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17:49 Relatable. Ever since I was a small child I've had an obsession with history. When I used to come home from elementary school, as my friends and classmates turned on the TV to watch cartoons, I turned on the history channel and watched documentaries. I spent hours reading wikipedia articles about ancient cities and people and how they lived. Apart from a handful of friends, I was always an outsider, I didn't understand the jokes other children made or understood their games, because I didn't ever watch the cartoons they did or listen to the children's CD's they did. Other kids would ask me questions during history class and I would just about always know the answer, and they would laugh. I would sometimes correct the teacher, and they would laugh. I never gave up on that obsession though, history books, podcasts, period dramas and documentaries are still ever-present in my life, and also, understanding the past has given me the gift of understanding the present. As I'm getting closer to 30 now, I also see that all of the knowledge I absorbed, and my ability to obsess over things with an iron focus are in fact unique strengths, and I could not imagine the person I would be without them. I feel like everyone is different in some way, and especially when we are young, we want to fit in. For some people it's just harder to hide the thing that makes us stand out. But then, standing out is not necessarily a bad thing, like, maybe you didn't turn out to be the person you were expected to be, but if you had, you wouldn't be you, would you?
well the main difference between a human and a earth microchip robot is that a human soul is infinite, and a robot is just a complex finite thing, seeming a lot smarter than an average human at first. you could call humans also corporate product, of a more advanced being (no i dont meant the dumb chinese psy ninjas, i mean like a real alien artificer).. blade runner is just kiddie fodder aka food for thought movie, it aint that deep
This is the issue with evolution; people give the concept a metaphysical meaning. If people were consistant on their views they would see that evolution is either nothing to be afraid of since it has no will since is purely materialistic or that if there is a will behind evolution then the supernatural does exists
This story is named Humanity Lost, but this is exactly how the most powerful parts of humanity (eg the US, Russia, European Union, China, and even the regional powers like Saudia Arabia and Brazil, and honestly even more societies, though there exists a lotta diversity of crimes and many, many differences between and even within these societies) already act towards weaker societies - brutally colonizing them, taking as much from them as possible, and in the most extreme just wiping them out. Honestly, this is a cruel path that humanity 100% could take (I do think humanity will not, however - we can still stop a future like this, and build a heroic future instead by ending the systems already doing this right now).
In regards to earth biology only 2 legged winged dragons or no winged no legged snake dragons make sense. As like all animals have evolved with 4 legs and 2 turned into wings. The no snaky ones just wouldnt fly
The creature in the thumbnail is a Neonid. I created it in Spore around 2010 or so. Not 100% sure of the date. It was right after it came out. I wonder if those creatures got put into the game for everyone. I stopped playing about a year later. Or perhaps it is convergent evolution lol. Very cool if I do say so myself.
1) "True Dragons" in the creator's fanfiction should actually be the Eastern-based Dragons, the Wyrms & the Wyverns as these 3 Dragons are closer in description to the Earliest Recorded Mentions of Dragons in Real Life. Myths of Dragons IRL were inspired largely by Snakes, making Eastern-based Dragons, Wyrms & Wyverns, the "True Dragons". The 4-legged, Fire-breathing, Winged Western creatures came later. 2) If you are gonna diverge too much from real-world myths by including Griffins as dragons, you might as well not even call any of the bizarre creatures in the list "Dragons".
The one SCP that terrifies me most is the Nerf Gun that deletes anything it shoots. Straight up removes that thing from existence, with no one but the shooter remembering that it ever existed
It's very likely that consciousness is non-computable or non-algorithmic, while our machines no matter how complex (even neural networks) are all computers that fundamentally compute and nothing more.
I have a specific memory of laying on the floor in the hallway with my friend, painstakingly decoding the note in the dragon language in the back of Dragonology
I've also heard that fear of dragonic imagery isn't just cultural or anthropological- it's instinctive, and more primal, leftover from when our smaller rodent-like mammalian ancestors had snakes and birds to learn to fear, and that's why dragons across so many cultures all share traits of snakes and birds.
If you found yourself identifying with this video and don't know why... you are probably autistic, and if you are autistic and didn't realise that's why you connect, your welcome, I think?
Although a sad story, I highly recommend you read SCP-1762 Here Be/Were Dragons. I'm not gonna say much, but it is *pretty* nostalgic, especially for a dragon fan. But I believe your conclusion is very reminiscent of a closure that I may have needed after reading this sco article
Even normal Animals aren't clearly categorized. The categories are just made up, to make it easier to talk about groups of different animals. All of this is based on arbitrary chosen attributes that connect them. It's just that science came to a consense about them. They also get reevaluated ever so often. So you can make up any categorization you want. I'm pretty sure the eastern dragons only got their dragon category as people who only knew western dragons communicated with people who knew eastern ones. "We have (insert original word for eastern dragon in their language) here, they are scaly flying creatures." "Oh, that sounds like a dragon"... Both having vastly different images in their head, but the name sticked. Since there isn't an universally agreed upon categorization there is no right or wrong, just more or less popular ones. E.g. for me everything reptile with wings is a dragon and if I think of a typical dragon it's the 4 legged one with a single pair of wings. If you want to make a definitive one, you'd need to convince everybody to agree with it which sounds impossible.
I noticed something: the higher dimensions you could see ONLY in the lower level of dimensions like the 2D can see in straight line so that means you see in 1D and also the 1D you can see in 0d mean you see only points
Ohh why did I click on this. I don't need to see cursed stuff within the first minute but I can tell you that graham was actually created to depict what a person would need to look like to survive a car crash at 100kmh.
Man spent so long talking about how spiders can't really shoot endless webs or do cool skateboard tricks. Yeah you forgot to mention the spider in Webbed has LASER VISION
I'm always so annoyed with the common interpretation of the "does this unit have a soul" question. The crux of the issue isnt whether or not geth have souls, but that they are already intelligent enough at that point to ask the question spontaniously. There is no meaningful answer to the question.
The Turing test is inherently flawed in my opinion. The three things that point to a soul/consciousness, are: 1. If they ask you if they have a soul or if they are alive unprompted. Even if they are programmed to ask those questions, the unprompted question from them points to internal thinking. 2. If they develop any kind of internal system routines that information is flowing through in a sudoloop. That reinforces the idea that they are thinking. 3. Given enough synapses, a running mind can be considered to have a soul. But define a soul. I believe it’s an idea that all the experiences, our emotions, our development of relationships, our thoughts and actions, are used to connect one person with another and instinctively seeing the other person’s soul. So if you are interacting with an AI or a robot and you begin to think of them as a living being, whether it be stranded on a desert island or a chance encounter on the street. Then yes, they have a soul.
OMG i had the same problem and started with the same book!!!! I had different ones from that brand and others but that one is so BEAUTIFUL. Also ERGANON ADAPTATION WAS A CRIME. It was a cool movie but ruined the series so they couldnt adapt the sequels
I was enjoying the video til the bit about the dog. I just can't, it's well made but no thanks I don't need that put on me out of nowhere I'm trying to fall asleep here.
I think people back then confused dinosaur bones with dragons I can see them stumbling across Dino bones and not knowing what is just like how angels are depicted as humans with wings but we all know that’s not what they really look like.
