I have no idea what you are trying to get at by that.

There is no connection because consciousness is not fundamentally tied to society (although obviously its contents can be heavily influenced by it).

I figure that we are all definitely living in a simulation because, even if the world has real physical existence, consciousness is essentially a simulation created our brain to make sense of the world.

(Off-topic, but your username is fantastic!)

What do you see outside your field of vision?

Make sure you check out Metal: Hellsinger if you haven’t already!

An actor single handedly keeping a good 40% of the LGBTQ community off the ledge right now.

Oh, wow, how is he doing that?

I find it even easier just not to do things in the first place.

China takes care of its people

Unless you are an Uyghur.

A rare instance of a violation of Betteridge’s law!

+1 actually a shower thought

Uh, good for you?

Okay, fair enough, you got me: I wrote his name on a piece of paper and was standing on it when I wrote that comment in order to absorb his authority. You win this Internet argument.

I was definitely not standing on the authority of Elliott, merely making use of his words and crediting him for it, so you are simply wrong.

On the contrary, quoting is exactly the act of borrowing another’s idea, but doing the courtesy of giving credit to the person from whom you borrowed it.

Good writers borrow, great writers steal. -T.S. Elliot

Maybe this is finally a good use for depleted uranium?

Ugh, I really hate it when people make comics like this that make it seem like solving our problems would be so simple. In the real world, where things are a lot messier, you need the blade to be at least several times higher for it to work properly!

To me, one of the most interesting quotes from the article was:

“Our intel tells us that… one of the most important things we can do to hurt Palantir right now is disrupting their recruitment pipeline by hurting their brand image, to the point where even very apolitical recent college graduates [feel] that it’s social suicide.”

This really seems to me like exactly the kind of thing that a peaceful protest could accomplish that could really pay off!

It is not obvious to me, though, that the following tactic is super-effective at this:

After blocking the street outside Palantir’s unassuming redbrick office, and briefly making way for an ambulance, the crowd marched to a nondescript building nearby where organizers said the company was holding a developer conference to recruit new talent, slapping rhythmically on the windows and chanting “quit your jobs!”

This seemed to work in terms of shutting the event down:

Although Palantir did not confirm whether its event was disrupted, one visibly confused event worker did try to deliver equipment, only to find their intended recipients had vanished.

I suspect, though, that if the event were disrupted then the impression the people got at it was more along the lines of, “There are crazy people outside!” and less along the lines of, “I should really feel guilty about my life decisions.”

Having said that, it is not clear that a lower level of confrontation would have accomplished anything either, so who am I to say?

Evidence suggests that “consciousness” is the mechanism that allows separate parts of the brain to communicate with other parts of the brain and coordinate activities. The hypothesis is this is done by the frontal cortex which is responsible for reasoning, decision making, and controlling voluntary movements. However, there is still much research required in Neurosciences before we have a solid theory and understanding of consciousness.

So in other words… it exists.

It is worth nothing that the first sentence is exactly my perspective, as I explicitly stated earlier:

I think that consciousness in the brain is just an approach that it uses to aggregate and share information amongst several subcomponents.