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WCDT Strips 3251 to 3255 (27th June to 1st July 2016)
Morituri:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 01 Jul 2016, 09:24 ---Also, getting what we (thought we) want(ed) does not always make us happier, at least not for long; a lot of humans, probably most of us, seem to be wired to never be really content with what we have, always desiring more. Once we get something, we move our goalposts. It's one of the more messed-up aspects of our cognition, IMO, that we can't ever just be happy with what we've got.
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I think that might be a basic feature of consciousness, actually. Conscious beings are always looking for the next thing. No matter how powerfully we can affect our environment, no matter how easy we can make our own survival, no matter how much we discover we can do - we become diminished (and usually unhappy) unless we are always seeking to do, or become, or get, or learn, or communicate, or to love or to be loved, more than we are.
Certainly most of the work of modeling real consciousness - for me anyway - has come down to trying to understand the mechanisms behind motivation and desire - where does that come from and how does it work? And the only place it seems possible for it to arise is in the context of thinking about, anticipating, the future - to whatever extent the system is capable - in relationship to maximizing the conditions under which the organism thrives.
Our brains in fact are organized in terms of those desires, plans, and aspirations and thinking about the future. We don't even notice things that aren't 'understood' to be related to our futures. We have such a detailed representation of the world in our heads, we perceive so much of what our senses take in, precisely because humans are in the business of making a HUGE range of details relevant to our futures. If we couldn't ever find a way in which rocks were relevant to us - from not tripping over them, to looking for 'better' stuff among them, to picking them up and throwing them - we'd never even notice that rocks existed.
Morituri:
Wow. Three in a row. I'll quit now, I promise.
At the risk of straying back on topic....
Today's comic brings up a question. Bubbles clearly has no idea what fuck is actually like. Who should enlighten her, and how?
Storel:
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 30 Jun 2016, 23:19 ---I couldn't help but read bubbles' last line in James Earl Jones's voice.
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I imagined hearing it in Worf's voice. Hilarious!
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: Storel on 01 Jul 2016, 19:13 ---
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 30 Jun 2016, 23:19 ---I couldn't help but read bubbles' last line in James Earl Jones's voice.
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I imagined hearing it in Worf's voice. Hilarious!
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Morgan Freeman, here.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 01 Jul 2016, 19:17 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 01 Jul 2016, 19:13 ---
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 30 Jun 2016, 23:19 ---I couldn't help but read bubbles' last line in James Earl Jones's voice.
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I imagined hearing it in Worf's voice. Hilarious!
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Morgan Freeman, here.
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All deep, solemn, male voices. Interesting.
Edit: Now, for fun, imagine Yoda's voice saying "Indeed... like fuck, it is."
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