unfortunate_ferret

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Cake day: 2026年2月11日

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  • Hypothetically, if we got to the point that we could simulate the collective synapses of a human brain in real time, that should do it.

    If you simulate fire, does it burn? I don’t think a simulation will do it. I think consciousness is an emergent property, but unlike others here I’m not so sure this property has to emerge from an organic substrate. Organics might just be the cheapest way nature found to do it.

    Problem is, we don’t really understand consciousness itself, and that makes it hard to predict where or how it will show up.



  • my glymphatic system is inverted

    No, it’s not, not without some serious mechanical assistance that doesn’t currently exist because nobody has ever needed their glymphatic system reversed. The reasons are the same as the reasons that osmosis action doesn’t spontaneously “invert” - your glymphatic system works across a concentration gradient, just like osmosis, so to reverse that you need external pressure to force the compounds out of your blood and back into your brain. Not happening in your body, I guarantee it.

    You might have sleep apnoea, or you might have some external factor that’s disrupting your sleep, but you should definitely get it checked out by an actual doctor.





  • I just switched to Linux six months ago or so, and I’ve just found out about terminal emulators. I’m using Ghostty at the moment, I like the transparency and tabs and better copy/paste support, but I was looking at Kitty too. Can I solicit opinions on which one is better for what use case? Thanks in advance, kind internet strangers!