ProstheticBrain @ ProstheticBrain @sh.itjust.works

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Monty Python isn't satire

Anyone born after 1983 can't cook. All they know is charge they phone...

I think it's Norman Bates from Psycho.

Couldn't agree more, children's shows should absolutely be about peeling away the thin veneer of sanity that's all there is protecting us from the gargling, writhing chaos and madness that lies in the darkness beyond.

It builds character.

The burden of proof is on you there bud.

If you want to make extraordinary claims like "I came into your room and implanted your memories", then you're going to have to provide some evidence for that. I don't need to do anything.

You're also completely missing the point of the original post and my response. There was never any questions about whether memories are real, the question was whether the memory of a thing has the same value as the real time experience of a thing.

(Also, at least I've got a prosthetic brain, you're clearly still on the waiting list :p)

Can you not tell the difference between memory and reality?

Don't get me wrong, it would be absolutely incredible having such perfect recall that memories are indistinguishable from the present, I just don't think that's a trait many humans naturally possess.

Hold my hypotenuse, I'm going in!

Uranus?

You, me and every western philosopher for the last few hundred years all want an answer to this but as far as I know, the short answer is no - you can't empirically prove anything exists outside of your own thoughts.

However, unless you particularly enjoy trying to answer that question, it's simply more practical to accept as a fact, that your senses are telling the truth when they tell you something is real.

It's an axiom, but axioms are helpful for allowing us to get on with living when we would otherwise just get stuck in a pointless loop of asking unanswerable questions.

That said, if you do enjoy the challenge of trying to answer these sorts of questions, you could probably start with Rene Descartes' - Discourse on the Method. In that, Descartes kicks this whole topic off by asking "what happens if I systematically deconstruct everything I know to be real?" and eventually comes to the conclusion that yes, everything outside of our minds can be doubted but the one, irrefutable fact that holds up under any amount of scepticism, is that "if I can think, I exist".

This is a pretty digestible article about the importance of the discovery of "cogito, ergo sum"/"I think, therefore I am".

Thanks! I really didn't want it to be an aKsUAlLy type post. I just thought it was an interesting point to pick up on.

Also, while OPs spelling of the word doesn't make sense to me based on what I've read, it does make sense phonetically. I've heard consome pronounced similarly to "consume".

If you believe the internet, then "bliss" made quite a bit initially.

I'm not 100% on this, but I think "consommé" is the French spelling, "consome" is the Mexican one.

In French cookery a consommé is very specifically a clarified broth that goes through several processes and ends up looking like tea. I believe in Mexican cookery, the consome that accompanies birria goes through far fewer processes and so retains more solids and therefore has a different texture/flavour and is more of a gravy.

This is the pic windows XP wishes it had on release

Ackshually, the quote is

Alas poor Vorik... I didn't know him very Horatio.

Me too buddy, me too... but they will, and I have hope that someone will find a way to do the same thing to the sequels that people have done to the prequels.

Edit: changed my wording

And that's Everything!

What I'm getting at is that the way you're talking about the sequels is exactly the way people spoke about the prequels when they came out.

I hated the prequels when they came out, I still think they're basically unwatchable. But they weren't aimed at me, and a whole new generation of SW fans grew up with a deep fondness for them.

I expect we'll see the same thing with the sequels.

One swing, ahead of the sword

Someone in 20 years: Say what you will about the sequels, at least they're not the threquels.

Somebody's not getting their catch of the day I guess?