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EmilyHughes
4y ago
It's really not the same thing, its the complete opposite. It's brain->consciousness vs. consciousness->brain
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4y ago
I am not denying that the chicken became tasty over night. Time in a practical sense has "passed" but what really happened empirically was just a stream of perceptions, one of these perceptions is the story that hours have passed
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EmilyHughes
4y ago
The radio-receiver metaphor doesn't go far enough as it still assumes a somewhat physical brain, but it helps at first untangeling yourself from materialism. If reality is nothing but a dream it would be no problem to dream up a brain
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EmilyHughes
4y ago
From a purely empirical standpoint our minds go nowhere. Your whole life is nothing but an unbroken stream of consciousness, you never slept a day in your life. Just because you can wake up, point at a clock and create a story that so-and-s
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EmilyHughes
4y ago
I really don't like buying it but the Nestle Instant-Coffee is simply the best my supermarket has available. I drink my coffee black and that one is pretty close to how it tastes from beans. Most instant coffees have sugar and milk pow
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4y ago
This vapor youtube channel is really good. He takes songs from wherever, slows them down and puts them into mixes. The song selection is crazy good, just pick any video. https://www.youtube.com/c/Macroblank
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4y ago
I can guarantee you that the amount of people using an iPhone that are desperate to get on IRC are almost 0%
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4y ago
Reminds me of the short time when everyone used trillian or miranda to have ICQ, MSN and whatever else at once. Guess what, these protocols are all gone know, along with these multi-clients. Why keep stuff alive that's on the way out?