Counterpoint

1. Our present domination global culture is biased to place a higher value on brain vs. body function— see eg someone “declared ‘brain-dead’”… … or in a coma.

2. People w damaged or missing body parts will say that they no longer feel like themselves

lol i know

thank you for the kind reply

aaannnd art is in the eye of the beholder so idk not necessarily for the OP needing to read it

moreso for those who (as w many of us) hv poor/low sense of self-value/self-resilience

i just hear that a lot from tech nerds “my body is stupid/irrational” etc

and it’s like “or maybe we need better models to listen to & make sense of it”

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No, I’m not on social media anymore.

That’s called a massive dose of opiates. You are highly unlikely to reboot after complete shutdown, so it’s generally not recommended.

Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.

Indeed. Sometimes we get injured and don’t notice it. Other times we feel pain and there is no injury. We’re attempting to make sense of experience by applying concepts to what we feel. It’s the reason why chronic pain management using drugs is unsustainable.

Oh and I guess sometimes a virus or a tumor invades the brain and eats up most of it.

Rabies being the most common I think

I like to swallow others dna

In other words I’m a mistake of evolution.

(Jk all the other shit humanity has done to destroy the planet and allow 100 people to have half of the world’s wealth are the mistakes.)

Fuck yeah spread it

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We’re just a clump of stuff that is constantly fighting against the entropy of the universe, man.

Walk vs driving

MBIC my commute is 45 mins one-way

Why is this formatted like a bad Facebook post from a middle aged mom that recently bought into a pyramid scheme disguised as a fitness program?

Edit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Greger

Ok, so not a pyramid scheme. But the book is critizised for overstating the benefits of veganism and the dangers of other foods. Take with a HUGE grain of salt if you want to dive into this.

I think I’d rather just go with death if that’s my only two options.

And leaks a lot

I’ve managed to outlive many computer systems because they can’t self mend.

Thanks!

both of you PLEASE put a CW warning on that

not everyone has huge screens so we tap it and then ::vomit::

CW morbid human nervous system anatomy, decoupled from rest of body

I dunno. Organic space suit implies that the nervous system could survive independently of it. But it can’t.

You need to get blood to the brain, so you need a heart. That blood needs oxygen so you need lungs. You need some way of getting energy to these systems, so you need a digestive system, which starts at your lips and forms a frighteningly long tunnel that ends at your butt. Now you’re introducing weird shit to your blood beyond just oxygen so you need a few systems to keep the blood clean. Now you’ve got all kinds of different needs and so you have other orgasms to keep those organs alive and functioning. Oh and because your blood is also alive, it dies and you need a way to make more. Quite efficiently this is done in your bones. But for the sake of argument let’s say this is possible without the bones themselves.

I’d say the space suit starts at the immune system, and ends at the skin, which is really an extension of the immune system but there’s muscle in there. You could, theoretically, survive without any muscle or skin, or even an immune system in a clean environment, as long as you had a way to obtain calories and Oxygen independently. Though going to the bathroom would be hard.

My vessel is an ecosystem… you could really get use to saying that lol

This opinion is beautiful and I will now choose to follow it. It almost makes one feel a kinship with the eyelash mites.