how can I have good long time memory while having zero short memory
Sometimes when people have short-term or working memory issues, the brain over-relies on long-term memory to compensate.
how can I have good long time memory while having zero short memory
Sometimes when people have short-term or working memory issues, the brain over-relies on long-term memory to compensate.
A vast patchwork of incredibly different lifeways that you can flee to whenever then taxman and his goons come round.
nothing gets out of your brain on its own, except heat.
I heard a recording of a song made by reading a brain that was thinking that song. It was far from perfect, but you could tell which song it was. I’m no neuroscientist, but if that information can already be plucked from a brain, surely that’s proof that reconstructing thoughts is possible to some degree?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neuroscientist-pink-floyd-music-brain-activity
If it’s a nation state, it’s already not a democracy.
The idea that choosing which particular rich people sit in a fancy building is somehow democracy is quite funny.
A whimsical hat for daleks
Free will.
It’s hard to accept, but free will is just not compatible with reality. It’s like geocentrism. It seems obvious on its face because of our limited perspective, but nothing else in the universe makes sense if it’s true. We live in a mechanistic universe and cause and effect doesn’t suddenly stop when the atoms are part of a human.
I freaked out for about a week once I came to realize how much of our society is based on a scientific impossibility. Redesigning justice, ethics, healthcare, the very concept of blame, etc. to account for this is a daunting fucking prospect.
Don’t Do What Donny Don’t Does!