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Maroon Auburn!QEUQfdPtTM 03/26/24 (Tue) 15:27:57 No.1165006

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I am terrified

Positively Pinkie 03/26/24 (Tue) 15:48:26 No.1165008

What kind of Gemini Home Entertainment style highjinx are we up for?

Maroon Auburn!QEUQfdPtTM 03/26/24 (Tue) 15:52:38 No.1165009

>>1165008

Step into the light.. The sun is beautiful today

Lance!!*0 03/26/24 (Tue) 16:00:59 No.1165010

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I'm more terrified of the fact that people with PhD's such as Rupert Sheldrake pursue pseudoscientific endeavors. That's one hell of a biologist.

Positively Pinkie 03/26/24 (Tue) 16:18:03 No.1165012

>>1165010
i feel that's also a rabbithole for theoretical physics.

Zeke Roa 03/26/24 (Tue) 20:51:33 No.1165018

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This >>1165010

Considering the top search results for "sun conscious" lead to IFL Science and other sites of questionable scientific authority, I think it's probably safe to assume that no, that gigantic ball of plasma is most likely not conscious, just like LaMDA.

EMF Scootaloo!G4/R19.jIE 03/26/24 (Tue) 20:59:14 No.1165019

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>>1165006
One guy.

>>1165008
>>1165009
Honestly upon looking it up this doesn't even seem that bad as far as horror scenarios go.

You still get to be alive, and you still get to be sapient and have a memory. So you're alive and you're still you. You're just, y'know, also goo now.

Maroon Auburn!QEUQfdPtTM 03/26/24 (Tue) 21:13:25 No.1165021

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>>1165019

Well the question is are you YOU or are your memories simply stolen by whatever it is that melts you into goo and then takes control of you?

EMF Scootaloo!G4/R19.jIE 03/26/24 (Tue) 21:19:24 No.1165022

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>>1165021
I feel like Occam's razor would dictate that you're still you.

But also it's essentially creepypasta so whatever's spookier is probably true.

Positively Pinkie 03/26/24 (Tue) 21:25:32 No.1165023

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>>1165022
At some point in horror there's indeed the question how much disfigured body horror creatures still maintain their consciousnous.

NoelleHoliday!XMasPNWEiU 03/26/24 (Tue) 21:46:15 No.1165025

PseudoFox 03/31/24 (Sun) 03:41:37 No.1165294

Influential U.S. science fiction author Ross Rocklynne wrote a story about a sentient group of stars from their point of view called 'Into the Darkness' back in 1940 and otherwise was a part of the 'Golden Age' era of writing alongside Isaac Asimov. Rocklynne also did some other, critically praised things. Reading his story alongside stuff by Asimov and other luminaires such as Harry Bates and Fritz Leiber when I was a little kid influenced me a ton growing up.

That piece is hard to find online, but in print there's details here: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41277

Part of it seems to be here: https://royallib.com/read/Rocklynne_Ross/people_of_the_darkness.html#0

yeahthatholyhorsemaybe 03/31/24 (Sun) 04:04:55 No.1165295

>>1165006

...just wanted to say that having read alan watts, stories like this amuse me. it is only from our western perspective that ideas like this may seem bizarre