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From a biological perspective, your dreams are part of the process of moving short term memories from the hippocampus to the neocortex. This will involve perceiving symbolic representations of your experiences, feelings, memories, predictions, etc. As far as being "meaningful," that's relative to the implications you're interested in. If you're looking for meaning, look for the common psychological underpinnings of certain symbols (e.g. teeth falling out, not wearing pants, etc.) and see what that might expose about the things your brain is processing. Just remember that specific archetypes are often offered by people based on tradition and superstition; Make sure you're looking at reliable sources, especially considering that your brain is going to process a lot more than people have worked out, and not every archetype is likely to carry information you find meaningful.

I only hang out with people who know they're stupid.

Yes, and so I must give it back.

I remember that I didn't exist before and that was fine.

A touch of humility helps too... why should I get benefits that beetles and dogs don't?

Life only exists because of death. I wouldn't want to take life away from the world by avoiding something I'm not meant to avoid.

Loving the original content

Noo u mean there are multiple frames of this?

I am not on good terms with whoever decided drawing this was ok.

Neuroscience... probably computational

If I remember correctly, there's a group of scholars that translate it as "appropriate."

I didn't see this comment until after I made the same one lol

Lie to Me

I love the idea of reforestation through memorial trees

It's illegal to have your remains decomposed naturally (or one of those cool new methods like composting or alkaline hydrolysis). You're legally required to be stuffed full of embalming chemicals and buried in a box, or cremated, polluting the air and wasting bioavailable nutrients, to be turned into high pH, high sodium ashes.

I think this is because the laws were mainly created by Catholics (this is Louisiana, where we have parishes instead of counties), and people are still too superstitious to make sense.

You can make profit on and profit off

Well LLMs are about to get a lot less reasonable.

I feel like Vivek Ramaswamy bought ancient political data and trained into 2011GPT.

A melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture

Yes, as opposed to moving towards a diverse, multicultural, heterogeneous society, isn't it?

"Melting pot" is a reduction of diversity.

Maybe I should correct my statement to "generally used by conservatives," instead of saying it's specifically a conservative term.

The funny thing is that "melting pot" is generally a conservative term, often used to deny the value of diversity.

Fun fact: Every Mastodon account has an RSS feed. Just add ".rss" to the end of their public profile URL.

I'm not sufficiently educated on the subject so I can't argue either way, but the defense I usually hear is that the sparse farmland states and the densely populated city states have different needs, and that the majority of the population living in cities shouldn't be making decisions for the rest of the country. So it gives each state an equal say in the executive branch; Otherwise the most populated states hold all the power.

If there's a problem with this defense of its pro's, please educate me. I'm not being sarcastic.