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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 78 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though... you've considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn't beating, your skin is pale... realizing you are in a coffin and everyone's performing a service... hmm... guess I am dead. course I guess that's kind of the difference is humans aren't so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2' away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Depends on the human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard%27s_syndrome

Side note: I am furious that I wasn't able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?

[–] Randomocity@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I googled "human thinks he's dead" and that Wikipedia page was the first result

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why "human"? Seems a weird way to phrase it but I can't deny it works.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Well I don't think you'd find it if you tried platypus

[–] Randomocity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Normally these types of articles use more clinical verbiage

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