Your pointless thoughts & observations

TFW YouTube ads are actually inspiring
 

  On 2/5/2018 at 11:32 AM, peace 7 said:

Oh, shit- speaking of poop...:

Speaking of which...

If a trigger warning triggers you, how do you give a trigger warning for it?

At 1:35/1:36 in When The Levee Breaks there's a weirdly loud high hat in the right channel, it sounds almost like they spliced the tape or or something.

  On 2/5/2018 at 2:19 PM, ManjuShri said:

 

  On 2/5/2018 at 9:20 AM, Zeffolia said:

Regardless it succinctly deconstructs consciousness as being a largely, if not completely, physical phenomenon.

I don't think even hardcore idealists would deny the strong connection between body and consciousness, for example even just the tactile sense that arises in one's mind as the finger presses the key on the keyboard, nevermind the huge consciousness shift when the body enters sleep, psychoactive drugs ingested into the system, or a knockout blow to the temple etc. Saying that consciousness is wholly a physical epiphenomenon based on the physical effecting changes in consciousness whilst not taking into account the effects of conscious states on the physical body is somewhat remiss, and I don't believe we're beyond the agnostic stage objectively speaking in the situation at the moment, irrespective of subjective belief-cum-experience*.

 

Consciousness affecting physical responses is definitely lacking with regards to research though; such as looking at the entire central and peripheral nervous system in the cases of wilful conscious states that then effect large physical changes such as meditation from before, during, and after in extremely precise instancing and detailing etc., but the technology isn't really up to it the moment to offer anything great unfortunately, nor is even our understanding of the brain w.r.t. consciousness, much other than 'this area lights up and the subject reports x'. 

 

It's definitely a fun subject though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_correlates_of_consciousness

 

*Although that's all we'll ever have, ho-ho :P

 

Yeah I don't claim to be an expert and I'm likely completely wrong but materialist explanations are just my intuitions regarding the topic.  No doubt it will end up being much more complicated than anyone alive today suspects, but I'm confident that in the end it is completely natural and explainable within a scientific framework of reality as opposed to being supernatural.  This may just involve expansions of what is considered natural to accommodate it though.  Just my speculations.  

  On 2/6/2018 at 4:09 AM, auxien said:

At 1:35/1:36 in When The Levee Breaks there's a weirdly loud high hat in the right channel, it sounds almost like they spliced the tape or or something.

Nice one!  Either that or for some reason the attack of the compressor didn't grab it in time for that particular hit.

first highschool was like 'literally i can't just even' then 'whuaat??' then 'nice'

What if our Mike P was vice president

Who would be Prez then?

As long as it's someone who actually cares about helping people and the environment, I don't care who.

(page brek u suk)

It should be an anonymous guy dressed up like Ronald McDonald, and you don't get to find out who it is until the end of his first term.

  On 2/5/2018 at 5:08 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

But it worked so great for Jared!

 

 

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Processed food for tohught:

 

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/62310-try-to-think-of-something-nastier-to-put-in-your-mouth-than/

pls

  On 2/6/2018 at 9:55 AM, Gocab said:

What if our Mike P was vice president

After a terrorist attack- with president busy- Mike P would have to announce a Hasty Boom Alert.

All right, I'll get my coat.

lol

This chick I used to work with 6 years ago posted this on her FB feed. Not entirely sure what to make of it.

Maybe it's just a joke. But I think it kinda still sends the wrong signals.

It's called shameless exploitation of female social privilege derived from the relative scarcity of eggs in comparison to sperm.  You should probably trust her when she tells you what type of person she is by posting things like this, because she's not going to refuse money if it's offered.  This is light prostitution.  Which isn't inherently wrong, but it says something about society that only females are capable of getting takers on such a service

love u zeff pls don't get banned

lol @ paying $20 to get friend zoned.

F E M A L E S 

  On 2/7/2018 at 8:03 AM, ambermonk said:

This chick I used to work with 6 years ago posted this on her FB feed. Not entirely sure what to make of it.

Maybe it's just a joke. But I think it kinda still sends the wrong signals.

You're overthinking it. She only needs attention and has mediocre senses of humor.

I immediately read the picture without reading your preface, so I just thought it was a dude offering himself up for VD, which is a lot funnier.

  On 2/6/2018 at 5:05 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 2/6/2018 at 4:09 AM, auxien said:

At 1:35/1:36 in When The Levee Breaks there's a weirdly loud high hat in the right channel, it sounds almost like they spliced the tape or or something.

 

Nice one!  Either that or for some reason the attack of the compressor didn't grab it in time for that particular hit.

Mo' pointless pineapple pizza -

At around 2:25 of Rale (Autechre - Quaristice) Steve or Rick plugs a USB device into a Windows PC

At around 0:29 of Sunset Everett (VHS Head - TROG) Abe triggers some kind of warning from his rig (can't remember if that's a mac or win sound)

I keep seeing Rick and Morty T-shirts advertised on my FB feed, even though I don't watch the show.

Is it just me or do fans automatically feel intellectually superior to non-fans? I mean, do Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Stephen Hawking watch the show?

The goal of education and scientific awareness should be progress and self-enlightenment, not hubris and self-righteousness. Just my opinion.

Listening to FSOL 'Dead Cities' for the first time right now. Man, I would have adored this album if I had heard it back in '96.

  On 2/7/2018 at 3:25 AM, peace 7 said:

 

  On 2/6/2018 at 9:55 AM, Gocab said:

What if our Mike P was vice president

After a terrorist attack- with president busy- Mike P would have to announce a Hasty Boom Alert.

 

 

 

All right, I'll get my coat.

underappreciated lol

  On 2/10/2018 at 6:38 PM, ambermonk said:

I keep seeing Rick and Morty T-shirts advertised on my FB feed, even though I don't watch the show.

 

Is it just me or do fans automatically feel intellectually superior to non-fans? I mean, do Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Stephen Hawking watch the show?

 

The goal of education and scientific awareness should be progress and self-enlightenment, not hubris and self-righteousness. Just my opinion.

I haven't watched the show much except a couple times when my brother was watching it, but my take is that it actually is a reasonably abstract and interesting show in comparison to most shows on TV which are definitely not, because TV is almost without exception garbage.  So some fans take it to an extreme and think "holy shit, this show is so smart" when it's really just kind of cool and a mix of pseudo pop-sci and pop-philosophy which does indeed put it above the typical TV trash, but doesn't make it inherently intellectual or anything, then they go into their groupthink echo chamber and convince themselves it's genius