I’m sick and tired of the Capitalist religion and all their fanatic believers. The Western right-wing population are the most propagandized and harmful people on Earth.

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Cake day: June 8th, 2023
  • Sims@lemmy.mltoScience@lemmy.ml•What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?
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    15 days ago

    Fascinating article. So life goes: seek energy to run the proton gradient, that drives all higher emerging functions in a hierarchy. I may have missed the method to pump protons out tho?

    Anyway, I think that ‘thinking’ and ‘reasoning’ are just evolved movement. We have sensors and actuators and an ever increasing complexity of signal moving from sensors to actuators through a processing layer that eventually turns into our cognition. For bacteria, there’s a real short way from signal to actuation, but in ginormous life such as us, we delay signals and process them over many layers of complexity, but all signals eventually maps to an action, a movement.

    The world model of a bacterium isn’t big and it likely doesn’t have complexity enough to shape a full spatial sense (only directional based on gradients - taxochemical reaction ?). More complex organisms creates internal representations of sensors/signals in a world model, and senses only those representations, so our core executive cognition never sees anything but highly abstract representations of real signals, never the direct signal itself. It does however accumulate in the cognitive structure and WILL map to 1 or more actions based on it later.

    Like the Author, I think this article creates better understanding of both living systems but also cognition in its simplest binary form - converge or diverge, safety vs exploration, go back or go forward - much like the simple pulsing behavior of slime molds.

  • Sims@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.zip•The AI Great Leap Forward - [Opinion]English
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    30 days ago

    He’s equating his personal view on current affairs with some sinophobic propaganda he learned as a child + modern wikipedia.

    He did not check his assumptions before he wrote this, and that’s not very intelligent and won’t bring about a good analysis. He could at least have taken a look at prolewiki.org or other counter-narrative wikis to compare his old beliefs with reality.

    In fact, he spent more time generating his biased claw-communists images, than fact-checking his beliefs and assumptions.

    He likely doesn’t know the scope of US misinformation/propaganda and how it have influenced his thoughts/values throughout his lifetime…

  • Sims@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•The "In God We Trust" Paradox: Why U.S. Copyright Law is technically illegal.
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    1 month ago

    ‘Weekend’, <50hour workweek, any social lifeline, or ‘rights’ and a thousand of other now normal things were once considered ‘Not realistic’.

    Not saying that op’s angle is more/less realistic, or if it will work, just saying that he’s right that anything looks unrealistic in the mental environment we are in.

    Ideas like this works like investments/powerlaw - most won’t make a dent, but the few that does, goes all the way and compensates richly for the unsuccessful ones. Just like investors, we can’t see which one will be the shooting star in advance, but all together SOME will be the shooting star, and they DO muddle what is seen as ‘realistic’ in any contemporary culture.

    I don’t have enough knowledge of how Merican Christians think, and can’t determine if this glitch will hit the stars for them, but then something else will. All groups have their own world model (Capitalism is just another belief-system) and their own glitches they are able to see and integrate, so maybe op’s angle will hit harder in religious/other groups ? I wouldn’t write it off as quickly.

  • Sims@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•The "In God We Trust" Paradox: Why U.S. Copyright Law is technically illegal.
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    1 month ago

    There are many many dissonant dogmas from the empire of lies, and exposing more of them is good. I don’t think it matters if your focus is the ‘ultimate’ glitch, or not. The fact is that many small creeks form a river, so your glitch are added to the body of ridiculousness we see from the dominant culture in the West, and at some point anyone can see that the emperor didn’t wear any clothes.

    You could continue with glitches such as: Capitalism is incompatible with ‘freedom’, and ‘Democracy’, 100% ‘free markets’ = 100% corruption and hierarchical dominance, or a further endless stream of dissonant stupidity and ‘glitches’ from that Epstein cesspool and their pet ideology. In fact, take ANY Merican cultural/ideological claim, and you’ll find a disturbing ‘glitch’ in the Matrix. It’s all made up!

    Go for it, and when you are ‘done’ with this one, then highlight another one. And then the next. You’ll always have a continues stream of ‘glitches’ and stupidity in the Empire of Lies.