Soggy

joined 2 years ago
[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

If it helps, tell your boss I hate them and will stop going somewhere rather than install another fucking app.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm sure it made the rest of the plan more affordable, it was twenty years ago I don't remember. That one detail was egregious enough to etch in permanently.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It has influence disproportionate to the number of followers. (But Hinduism and Buddhism should be ahead of it anyway, this is a very Western perspective)

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Irrelevant, unless you think the body is an essential element of a being.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well I'm pretty sure it's impossible technology so it's not upending anything, but mostly I just don't think the "self" is as rare and precious as a bunch of people seem to.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Are both versions of you equally “you?”

Yes and then immediately no. Their experiences diverge from that point to become two distinct people with a shared past. It's entirely irrelevant which body is "original". Continuous stream of consciousness is overrated.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but he can't taint the sun.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I prefer "naughties"

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It would think it’s you, but it’s not.

Cogito, ergo sum. I am not the collection of atoms I was when I was born and I am not a continuity of consciousness from before the last time I slept.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What if they're in a coma for long enough that all of their cells are replaced? It's all dancing around the question: assuming there is no soul, what is the self?

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (12 children)

The body is dying but the conscousness continues, that's where the self is anyway. Done right it would be like falling asleep on the train and waking up somewhere else but legally fraught.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My first plan cost me 25 cents to send or receive and you bet your ass I collected that from any friend that texted me stupid shit.

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