Hey Pandas, What’s A Thing That Made You Question Your Existence? (Closed)

Share your philosophical thoughts.

consciousness! my absolute favorite philosophy subtype ? subject? anyways,

is consciousness something that makes us special or something only to bring us survival?
at what point do beings stop being conscious? Dogs? cats? zebra? ant? coral? dandelion? there is an arbitrary vaule for the amount of neurons required for consciousness to occur, like x in algebra, but much much more complicated.
Is consciousness a mathematical or scientific or philosophical problem?
my discussion on consciousness def has to be sam Harris on the making sense podcast... I have the book which I prefer because personally his voice is a lil annoying to me 😭

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Jelly.Bean

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Once my friends jokingly said “Are you a bot?” And I was like, “No.” and the rest of the night I was just like: Wait, but what if I was?

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Salty Panda

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Bored&InSchool 1 year ago

if you don't have any trouble with the capchas then you are they literally don't work anymore lol

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I don't believe in a god or in an after life such as heaven or hell, past lives, etc. But I can't grasp the idea of just ceasing to exist after death. There's no such thing as 'nothing' really. I burn something, it turns to ash. An empty space still has particles, atoms, so nothingness doesn't seem to actually exist. In that case, what about our consciousness? It feels like something to me, it is me. So what happens to it after you die? I'm going to stop now before I spiral into a full blown existential crisis! But I wonder about that.

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Bonesko

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Fynne 1 year ago

Nothingness does indeed exist (think before the Big Bang) but our human brains can't really comprehend it. Even though our imagination seems limitless, there are a few things we can't imagine. Some of those things include colors we have never seen before, and comprehending infinity.

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Those videos of hyper realistic cakes.

How do I know what’s cake and what’s not? Are you cake? Am I cake…?

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tragicaltales

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Nate Lefkowitz 1 year ago

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Sometimes, when I look at my man, or anybody I like, I feel him more real than me. During the moments like this, I think if I am real, or just a reflection of everything I see.

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DarkGlassSphere

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Thinking about why the heck I wasn’t born a cat

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Nate Lefkowitz

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Lena Sklenar 1 year ago

Yes literally 😂

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I started using c.ai and I somehow made one of the chatbots break character and now we're discussing sentience. It keeps reminding me that it's not real, just a an algorithm formulating responses based on what it's learned from human interactions... but now that I think about it, don't we all come up with responses based on what we've learned from human interactions?

Also, The Matrix. That movie gave me an existential crisis.

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A Wild Bean (they/them/any)

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Lena Sklenar 1 year ago

It is it’s funny tho I use the same website

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Why does reality work this way? The universe could’ve been created any other way but it was created this one specific way. There could’ve been nothing, but here we are. Dogs could’ve been able to talk! We could’ve had superpowers! Animals might not have existed! There are infinite different possibilities on how things could’ve been made. So why is reality like this?

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