Prostate says: Penis - Help - I'm over 50 and being crushed - You can't get your special soup until Bladder gets Urethra!
Re: [2011-Sep-2] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:46 pm
by ChaoticBrain
You are not a unified life form. You're just composed of billions of tiny parliaments. Therefore, you are only an arbiter.
Am I the only one confused about who the "you" is? Obviously, you don't exist, since what you consider you is just an incomprehensibly small and complex bureaucracy. And yet, despite not existing, you somehow have the job of maintaining diplomacy amongst yourself? How can something nonexistent have a role in reality?
Prostate says: Penis - Help - I'm over 50 and being crushed - You can't get your special soup until Bladder gets Urethra!
When I first saw this, I got excited and thought that we had finally had a new outbreak of spambots posting with broken English. I was mistaken.
Re: [2011-Sep-2] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:45 pm
by Quintushalls
No, no, no, he is wrong! We are composed of not tiny life forms, but tiny subatomic particles whose actions are per-destined by chain reactions from the Big Bang. All your decisions have been made for you in multiple outcomes based on super-position. Choices are only changed upon observation by James Ashby masturbating to you in rainbow suspenders while you sleep.
Re: [2011-Sep-2] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:38 pm
by ChaoticBrain
Quintushalls wrote:No, no, no, he is wrong! We are composed of not tiny life forms, but tiny subatomic particles whose actions are per-destined by chain reactions from the Big Bang. All your decisions have been made for you in multiple outcomes based on super-position. Choices are only changed upon observation by James Ashby masturbating to you in rainbow suspenders while you sleep.
Except if his choices of when and where to engage in indecent exposure are predetermined, does that not mean that your own choices are still fixed?
Re: [2011-Sep-2] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:43 pm
by Lethal Interjection
This was a surprislingly good science comic from Zach.
I find the formula is usually a number of panels of science setup and the final one (sometimes more) with a mediocre punchline.
Only this one had a quite funny punchline.
Re: [2011-Sep-02] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:30 pm
by n8
Did anybody else hear "Penis does what penis wants!" in James Ashby's voice?
Re: [2011-Sep-2] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:58 am
by Quintushalls
n8 wrote:Did anybody else hear "Penis does what penis wants!" in James Ashby's voice?
ChaoticBrain wrote:Except if his choices of when and where to engage in indecent exposure are predetermined, does that not mean that your own choices are still fixed?
"Penis does what penis wants!" is the next SMBC meme.
Re: [2011-Sep-02] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:21 pm
by 3.14159265...
Zach, have you read "The Mind's I" by Dennet and hofstadter?
Re: [2011-Sep-02] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:16 am
by Eisbreaker
I have that one stashed on my hard drive. Would you recommend it?
Re: [2011-Sep-02] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:27 pm
by 3.14159265...
I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU
Re: [2011-Sep-02] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:36 pm
by Eisbreaker
Same here. I was talking to myself. How rude of you.
Re: [2011-Sep-02] Unified Life Form?
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:52 am
by Edminster
Eisbreaker wrote:I have that one stashed on my hard drive. Would you recommend it?
Sorry to eavesdrop, but I can't help but overhear. I really do recommend it, if you like thinking about thought and perception. Also good (and I've already given away my copy to someone else on the forum) is Godel Escher Bach, by Hofstadter.