If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch.
As far as I know, the purpose of yawning isn't really understood, but it's present in nearly all land vertebrae. Maybe it's a universal bug in the breathing animation code.
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neither is sleeping - nor dreaming. sleep is still such an interesting and elusive thing.
i've recently fallen into what i can only hope is a trap. i think i'm already dead, and this experience is just me remembering my life.
Woof. I dread to think that I would remember in such precise detail all the dozens of lemmy posts and comments I've read this morning. But it's quite a thought!
i can't quite describe the intensity of the horror. it's like a dream where you can't run, but at time same time someone's forcefully twiddling a finger on your precious in-between. it's a scream you just can't type.
Can you really recall every single detail? I’m not sure about you, but I can easily spend 30 minutes reading comments and then forget exactly what I was reading. Could I be reading gibberish that feels meaningful in the moment, but is gone as soon as I move on? Kind of like a dream?
How could you possibly have an experience if you're dead? We don’t fully understand what consciousness is - the fact that it feels like something to be - but it seems like a safe bet to claim that it’s an emergent feature of what our biological body does. When the body dies, that process ends, and with it, so does experience. There’s no such thing as “positive non-existence” after death. Not being, by definition, cannot be experienced.
i agree with everything you said.
are we living in the moment, or are we just remembering right now?
when you die, your brain does a bunch of crazy shit. it doesn't take more than a few psychadelics to see that. perception changes. perspective changes. you realize that you're just part of the One Big Soul.
and then you realize it's really dusty and you're poor again.
You could be a brain in a vat - what you experience in that case would effectively be a simulation running on wetware instead of silica. But that still wouldn’t change the fact that what you’re experiencing is happening right now from your subjective point of view. Even if this were just a pre-recorded memory from someone else, it still feels like the present moment to you.
Everything you perceive could be smoke and mirrors, completely fake - but the one thing that remains undeniably true is that it feels like something, not nothing. Even a psychedelic trip, as bizarre or unreal as it may seem, is still just another appearance in consciousness. And for that to happen, your biological body needs to be alive. If you're dead, there’s nothing left that could have - or host - that experience.
i'm hung up on the "wetware" thing. explain or gtfo.
I'm refering to the meat computer i.e. human brain.
you've to to explain how they write "wetfare". i thought i was clear.
I don't understand what you're asking.
we're got hardware. that's the stuff we write hardware software and firmware on.
what the heck is "wetware"? what's that tech? it's new to me.
I just told you. I'm speaking of the human brain.
Wetware is a term drawn from the computer-related idea of hardware or software, but applied to biological life forms.
The prefix "wet" is a reference to the water found in living creatures. Wetware is used to describe the elements equivalent to hardware and software found in a person, especially the central nervous system (CNS) and the human mind.
this is getting tiresome
i see your opinion (it's a small world; voting is pretty clear). do you care to argue for it, or are you happy with your downvote?
oh hi DP/DR.
oh no there's a wikipedia article. i'm not going to get any sleep tonight
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