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It’s also floating in liquid.

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Yea, I was gonna say, it’s really wet in there too. But at least it’s got a snug blankie membrane of sorts that does all its local feeling for it, since it couldn’t actually detect any of these things for itself with no nerve endings of its own.

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For a second there I thought you meant feeling as in emotional and was really confused haha

I just imaged the membrane hugging my brain like “don’t worry, I got you, focus on keeping this idiot alive”

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I am amused at the idea that ones brain would be making derogatory comments about itself in the third person.

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It feels everything for us but can’t have feelings of its own. Tragedy. 😔

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If you’re unfamiliar with Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave, you should familiarize yourself.

This shower thought is older than showers!

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Plato’s allegory of the cave is not about what this shower thought it about.

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Yes it absolutely is.

I am sorry you are failing to connect these painfully adjacent dots.

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The allegory of the cave is about people who are under an illusion and reject evidence to the contrary. Hence why it has “allegory” in the name, you know. I can’t really do anything about being told my brain gets no light and no one’s proposing we kill the person who said it, and the point isn’t that we shouldn’t kill them, so it’s not really anywhere near the same.

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yeah I mean I could see not knowing platos cave but boltzman brains are mentioned pretty often in various media including sprinkled regularly in youtube videos. Im surprised someone could avoid it.

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Why? It is just superstitious nonsense from 2500 years ago.

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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

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Showing your age now!

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I’ve come to accept I’m old.

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It actually is not pitch black. And I recall some part of the brain (some gland) needs this light to set our daily cycle.

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Don’t ruin my Zork reference, man.

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The audacity!

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These fuckin people

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Your eyes are a part of your brain

nope

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Your eyes are a part of your brain.

Doesn’t seem to match with my understanding. Got any references for that?

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And tubes. One of the tubes delivers glucose and caffeine.

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