• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    well if you wanna go deeper then we are just processes running on a bio computer that’s our brain and nervous system.

    or if you wanna go deeper we are just a bunch of DNA that wants to replicate and spread.

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      Every death is just brain damage. Now that can be either caused by physical trauma or (more commonly) oxygen stops reaching the brain for one reason or another. Oh and I guess sometimes a virus or a tumor invades the brain and eats up most of it.

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        Oh and I guess sometimes a virus or a tumor invades the brain and eats up most of it.

        Rabies being the most common I think

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    2 years ago

    I call my blood balloon stick mech The Vessel.

    The Vessel is fucked up, but the spirit piloting the mess is doing great.

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    What a terribly reductionist POV.

    A few antidotes:

    study and learn Somatic Experiencing. (Where in your body do you feel a given emotion ? Where is tension felt? where is relaxation felt? where is sadness felt? )

    study some real yoga (not stretching

    but actual yoga ie meditation breath-work soma practices )

    • The Lives of a Cell (1970s? 1980s? Lewis Carrol, iirc)

    • The Hidden Life of Trees (2016)

    • The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity (D. Graeber and D. Wengrow)

    • Being Bodies

    • Somatic Experiencing

    • Sex At Dawn

    • The Story of B (Daniel Quinn)


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        2 years ago

        lol i know

        thank you for the kind reply

        aaannnd art is in the eye of the beholder so idk not necessarily for the OP needing to read it

        moreso for those who (as w many of us) hv poor/low sense of self-value/self-resilience

        i just hear that a lot from tech nerds “my body is stupid/irrational” etc

        and it’s like “or maybe we need better models to listen to & make sense of it”

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          I enjoy your answer, I truly do. We do need better models. I just don’t know how we ended up with credit scores and being beholden much of our time to either staring at a spreadsheet or putting up with some customers yelling at us. Life is pretty absurd when you think it over.

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    But where are you really? Behind your eyes? We become aware of sensations in the body but how can they be above or below us? The sensory data just is, there’s no place we receive it from, it just appears and then disappears. Any label we put on this is just a convenient conceptual overlay that attempts to make sense of it and give it meaning. There is no meaning, only emptiness.

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        Indeed. Sometimes we get injured and don’t notice it. Other times we feel pain and there is no injury. We’re attempting to make sense of experience by applying concepts to what we feel. It’s the reason why chronic pain management using drugs is unsustainable.