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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That is what people sound like that have taken too many shrooms. Comes a bit too close to newage bullshit. "Life is the universe evolving to experience itself through you" and bullshit like that.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You sound like a sour lemon. I'd rather hang out with a hippie that thinks the universe is conscious than someone who slaps a paper tiger license to their low originality threshold posts. Just sayin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sour lemons are tasty, dunno what your problem is 🤷 I wouldn't want to hang out with some rando called "balloon" from the internet either. Just sayin.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to be a troll, right?.....right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone insulted you, what kind of response would you give (if any)?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I'd ask their rationale, of course. I don't see your point though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe you haven't taken enough shrooms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you giving out a license for all your posts? Are you following up on the usage or is it more of a symbolic act?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Seems like the actions of a person who took too much acid and warped their own reality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll probably determine if it's symbolic when it turns up in some commercial AI.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's cool.

Just don't go thinking it means anything other than nature is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just think there are better ways to say nature is awesome without adding mystics, new age stuff, or fantastical expressions to it. Then it starts turning into non-science.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like those better ways too, but I'm me and you're you. I think the vulgarisation like in the op are good and useful as well. We're not talking about Deepak Chopra here, just a little mycological poetry.

I would use the word "special" rather than mystical, but the awesomeness of reality can often feel mystical. I think it's ok to play with that as long as you aren't making any serious claims, like we should order our social structure around fungi deity or something

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I feel exactly the same way as how you described it. I think the quote from OP about the universe experiencing itself actually originated from Carl Sagan, who is as scientific and atheistic as you could ask for. It's just a play on words.

And then you have the likes of Deepak Chopra, who is the most disingenuous woowoo-talking charlatan in existence. If he said something like that, he would mean it literally.