Consider where that theory came from.
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It’s not meat, it’s pudding.
Whats kind of weird about this image with priests heads bisected is that the blood is sort of realistic, minus the amount.
The artist would have seen quite a lot of it.
Is it literally electricity? Seems like the mutants with electric powers would be the most realistic, then.
it's electricity among other things. neurons communicate with each other using chemicals but within a single neuron it's electrical.
your heartbeat is electrical too
Is it literally electricity?
No, it's not. It's cascades of ion potentials. That's why it's slow and touch-sensitive.
how is ionic potential not electricity? what is it if not that? I thought ion potential was just how electrically charged the thing is
Initial state: all potential pumped up.
Signal flow state: first pump releaes, changing potential, which triggers the next pump to release.
You can think of this like a series of condenser plus transistor discharging one after another.
While usual electricity is just one potential-difference.
“We’ve probed several of them, they’re meat all the way through”
Don’t these guys have potato with electricity inside?
What the hell was the original context for this painting? 😆
that's Byzantine artwork for ya! here's a post from an art history community that discusses the painting. quite interesting! https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtHistory/comments/e1h0sy/jesus_and_felix_regula_exuperantius_1506/
Wow what a way to depict them! Also, "cephalophoric" sounds like the saints are part octopus 😅
The cephalophoric saints Felix, Regula and Exuperantius (patron saints of Zurich), holding their attributes, their severed heads, before Christ, 1506, Zürcher Veilchenmeister. (Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich)
The idea behind such a depiction is that those saints were killed when their heads were cut off. So it was decided that they would be honoured to be traditionally presented like that in painting. There are no less than 134 such saints.
It's an illuminated manuscript depicting Saint Denis and Saint Piatus, said to have been decapitated for their beliefs.
Statue of St Denis
Edit: comes from this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livre_d%27images_de_madame_Marie
No evil like christian holyness or something.
Maybe they’re martyrs? Sometimes they’re depicted as walking around with their fatal injuries.
They are actually comparing their new hairdo.
I have a theory that initially a lot of these works were made for a laugh, like an old timey joke picture, and over time people kept adding meaning to them.
Like someone makes a rude and crude painting of a giant cock with eyes, makes people laugh, and a few thousand years later some bloke in a trilby goes "hmm, yes, it seems these people worshipped a penis god at this point in time. Also it clearly reads a prophecy, 'deez nuts'. Fascinating."
"Deez", likely a derivative of Latin "Deus". They were clearly a god fearing people!
My thoughts exactly. All I can think of is that religious devotion requires giving away your brain??? It really is a bizarre illustration
Beat me to it. Thanks for posting it!
You are essentially a blob of fat, salt, and nerve endings piloting a bone mech with meat armour.
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse."
Apparently something Epictetus used to say, according to Aurelius.
You are a spirit having a physical experience.
Leary or something.
But its so complex, it managed to reach the biggest thing on the night sky and to disappear all other points
The meat is not just armor though - a skeleton alone has no capability to move itself, the meat provides the translation between thought and action, while the skeleton is merely a framework upon which the meat rests.
Yes, but all of these are bound by fundamental physical laws. Cause and effect. You are a deterministic machine.
You are a meat mech that operates on congruent biological principles. Therefore, everything you do is de facto "logical".
My pseudo random number generator is shit.
47
Super predictable.
I will need to raise a security ticket.
47
I will need to raise a security ticket
moved to completed without QA
Reality is not concerned with "logic"
I've yet to see evidence to this effect
Have you seen a platypus?
difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be believable
The difference between "believable" and "logical" is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.
Yeah it sounds cool but I use the mech to update spreadsheets
You pass butter
"Nobody belongs anywhere, everyone and thing you know and love WILL die. Let's watch TV."
Oh my god
My body is a machine for turning the flashes of tiny little lights precisely arranged on a slab of glass into little taps of my thumbs on precise positions on that glass slab.
Mm electrified head jello :3