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I think it's important to point out that the bicameral mind is one theory, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's true. One of its major criticisms is that it suggests consciousness only arose in humans around the time we started writing about it, and that it didn't exist in humans before then. It's also entirely possible that humans were conscious way before that, but when we started writing about it was just when we developed the cultural concept of what consciousness is.

The theory also seems to imply there is something special about human metacognitive processes compared to other animals, which would therefore imply that animals are not conscious. That seems weirdly reductive when various non-human animals show some evidence of self-awareness (mirror spot test, Alex the grey parrot).

It's a nice theory which ties lots of things together, but it's no more true than any other theory of consciousness at the moment.

Might be a dumb question, but if it's blue-shifting surely we wouldn't know it's far away in the first place? I thought the amount of redshift is broadly how we determine cosmic distances?

Yup. The elderly generally do not do well with:

1. Major surgery
2. Immunosuppression

And they're asking for repeated episodes of 1 and possibly 75 years of 2. I'd be all for letting them slowly kill themselves this way if it weren't for the fact that every organ they use is an organ that could've been given to someone who actually needs it.

Thanks that's perfect, my back feels great.

If I'm allowed another wish, can I get a space suit? Ideally ASAP

Hello wise one,

I find the Earth's gravity of 9.80665m/s² a bit much. Sometimes my back hurts from standing too long, and the general weight of existence sits heavy on my shoulders.

Can you make it a bit more comfortable please. Maybe 9.80664?

I'm not in the US, but here in the UK I made the switch too.

I went from Windows PC + Windows laptop ~2 years ago to now having a Linux PC (ZorinOS), Samsung tablet and a home server running Proxmox with an Ubuntu VM for Docker.

Never been happier with my setup. The grass truly is greener over here.

Thanks! 🙏

Patreon is a good idea. Do you mind me asking what kind of extras someone like me might provide for subscribers?

I'd been thinking offering higher quality image versions, .blend files if people want to open and mess with the scenes themselves, models I've made, etc?

I have a linktree with options for tips and places to buy my work, but no premium content or anything yet. Just relying mostly on goodwill if people like my stuff 😊

https://linktr.ee/ThisLucidLens

Thank you so much!

Not currently. I've made an ArtStation account but not uploaded anything there yet. Currently I just post my work to Instagram, Lemmy, Reddit (ugh) and Mastodon 🙂

It's on my to-do list though for sure

Sounds like a MoCA. Face, velvet, church, daisy, red are the usual 5.

I wonder if whoever administered the test was overly generous in the marking of it 😂

As someone who works in psychiatry and frequently administers cognitive tests, his comments are hilarious.

The hardest question on the ACE-III is getting someone to remember a name and address for about 15-20 minutes whilst you get them to do the other tasks - mostly repeating sentences after you, naming objects, following simple two-step commands and other things which anyone without dementia should be able to do just fine.

"Aceing" the test is just doing things that pretty much anyone without cognitive impairment should already be able to do.