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Zizek, Nancy Pelosi
I think it's a bit of both, the balance of which depends on the person
I find it very funny that the new tradcaths ended up there because being "progressive" was mainstream and they needed to rebel by becoming Conservatives.
The justice album was mid. Too poppy. Cross was their peak.
We're in fuckin 1834 motherfucker
You are a child worker. Bitch, you live in Arkansas. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin' manager the grain. Your fucking children, you've had 15 children. You've never taken a bath. You've literally never. washed. your. penis. You've never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You've had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are workers in the Duke's meat packing plant.
Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can't read. You don't know what a union is. You work 15 hour days, you are the worst gamer of all time. You don't know shit. You literally probably don't even know what the direction 'left' is. I'm sure some industrialist guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I've been to the factory.
Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get passed that. You gotta be unemotional. You can't sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You're in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he's in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.
You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and...
End. This. Nightmare.
A sidenote but you may like a book called Action in Perception. It's more of a survey of contemporary cognitive science in relation to perception, but still relevant to perceptual consciousness.
Also, if bozo could please explain how trained oral historians and poets can recall thousands of stanzas of poetry verbatim with few or no errors I'd love to hear that, because it raises some questions about the dollar bill "experiment".
Through learned, embodied habit. They know it in their bones and muscles. It isn't the mechanical reproduction of a computer or machine.
Imo I don't think we could ever "upload a brain" and even if we did, it would be a horrific subjective experience. So much of our sense of self and of consciousness is learned and developed over time through being in the world as a body. Losing a limb has a significant impact on someones consciousness, phantom limbs which can hurt, imagine losing your entire body. This thought experiment is still under the assumption that the brain alone is the entire seat of conscious experience, which is doubtful as this just falls into a mind/body dualism under the idea that the brain is a CPU which could be simply plugged into something else.
Could there be an emergent conscious AI at some point? Perhaps, but as far as we can tell it may very well require a kind of childhood and slow development of embodied experience in a similar capacity to how any known lifeform becomes conscious. Not a human brain shoved into a vat.
Your analogy reminds me a bit of the Freud essay on the mystical writing pad
About 300 pages into The Deluge (35%, it's a fucking long book). If you were a bit disappointed by Ministry of the Future, you may enjoy this book, but I reserve my final opinion until I finish it. Has its issues, and is quite dark, but a compelling read so far. Starts kinda slow, and honestly one of these characters could have just been left out, but it picks up steam as it goes.
Yeah I worked at Starbucks. I started as a barista but once Starbucks finally shuttered all of their stores I completed an online chat bot taught MBA and I was promoted to Executive Vice President of the Central-Midwestern Regional Coffee Bean Division of Green Investments in Sustainable Agriculture. I primarily changed the filenames of empty spreadsheets. There were fifty people with the same job title.
Cursed country