My iPod Touch set itself back to December 31st 1970.
[QUOTE=Big Ben;27558628]My iPod Touch set itself back to December 31st 1970.[/QUOTE]
OH GOD IT'S A CONSPIRACY! The ipod was really invented in 1970
I was feeling really sad and listening to sad music. Then I switched on some Dawn of War music at full blast and now I feel MANLY!
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I am making a manly grimace
Honey Chicken is insanely good.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not,
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Proof poetry can be SUPER MANLY!
The plan is to take a mushroom from the forest to be made into a potion. If I fail to make it in time I get a game over, and it spoils in 3 minutes. There's only one path to get to the potion shop, and [i]it's fucking sealed off during the night[/i]. I hope I didn't lose all my progress there.
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The sound quality doesn't do them any justice... they're great though...
everyone posting in that pocket knife thread about butterfly knives makes me rage.
they're cool, but their practicality is next to nil.
Me and my girlfriend
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:love:
Sup biches
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Fuck, my cakes keep exploding. I must not be baking them right.
And now the WaW demo I downloaded is in German, for no particular reason. Electronics really hate me today.
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Shit fuck, Bulletstorm comes out 8 days after my birthday. I need to make sure I put birthday money back for that.
The emperor.
Oh hell yes, I can sell back my English books and use that money for art supplies.
I can feel that today is going to be fantastic.
I am creating a cyberpunk world.
Aaaaand the essay I was freaking out about isn't due until February 7th :derp:
The Yalta Conference, the concessions made to Stalin therein, and the policies of the West towards Eastern and Central Europe during the Cold War; quite possibly one of the most depressing and shameful chapters of history.
urrrrghhhhhhhhh exam tomorrow. Basically in this exam I have to decide between dualism (2 kinds of substances, physical and mental [e.g. souls]) and physicalism (nothing but physics, which doesn't adequately explain phenomological states with our current understanding of physics). I don't know what to do :saddowns:
Easy, dualism is bollocks. Science not having the answer for something does not mean one should fill the gaps with the plastic cement of fuzzy mysticism. But meh, I still feel like i've just woken up, so i'm probably not a very reliable source right now.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;27561687]Easy, dualism is bollocks. Science not having the answer for something does not mean one should fill the gaps with the plastic cement of fuzzy mysticism. But meh, I still feel like i've just woken up, so i'm probably not a very reliable source right now.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I've never liked dualism. The much more difficult task is justifying physicalism. I mean, try to tell someone exactly what it's like to dream, or to see, in terms of physics. I think it's just objectively impossible to describe phenomological experience.
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property dualism sounds like quite a rational idea, tbh. I'm not actually sure its any different than non-reductionist physicalism.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;27561817]Yeah, I've never liked dualism. The much more difficult task is justifying physicalism. I mean, try to tell someone exactly what it's like to dream, or to see, in terms of physics. I think it's just objectively impossible to describe phenomological experience.
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property dualism sounds like quite a rational idea, tbh. I'm not actually sure its any different than non-reductionist physicalism.[/QUOTE]The road to the explanation of those phenomenon lies with neuroscience, one of the more unexplored fields. A lot to learn about the brain, and might potentially have a lot of tie-ins with computer technology. Personally, I think of computers as far far less sophisticated, but more efficient, brains. Efficient in the sense that it's not burdened with maintaining the functions of a body, or processing a sapient personality
It just really pisses me off when people use science's lack of data in a certain field as proof of their fantasies/delusions/desperate dying wishes etc. Property dualism needs a healthy dose of Ockhams' Razor tbh.
Meh, i'm just a politely rabid atheist, whatever that is :v:
I think of brains as just being really really complex squidgy computers, haha. One of the counter-arguments for physicalism is that if phenomenal experience can be reduced to physics, it's possible that robots will be conscious. I totally accept this counter-argument and I'd in fact go even further. If consciousness can be reduced to computers - which I assume are a shitload of on/off switches - then equally a team of flag-wavers can possess consciousness in themselves, as long as they function in the same way as the computer does. Which is quite a nice thought, I think.
I'd even be tempted to go even further and say that even simple organisms or even just non-organic physical objects have some kind of very, very simple consciousness (or if you don't think consciousness is applicable here, they have some kind of 'what-is-it-like-ness'). If you think of the human body as a huge bundle of cells (all possessing their own simple phenomenological states), what's to stop the whole universe in itself having its own phenomenology and vastly more complex consciousness?
All that being said, I'm not so sure even a completed model of neuroscience will tell us what it's like to be a bat. Hence why non-reductive physicalism/property dualism seems so appealing right now.
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tbh I just want a technological singularity to hurry the fuck up and occur so I can upload my brain into a supercomputer before I die.
talking about that hurts my head
also hi
Haha, I love giving people existential crises. I swear that's the most rewarding use of philosophy.
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forgot I have a huge map quiz today. I know like half of it. Oh well, I'll skip English to study.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;27562137]I think of brains as just being really really complex squidgy computers, haha. One of the counter-arguments for physicalism is that if phenomenal experience can be reduced to physics, it's possible that robots will be conscious. I totally accept this counter-argument and I'd in fact go even further. If consciousness can be reduced to computers - which I assume are a shitload of on/off switches - then equally a team of flag-wavers can possess consciousness in themselves, as long as they function in the same way as the computer does. Which is quite a nice thought, I think.
I'd even be tempted to go even further and say that even simple organisms or even just non-organic physical objects have some kind of very, very simple consciousness (or if you don't think consciousness is applicable here, they have some kind of 'what-is-it-like-ness'). If you think of the human body as a huge bundle of cells (all possessing their own simple phenomenological states), what's to stop the whole universe in itself having its own phenomenology and vastly more complex consciousness?
All that being said, I'm not so sure even a completed model of neuroscience will tell us what it's like to be a bat. Hence why non-reductive physicalism/property dualism seems so appealing right now.
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tbh I just want a technological singularity to hurry the fuck up and occur so I can upload my brain into a supercomputer before I die.[/QUOTE]A sentient universe would be pretty awesome, then we could have fisticuffs with other universes
I imagine all of the different universes gossiping about that one universe nobody likes.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;27563480]A sentient universe would be pretty awesome, then we could have fisticuffs with other universes[/QUOTE]
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