Asklemmy

Most frequent occurence is the mode. Most ppl have 10. The median would be less than ten, while the mean average is skewed down, I would think, by some people losing fingers as the grow. Having extra fingers is pretty rare. So the mean might be 9.95 fingers, just to toss a number out.

If you head south from Detroit the first foreign country you’ll hit is Canada.

There's also Angle Inlet, Minnesota which is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel. To travel to Angle Inlet by road from other parts of Minnesota, or from anywhere in the United States, requires driving through Manitoba, Canada. It's a really weird border.

I have heard that this is more true for some people in Tijuana.

Wait. Please explain. How is DNA inside me, a verifiable human, not human?

Both trees?

Is it all humans or just those humans with two X chromosomes? Relevant video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw

Also in this video, we can see female cat's stripes in their fur color.

Along those same lines, we're all blind literally around half the time we're awake. Our optic processing system can't keep up with the input as our eyes flit from thing to thing, so we don't see anything while they move. And they're moving constantly, even if we're not aware of it, because only the fovea in the center of the retina has a high enough density of receptors to see details, and also because of sensory fatigue from prolonged static stimulus. In short, we have a tiny field of detailed vision that's not even working much of the time. That field of vision that feels like a 4K video feed into the mind is a complete lie.

Like the way our subjective experience feels like a continuous, integrated mind fully in control of itself, but in reality, consciousness dips out a couple of times every minute while the brain attends to sensory input.

Even weirder, the conscious mind might not even exist, except as an illusory, emergent phenomenon of sensory experience and memory. There isn't a place in the brain where it 'lives', no part that's only ever active when we're conscious.

I think my AI has a TV problem

The first time I took mushrooms it had been after reading about this kind of thing for about a week.

I recall reading about a man who was effectively blind but his eyes worked fine. What didn't work fine was the part of his brain that interpreted what his eyes saw. So he just saw smeary streaks of light.

It's kind of like Linux without its V4L2 system for interpreting video capture devices. It can't actually see video without it.

Me and my alters in my system completely agree. They can and have experience reality differently.

Yeah, this one took me a while to wrap my head around and intuitively “get it”. I first learned it was true from that mythbusters episode where they correct their past mistakes… and even they had thought that two cars hitting head on would receive the same energy as hitting a stationary wall at the speed of the sum of their speeds. They were corrected in letters written to them, and then they experimentally verified it.

And even seeing the experimental verification, it still took me a while to really get it. The opposite speeds cancel out, making you go from your speed to zero. Same as if you hit a brick wall at that speed.

Let’s say the two cars are going 50 mph (kph, whatever unit you want). 50-50=0. You experience the same as hitting the brick wall. It’s the difference between initial speed and final speed that matters, not the sum of their speeds.

This phenomenon is known as Galilean invariance (or Galilean relativity). Yep, as well as all the astronomical shit, the same Galileo was also the first to describe this.

I love your username, btw. No single character on TV has ever given me greater joy from facial expression alone, than her