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You are essentially a blob of fat, salt, and nerve endings piloting a bone mech with meat armour.
Yeah it sounds cool but I use the mech to update spreadsheets
My body is a machine for turning the flashes of tiny little lights precisely arranged on a slab of glass into little taps of my thumbs on precise positions on that glass slab.
Same as it ever was.
Source: xkcd
You pass butter
"Nobody belongs anywhere, everyone and thing you know and love WILL die. Let's watch TV."
Oh my god
The meat is not just armor though - a skeleton alone has no capability to move itself, the meat provides the translation between thought and action, while the skeleton is merely a framework upon which the meat rests.
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse."
Apparently something Epictetus used to say, according to Aurelius.
You are a spirit having a physical experience.
Leary or something.
Yes, but all of these are bound by fundamental physical laws. Cause and effect. You are a deterministic machine.
You are a meat mech that operates on congruent biological principles. Therefore, everything you do is de facto "logical".
My pseudo random number generator is shit.
47
Super predictable.
I will need to raise a security ticket.
moved to completed without QA
Reality is not concerned with "logic"
I've yet to see evidence to this effect
difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be believable
The difference between "believable" and "logical" is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.
Have you seen a platypus?
But its so complex, it managed to reach the biggest thing on the night sky and to disappear all other points