As far as I know, the purpose of yawning isn’t really understood, but it’s present in nearly all land vertebrae. Maybe it’s a universal bug in the breathing animation code.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•3 months ago

    i agree with everything you said.

    are we living in the moment, or are we just remembering right now?

    when you die, your brain does a bunch of crazy shit. it doesn’t take more than a few psychadelics to see that. perception changes. perspective changes. you realize that you’re just part of the One Big Soul.

    and then you realize it’s really dusty and you’re poor again.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•3 months ago

      You could be a brain in a vat - what you experience in that case would effectively be a simulation running on wetware instead of silica. But that still wouldn’t change the fact that what you’re experiencing is happening right now from your subjective point of view. Even if this were just a pre-recorded memory from someone else, it still feels like the present moment to you.

      Everything you perceive could be smoke and mirrors, completely fake - but the one thing that remains undeniably true is that it feels like something, not nothing. Even a psychedelic trip, as bizarre or unreal as it may seem, is still just another appearance in consciousness. And for that to happen, your biological body needs to be alive. If you’re dead, there’s nothing left that could have - or host - that experience.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 months ago

          i see your opinion (it’s a small world; voting is pretty clear). do you care to argue for it, or are you happy with your downvote?

              • @[email protected]English
                2•3 months ago

                we’re got hardware. that’s the stuff we write hardware software and firmware on.

                what the heck is “wetware”? what’s that tech? it’s new to me.

                • @[email protected]English
                  4•3 months ago

                  I just told you. I’m speaking of the human brain.

                  Wetware is a term drawn from the computer-related idea of hardware or software, but applied to biological life forms.

                  The prefix “wet” is a reference to the water found in living creatures. Wetware is used to describe the elements equivalent to hardware and software found in a person, especially the central nervous system (CNS) and the human mind.

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