Me irl

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Winter_Oven@piefed.social · 17 pts · 71d (1 reply)

do human brains have a recursion depth limit?

Linguistically: yes, and it's typically attributed to a working memory constraint.

otacon239@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 71d (1 reply)

The quotes make it feel like it’s being sarcastic about the suggestion.

Because those aren't the literal brain, vat, etc.; those are the representations of those things in the brain's conscience, hence the quotes.

It's the same concept as The Treachery of Images, "This is not a pipe"

antsu@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 71d (1 reply)

Aren't we all?

Thinking about it? Sometimes.

Me: please brain I just wanna get stuff done today.
Brain: no, now go find that one part of Old World Blues where you talk to your brain.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 71d (1 reply)

What is the human body but an over-engineered vat for our brains?

I'd like to consider myself a rat on a treadmill playing Doom.

But... this is not a brain in a jar (nor a pipe).

At what point does the food in your body become you?

Plato's brain in a jar