the course he's offered at Columbia).
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/uranium-mia/
In Timid New World, even if this is nothing to be afraid of, ultimately, well, heh, you can bet that that thread I saw about the chance sof human extinction in the next century...let's just say it's much better than aces getting cracked by an underpair
But basically, I must conclude what Mitchell Heisman did, that we're merely elaborate dna-promulgating natural robots. That consciousness is an illusion. That we're just the heightened experience of chimpanzee consciousness. What about the tests with dolphins and gray parrots and other high encephalization quotient-species and whatnot...how exclusive to humanity is consciousness, really?
Does such logic leave room for being a pedant? Not in my book. Everything is absurd; therefore, _______
?
To me it's "be cool", but
1. others may disagree that "be cool" is the conclusion
and
2. others may disagree about what "be cool" means
basically, I hate myself, but I hate you more.
So we all accept reductionism? Do we accept it as it pertains to our brains, truly? Do you question that **** every day like I do as I live out my mundane tasks? Wondering if I should be questioning my tenuous sanity at any given decision point?
When I glossed over "Incognito" by Eagleman-wannabe-Sagan (of neuroscience), I'm pretty sure he portrayed consciousness as like 20% of the brain's activity that happened to be in our temporary "attention". I did not feel compelled to read further, for fear that I would lose my mind.
Go ahead, read further. Truly figure it out. Then report back to me. Be a hero. A hero for neuroscience. At your own expense. I walk the tightrope as it is; you go ahead and teeter over, and I'll praise your efforts, for whatEVER that's worth.
let's bookend all these inflammatory posts with a song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kObD8X4maLU
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