Board 8 > Anyone else ever find it weird how little control you have over your body?

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Like, I always think about how I have no control over the cells in my body. It's like i'm the dude on the steering wheel while everyone else does their own thing to keep the machine running properly.

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It would cause so many problems for a human being to have to consciously make sure their heart is beating

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I've always been amazed at how MUCH control I have over my body.

Like I can move my dick without touching it and I don't even KNOW how I did it. You just do.

I know it's not a lot in actuality but damn it feels weird.

I want the power to flex my ballsack.

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I think it's weird too man.

Not saying we should be able to control our bodies like we do our limbs and stuff, but it would be nice to have a program or something to use. Metabolism could be 1000 times more efficient.

Do you know what's scarier

how little we control our minds.

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meisnewbie posted...
Do you know what's scarier

how little we control our minds.

you know what's really comforting, everything in the universe is a figment of my imagination so yall don't worry I got this

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I entered this topic thinking there would be a funny anecdote about someone pooping themselves.

I am leaving disappointed.

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Horror ensues when you realize you're not controlling anything in your body - it's controlling you. People are like anthills, nothing more than the sum of thousands of individual cells working to support it.

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you know what's really comforting, everything in the universe is a figment of my imagination so yall don't worry I got this

what am I doing right now

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VincentLauw posted...
what am I doing right now

Posting on GameFAQs.

(What'd I win?)

And yeah, file me under the "I'm amazed how much control I have over my body" camp.

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you know whats crazy

how did I figure out how to jerk off when I was 13 with no real knowledge of anything

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I figured it out much earlier than that

the weird thing for me is that I didn't question it when it started shooting stuff out at the end...it just seemed perfectly normal even though it hadn't been doing that for years beforehand...

Takfloyd_mkII__ posted...
Horror ensues when you realize you're not controlling anything in your body - it's controlling you. People are like anthills, nothing more than the sum of thousands of individual cells working to support it.

Like I care ! The fact that I,m typing this without having to consciously think about it is awesome.

My cells are doing a pretty awesome job !

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Blairville posted...
I want the power to flex my ballsack.

Um, I can flex my ballsack. I figured that was normal.

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Takfloyd_mkII__ posted...
Horror ensues when you realize you're not controlling anything in your body - it's controlling you. People are like anthills, nothing more than the sum of thousands of individual cells working to support it.

Yeah, totally, man. That's why we are still supporting ourselves by hunting animals and gathering fruit... Oh wait.

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Uh.

How is that a retort of what he said, Vlado?
I don't think people are anthills, either, but neither are any animals.

By being above animals, who aren't even anthills themselves, we clearly aren't anthills, either.

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people being "above animals" is a pretty bold statement

I felt that your argument was trying to say that hunting animals and gathering fruit was animal-like, and therefore, anthill-like.

Sarcastically.

Also a factualy correct one, LW.

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Well, above doesn't actually refer to anything, so I wouldn't say that statement is factually correct by any means.

If you mean, more intelligent and creative, then yes.

Vlado - we aren't really above animals, we (you) are just deluded enough to think that we are. We still act on impulse, just like an animal, but only at a more fabric level. You may think you have a "choice" but what truly brought you to your decision isn't really something you distinctively chose.

You are merely a product of nature, so don't go thinking that you are truly the hands behind the puppet. You are still just A PUPPPPPPEEEEEETTT!!!

technological supremacy is really the only thing that removes humans from apes, we're not a very sophisticated species at all in the grand scheme of things. we can figure out amazing things like how to build a machine that will take us into space but we can't fix our monkeyish behavior at all, it's kind of hilarious how our technology is improving at such a ridiculous pace these days but we still act the same as we have for thousands of years

it's kind of hilarious how our technology is improving at such a ridiculous pace these days but we still act the same as we have for thousands of years

Going on a tangent here, but it's also kind of funny how our current technology should theoretically be primitive compared to technology in several hundred years!

EDIT: By primitive, I mean like comparing the first printing presses to other forms of publishing "printed" works (e-books, websites, etc.) that can be viewed on a smartphone.

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Liquid Wind posted...
technological supremacy is really the only thing that removes humans from apes, we're not a very sophisticated species at all in the grand scheme of things. we can figure out amazing things like how to build a machine that will take us into space but we can't fix our monkeyish behavior at all, it's kind of hilarious how our technology is improving at such a ridiculous pace these days but we still act the same as we have for thousands of years

I dunno, the manner era in Victorian England took a real stab at fixing monkeyish behavior. I think that shows that we could modify and inhibit our behavior if we wanted to. The most recent era has been more about cutting loose--don't waste mental energy on modifying your behavior, do what feels right to you; as long as you're happy and productive at work.

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Even if we can inhibit our aggressive, tribal impulses, they're still a part of us. They were useful in the past, and now we are stuck with them. It's not easy to fight them most of the time.

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And there are plenty of people who fail to inhibit them and act out. I'd say most acts of violence come from that.

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And yeah, our brain is subject to it too. Optical illusions are an easy way to see how our brain is functioning involuntarily a lot of the time. It's hard-wired to take the sensory information available to us and put it together in ways that should be useful to us, even when it results in a distorted perception of reality.

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People like Liquid Wind are less about human's still having impulses and behavioral patterns, and instead is trying to parrot the beliefs of his favorite JRPG villain by trying to let everyone he knows know that humans are smelly, primitive apes and we all suck and should be ashamed of ourselves.

Humans are animals. Humans behave like animals do and should. This is not a negative statement.

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kefka is the only good JRPG villain and he has no real system of beliefs, he just destroys things because it amuses him. never said it was particularly terrible here either, just that humans are not "above" animals, we're consistent with animals for the most part outside of our technology and socialization(which breaks even at best, civilization frequently forces good people into doing bad things)

Well the world would definitely be in better health if we acted more like every other animal.

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The Real Truth posted...
Well the world would definitely be in better health if we acted more like every other animal.

No.

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3DSRage posted...
Vlado - we aren't really above animals, we (you) are just deluded enough to think that we are. We still act on impulse, just like an animal, but only at a more fabric level. You may think you have a "choice" but what truly brought you to your decision isn't really something you distinctively chose.

You are merely a product of nature, so don't go thinking that you are truly the hands behind the puppet. You are still just A PUPPPPPPEEEEEETTT!!!

We control nature to a great extent. That says enough.

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http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2356#comic

but yes, it is a nice thought. even more scary is that the very actions we think we have conscious will over are apparently triggered .4 milliseconds before we think the thoughts (or something along those lines).

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SovietOmega posted...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2356#comic

You do realise that that comic is meant to be humourous, correct?

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It just means our "conscious will" is really a reaction to the decisions we really made.

It doesn't mean we're robots or something. Just that we have desires we will act upon no matter what.

Vlado, what does it mean to you that we are "above animals". Are you just saying that we're the most intelligent?

Animal intelligence is on a spectrum. Just because we are on one end of it, doesn't mean we aren't part of the spectrum.

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Vlado posted...
SovietOmega posted...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2356#comic

You do realise that that comic is meant to be humourous, correct?

It being humorous doesn't invalidate anything it's saying.

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Vlado posted...
SovietOmega posted...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2356#comic

You do realise that that comic is meant to be humourous, correct?

it fit the theme of the topic? what does the level of humor involved have to do with anything?

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Sure, you can take it as a spectrum. If the end of it (humans) are infinity times better than second place.

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Leebo86 posted...
Vlado posted...
SovietOmega posted...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2356#comic

You do realise that that comic is meant to be humourous, correct?

It being humorous doesn't invalidate anything it's saying.

Let me spell it out for you: It's saying nonsense because it's funny.

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Vlado posted...
Sure, you can take it as a spectrum. If the end of it (humans) are infinity times better than second place.

I imagine the closest on the spectrum would be the many close relatives of homo sapiens between us and our common ancestor with the other apes.

And while they were less intelligent, they were not "infinitely" less intelligent. Whatever that means.

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Vlado posted...
Leebo86 posted...
Vlado posted...
SovietOmega posted...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2356#comic

You do realise that that comic is meant to be humourous, correct?

It being humorous doesn't invalidate anything it's saying.

Let me spell it out for you: It's saying nonsense because it's funny.

the body doesn't do things against the better interests of itself because it has been programmed with certain biological protocols? what an odd world you live in vlado!

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Why are you so sure?

Science doesn't really support that humans are infinity times smarter, at least in no way that a dolphin isn't also infinity times smarter than a butterfly.

Vlado posted...
Let me spell it out for you: It's saying nonsense because it's funny.

No, it isn't. Are you a biology denier or something?

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Look when other animals start making documentaries about us, then you can claim that we're not above them, but until then, I don't see what's so hard to grasp about the fact that while sure, we function the same way as animals and still have instincts, our consciousness is operating on a level above the decision making of other animals.