I don't know what you are on, but did you bring enough for everyone else?
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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also, how doesn't it get wet under the shower?
By holding it below the shower. But I don't know if that is just an Aussie thing with how our water works
...nature of reality is a timeless ocean where every possible bundle of qualia - first person sensory experiences - exists within it? Time doesn't actually exist, but the illusion of it could...
Isn't that an oxymoron? If every possible first-person sensory experience exists, then time exists (we experience time).
The experience of time would exist, but each individual moment would in reality be timeless - just with a false experience of time for some of them.
There's a possibility, but I don't see any practical implications.
Also, what strand?
I guess if that was the fundamental nature of reality, then stuff would be exactly as it is.
Qualia is a stupid man-made thing that doesn't even scientifically exist
Can you expand on what you mean by that? As I thought, the scientific method was about empirically testing things, and the empirical world is defined by what we can sense - ie our qualia.
My understanding is that qualia are how a "consciousness" experiences something, and I disagree with the notion of a consciousness being a definable thing in general. It's not a scientific meaning so you can never unambiguously talk about anything in the context of qualia.
Ok, maybe you're not conscious then. I know that I am.