I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
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Was this a House episode?
Probably not getting buried, though.
Probably.
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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!!.
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?
I googled "human thinks he's dead" and that Wikipedia page was the first result
well "skill issue" was one of the options so it might be that
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🤷♂️
Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.
duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along
seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for "medical condition person thinks they're dead" gave it immediately
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Rookie move.
Love me some pictures for sad children
Have another.
Have a PNG version.
And another.
Have a picture of a signed physical copy.
smells itself
eh I guess I died....
"Ed Wilson"
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book "The Social Conquest of Earth" if this intrigues you.
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of 'hierarchical pecking order'. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
The source is racism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-legacy-of-e-o-wilson/
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You have a spray bottle of oleic acid
Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr or Caroline Leavitt
E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book "The Ants" is mind-bogglingly thorough
Also, Social Conquest of Earth.
E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.
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I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.
Ants coming to bring you more dead ants. You will be the evil ant god.
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"I swear I'm not dead!"
"Yea we don't care, you smell dead and it's disgusting, leave until you take a bath"
why doesn't the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.
It would be inappropriate for a dead ant to move.
They must ~~rest~~ live in peace.
fist time in earth history to get a day off
Moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead, so off you go!
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