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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

[–] SkidFace@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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!”

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

And I want off.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago

Obligatory "um, akhtually, it's magma".

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The core is metal, the outer shell is hard rock, i would assume what's inbetween is a mix of pop and smooth jazz maybe?

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago
[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I enjoy Marcus Aurelius paraphrasing Epctetus...

"You are a little soul bearing about a corpse."

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

anyways this sandwich tastes great

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're saying humanity is a mecha space opera?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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.