Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…

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  • I don’t care if I’m being mean to someone pushing Kremlin propaganda.

    Your top-level comment was literally attempting to blame Ukraine for the war in which they’re defending their homeland against an invading imperialist aggressor. You deserve no more kindness than the orcs invading Ukraine.






  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyztoscience@lemmy.worldwe're so smol
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    2 months ago

    Now that’s got me spooked out about how could I know if I’m even the same person moment-to-moment, or what if every blink of the eye or beat of the hard represents a granular moment in time in which a unique conscious entity that has never arisen before nor ever will again flows in and out of existence, like the flame of a candle which continuously renews itself even as the heat and light of one moments dissipates out into empty space the next; with all the memories of the conscious entities that inhabited the space behind my eyes before it, yet with no true ontological continuity between them?


  • Is that a theory about anesthesia? I haven’t heard about that.

    I’m referring to ideas about teleportation and time travel, in which the physical organism dissolves and is reconstituted, and appears to be alive and conscious on the other side, but the actual conscious entity died upon dissolution and was not resurrected upon reconstitution.


  • You go through TSA at the space ports before boarding the ship. The only thing different about going through a wormhole is a bit of turbulence, some spaghettification, and the unverifiable possibility that the physical organism which gets reconstituted on the other side is merely an empty vessel programmed to unconsciously imitate your habits and mannerisms, while the conscious entity that is you actually perished upon the dissolution of your original body.