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I'm literally a thinking lump of fat (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (9 children)

The brain is not a "lump of fat". If you desiccate the brain, most of what's left are lipids, yes, but at that point you are not conscious anymore. The brain is a mix of proteins, carbohydrates, water and fat.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 days ago (12 children)

You're an electrified hunk of fat piloting a meat-covered skeleton riding on a damp rock that's hurling through space and time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I enjoy Marcus Aurelius paraphrasing Epctetus...

"You are a little soul bearing about a corpse."

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (3 children)

A CPU is just a rock we hit with magic lightning...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And inscribed with runes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Well yes, it's the lightning that makes the inscription.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a lot of water and ions (IONS!) besides that lump of fat.

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