I’m not a fan personally. Too sweet - quite similar to cream.

By consciousness I mean the fact of experience - that it feels like something to be. That things have qualia.

It’s perfectly conceivable to imagine a human-like creature acting just like us and having a brain processing all that information, but it doesn’t feel like anything to be that creature. A philosophical zombie, so to speak.

That’s what’s utterly mystical to me. How can physical processes inside the brain give rise to subjective experiences i.e. consciousness?

I don’t think that’s existentialism. Existentialism is about the meaning of human existence, freedom, and authenticity - not about whether consciousness emerges from the brain or from being alive. Your view sounds more like a some form of panpsychism.

I mostly use it to proofread longer comments, check them for grammatical errors, and do minor fixes to the flow. I don’t remember ever getting accused of it, so I’m probably not overdoing it.

AI can’t do my job. For the very least it needs a physical body to go along with it.

However, as I work in the trades my jos is probably among the last ones to go. Once that happens there’s no need for human labour anymore so I’ll probably just retire then.

Despite being orders of magnitude smaller platform compared to reddit, my posts are getting way more traction instead of getting immediately buried. I feel like the slower pace rewards quality over timing/luck. Generally, when I make a post about something it’s a topic I like to discuss so it’s nice to get some engagement.

Easy: How does subjective conscious experience arise from physical processes in the brain?

No idea. I did it myself with a dremel.

That’s one way do deal with the traffic: just make your state so shitty place to live that everyone moves elsewhere.

Mine has my name engraved on it permanently as is the case with most of my possessions. I love the horror on people’s face when they hear you’ve intentionally “damaged” something valuable.

Stock items have no character. Customize everything.

eLiTeh4x0r@email.com is frustrating to attempt to spell out to the clerk at the other side of the counter.

I have two addresses that both end up in the same inbox. The other is firstname.lastname and I only give that to people/businesses that know my name anyway - everyone else gets the other one which doesn’t include my name.

No, insider trading is illegal in most countries. This isn’t a new rule - just a reminder of an existing one.

No, I turned it off the day I bought my truck and its been off since. The only form of pure audio media I consume are podcasts. I rarely even listen to music.

Around six. I feel like it’s enough but it probably isn’t.

Knipex Cobra 250 pliers cost about 30 euros and are the best pliers money can buy.

I don’t and it doesn’t matter. Now is all there is anyway.

This comment section gave me brain damage.

I don’t think it can be taught. At least not on a video. You just do it at it’ll get easier over time. I’ve been doing it for about 20 years and I went from “this is impossible” to “what even was hard about this” in just a year or so.

Depends more on their biological sex, not what they identify as.